Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominations: Who’s in? It is finally Oscar nomination morning, so we are officially 50% of the way through awards season (the Oscars aren’t until MARCH). The nominations this morning are largely as expected, featuring a lot of movies we’ve been talking about for months now. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Gael Garcia Bernal in Cassandro Gael García Bernal has always had a boyish charm, but in Cassandro, starring as the titular lucha libre and LGBTQ+ icon, he turns that charm into a playful performance that walks the line of camp in just the right places to evoke the flamboyance at the intersection of professional wrestling By Sarah • Jan 23, 2023 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Jonathan Majors in Magazine Dreams Warm halogen lights gild a human body so perfectly sculpted, every muscle bulges with singular presence, as if an anatomy poster has come to life. Here is Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors), an aspiring bodybuilder competing for a place at nationals, and a chance to go pro. But though his body By Sarah • Jan 23, 2023 11:44 am
What Else What Else? A new Robert Pattinson interview has dropped. I enjoy his interviews immensely, especially if you just assume at least 50% of anything RPattz says on the record is bullsh-t. He talks nonsense for fun and profit. Though, in this interview, he does talk about the insidiousness of calorie counting and By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s Tronin’ time Today in I’m Sure This Will Work Out news, Jared Leto is set to star in Tron: Ares, a threequel in the Tron franchise, following 2010’s Tron: Legacy. Leto will play a new character, Ares, and right now, it doesn’t sound like Jeff Bridges or anyone from By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 03:22 pm
TV Updates This seems like a job for Johnny Knoxville The 2010s saw the perfection of visual effects, but also a returning audience appreciation for practical effects, especially stunts. Tom Cruise has made “he does his own stunts” into his like, third career comeback, and films like the John Wick franchise regularly homage silent-era stunt artists like Harry Lloyd and By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 01:15 pm
TV Updates NATE SUCKS A ray of sunshine breaks through the clouds as Apple TV+ announced yesterday that Ted Lasso will return for season three later this spring. The first look at season three shows Ted in his be-sweatered, be-mustached glory facing off against Nate, now the gaffer of West Ham while Rupert looks By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 12:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs set the tone The BAFTA nominations were announced yesterday, with All Quiet on the Western Front earning a record-tying fourteen nominations. This is one of my top 10 for 2022, but also, it’s the film I tipped for a tight race in Best Cinematography, and its impressive BAFTA haul is likely a By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 10:22 am
Legal issues Intro for January 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, In October 2021, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was tragically killed in a shooting incident on the set of Rust, a Western filming in New Mexico starring Alec Baldwin. The chain of events was horrific, a bounty of cut corners and still unanswered questions about how live rounds ended up By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 09:32 am
Top Reads Brad Pitt is selling real estate – I KNEW IT What did I JUST say! About celebrity real estate! Back in October, I wrote about Brad Pitt selling his production company, Plan B, and how that might be a warning of some money problems in Casa Del Pitt. In that piece, I said the following: “…when celebrities start dumping real By Sarah • Jan 19, 2023 10:27 am
TV Updates Meryl moved into The Arconia Only Murders in the Building season three is filming now. Selena Gomez posted a video on Instagram yesterday showing her back on set with Steve Martin, Martin Short, Andrea Martin—are Charles and Joy happening?!—as well as Paul Rudd, and another season three newcomer…Meryl Streep! This is her By Sarah • Jan 18, 2023 10:11 am
TV Updates I am giving The Mandalorian ONE MORE CHANCE Television’s favorite daddy is back, and this time he’s out for revenge! The Mandalorian season three trailer dropped last night, ahead of the March 1 season premiere on Disney+, returning Pedro Pascal to the galaxy far, far away (along with stunt performers Lateef Crowder and Brendan Wayne, who By Sarah • Jan 17, 2023 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics Cast Their Votes The Critics’ Choice Awards came and went last night with more of a whimper than a bang—it was a boring show and I say this as someone who gets to vote for those awards—but it is also the last big moment before Oscar nominations close on Tuesday. So, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2023 11:12 am
What Else What Else? George Takei is talking about why he came out at age 68, and it’s because Arnold Schwarzenegger, who sold himself, politically, as a Republican who was also a Friend To The Gays, vetoed a gay marriage bill as governor of California in 2005. I remember that, people were not By Sarah • Jan 13, 2023 04:05 pm
Mark Ruffalo Jesse Eisenberg and friends Jesse Eisenberg’s feature directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, hits theaters next week. There was a screening in New York last night, and people showed up, including stars Finn Wolfhard and Alisha Boe, as well as Emma Stone, who produced the film (along with her husband, Dave By Sarah • Jan 13, 2023 11:44 am
Tom Brady Intro for January 13, 2023 Dear Gossips, The bankruptcy of cryptocurrency firm FTX is ongoing, and this week included the release of documents that list the company’s biggest investors, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Patriots lost boy Tom Brady, and recent New England ex-pat Gisele Bündchen. Brady was a brand ambassador for By Sarah • Jan 13, 2023 09:19 am
