What Else What Else? Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are expecting another baby. Can’t wait to hear what song Taylor Swift writes about it. (Popsugar) Kanye West opened a private, Christian school called Donda Academy. It’s not accredited (yet), and the parents have to sign NDAs. I’m sure that’s all By Sarah • Sep 16, 2022 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Moonage Daydream Filmmaker Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) takes a non-traditional approach to his latest subject, David Bowie. Moonage Daydream is neither a traditional concert film nor a traditional documentary, but instead blends concert footage, archival interviews with Bowie, and hundreds—thousands?—of clips By Sarah • Sep 16, 2022 03:06 pm
TV Updates Page and Powell and Butch and Sundance Earlier this week, Lainey fell under the spell of Glen Powell and Jonathan Majors. That’s a powerful combination, a one-two punch of hot and sexy. But how do you feel about Glen Powell and Regé-Jean Page? They’re at the center of a “reimagining”—no one wants to use By Sarah • Sep 16, 2022 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s a Friday mystery! Henry Cavill has a new spy movie coming out—no, not James Bond, sorry—called Argylle. It’s coming from Apple TV+ sometime in 2023. It’s directed by Matthew Vaughn and adapted for the screen by Jason Fuchs (who has a story By Sarah • Sep 16, 2022 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Hunt Squid Game star and newly minted Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae makes his feature directorial debut with Hunt, a spy thriller that elicited an overwhelming WTF reaction from critics at TIFF. Though ever more Korean cinema has crossed over with English-speaking audiences over the last 20 years, there remains a distinct By Sarah • Sep 15, 2022 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Banshees of Inisherin After bringing his tales of violence, vengeance, and the difficulty—if not outright impossibility—of forgiveness to America in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland with The Banshees of Inisherin. Set in 1920s Ireland on a remote island isolated from the civil war unfolding on the By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Women Talking Content warning for sexual assault. Sarah Polley writes and directs this adaption of Miriam Toews’ novel, Women Talking. It’s a gutting drama in which a group of women must decide between two drastic courses of action. As Mennonites, they are at the mercy of the men in their community, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Babylon says not so fast Lest the fall festival triad of Venice, Telluride, and TIFF convince you that awards season is all but set in stone, the trailer for Babylon dropped yesterday, introducing one of the later-season players and, potentially, a major contender. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, Babylon has an A++ list cast, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Fabelmans The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical account of filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s childhood, marking the first time Spielberg is credited for a screenplay since 2001’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Playwright Tony Kushner returns after adapting West Side Story for Spielberg last year to co-write the script, and Spielberg continues his By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Since he’s a parody songwriter, a parody biopic suits Weird Al Yankovic perfectly. Though it inevitably draws comparisons to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story more accurately does for music biopics what Zoolander did for the fashion industry. A zany, silly, deeply funny lampooning By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Whale Content warning for eating disorders, fatphobia, self-harm, and emotional/verbal abuse. If you ever need proof that film festival audiences can be completely bonkers, look no further than Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, a film that received a 97-year ovation at its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, and By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Woman King A battle epic in the vein of Braveheart and Gladiator, The Woman King is based on the Agojie, the women warriors of the Kingdom of Dahomey in 19th century Western Africa (the territory of Dahomey now lies within Benin). Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Dana Stevens—with a By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Glass Onion The devil is in the details in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the follow-up to 2019’s whodunit, Knives Out. Rian Johnson is once again writing and directing, and Daniel Craig reprises his role as the gentleman sleuth, Benoit Blanc, but otherwise Glass Onion features a new cast of By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 02:44 pm
TV Updates Not now, Marvel Technically, it’s “not now, Disney”, since this weekend was: the end of the Venice Film Festival, the beginning of TIFF, the beginning of New York Fashion Week, tonight is the Emmys, and here comes Disney like tra-la-la, let’s have D23, our Comic-Con-esque fan convention, the same weekend as By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Harry Styles in My Policeman (Lainey: Sarah just posted about The Little Mermaid – remember when Harry Styles could have been in The Little Mermaid?) My Policeman is Harry Styles’ other film coming out this fall, the one that requires no worrying, darling. Directed by Michael Grandage and adapted by Ron Nyswaner from Bethan Roberts’ novel By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 12:20 pm
Gorgessity Halle Bailey is living the dream as Ariel Because Disney decided not QUITE enough was happening in the world this past weekend, they held their fan convention, D23. Friday night during the opening address, the teaser trailer for the long-anticipated live-action The Little Mermaid was released. I have, generally, not been a fan of these live-action remakes (exceptions: By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 11:30 am
