TV Updates Intro for October 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, Trevor Noah took over The Daily Show in 2015, and it seemed an impossible task. Jon Stewart became iconic behind the joke-news show’s desk, and there was a lot of handwringing about what would become of The Daily Show without Jon Stewart. Seven years later, the answer By Sarah • Oct 14, 2022 09:20 am
Top Reads If Brad Pitt sells Plan B, what is Plan C? Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston founded Plan B Entertainment in 2001, just months after their marriage (along with super-producer Brad Grey, who would go on to run Paramount for over a decade). When they divorced in 2005, Pitt kept Plan B, and ever since he and Dede Gardner, along with By Sarah • Oct 13, 2022 12:05 pm
Quiveration Let Jonathan Majors cook your brain We are six weeks away from the release of Devotion, the historical aviation epic starring Glen Powell and Jonathan Majors, which means we’re entering the full-court press phase of promotion. They’ve already been to TIFF—where Powell and Majors charmed Lainey—for the world premiere. Now, Jonathan Majors By Sarah • Oct 12, 2022 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney is the new Barbarella Does Sydney Sweeney’s trajectory give anyone else flashbacks to Scarlett Johansson circa the early 2000s? ScarJo didn’t do time on a prestige drama on her way up, but she was a child actor who transitioned to grown-up stardom via prestige indie films like Ghost World and Lost In By Sarah • Oct 12, 2022 10:56 am
TV Updates The Devil in the White City is my white whale All I want in this stupid world is for SOMEONE to develop a movie or limited series based on The Devil in the White City that we will ACTUALLY get to see. Following the announcement back in August that Keanu Reeves would star in a limited series for Hulu, to By Sarah • Oct 11, 2022 10:36 am
What Else What Else? Monday is Thanksgiving in Canada, so we will be dark on October 10. Enjoy the long weekend, and Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving! Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, and Leslie Odom, Jr. were at the Mill Valley Film Festival to support Glass Onion, all looking very spiffy, indeed. (Go Fug Yourself) I am By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Triangle of Sadness is a poop cruise for the rich Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund makes his English-language debut with Triangle of Sadness, a black comedy/satire and this year’s Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival. Östlund, who writes and directs Triangle, has a knack for social observation and class satire, as demonstrated in his previous films By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews David Harbour is having fun as Zaddy Claus One thing I love about the prestige TV era, generally, is the phenomenon of That Guy/Gal actors getting starring roles. Like Jeremy Strong and J. Cameron Smith in Succession, or Titus Welliver in Bosch, or Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins in Justified, and the ultimate example, James Gandolfini in By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gael Garcia Bernal in Werewolf By Night The Marvel wing of Disney+ is a mixed bag, but Werewolf By Night represents a step in the right direction for the MCU on TV. Stemming from the horror corner of Marvel Comics, Werewolf By Night doesn’t really fit into the overall MCU, and that is the second-best thing By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 02:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt’s Mario voice New York Comic Con is happening right now, which isn’t quite the bonanza of stuff that San Diego Comic Con is, but it’s close. One of the new things coming out of NYCC is the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, coming in April 2023. It By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 12:56 pm
Style Tilda Swinton channels David Bowie Last night, Tilda Swinton’s new film, The Eternal Daughter, premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. La Swinton showed up, doing her best David Bowie. If ever there is a biopic of Bowie, should anyone bother showing up besides Tilda Swinton? I think not. (There has already been an By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Glass Onion is freaking great. There is no question in my mind that, were it getting a typical theatrical release like Knives Out did in 2019, it would also make the kind of money Knives Out did ($311 million worldwide). But Glass Onion is not getting a typical By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo and Walmart Timothy Olyphant’s bad wedding The trailer for Shotgun Wedding, Jennifer Lopez’s new rom-com, dropped yesterday. Beyond the casting brouhaha when Josh Duhamel replaced a beleaguered Armie Hammer, I didn’t know anything about this movie. It turns out, the title is literal, as there are actual shotguns present at this wedding. JLo and By Sarah • Oct 05, 2022 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Script fix it: Hocus Pocus 2 So, I’m going to do something different than just review Hocus Pocus 2. Over the years, you’ve probably seen me write some variation of “plot is what is happening, and story is why it’s happening”, and sometimes people will ask for more examples of that, and when By Sarah • Oct 04, 2022 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wakanda Forever in all white The full trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is here, and just like the Comic-Con trailer, it is tugging heart strings while setting up the next chapter in Wakanda’s story, one that will not include T’Challa. Chadwick Boseman’s death hangs over this movie, but it does look By Sarah • Oct 04, 2022 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sorry, Bros Bros, the rom-com written by and starring Billy Eichner, opened over the weekend. It’s the first mainstream studio rom-com centered on a same-sex relationship, grown-ups division. (Love, Simon is the first mainstream studio rom-com centered on a same-sex relationship, teen division, and these distinctions actually ARE important, given how By Sarah • Oct 03, 2022 03:36 pm
