TV Updates More big budget fantasy for you The overly named The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiered its first two episodes last Friday, bringing audiences back to Middle Earth 20 years after The Lord of the Rings made “Hobbits” and “Sauron” part of the pop culture lexicon. TROP is the most expensive show ever By Sarah • Sep 07, 2022 02:07 pm
Quiveration Colin Farrell has entered the chat Up till now, the only real contenders for Best Actor have been Austin Butler and Brendan Fraser (largely based on working with Darren Aronofsky in a physically transformative role), and while Fraser declared himself a legit contender this weekend in Venice, Colin Farrell has also entered the chat. He’s By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser’s Oscar Season The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser, had its world premiere in Venice over the weekend. It’s on my TIFF schedule and I can’t wait to see it, but in the meantime, I am contenting myself with premium-branded Wholesome Brendan Fraser Content, of which there is PLENTY. EVERYONE is excited By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Worry Darling (Chris Pine’s Version) Don’t Worry Darling premiered at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, and it was a MESS. Sunday, it was announced Florence Pugh, erstwhile lead of this movie, would skip the press conference and only walk the red carpet in support of the film. Some outlets tried to play that off By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 08:36 am
What Else What Else? Sarah Michelle Gellar is celebrating her 20th wedding anniversary with Freddie Prinze, Jr. by reminding Howard Stern he owes them cash money because he bet against their love in 2001, but SMG + FPJ have stuck it out. (DListed) Lea Michele is no longer finding the humor in the online conspiracy By Sarah • Sep 02, 2022 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Adult Twins Adamma and Adanne Ebo satirize Black megachurch Evangelical culture in their new film, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Adamma makes her feature debut as writer and director, while Adanne produces, and the result is a film which is both less outright funny and more interestingly humanist than By Sarah • Sep 02, 2022 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans and Emily Blunt look hot Chris Evans and Emily Blunt are in Miami, filming their Netflix movie Pain Hustlers. The film is from David Yates, finally liberated from the Harry Potter cinematic universe, and screenwriter and anthropomorphized apartment building Wells Tower, and is described as being in the vein of Wolf of Wall Street and By Sarah • Sep 02, 2022 10:25 am
Tiffany Haddish Intro for September 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Since Warner Bros. Discovery hasn’t set anything on fire this week, I intended to write a dumb “kicking off a long weekend” intro, but then The Daily Beast dropped a bombshell: comedians Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears are being sued for “intentional infliction of emotional distress, gross By Sarah • Sep 02, 2022 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser begins his campaign Awards season 2022-23 officially kicked off yesterday with the Venice Film Festival’s opening night and premiere screening of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, and yes, Barbie has already come up: here’s the clip of asking if greta gerwig considered casting adam as ken in barbie & adam having By Sarah • Sep 01, 2022 12:47 pm
Douchebags Redemption arc: complete Last week, we observed the mess of Olivia Wilde and Shia LaBeouf and his, er, departure from Don’t Worry Darling in which released texts and email transcripts, and video to show he was not fired, as Wilde was heavily implying in the press. Since then, Shia has been busy. By Sarah • Sep 01, 2022 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Cobweb, Hocus Pocus 2’s non-talking cat Entertainment Weekly—which now that it’s not in print, shouldn’t it be Entertainment Daily?—has some new features on Hocus Pocus 2, including some first-look photos of new and returning cast members, and details about how the sequel will dive into the Sanderson sisters’ origins. The film will By Sarah • Aug 30, 2022 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Youths don’t get Weird Al Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is opening TIFF’s Midnight Madness programming this year, and as of this moment, it is literally the only film I have locked into my TIFF schedule. Not even Glass Onion is locked in yet, but Weird? I know exactly when and where. I am By Sarah • Aug 30, 2022 11:00 am
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
