Movie Reviews and Previews JLaw is still reinventing herself Yesterday, Maria highlighted the trailer for a new R-rated comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings. Like Maria, I am excited by a mainstream studio releasing a raunchy comedy in the summer months. This used to happen all the time! But throughout the 2010s, studios stopping investing in comedies, and By Sarah • Mar 10, 2023 03:28 pm
TV Updates The Yellowjackets are back And more murdery than ever! After breaking out in late 2021, Yellowjackets is back for season two on March 26. The trailer promises more interpersonal mayhem, more drama, and more flashbacks to The Wilderness and the survivors’ time in the forest. Also: Elijah Wood joins the cast! He and Melanie By Sarah • Mar 10, 2023 02:10 pm
Style Jessica Chastain on opening night Jessica Chastain stars in a new production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House which opened last night on Broadway. The play, modernized and minimalized by playwright Amy Herzog and director Jamie Lloyd, was originally supposed to open in London’s West End in 2020, so you as know, By Sarah • Mar 10, 2023 10:43 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Ram before Oscar One of the more disappointing elements of this awards season is that RRR didn’t get more Oscar nominations. Netflix gave it a big push, but All Quiet on the Western Front ended up being the non-English language Netflix film the Academy went for (not an unexpected outcome, frankly). But By Sarah • Mar 10, 2023 09:45 am
TV Updates Intro for March 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, As we all know, the ratings of the Oscars have been circling the drain for years. After the record low of 10.5 million viewers in 2021, the 2022 telecast rebounded slightly, for the second-worst all time ratings of 16.6 million viewers. But the ratings have been By Sarah • Mar 10, 2023 08:53 am
What Else What Else? Cara Delevingne is in Vogue, talking frankly about addiction and sobriety and the paparazzi photos that were her wakeup call. It sounds like she’s in a better place, I hope she has a smoother road ahead of her now. (Go Fug Yourself) This year’s Met Gala theme is By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 04:01 pm
TV Updates Barry’s last act We’re saying goodbye to some incredibly beloved prestige shows this year, including Ted Lasso—at least in its Ted-centric form, spin-offs seem more and more likely—Succession, and Barry, which premieres its fourth and final season on April 16. The teaser dropped this week, and it looks darker than By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the 2022 Oscar winners I can honestly say going into Oscar weekend I have never felt LESS confident in my picks. SO many categories are completely up in the air, and while that makes watching the Oscars more fun, it definitely makes predicting the Oscars a nightmare. Entering my Oscar pools this year felt By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews D&D has a great dead guy Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves comes out at the end of the month. Just waiting on that press tour to start any day now, but in the meantime, they are STILL cranking out trailers. The latest shows off lots of monsters, including multiple dragons—yay!—the gelatinous cube, a By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 12:08 pm
TV Updates Jenna Ortega has good taste Jenna Ortega has had a huge year. She’s a Gen Z Final Girl—Scream VI opens this week—she broke out as the new Wednesday Addams—and she’s so good that even people who don’t like the show, like me, fully support her as Wednesday—she stole By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 11:09 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for March 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, With Oscar week upon us, it’s time once again for The Hollywood Reporter’s “brutally honest Oscar ballot”. This year, a member of the short films and animated features branch shared his thoughts on the nominees with Scott Feinberg. In the past, these anonymous ballots have gotten By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 09:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Taika Star War? Though Andor popped last year and The Mandalorian remains popular on Disney+, cinematic Star Wars has been a bit of a shamble since the 2019 release of The Rise of Skywalker. Or, really, since the 2017 release of The Last Jedi. In 2015, everyone was on board with The Force By Sarah • Mar 08, 2023 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu on the road John Wick: Chapter 4 premiered in the UK two days ago, so you know what that means—Keanu Reeves is officially on the road again, making the press rounds. He kicked off the press tour with a Reddit AMA which is getting extra hyped because he mentioned superhero stuff. When By Sarah • Mar 08, 2023 12:47 pm
TV Updates Kathryn Hahn before Agatha Kathryn Hahn finally got her mainstream breakout with WandaVision in 2021, which means the last couple years have been full of premium Kathryn Hahn content, including Glass Onion and The Shrink Next Door. Now, before she reprises the role of Agatha Harkness in Marvel’s Agatha: Coven of Chaos—which By Sarah • Mar 07, 2023 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Nancy Meyers Kitchen is back (guest starring Michael Fassbender) Michael Fassbender stopped acting following the release of 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and filming Taika Waititi’s soccer movie, Next Goal Wins in early 2020 (right under the COVID wire). Some people called it a retirement, as he turned his attention to auto racing (as Paul Newman once did) By Sarah • Mar 07, 2023 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans and Ana de Armas reunite Having never looked anything up about the movie Ghosted except that it stars Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, I was low key hoping it was some kind of romantic thing featuring ghosts. Like one of them is a ghost, or they hunt ghosts, or someone owns a haunted house, By Sarah • Mar 07, 2023 10:23 am
