What Else What Else? Diddy wants to “un-cancel” Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen by having them perform at the Billboard Awards, which he is producing and hosting. Yes, Travis Scott, who is headlining Primavera Sound later this year (despite many pending lawsuits stemming from the Astroworld catastrophe), and Morgan Wallen, who won Album of By Sarah • May 13, 2022 04:06 pm
TV Updates The second Miss Francesca Bridgerton Here’s a piece of surprise Bridgerton news that maybe isn’t so surprising—the role of Francesca, quiet middle child of the Bridgerton clan, has been recast. Ruby Stokes plays Francesca in seasons one and two, albeit briefly, as Francesca is absent much of the time. In season one, By Sarah • May 13, 2022 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spinal Tap II!!!! On the heels of the news that A Simple Favor is getting a sequel—do you think they’ll call it A Simple Favor 2: An Even Simpler Favor?—comes the EVEN BIGGER NEWS that iconic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap is also getting a sequel. The whole band is By Sarah • May 13, 2022 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Shameless self-promotion II I SWEAR I didn’t plan this, but it happens to be the opening night of the Chicago Critics Film Festival tonight, for which I am a programmer, and our opening film, Cha Cha Real Smooth, just got a new trailer. But since it HAPPENED, I am here to say By Sarah • May 13, 2022 12:08 pm
TV Updates Physical is back to annihilate us Physical is one of the best shows of 2021, but it’s also one of the darkest and bleakest things put on television under the banner of “comedy” in recent memory. The White Lotus and Severance and even Barry have their moments, but they also have enough laugh out loud By Sarah • May 13, 2022 11:31 am
Top Reads Matt Damon and the crash If you haven’t heard, cryptocurrency is crashing. Smarter people than I can explain it—and do here, here, and here—but suffice it to say, the bubble burst and billions in value have been wiped out. As per usual, it’s not the billionaires suffering—oh no, they’re By Sarah • May 13, 2022 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Cannes starts next week, the first full-fledged festival they’ve held since 2019. There will be business deals, there will be fashion, and celebrities being at it again, but mostly, there will be Top Gun. As previously announced, Top Gun: Maverick will have a premiere on the Croisette. By Sarah • May 13, 2022 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Viola Davis’s “magnum opus” Viola Davis has given no shortage of great performances—and at least one baffling one, with whatever she’s doing in The First Lady—but her new film already has people spun up about the epicness of her role. Back during CinemaCon, Davis won the “Trailblazer of the Year” award, By Sarah • May 12, 2022 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Simple Favor is back! I love A Simple Favor so much. I loved it when it came out, I named it one of the best movies of the 2010s, and I talk about it constantly. It’s so funny and dark and smart and sexy and a little bit bleak, and every time I By Sarah • May 12, 2022 10:25 am
Top Reads Cary Fukunaga accused This week in Red Flag Ahoy news, director Cary Joji Fukunaga, best known for the one good season of True Detective and films like Beasts of No Nation and No Time To Die, has been accused of inappropriate behavior by three women. At this point, the question isn’t “who By Sarah • May 11, 2022 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar Again Finally, after over a solid decade of false starts and delays of various natures, the sequel to Avatar, officially titled Avatar: The Way of Water, is due out this December. And to prove that it is really, 100%, no take-backs happening, a teaser trailer was released yesterday. It’s…fine. By Sarah • May 10, 2022 11:29 am
Business of Hollywood Doctor Strange gets summer 2022 off to a healthy start In continuing positive signs for the post-pandemic box office, at least among the blockbuster class, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opened with $185 million in North America this weekend, while netting $265 million everywhere else for a huge $450 million bow. And this is just the estimate on By Sarah • May 09, 2022 09:54 am
What Else What Else Elizabeth Olsen covers the digital edition of Harper’s Bazaar and says it’s weird for actors to complain about being famous because that probably means your career is going well. She has a point! But she also separates that from the privacy of potential children, which is another good By Sarah • May 06, 2022 04:06 pm
TV Updates Moon Knight gets real weird in the end Spoilers Moon Knight came to an end this week, and it marks perhaps the clearest iteration yet of what the MCU will be on television versus theatrical films. Ever since the debut of WandaVision, the MCU series on Disney+ have had pacing issues, and Moon Knight is no different with By Sarah • May 06, 2022 03:18 pm
TV Updates Boyd Holbrook is Justified’s new Boyd The Justified revival, City Primeval, starts filming in Chicago—WHERE I LIVE—next week. The book is set in Detroit, so I guess we’re doubling for Detroit, which I bet Detroit just LOVES. With production so close, the cast is rounding out with new additions Vondie Curtis-Hall, Oscar nominee By Sarah • May 06, 2022 02:50 pm
TV Updates Will you go back to Westeros? House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel series, is set to debut on HBO on August 21. A new teaser has arrived, and this one has dragons (aka, the only three seconds I care about). Is that the dreaded Vhagar? Impossible to tell! But is A dragon, anyway. By Sarah • May 06, 2022 01:33 pm
