Intro for June 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, The tide of history often hinges on a single moment. We like to think of great events as inevitable, as tides that sweep across societies and reshape worlds like the inescapable pull of gravity, we imbue these events with supernatural power, declaring them the will of whichever god( By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 09:07 am
TV Updates Oh The Sandman is doomed When we got our first look at The Sandman, Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic of the same name, I was encouraged by how unsettling Tom Sturridge looks as the main character, Dream. Well, now we have a full trailer, and while I still love the look By Sarah • Jun 09, 2022 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Adam hides #HotJafar We continue inching ever closer to the day that Dwayne Johnson is officially a superhero, as a full trailer for Black Adam, his DC anti-hero project, dropped yesterday. It looks…fine. It kind of feels like this trailer is cutting around something - unfinished effects, maybe, or a plot point By Sarah • Jun 09, 2022 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington are Good & Evil Another of the Netflix “Geek Week” trailers is The School for Good & Evil, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington and directed by Paul Feig. It’s based on Soman Chainani’s YA series about the school that trains the heroes and villains of fairy tales, with Washington playing the By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 01:59 pm
TV Updates Jenna Ortega is Wednesday for a new generation Netflix is doing a marketing thing this week called “Geek Week”, which seems like an online, lesser version of Comic-Con in which the Netflix social media teams pretend everything is fine and like most of their co-workers weren’t recently laid off. It’s super dark! Not as dark: the By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Neve Campbell knows her worth Earlier this year, Scream, the fifth movie in the Scream franchise and sadly not titled 5cream, was a hit, earning $140 million against a $25 million budget. Even by non-pandemic standards, that is a solid success story. A successful reboot means the franchise has new life and Scream 6 is By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 10:28 am
TV Updates Iman Vellani is an instant star in Ms. Marvel Ms. Marvel is a series with split personality, at least for the first two episodes premiering this Wednesday on Disney+. On one hand, it is shameless nostalgia on behalf of Marvel Studios, celebrating their own decade-plus of films in the MCU, and there is no denying that there's By Sarah • Jun 07, 2022 02:19 pm
TV Updates Barry delivers a Hall Of Fame chase scene and a horrifying public shootout Barry has more to offer than ever in its third season, though the deeper we get into the series, the darker it becomes, such that it is difficult to even call this a “comedy” anymore. But episode six, directed by series star and co-creator Bill Hader and written by the By Sarah • Jun 02, 2022 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks is in his silly voice era We are in for TWO Pinocchio movies this year, which is two too many, between the Netflix stop-motion version of the story from Guillermo Del Toro starring Ewan McGregor, and Disney’s live-action version starring Tom Hanks. A teaser for the Disney update has dropped, and between this and whatever By Sarah • Jun 02, 2022 01:08 pm
Quiveration Sir! I must ACCOMPLISH things! Just about a year ago, we heard that Jon Bernthal—erstwhile star of no rom-coms, SOMEONE FIX THAT—would take on the role of Julian Kaye, the sex worker portrayed by Richard Gere in American Gigolo. Now, in what qualifies as a fast turnaround for Hollywood, we have a teaser By Sarah • Jun 02, 2022 11:03 am
TV Updates Obi-Wan: Two strengths, one weakness Spoilers Obi-Wan, the new Star Wars series that premiered its first two episodes last Friday, has two (2) inherent strengths and one (1) inherent weakness. The first strength is series star Ewan McGregor, reprising the role of young(er) Obi-Wan Kenobi that he played 20ish years ago in the prequel By Sarah • May 31, 2022 12:33 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things is officially Too Much Show The first two-thirds of Stranger Things season four—officially referred to as Stranger Things 4, Volume 1—dropped on Netflix on Friday. Did you make it through it already? I’m not going to lie, I had a jump via screeners and still struggled to finish all seven episodes over By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews On Top Gun: Maverick’s big weekend and big propaganda After two years of COVID delays, it turns out that the long game paid off and Top Gun: Maverick will likely go down as the movie that “saved” summer blockbusters. It has banked $126 million for the three-day weekend and pulled in $156 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:00 am
What Else What Else? Update from Lainey May 30, 2022: I have COVID. Site is dark today. Back tomorrow. Mask up! Justin Timberlake sold his music catalog for $100 million. I realize that’s a lot of money, but it also seems kind of thin for JT’s library? Or maybe he just hasn’ By Sarah • May 27, 2022 04:10 pm
TV Updates Jodie Foster will try to revive True Detective Hey remember True Detective? Remember how it was the best show on TV and then immediately the worst show on TV? Or, at least the most disappointing show on TV? Few series have had such a sharp freshman to sophomore season quality drop as True Detective. Quality-wise, it rebounded with By Sarah • May 27, 2022 03:22 pm
TV Updates But there’s no Val Kilmer The other big reveal from day one of Star Wars Celebration has nothing to do with Star Wars. It’s the teaser for Willow, a sequel series to the 1988 film of the same name. Back then, George Lucas hoped Willow would be as big as E.T.—it wasn’ By Sarah • May 27, 2022 02:41 pm
