Equality Issues Amber Ruffin rips into Marvel and Disney Over the weekend, a clip from last week’s The Amber Ruffin show made the rounds online from a segment she calls “How Did We Get Here?”. In it, she details an appearance by Matoaka, or Matoax, better known as Pocahontas, in an issue of King Conan from February (written By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 02:48 pm
Top Reads Will Smith continues his streak Will Smith clocked two more wins this weekend, picking up Best Actor trophies at the BAFTAs and the Critics’ Choice Awards (full disclosure: I am a voting member of the CCA). He seems fairly unstoppable at this point, that “it’s his time” energy coalescing right as final balloting for By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 11:48 am
Kristen Stewart Kristen Stewart keeps hustling Best Actress chaos continues, thanks largely to the BAFTAs, where none of the Oscar nominees were cross-nominated, leaving the Brits free to make a choice unburdened by Oscar hopes and dreams. They rewarded Joanna Scanlan for After Love, and then the Critics’ Choice Awards broke for Jessica Chastain (full disclosure: By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A big weekend for awards season It was a big weekend for awards season, with a number of awards shows, including the BAFTAs in London and the Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles (with a London outpost for the BAFTA crowd) on Sunday, and the Directors’ Guild Awards and Annie Awards (for animation) on Saturday. Let By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 10:07 am
What Else What Else Cardi B pulled out of a movie called Assisted Living at basically the last minute, saying she is “overextended” right now. Film shoots don’t come out of nowhere, so I wonder why no one on the production side thought, “maybe this isn’t the best moment for filming to By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Phases of Matter: A day in the life of a hospital Turkish filmmaker Deniz Tortum spent three years haunting the halls of the hospital where he was born and where his father works a doctor with a camera, capturing life in Istanbul’s Cerrahpaşa Hospital. It’s a teaching hospital, but it’s also threatened with closure, and so Tortum’s By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 03:19 pm
TV Updates Ramy Youssef mogulizes Have you gotten around to watching Ramy yet? If not, why? It’s on Hulu, there are only two seasons, twenty episodes total, each about thirty minutes. It’s an easy binge! The series was co-created by and stars Ramy Youssef, a surprise winner at the 2020 Golden Globes, one By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Turning Red is a puberty allegory for everyone Domee Shi, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the Pixar short Bao, makes her feature film debut with Turning Red, a bubbly, fun, heart-warming allegory for puberty in which thirteen-year-old Meilin (Rosalie Chiang) finds herself transformed into a giant red panda whenever she loses control of her emotions, and discovers she is By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 12:49 pm
TV Updates Moon Knight is serious, says serious actor Moon Knight premieres at the end of the month on Disney+. Ahead of that, a new featurette hit the internet yesterday, with series stars Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke talking up their mystical mythology superhero show. According to Isaac, “it’s a real, legitimate character study”. Actors best known for By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage’s greatest role April Fool’s Day falls on a Friday this year. I bring this up because the trailer for Nicolas Cage’s new movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, came out this week and it’s set to open in April, but on the twenty-second. If ever there was a By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler is about to be everywhere Austin Butler isn’t a household name. Yet. With Baz Luhrman’s Elvis biopic on the horizon, and a fancy historical war epic looming (Masters of the Air, about WWII-era bomber pilots and co-starring fellow rising stars Barry Keoghan and Callum Turner), it’s only a matter of time before By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 09:45 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for March 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Hey, did you forget about the HFPA? I wouldn’t blame you if you did. With no Golden Globes televised this year, and still reeling from the revelations of last year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been laying low, trying to get their sh-t together to mount By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 09:05 am
Star Wars Ewan McGregor shoots his second shot A teaser trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi, the upcoming Disney+ series that gives Ewan McGregor a shot at redemption, dropped yesterday. It looks…pretty good. Honestly, I’d be more into it if The Book of Boba Fett wasn’t a goddamn mess, and if the whole vibe of the new By Sarah • Mar 10, 2022 02:04 pm
Top Reads Everything gets worse for Disney Over the last 24 hours, everything has gotten worse for Disney and its now-embattled CEO, Bob II. Following his mealy, both-sides memo addressed to Disney employees about the company’s stance re: Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, he is now facing backlash on multiple fronts. Let’s start By Sarah • Mar 10, 2022 11:23 am
What Else What Else Demi Lovato showed off some “Egyptian artifacts” online and a professor specializing in art crime dragged them as some fake ass sh-t, and, rightfully, pointed out that any real artifacts of that sort would likely be looted. Egypt is very particular about their artifacts (as they should be). You just By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harvey Guillén is also everywhere Lainey and I are both in the tank for Sam Richardson, the actor who is suddenly everywhere, in all your favorite comedies and must watch shows and indie movies and being the only good thing about The Tomorrow War. Well, another name to know is Harvey Guillén, another actor cropping By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 03:48 pm
