Jerrod Carmichael Give Jerrod Carmichael better gigs Today in But Must The Show Go On News, Jerrod Carmichael is set to host the 2023 Golden Globes. Carmichael, who won an Emmy earlier this year for his standup special, Rothaniel, is a fantastic comedian and I have no doubt he has the chops to host a live show— By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tracy Flick returns Reese Witherspoon is returning to a beloved role for a long-awaited sequel, and no, it’s not Legally Blonde 3. Witherspoon will reunite with Alexander Payne for Tracy Flick Can’t Win, a sequel to their 1999 cult classic Election, in which Witherspoon plays Type A schemer and general nightmare By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Swift: feature filmmaker Taylor Swift is jumping genres again, this time into filmmaking. Swift will make her feature directorial debut from an original script she also wrote, with the film—title, plot, potential cast, all unknown—set to be distributed by Searchlight Pictures. Swift recently appeared in Amsterdam, which was distributed by 20th By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 11:06 am
Xenu Intro for December 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, As we move into the middle of December, the awards races are heating up. We’ve talked some about the various acting categories, but let’s turn now to the big kahuna—Best Picture. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is currently the frontrunner, but Top Gun: Maverick just By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 09:11 am
Award Season Campaigning Sandler and Fraser on Actors on Actors Yesterday, we talked about Ke Huy Quan’s comeback this year, so now let’s talk about the other comeback in the room, Brendan Fraser. He appeared on Variety’s “Actors on Actors” with Adam Sandler, an old pal from the 1990s, when they made the comedy classic Airheads together. By Sarah • Dec 08, 2022 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 3 is apparently dead About six weeks ago, filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran took over the newly named DC Studios at the newly reformed Warner Bros. Discovery under new CEO David Zaslav. Well, everything new is old again, because we are once again talking about the slate of DC superhero movies and By Sarah • Dec 08, 2022 10:57 am
What Else What Else? Time named Volodymyr Zelensky “Person of the Year”, and revealed his cover with a supercut of all their Persons of the Year since they started the annual tradition. Lots and lots of dudes, but it’s impossible to argue with this year’s pick. That is one dude who deserves By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 04:12 pm
TV Updates Just go with it Miracle Workers: End Times, the fourth season of the best show you’re not watching, is coming January 16. There is FINALLY a real trailer, introducing “Sid” and “Freya”, the latest iteration of the soulmates played by Daniel Radcliffe and Geraldine Viswanathan. This time, they’re stuck in the post-apocalypse, By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 03:24 pm
TV Updates Don’t forget Ke Huy Quan (again) One of the big narratives in film this year is Brendan Fraser’s comeback as a leading man in The Whale, and while it is great to see Fraser back on top, let us not forget the other big comeback this year—Ke Huy Quan returning to acting in Everything By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2: Important notes The world premiere of Avatar: The Way of the Water was last night in London. I also saw the movie last night, I’ll have a full review next week closer to the actual release, but this seems like a good time to note a couple things that won’t By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 11:00 am
Intro for December 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Here we go again, with another bound-to-be-toxic-as-hell public discourse surrounding the trial of a famous man. Bill Cosby is facing new charges of sexual assault in New York state, where a “lookback law” allows a one-year suspension of the statute of limitations in sexual assault cases in the By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 09:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenya Barris’s parting gift Rewind time and recall that Kenya Barris, the creator of Black-ish, signed a mega-deal to produce series and films for Netflix. That was 2018. By January 2021, Barris broke up with Netflix, dissatisfied with the inability to be as “edgy” as he wanted. He said he wants to do “in-your-face By Sarah • Dec 06, 2022 11:37 am
What Else What Else? Jodie Turner-Smith is hosting the British Fashion Awards. She wore An Outfit to the Vogue pre-event dinner. Those guards with the big hats outside Buckingham Palace surely approve. (Go Fug Yourself) Obligatory “does Nick Cannon have pneumonia, or does he just need sleep” joke. (He has pneumonia. Get well soon By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 04:03 pm
TV Updates Pedro Pascal daddy mode: activated One trailer we did get out of CCXP is for The Last of US, HBO’s big-budget adaptation of the popular video game series. The show debuts on HBO and HBO Max on January 15, with Pedro Pascal starring as Joel, a survivor of a mysterious plague that wrecked humanity By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 03:40 pm
Royals Oh Harry & Meghan is GOING there Following last week’s teaser trailer, Harry & Meghan, the Netflix docuseries about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, dropped a full trailer this morning. So…they bookended the Prince and Princess of Wales’s anticlimactic trip to America with H&M. Someone in the Netflix marketing department is By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine has stopped worrying, darling CCXP continued over the weekend, and the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves held a panel, and Chris Pine showed up looking 1000% more engaged than he was during the Venice Film Festival while promoting Don’t Worry Darling. Which is a low bar, I know, but I’m By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 12:26 pm
