What Else What Else? Lena Felton sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the midterm elections in the US. It’s a solid interview, focused on women’s rights, but I wish more people would ask her about legalizing weed at the federal level after she was so tough on pot crime By Sarah • Oct 21, 2022 04:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dwayne Johnson in Black Adam Black Adam is a deeply mediocre superhero movie that is also extremely frustrating. Meant to introduce a universe-altering character to the DCEU’s patchwork of films and characters that hang together in name only, Black Adam comes SO close to having something to say and making actual points through its By Sarah • Oct 21, 2022 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks is NOT doing a silly voice It’s been a busy year for Tom Hanks, with Elvis in the summer, that cursed Pinocchio remake in September, and now A Man Called Otto, a Grinch-esque feel-good dramedy due just in time for the holidays (sort of). A trailer for A Man Called Otto dropped yesterday, and I By Sarah • Oct 21, 2022 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Ticket to Paradise Movie Stars! Actual, neon-light, capital letter Movie Stars! George Clooney and Julia Roberts star in Ticket to Paradise, a romantic comedy that understands the power of Movie Stars being Movie Stars. Does the script have to be great? Not if the Movie Stars are having fun. Does the romance need By Sarah • Oct 21, 2022 09:28 am
Intro for October 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, Stories about scams and scammers can be fun, but you never have to dig too deep before you find someone undeserving who got hurt in the process, and that tends to take the air out of the tires. Well, here’s a guilt-free scam story for you—a By Sarah • Oct 21, 2022 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sacha Baron Cohen is maybe in the MCU now, too First Harrison Ford, now Sacha Baron Cohen. The latest rumor in the Marvel mill is that SBC will join Ironheart, the Disney+ series centered on Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne, due to make her debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever). Like the Ford rumor, this comes from the Mariana Trench that By Sarah • Oct 19, 2022 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors is in his villain era Creed III represents a lot of firsts. Michael B. Jordan’s first time directing. First Rocky movie that doesn’t feature Sylvester Stallone. First time MBJ gets out jaw-acted on screen. Many firsts, some more notable than others. The first trailer for Creed III dropped yesterday, coming out of the By Sarah • Oct 19, 2022 11:38 am
What Else What Else? Brian Austin Green and Vanessa Marcil (Prom Queen Carla from The Rock) are slinging Insta sh-t at each other over their 20-year-old son and what the custody arrangements were when that mattered. Some people will undoubtedly take his side (himpathy at work), but his split with Megan Fox was messy, By Sarah • Oct 14, 2022 04:02 pm
TV Updates [INT.] Chinatown Interior Chinatown, a National Book Award-winning novel by Charles Yu, is being adapted into a TV series. Lainey referenced it when Daniel Dae Kim toplined his first television series only after over thirty years in the business. That’s the basic gist of the book. Written in screenplay form, Interior By Sarah • Oct 14, 2022 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harrison Ford gets his grump on Marvel Earlier this month, a rumor started making the rounds that Harrison Ford would replace William Hurt in the MCU as General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, after Hurt passed away earlier this year. Now, Slashfilm is confirming the rumor, via Youtube show “The Hot Mic with Jeff Sneider and John Rocha”. No By Sarah • Oct 14, 2022 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween Ends In 2018, David Gordon Green semi-rebooted Halloween with a direct sequel, also titled Halloween, to John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 slasher. Halloween (2018) took the franchise, long run off its narrative feet by a string of increasingly bad sequels and reimaginings, back to basics, with a simple story about Laurie By Sarah • Oct 14, 2022 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans scruffy for Santa Here is Chris Evans on the set of Red One, a holiday action flick destined for Amazon Prime. Lucy Liu joined the cast this week, and Kiernan Shipka was added last month. We still don’t really know what this movie is, except an action-adventure film that has something to By Sarah • Oct 14, 2022 09:48 am
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