Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 24, 2022 Dear Gossips, Morbius opens next Friday—and WeCrashed started streaming on Apple TV+ last week—and Jared Leto has been press touring all week and we’ve sort of been ignoring him because so much other stuff is happening—like the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, breaking up with By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 09:06 am
What Else What Else? Sex and the City sequel series And Just Like That is getting a second season. Here’s my pitch—they kill off a character every season. Turn the whole thing into a meditation on conspicuous consumerism and mortality, like a post-modern You Can’t Take It With You. Let the By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Where the Crawdads Sing is fancy Fancy Delia Owens’ novel Where the Crawdads Sing was one of Reese Witherspoon’s book club picks that then got parlayed into a splashy film adaptation, not unlike the upcoming Daisy Jones and the Six and Gone Girl (produced when Witherspoon’s company was still called Pacific Standard). As is her By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 03:34 pm
Business of Hollywood Disney’s troubles aren’t over It has been a bad month for Disney. Their employees are in open revolt over the company’s lackluster response to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, and now they have stars of high-profile projects taking them out like the trash on the red carpet, too. But wait, there’ By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 03:03 pm
TV Updates JGL takes on an icon Joseph Gordon-Levitt is currently starring as former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on Super Pumped, which doesn’t seem to be making much of a dent amidst all the other shows about scammers and/or Big Tech bros airing right now. But that isn’t on JGL, he’s very good By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 01:18 pm
Shonda Rhimes Bridgerton’s love triangle at the premiere Somehow, it only just occurred to me that Bridgerton and Moon Knight premiere only a week apart. I don’t know how I never connected that, except that I never know what day it is and time isn’t real anyway. That means, however, that it’s a big week By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 10:32 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Oscar voting closed yesterday, which means it’s time for Scott Feinberg’s annual “brutally honest Oscar ballots”. So often, these things are revealing of far more than the anonymous voter intends, and this year is no different. The first brutally honest ballot featured is from a producer, By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 09:13 am
TV Updates Bridgerton Season 2: Lots of yearning, but where’s the burning? When Bridgerton ended its first season, romantic hero and heroine Simon and Daphne were settling into marital bliss, a baby on the way. Daphne’s older brother, though, announced his intention to find a wife but to excise love from the proceedings. Season two catches up with Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton By Sarah • Mar 22, 2022 03:20 pm
TV Updates Christina Ricci is in Wednesday, but is not Wednesday Lest you have forgotten, consider this a reminder that Tim Burton is directing a new series for Netflix about Wednesday Addams. It’s called Wednesday, and it stars Jenna Ortega (something of a scream queen with films like X, Studio 666, Scream, and The Babysitter: Killer Queen under her belt) By Sarah • Mar 22, 2022 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in Deep Water Filmmaker and erotic thriller auteur Adrian Lyne returns to cinema after a twenty-year absence with Deep Water, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel of the same name (scripted by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson), starring Ben Affleck as Ultimate Wife Guy Vic and Ana de Armas as Sexy Mom By Sarah • Mar 21, 2022 02:18 pm
Award Season Campaigning Brace for a CODA upset Last week, the Oscar race got a shakeup after Sian Heder’s CODA snatched Best Adapted Screenplay from presumptive favorite The Power of the Dog at the BAFTAs. Dog triumphed that weekend, though, winning top honors at the BAFTAs and the Critics’ Choice Awards, clinging to its place atop the By Sarah • Mar 21, 2022 11:10 am
What Else What Else? Jessica Chastain might skip the Oscars’ red carpet so that she can be in the Dolby when the Best Makeup and Hairstyling category is called before the show. The team from The Eyes of Tammy Faye is nominated, and she wants to support to them, which is totally understandable. Also, By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 04:06 pm
TV Updates Tegan and Sara cast Tegan and Sara Casting your own biopic is all the rage. The latest celebrities to cast themselves are pop duo and Adult Twins Tegan and Sara, who hand-picked their cinematic teenaged counterparts on TikTok. Their memoir, High School, is being adapted into a series by IMDb TV—yes, that’s a real thing— By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 03:39 pm
TV Updates Hoyeon’s next move Fresh off her SAG win, Squid Game’s Hoyeon Jung has lined up her next project. She will be joining Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Kevin Kline in Alfonso Cuaron’s upcoming Apple TV+ series, Disclaimer. That is a lot of big names lined up in a By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 01:46 pm
TV Updates The Derry Girls (and Sister Michael) are back Before Nicola Coughlan became Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown, she was Clare Devlin on Derry Girls, a coming-of-age comedy series about four Irish girls and one Anglo-Irish boy growing up in Northern Ireland during the closing years of The Troubles. It airs on Channel 4 in the UK, but it gained By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 10:57 am
TV Updates Jessica Biel is your friendly neighborhood axe murderer In 2017, Jessica Biel gave her career a kick in the pants with The Sinner, a show that she produced and starred in, and which netted her an Emmy nomination in 2018. She then took on podcasts, adapting the popular Limetown into a limited series, and now she is joining By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 09:59 am
