Andrew Garfield Andrew Garfield’s cognitive dissonance The GQ Men of the Year Awards were held last night, with Andrew Garfield among those being honored. He’s “The Idol” of the year and has an appropriately hunky photoshoot to go with it. Lainey emailed me about how hot he is in the spread, so I was expecting By Sarah • Nov 17, 2022 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser is not a hypocrite Brendan Fraser covers the December issue of GQ, four years after it was GQ that put him back in the spotlight via Zach Baron’s massively viral profile that asked, What ever happened to Brendan Fraser? Back in 2018, Fraser was talking about where he’d gone, how years of By Sarah • Nov 17, 2022 09:24 am
TV Updates Beth Dutton is the best b-tch on TV Yellowstone premiered its fifth season on Sunday night, and continued its trend of rising viewership as the show rolls on. I’ve already made the case that this show is popular, one of the biggest on TV, we just don’t talk about it because we don’t engage with By Sarah • Nov 16, 2022 03:01 pm
Quiveration Very Important Dev Patel Updates Now that we’re all here, it’s time for some very important Dev Patel updates. One, as you can see from these photos from just yesterday, Dev Patel is still tall and handsome. This is not the most important thing, but let the record reflect that it is still By Sarah • Nov 16, 2022 10:17 am
TV Updates The Crown Letdown Spoilers We have been fooled! Tricked! BAMBOOZLED! The Crown season four hoodwinked us all into thinking The Crown was good again, but alas! It is not! The Crown debuted in 2016 with one of the strongest—and best-looking—single seasons of television in the 2010s. The Crown season one holds By Sarah • Nov 15, 2022 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie at arm’s length Margot Robbie is the cover star of Vanity Fair’s December issue, in support of Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s ode to silent-era Hollywood (on the cusp of the talkie era). How magnanimous of Robbie to give Vanity Fair another shot after that super gross 2016 profile that managed to insult By Sarah • Nov 15, 2022 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick 4, FINALLY The last of the completed films that were delayed because of the pandemic were released this past summer. But we still have to deal with films that were meant to be in production in 2020 that were delayed and are just now staggering their way into theaters in fits and By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Wakanda Forever power trio talk about grief, but not vaccines Spoilers for Wakanda Forever Last week, Ryan Coogler, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright covered the digital edition of Variety, but I put off writing about it until more people got to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever over the weekend. The Variety profile focuses heavily on the loss of Chadwick Boseman, By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Grief takes center stage in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Usually, the star of a film gets the headline for the review, but in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, grief IS the lead character. Dealt the incredible loss of his friend and collaborator Chadwick Boseman, director Ryan Coogler finds a way to marshal on in the world of Wakanda, though the By Sarah • Nov 10, 2022 01:19 pm
TV Updates Taylor Sheridan’s Americana Taylor Sheridan emerged in the 2010s as one of the leading voices in the neo-Western revival in American cinema, writing screenplays for Sicario and its sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, and Hell or High Water, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. In 2017 he wrote and directed By Sarah • Nov 09, 2022 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chevalier won’t say his name There is a movie that did not fit into my TIFF schedule, Chevalier, which I regret. The trailer dropped yesterday, and it looks pretty great. Kelvin Harrison Jr., lately seen as B.B. King in Elvis, stars as Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the first recorded Black classical music composer. By Sarah • Nov 08, 2022 03:09 pm
Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars again If it feels too early to be talking about who is hosting the 2023 Oscars, IT IS. Usually, host announcements come a month or so before the ceremony, but after the mess made earlier this year, the Academy is being pro-active about seeming in charge. Yesterday, they announced Jimmy Kimmel By Sarah • Nov 08, 2022 11:42 am
TV Updates The Saga of Yellowstone Next Sunday, November 13, is the premiere of season five of Yellowstone, the popular drama created by Taylor Sheridan, one of the leading filmmakers in the neo-Western revival in contemporary American cinema. We’re going to talk more about Sheridan later, but for now, let’s talk about Yellowstone, which By Sarah • Nov 07, 2022 02:48 pm
What Else What Else? The new Viscountess Bridgerton herself, Simone Ashley, is one of four cover models for British Vogue’s December issue. She looks spectacular, and talks about normalizing dark skin and curly hair in film and television, and on red carpets. During her red carpet run for Bridgerton, she looked consistently amazing, By Sarah • Nov 04, 2022 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrea Riseborough in Please Baby Please Some films are so fascinating, authorial, and/or bold they defy the “good/bad” binary. Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is one such film—is it good? Is it bad? Does it matter, when it’s so INTERESTING? The works of John Waters, Harmony Korine, and Prince fall into this category, By Sarah • Nov 04, 2022 03:37 pm
TV Updates Aubrey Plaza gets her witch on Kathryn Hahn’s WandaVision spin-off, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, is casting up, and if you thought this series would coast on Hahn’s flawless coattails, think again. This week, Coven added Aubrey Plaza in an undisclosed role, though she’s reportedly playing a villain. Agatha is a bit of a By Sarah • Nov 04, 2022 02:33 pm
