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
Movie Reviews and Previews Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill in Enola Holmes 2 Enola Holmes is a very fun film featuring an incredibly charming Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock Holmes’s spirited teenaged sister, Enola, with an unexpected assist from Henry Cavill’s surprising, dashing turn as Sherlock. The Holmeses are back for a new adventure in Enola Holmes 2, this time “inspired By Sarah • Nov 04, 2022 01:18 pm
Brad Pitt Intro for November 4, 2022 Dear Gossips, Back in August, Lainey wrote about “himpathy” and how famous men can weaponize public sentiment when their reputations are called into question (for any reason, but lately it seems to be happening most in the intimate violence space). Well, here’s a stunning example of himpathy for Brad By Sarah • Nov 04, 2022 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar almost solves the water problem (but maybe not the movie problem) Avatar: The Way of Water is the big holiday movie this year. It’s due December 16, in all its three-hour glory, and will undoubtedly dominate cinemas through the end of the year. There is no question in my mind this movie will make a TON of money. Maybe all By Sarah • Nov 03, 2022 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews DanRad doesn’t back down Weird: The Al Yankovic Story hits “The Roku Channel” this Friday. It’s one of my favorite movies of the year (so far), but I am devastated to report that my dream of Austin Butler and Daniel Radcliffe doing an “Actors On Actors” episode together is dead because Weird is By Sarah • Nov 02, 2022 02:29 pm
