What Else What Else? Ben Affleck was apparently “bothered” by the amount of paparazzi following Bennifer 2.0 on their honeymoon. I understand such an invasion of privacy must be obnoxious, but also…that’s probably not going to get better any time soon, my guy. (DListed) I saw this publicity still from season By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 04:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Michelle Yeoh save the Russos from gray glop? It’s a tale of two movies: indie blockbuster darling Everything Everywhere All At Once, a critical and commercial hit that gives Michelle Yeoh a role truly worthy of her talent, and The Gray Man, the kind of cash-in mediocrity that has come to define Netflix’s attempts at original By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lena Dunham’s other movie Lena Dunham is on a hot streak, releasing two feature films this year, after not directing one since 2010’s Tiny Furniture. First, it was Sharp Stick, which had a muted rollout a couple weeks ago and has not made a dent anywhere except the corner of Tumblr devoted to By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller emerges as The Flash’s future is questioned One of the major pop culture narratives of summer 2022 is “where in the world is Ezra Miller”, as headlines out of Hawaii in the spring painted an image of an increasingly troubled star going through…something…in the public eye. But then Miller disappeared, while stories about their behavior By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 10:37 am
Dumbass Intro for August 12, 2022 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, an interview with Sean Bean was published in The Times that has sparked a debate about intimacy coordinators across the entertainment industry. Well, more specifically, it has sparked a bunch of actresses to speak out on why they like having intimacy coordinators on set. According By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy is in (on?) The Menu With The Bear becoming the breakout hit series of the summer, it’s the perfect time for a darkly comic horror movie about a chef torturing the guests at an elaborate dinner. It’s an ideal pairing, a series using the restaurant world to tell a family drama, and a By Sarah • Aug 11, 2022 02:16 pm
Douchebags Armie Hammer’s dirty laundry is getting aired out (again) Earlier this summer, we learned that ID channel and Discovery+ (the “girls only” side of streaming, apparently) were making a true crime documentary called House of Hammer, about the various misdeeds of the maladjusted Hammer family, which includes Armie Hammer. Of the series’ potential, I said: I’m not sure By Sarah • Aug 11, 2022 11:22 am
The Golden Globes won’t die Today in Zombie Corpse That Just Won’t Die news, the Golden Globes will be returning to NBC in 2023, after not broadcasting their 2022 ceremony in favor of doing chaotic tweets. To recap: in 2021, just days before the Golden Globes ceremony, the LA Times ran an exposé on By Sarah • Aug 10, 2022 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amber Midthunder in Prey When The Predator was released in 2018, I said that Predator (1987) was a “one-off idea that should never have been franchised”. Well, I take it back because Prey is a perfect movie. It’s a simple premise executed SPECTACULARLY well—and it’s not burdened with setting up a By Sarah • Aug 09, 2022 01:54 pm
What Else What Else? Doja Cat shaved her head and then shaved her eyebrows on Insta live. She looks amazing, but then, she has the face for it, with those cheekbones. (DListed) Angelica Ross is the first openly trans actor to play Roxie Hart in Chicago. She will make her Broadway debut on September By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone loves Austin Butler Austin Butler is having a busy year. Elvis, of course, one of the big hits of the summer—the only blockbuster not based on pre-existing IP, unless you count “Elvis Presley” as IP—and now filming Dune Part Deunx—I will MAKE this joke work, just you watch—opposite Timothee By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt in Bullet Train Bullet Train is a frustrating film. Intermittently funny, intermittently entertaining, intermittently painfully loud, intermittently offensive, it never settles into one groove but skips all over the place like a hyperactive kid telling a story. This one time, a guy gets on a train and he’s a bad man and By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 01:54 pm
TV Updates Kumail Nanjiani’s Chippendales series is here Hulu has built up an above-average stable of true crime dramas over the last few years, including, in no particular order, Under the Banner of Heaven, The Act, Candy, The Girl from Plainville, and the true crime-adjacent series, The Dropout and Pam & Tommy. Next up is Welcome to Chippendales, By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu said yes to the devil When first we heard of the possibility of Keanu Reeves starring in the forever-delayed adaptation of The Devil in the White City, I said that “a lot of people talk to him, not every deal closes, so I’m not holding my breath”. Well guess what? Keanu said yes! He By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 10:27 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 5, 2022 Dear Gossips, Following the shocking news that Warner Brothers is shelving a couple of nearly finished films, including Batgirl, CEO of the newly formed and poorly named Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, hopped on an earnings call to tell everyone what his big plan is for the merging of Warner By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 09:25 am
What Else What Else? Ioan Gruffudd, probably best known as the Chris Evans-era Reed Richards of Fantastic Four—OR AS HORATIO HORNBLOWER IF YOU HAVE CULTURE—is going through a MESSY divorce. He just got a three-year restraining order against his estranged wife, Alice Evans. The twists and turns of this drama would be By Sarah • Aug 03, 2022 04:37 pm
