TV Updates The After Afterparty So far, 2022 has been AMAZING for comedy shows, and The Afterparty is one of the strongest of the bunch. It’s been renewed for a second season, and the new ensemble has just been announced. Tiffany Haddish is returning as Detective Danner with a new murder to solve, and By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 02:49 pm
TV Updates First Lady Michelle (Pfeiffer) Michelle Pfeiffer is currently starring on The First Lady as Betty Ford. The show has not been getting great reviews, and I don’t want to bag on it because it’s not even bad in an interesting way, it’s just a weird combination of looking expensive but being By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 11:41 am
Break Ups Olivia Wilde’s Envelopegate Move over La La Land, there’s a new Envelopegate in town. On Tuesday, during her presentation of her new film, Don’t Worry Darling, at CinemaCon, Olivia Wilde was interrupted by a woman who handed her a legal envelope with the words “Personal and Confidential” stamped on them. It By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon continues, and we will DEFINITELY talk about the newest Envelopegate, but right now, let’s talk Barbie. Specifically, Margot Robbie as Barbie in the movie she is producing and starring in, with Greta Gerwig directing. The cast is stacked, besides Robbie there is Ryan Gosling as Ken, By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 08:58 am
TV Updates The Essex Serpent finally shows itself I was JUST asking about a trailer for The Essex Serpent, and lo, it has appeared. Apple dropped the first—only?—look at the historical drama starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston yesterday and it looks…fine. It’s very soggy and British and everyone is Victorian and repressed. Hiddleston By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 03:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 2 Bat 2 Man CinemaCon, the annual gathering at which studios show their wares to movie theater owners, is happening this week in Las Vegas. It’s the first “full” conference since 2019, after 2020 was cancelled and 2021 was a COVID-stunted gathering, and the studios aren’t wasting time announcing a slew of By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 01:23 pm
Style Much better Doctor Strange (and Wanda) The Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness press tour has moved onto London, where Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen did another photocall and this is MUCH better than their showing in Berlin. That shade of yellow is really working for Cumbybuns, and his suit! Is actually! Pressed! Maybe it’ By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fast #Family divorce drama In a bombshell afternoon news drop, yesterday it was announced that director Justin Lin has left the latest Fast/Furious movie, officially titled Fast X, after starting principal photography last week. It’s the second divorce to hit the #Family, following the Diesel-Rock breakdown. If I have taught you anything, By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 09:26 am
TV Updates Barry is back and impressively better than ever After a pandemic-delayed three-year hiatus, Barry is finally back, with the premiere episode of season three airing last night on HBO. For a show that started out strong, somehow Barry keeps getting better, reaching new highs—and emotional lows—topping itself in ever more impressive ways. Series co-creators Bill Hader By Sarah • Apr 25, 2022 03:06 pm
TV Updates Whither Essex Serpent? The Essex Serpent, the period drama starring Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes and based on Sarah Perry’s novel, drops on Apple TV+ on May 13. That’s just a couple weeks away, and the premiere was held yesterday. It’s one of those events where everyone showed up dressed By Sarah • Apr 25, 2022 01:19 pm
Hair Elizabeth Olsen out and about, London edition The press tour for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has moved onto London, and Elizabeth Olsen was spotted out and about, dressed casually between events. I LOVE this outfit, much better than whatever that was she wore to the photocall in Berlin. I also love the sunglasses, and By Sarah • Apr 25, 2022 12:35 pm
What Else What Else? Earlier this week, Lainey wondered what the premiere of Red Table Talk would bring, if Jada Pinkett-Smith would acknowledge The Slap in any way. Well, sort of. The premiere episode featuring Janelle Monae—who came out as non-binary—was taped before the Oscars, so the episode only featured a title By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal in Massive Talent The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a high-wire act few films could pull off. Directed by Tom Gormican and written by Gormican and Kevin Etten, the film is a buddy comedy built on rom-com lines, a meta comedy about the current state of the film industry, and a dramedy By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christina Ricci’s Monstrous trailer The Christina Ricci Resurgence continues as Ricci adds to her hot streak, following Yellowjackets and news of her reunion with Tim Burton and the Addams family with a new horror movie called Monstrous. The trailer dropped yesterday, and while I dig the retro aesthetic, man does this trailer give away By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard in The Northman Robert Eggers’ third film, The Northman, continues his cinematic tradition of creating fanatically detailed, historically grounded worlds so tangible you can practically smell the body odor and see the lice crawling on his characters. The Northman, co-written by Eggers and Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón, is basically a Heilung concert By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 11:45 am
Top Reads Bill Murray’s suspension Two days ago, production on Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut, Being Mortal, was suspended after a complaint was made and production company Searchlight determined “that production cannot continue at this time”. Yesterday, further details emerged that star Bill Murray was the subject of the complaint for “inappropriate behavior”. That By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 10:48 am
