Movie Reviews and Previews The FAMILY is back One of the biggest trailers dropping during the Super Bowl is the super-sized trailer for Fast X the penultimate chapter in the “Fast Saga”, which is still a stupid thing to call these dumb movies. The self-importance kills me, and it’s killing these movies, but…I’m gonna see By Sarah • Feb 10, 2023 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault in Magic Mike’s Last Dance It pains me—PAINS ME—to report that Magic Mike’s Last Dance isn’t very good. It’s not terrible, it could definitely be worse, but it’s a huge step back from the joy of pleasure-focused Magic Mike XXL and the more character-driven drama of the original Magic By Sarah • Feb 10, 2023 10:33 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, Disney’s back on their bullsh-t, so guess what, so am I. This week, it’s news that recently restored CEO Bob Iger is restructuring Disney after the Bob Chapek era by dismantling Chapek’s Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution group, or DMED. Internally, DMED was unpopular because By Sarah • Feb 10, 2023 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield’s Frankenstein’s Monster After bumping around the traditional film studios for the last 25 years, Guillermo del Toro signed an overall deal with Netflix in 2020, which has, so far, worked out well for the filmmaker. His anthology series, Cabinet of Curiosities, is interesting and showcases the work of various filmmakers such as By Sarah • Feb 09, 2023 01:22 pm
TV Updates Enjoy Harrison Ford Harrison Ford is currently on TV (“TV”) twice over with the Yellowstone prequel series, 1923, and Shrinking on Apple TV+, but he also has a major film coming out this year, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Harrison Ford is 80, and he is busy, which is the theme By Sarah • Feb 09, 2023 10:27 am
Quiveration Jonathan Majors is busy The world premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was last night in Los Angeles. The film comes out in less than two weeks. Which means Jonathan Majors is EVERYWHERE. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly are the stars, but as we saw with Devotion and Glen Powell, when Majors is By Sarah • Feb 07, 2023 12:29 pm
Bad Style Andrea Riseborough did not go The awkwardly named London Critics Circle Film Awards occurred yesterday, definitely the less embarrassing awards given out on February 5, a day that shall live in infamy. It was mostly British-Irish people in attendance, with a few notable exceptions, because it mostly honors British-Irish film, but Michelle Yeoh was there, By Sarah • Feb 06, 2023 03:00 pm
What Else What Else? James Cameron did a scientific study about whether or not Jack could have survived at the end of Titanic, aka, was there room on the door for him? And basically, yes, there was. But it might have lessened Rose’s odds of survival to share the door, so Jack sacrificed By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Pelphrey in American Murderer Netflix’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Evan Peters’ subsequent Golden Globes win for Best Actor – Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television Motion Picture kicked the conversation about the role of true crime in pop culture into high gear. As I always insist, it is right and good to By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who is your murder friend? We cannot get enough of the friendship between Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and it seems they can’t, either, as they have yet another new project together. After 9 to 5, after seven seasons of Grace and Frankie, after 80 For Brady, there is now Moving On, from writer/ By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G is on thin ice Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Jake Gyllenhaal filming his first scripted TV series—as a leading actor and not just a kid guest starring in a case of the week—and mentioned a trailer for Jake G’s new movie with Guy Ritchie was imminent. Well, it’s here now, and By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 11:48 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Hiddles Nostalgia Look! It’s Tom Hiddleston! There was a moment in the 2010s when he was everywhere, all the time, always, and then Hiddleswift happened, and he went to ground. He’s been a different, quieter, less dancing Tom Hiddleston ever since. But here is Hiddles out in London yesterday with By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 10:12 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 3, 2023 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, a new page went up on the Netflix Help Center, detailing sharing accounts across different households, aka password sharing. A crackdown on password sharing has been coming for a while, but somehow, even my cynical ass didn’t think the rules would be this asinine. By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 09:22 am
Aging Gorgessity Paul Rudd doesn’t drop the skincare routine Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a couple weeks away, so the press tour is in high gear now. Accordingly, Paul Rudd is on the cover of Men’s Health. First and most importantly: does he drop the skincare routine? NO. But his ageless looks do come up. I make By Sarah • Feb 02, 2023 10:08 am
TV Updates DC things we may or may not see Yesterday, James Gunn and Peter Safran, the new heads of the new DC Studios of the new Warner Bros. Discovery, announced a new slate of films and TV projects. This is like, the sixth relaunch of DC stuff over the past few years, it’s hard to get excited about By Sarah • Feb 01, 2023 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Riseborough Affair Can we have ONE Oscar season without controversy? Just ONE! I am asking so little! I just want pageantry and glamor, dammit, and I keep having to talk about slaps and voting rules! This year’s fresh hell is the surprise Best Actress nomination of British actor Andrea Riseborough for By Sarah • Jan 30, 2023 10:08 am
