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 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Billy Eichner’s Bros Rom-coms are in full blown revival mode, but unlike the rom-com trends of the past, queer people—and/or queer-coded people—are no longer relegated to the sidelines. The gay rom-com is here, from Fire Island, Joel Kim Booster's contemporary queer take on Pride & Prejudice, starring Booster By Sarah • May 19, 2022 01:53 pm
What Else What Else? Julia Fox has reached the “grocery shopping in her underwear” phase of fame, so these fifteen minutes are almost up. (Go Fug Yourself) Famous COVID denier Eric Clapton caught COVID. No. You don’t say. Shocking. (DListed) ABC says they’re open to having Chris Rock host the 2023 Oscars. By Sarah • May 18, 2022 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Netflix drama! The first trailer for Chris Hemsworth’s new Netflix movie, Spiderhead, is here, and it looks like a trip. I’m not sure I’d be 100% on board except that Bad Times at the El Royale is one of my favorite contemporary films, and that has Hemsworth working in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Riley Keough made a Native movie and got a fancy explainer about it Riley Keough is making her directorial debut at Cannes, with a film she co-directed with her business partner, Gina Gammell. They’re premiering War Pony in the Un Certain Regard section of the film festival, a film they made about young men growing up on the Pine Ridge reservation in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:12 pm
