Movie Reviews and Previews The SAG Awards look like an Oscar preview We are in the thick of awards season, coming off the mid-week Golden Globes and diving right into the SAG Awards nominations, which were announced yesterday morning, and voting for Oscar nominations starts tomorrow. The importance of the SAG Awards during awards season is debatable—some people will insist they’ By Sarah • Jan 12, 2023 10:10 am
Golden Globes 2023 The EEAAO All Stars Everything Everywhere All At Once had a good night at the Golden Globes, with both Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh winning, for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress in a Comedy, respectively. For Quan, it’s a continuation of the feel-good film story of the year, his triumphant return By Sarah • Jan 11, 2023 12:32 pm
Top Reads Jerrod went there I am not at all surprised Jerrod Carmichael turned out to be a good host for the Golden Globes, I have insisted all along he is too good for this show. What did surprise me is just how HARD he went at EVERYTHING. I expected his monologue to focus on By Sarah • Jan 11, 2023 09:03 am
Golden Globes 2023 Intro for January 11, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globes made their return after a one-year forced hiatus in 2021, and it was not terrible. Most of that is down to host Jerrod Carmichael, who we will talk about later. Right now, I want to talk about the global sensation RRR and what the state By Sarah • Jan 11, 2023 08:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Francis Ford Coppola is in trouble (again) A few weeks ago, I wrote about set photos from Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, Megalopolis, shooting now in Atlanta. In that post, I mentioned that Megalopolis is a passion project that Coppola is financing himself after everyone else passed…which is maybe a sign that things aren’t By Sarah • Jan 10, 2023 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t make Ant-Man do Big Lore After the uneven highs and lows of Phase 4, Marvel is moving into Phase 5—do you ever picture Marvel’s multi-phase plan looking like a totally out of control tweet thread? Like, Phase 5/347—with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania coming in February. Last night, they dropped a By Sarah • Jan 10, 2023 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2022 If the year 2022 in film can be defined by one word, it would be “most”. This was the year of the most in film, when blockbusters came roaring back, and a lot of filmmakers threw everything they had at the screen in a cinematic excess that reminds us the By Sarah • Jan 09, 2023 02:08 pm
What Else What Else? Andy Cohen and Ryan Seacrest healed their rift and are friends once more…assuming you believe these two were ever friends. I don’t. (DListed) Celebrity friends I do believe in: Shania Twain and Harry Styles. (Popsugar) Allison Williams is the only nepo baby with the right take on being By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 04:08 pm
TV Updates Natasha Lyonne is lady Columbo (kind of) Ever since Russian Doll catapulted her back into mainstream consciousness, there has been a consistent drum beat for Natasha Lyonne to play a contemporary take on Columbo, the legendary TV detective popularized by Peter Falk. Well, Rian Johnson heard the internet’s wishes, and delivers unto us Poker Face, a By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews M3GAN is the only movie you need At one point in M3GAN, the “Model 3 Generative Android” prototype is dubbed “the only toy you’ll ever need”. The same can be said for the movie about “M3GAN”, the fun-sized yassified Real Doll at the center of all the drama. Despite its horror movie roots, coming from producers By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Goth Rock Dracula and his sad-sack silly boy I am sure that 2023 will bring us a group of thoughtful, emotional, provoking films to make us think and feel and cry, but you know? All I care about, right now, is the silly sh-t. Fill my veins with M3gan and Barbie and Renfield, I don’t need anything By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 11:53 am
Award Season Campaigning Everyone was in Palm Springs yesterday The Palm Springs International Film Awards were last night as part of the Palm Springs Film Festival. We’re getting into the thick of awards season now, and with most of the categories either wide open or in a three-way split, everyone who is remotely a contender was out in By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 10:03 am
Legal issues Intro for January 6, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s the first Friday of the first week of the new year, which is either a great time to examine our own goals and aspirations for the next twelve months and plot and plan how we will attain them, OR we can fall down a rabbit hole By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale in The Pale Blue Eye Filmmaker Scott Cooper and Christian Bale have a fruitful collaboration going on, with the very good crime drama Out of the Furnace and the better than you expect it to be Hostiles, but their third cinematic effort together is…interesting, to say the least. The Pale Blue Eye is an By Sarah • Dec 22, 2022 11:41 am
What Else What Else? People are once again worrying for Britney Spears…who is apparently okay on vacay. Maybe everyone really does need to leave Britney alone now, and also maybe stop assuming everything on Instagram is a secret code. She could just be bad at using the app! (DListed) Gabrielle Union had a By Sarah • Dec 21, 2022 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Let’s talk about Avatar’s “magical Natives” Avatar: The Way of Water is poised to dominate the long holiday weekend in the US. Christmas is traditionally one of the biggest movie-going periods of the year, though we have yet to see what it really looks like on the other side of the pandemic, and before anyone writes By Sarah • Dec 21, 2022 03:29 pm
