Movie Reviews and Previews Will this be Jon Hamm’s new thing? No one doubts Jon Hamm is a great actor, not after his run on Mad Men. Yet, after that series ended in 2015, Hamm hasn’t found his new “thing”. He pops up in a lot of stuff, like Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, Top Gun: Maverick, By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brandy knows no boundaries Multi-hyphenate superstar and Grammy Award-winning icon Brandy Norwood is extending her presence to the world of A24-branded independent cinema. Brandy will star in The Front Room, a “psychological horror” film from Max and Sam Eggers, the younger brothers of filmmaker Robert Eggers of The Northman and The Lighthouse and The By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shia brought receipts Just yesterday, Lainey wrote about Olivia Wilde’s dishy cover profile with Variety, promoting Don’t Worry Darling. In that interview, Wilde talked about many things, including firing Shia LaBeouf from the lead male role now played by Harry Styles: “I say this as someone who is such an admirer By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in Three Thousand Years of Longing Sandwiched between two Mad Max films (Fury Road and the upcoming Furiosa), Australian auteur George Miller brings us Three Thousand Years of Longing, a curiosity, a romantic drama adapted from A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” (Miller co-wrote the script with Augusta Gore) By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Adam Driver help save Netflix? Netflix has had a rough year, but maybe a strong awards season run can turn things around. Wall Street doesn’t seem to be buying streamers’ bullsh-t anymore about the promise of endless money at the end of the rainbow, but maybe a strong slate of must-see films will draw By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth is unrecognizable WITNESS HIM! Chris Hemsworth is on the set of Furiosa, the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel centered on Charlize Theron’s character, Imperator Furiosa, that instead stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the young Furiosa. Hemsworth is sporting a big gray beard and dirty long hair, and honestly, I mostly recognized him By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 26, 2022 Dear Gossips, I promise, I will stop writing about Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO Max just as soon as they stop constantly shooting themselves in the foot. The latest in the “burning down one of the last legacy film studios before our very eyes” stories is that Warner Brothers has By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pinocchio wants to eat your soul The teaser for Disney’s live-action remake of Pinocchio brought us another patented Tom Hanks Silly Voice, and the full trailer, which dropped yesterday, gives us a clear look at CG Pinocchio and by the old gods and the new, I vow to find this abomination upon our world and By Sarah • Aug 25, 2022 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glass Onion peels back one layer Y’all know that I am excited for Glass Onion, aka Knives Out 2. I LOVE Knives Out, I have seen it at least ten times at this point, since it came out in 2019, it has been one of my go-to comfort movies (it got a lot of play By Sarah • Aug 24, 2022 02:05 pm
TV Live Blog Paul Rudd is the next Only Murders victim The season two finale of Only Murders in the Building dropped yesterday, and NO SPOILERS but let me just say my theory on who killed Bunny Folger was ALMOST right. This season was not quite as sharp or cleverly plotted as the first season, but the lead trio of Steve By Sarah • Aug 24, 2022 09:49 am
Ryan Gosling Ryan Gosling will heist with Margot Robbie Post-Barbie, Margot Robbie is moving onto her Ocean’s 11 prequel, which will be set in the 1960s. But she’s keeping it in the Barbie family, so to speak, as Ryan Gosling is in talks to join her in the film. Okay, I KNOW this isn’t what is By Sarah • Aug 22, 2022 12:07 pm
TV Updates Welcome back to Westeros Spoilers The House of the Dragon has begun its reign, hoping for a repeat of Game of Thrones’ cultural dominance in the 2010s. Dragon comes from the mind of novelist George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal, and Condal, who wrote the pilot, serves as co-showrunner with Miguel Sapochnik, who By Sarah • Aug 22, 2022 10:28 am
What Else What Else? Martin Short is many things, among them one of the THE BEST talk show guests in the game. He even makes Jimmy Fallon seem good at his job for a minute. (Popsugar) Brandi Glanville isn’t apologizing for something, surprise, surprise. (DListed) Morfydd Clark is the most excellently named star By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 04:06 pm
Equality Issues The Academy apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather Forty-nine years after she declined Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar in 1973, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has issued a formal apology to Sacheen Littlefeather for her treatment during and after her speech, in which she spoke against negative stereotyping and representation of American Indians in By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The time of their lives: Dirty Dancing at 35 Want to experience the crushing passage of time? Dirty Dancing was released thirty-five years ago, on August 21, 1987. It remains one of the most enduringly popular films of the 1980s, a foundational text in the contemporary romantic drama canon. But it’s also an artifact of 1980s nostalgia, as By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 12:02 pm
TV Updates Intro for August 19, 2022 Dear Gossips, I am sorry to inform you that the HBO Max f-ckery continues. The latest is that they’re removing thirty-six titles from the platform, twenty of which are HBO Max originals. That matters because the originals are in danger of becoming completely inaccessible. Shows without outside ownership stakes By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 09:15 am
