Douchebags Kevin Spacey’s new charges Yesterday, news broke in the UK that the Crown Prosecution Service announced four new charges of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey, involving three different men. The timeframe of the charges ranges from 2005 to 2013, for reference, Spacey was the artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theater from 2003-2015 By Sarah • May 27, 2022 12:32 pm
Star Wars Andor looks very good As previously mentioned, Star Wars Celebration is going on right now, and the biggest reveal of the first day was undoubtedly the teaser for Andor, a Rogue One prequel series centered on Diego Luna’s Rebel spy character, Cassian Andor. I am super f-cking burnt out on Star Wars, but By Sarah • May 27, 2022 10:44 am
Star Wars Intro for May 27, 2022 Dear Gossips, Star Wars Celebration kicked off yesterday and will run through the weekend. Feels kinda weird right now, with everything going on, but then it occurred to me that if they had cancelled Celebration and moved it to some other time, there would probably just be a new tragedy By Sarah • May 27, 2022 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun: Maverick brings Maverick full circle Rarely does a nostalgia-driven sequel make a case for itself as well as Top Gun: Maverick does. Picking up 36 years after Top Gun, we find Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) working as a test pilot on a next-gen jet on the brink of being scrapped in favor of unmanned By Sarah • May 25, 2022 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans have no chemistry Yesterday, the trailer for The Gray Man came out, giving us our first look at the new Netflix action movie starring Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling and a bunch of other hot people, and directed by the Russo Brothers, and…I don’t know. I just don’t know. It By Sarah • May 25, 2022 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba washes away the scent of Cats George Miller, the mad genius behind the Mad Max films, filled his time between Mad Max: Fury Road and its prequel, Furiosa, with a similarly fantastic, albeit less apocalyptic fantasy film Three Thousand Years of Longing. Starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the film premiered at Cannes to mostly positive By Sarah • May 24, 2022 03:18 pm
Xenu Smut Mission: Impossible – Punctuation Hell and Tom Cruise’s rehabilitation Over the weekend, a trailer for the next Mission: Impossible film leaked, so now the trailer has been released in all its official HD glory, even though this movie doesn’t come out for 13 months. (Presumably, they’re going to tack this onto Top Gun: Maverick this weekend, as By Sarah • May 24, 2022 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jane Foster is stoked to be Thor It’s summer blockbuster season and it almost feels like normal, with a new Tom Cruise movie opening this week and a new trailer for the next Marvel thing, Thor: Love and Thunder, dropping last night. Still sort of heartbroken this movie isn’t called Th4r, but the new trailer By Sarah • May 24, 2022 11:15 am
What Else What Else? PSA from the boss: Monday is Victoria Day in Canada, so the site will be dark for the long weekend. Lainey’s current fave, Heartstopper, has been renewed for two more seasons. (Popsugar) A flight attendant from SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space/tourism/grift business, was paid $250,000 after By Sarah • May 20, 2022 04:00 pm
TV Updates Armie Hammer(’s family) is getting a true crime special This feels a little exploitative. ID and Discovery+ have unveiled their upcoming true crime slate, and it includes a special on the Hammer family, as in Armie Hammer’s family, and will explore “a dysfunctional dynasty with its male characters exhibiting all the devastating consequences of privilege gone wild.” I By Sarah • May 20, 2022 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams is Nightbitch Today in Well This Is Exciting news, Amy Adams is teaming up with director Marielle Heller for an adaption of Rachel Yoder’s novel, Nightbitch. No, this is not the story of an avenging female superhero with, probably, a great pair of boots. The book is about a stay-at-home mom By Sarah • May 20, 2022 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie is one of the Oceans (probably) Margot Robbie is staying busy. Besides the upcoming Barbie movie, she has that Pirates of the Caribbean spin-off that may or may not get made, and now she is signing up to make an Ocean’s 11 prequel with Jay Roach (they previously worked together on Bombshell). The film will By Sarah • May 20, 2022 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes go into the desert Academy Award Winner Jessica Chastain™️ has a new film coming out, The Forgiven, that unites her with Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Abbott, and writer/director John Michael McDonagh. I am a big fan of McDonagh—and his brother, Martin McDonagh—he makes the kind of films that pop back into my By Sarah • May 20, 2022 11:32 am
TV Updates Intro for May 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, It has been a long ass week, the state of the world is depressing, and the Top Gun: Maverick press tour has been disappointingly normal, so let’s start the day with something totally silly. A trailer dropped yesterday for This Is Going To Hurt, a series starring By Sarah • May 20, 2022 09:09 am
What Else What Else? Lainey’s off to the Top Gun premiere, so I’m here to close out the day. Let’s start with Berenice Bejo in Cannes. She’s best known in North America as the star of The Artist (remember The Artist?!), but she’s a big deal in France. She’ By Sarah • May 19, 2022 04:03 pm
TV Updates David Oyelowo is (finally) giving Bass Reeves his due Yellowstone is a self-sustaining television universe at this point, with the main series starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Reilly; the prequel, 1883, starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill; another prequel coming with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren called 1932 (should be called Mosquito Coast 2: Yellowstone Mosquitos or something similar) By Sarah • May 19, 2022 02:46 pm
