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, 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 By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 09:15 am
TV Updates Meet the (new) Addams family We’ve already gotten a good look at Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming Netflix series, Wednesday, but now Vanity Fair is bringing us a look at the whole family. Check out Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzman as Gomez, Ortega as Wednesday, and Isaac Ordonez as By Sarah • Aug 17, 2022 01:55 pm
TV Updates Tatiana Maslany in She-Hulk Tatiana Maslany is a mega-star, I know this not because of her multi-layered, transformative work on Orphan Black but because her star power alone is enough to turn She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, as thorough a bowl of superhero slop as has ever been served by Marvel, into By Sarah • Aug 17, 2022 11:21 am
Business of Hollywood Slightly less-worse Chris It is a truth universally acknowledged that Chris Pratt is the worst Hollywood Chris. Most recently entered into evidence was his Instagram story about how The Terminal List, his thoroughly joyless and mediocre Amazon Prime military-porn series, “defied woke critics’ scathing reviews” to become a hit. https://twitter.com/ By Sarah • Aug 16, 2022 12:38 pm
Legal issues The Ezra Miller Apology Tour begins In the wake of Ezra Miller’s most recent arrest and the future of their superhero movie, The Flash, Miller has issued their first apology, thus kicking off the Ezra Miller Apology Tour. In an exclusive statement to Variety, Miller said: “Having recently gone through a time of intense crisis, By Sarah • Aug 16, 2022 11:14 am
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 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 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
