TV Updates Ranking the longing looks of Bridgerton Now that you’ve had a chance to see Bridgerton season two, and maybe reckon with how far they go with the love triangle and how they rushed the happy ending, we can spend a little time cataloging all the good stuff in the new season, such as: Kate and By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 03:27 pm
TV Updates Welcome back to the Arconia During the Oscars, the first teaser for season two of Only Murders in the Building dropped. I’ve never understood why the Oscars doesn’t feature more new trailers, like the Super Bowl, that seems like one way to gin up interest in viewing without insulting the people who actually By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 01:27 pm
Top Reads Will Smith’s Oscars debacle follow-up and the Academy’s dithering “leadership” Fallout from The Slap, as it is now known, continues as the Academy board of governors and leadership had an emergency call on Monday about Will Smith and what to do since he struck Chris Rock in front of 1000+ of his peers and also a live television audience of By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 11:11 am
Oscars 2022 The highs and lows of Will Smith Obviously, this was not how anyone wanted the night to go. Will Smith has long been admired and beloved by his peers, goodwill you could feel every time he was nominated for and then won an award for his performance in King Richard. This was an “it’s his time” By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am
Oscars 2022 Zendaya, Olivia, Rachel: Oscar Sparkles There was a lot of sparkle at the Oscars, including Zendaya, my best dressed for the night in a crop-top button down and a high-waisted sparkle skirt by Valentino. It sort of reminds me of Sharon Stone’s Gap button down paired with a Vera Wang skirt at the 1996 By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 10:58 am
Oscars 2022 The power of anything but Netflix The anti-Netflix bias in the Academy is REAL. Sure, Netflix logs a lot of nominations, but the Academy is reluctant to hand them a Best Picture win. Apple, in fact, becomes the first streamer to win Best Picture with CODA, despite only being in the game for two years. Jane By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 07:45 am
Oscars 2022 Sebastian and Kodi: Easter candy men Soothing pastels, sweet pastels. Rest your eyeballs on these images of Sebastián Yatra and Kodi Smit-McPhee dressed in tuxedoes so pale they are bold, donning spring pastels and looking like a couple of Easter M&Ms. Yatra turned up in a cotton candy pink morning suit from Moschino, and By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 07:25 am
Oscars 2022 The Chaoscars When I dubbed the 2022 Oscars the “Chaoscars”, I didn’t mean it like this! And look, we’ll talk about the biggest story of the night in its own post, but for now, let’s start with everything else and how this was a truly terrible Oscars from start By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 05:45 am
Oscars 2022 Predicting the Chaoscars This awards season has been 1) INTERMINABLE, and 2) CHAOTIC. Dramatic momentum shifts, wild nominations at precursor award shows, races too close to call—these Oscars are so chaotic, they should be called the Chaoscars . Predicting Oscar wins is tougher than usual for a number of reasons, ranging from the By Sarah • Mar 25, 2022 03:02 pm
What Else What Else Amanda Seyfried went to the 92nd Street Y in bright red lace. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but given that Elizabeth Holmes had a signature red lip look during her Theranos years, maybe this is a way of referencing The Dropout and Seyfried’s performance as Holmes, without copying the By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller’s Sliding Doors The first trailer for The Offer was all about Matthew Goode as Robert Evans, the larger-than-life figure who ran Paramount for a time in the 1970s. The second trailer tries to refocus on Miles Teller, the actual star of the show portraying Al Ruddy, the producer behind The Godfather. What By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 03:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage is PERFECT as Dracula Nicolas Cage’s greatest role may be playing himself, but let us not forget that he is also playing Dracula in the upcoming Renfield, a retelling of Dracula from henchman Renfield’s perspective. Described as a horror-comedy, Renfield stars Nicolas Hoult as Renfield; Awkwafina as Rebecca, Renfield’s love interest; By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 03:39 pm
TV Updates Justice for Duchess Margaret at last Back in 2018, Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw starred in A Very English Scandal, a three-part dark comedy about an MP who tries and fails to have a former (male) lover killed, and from there events spiral out of control. It’s a SPECTACULAR mini-series, if you haven’t seen By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yes All Men Alex Garland, the filmmaker behind Ex Machina and Annihilation, is back with a new film called Men starring current Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear, and virtually ONLY Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear. The trailer features Buckley as Harper, a grieving woman gone to the country after, it seems, By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal wears TWO shirts in London Ambulance, the Michael Bay heist movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzalez, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II opens in a couple weeks, so the press tour started this week. Here is the cast and Michael Bay in London yesterday at a “special screening”. For some reason, we’ve stopped calling these “premieres” By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 10:08 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer out and about post house When we last saw Bennifer, literally two days ago, Deep Water Star Ben Affleck™️ was supporting Jennifer Lopez at the iHeart Radio Awards as she was presented with the Icon Award. Yesterday, they were out and about, running errands. Doing stuff for their new house, maybe? They’ve reportedly offered By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 09:48 am
