Business of Hollywood Intro for March 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, Last year, Amazon started talks to buy MGM, and yesterday, the merger, worth $8.5 billion, closed. MGM, one of the most storied film studios and one of the last survivors of the Golden Age of Hollywood, is now a subsidiary of Amazon, like Zappos and Whole Foods By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 09:02 am
TV Updates Barry is back (with Noho Hank) It has been three years since Barry’s second season. For three long years we have lived without Noho Hank, the most relentlessly positive and encouraging cinematic mobster. Barry is a widely admired show, and a lot of the attention goes to series co-creator and star Bill Hader, who also By Sarah • Mar 17, 2022 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney joins SPUMC Sydney Sweeney is having a big year, from the breakout success of The White Lotus last summer to the Euphoria domination of early 2022, and reports that she’s one of the possible Madonnas, plus her engagement—lots going on for Sydney. Now, she’s making the leap to superhero By Sarah • Mar 17, 2022 10:08 am
What Else What Else? Inventing Anna update—Anna Sorokin has NOT been deported yet. There’s been some mystery about her status because of bureaucracy. She’s still in ICE custody in New York, and her lawyer filed a motion to stay her deportation, so the saga of the fake German heiress isn’t By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors keeps going Jonathan Majors broke out with 2019’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco (which you can watch on demand on Showtime, or stream with Showtime on Hulu). Then, he went on a crazy run through 2020 and 2021 with Da 5 Bloods, Lovecraft Country, Loki, and The Harder They By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 03:47 pm
Meg Ryan Hey, Meg Ryan is back! Here’s a cultural generation divide for you. Are you old enough to remember when Meg Ryan was EVERYWHERE? I am! She was the rom-com queen of my Nineties childhood. It seemed like every third movie was a Meg Ryan Movie, and then…well. As much of our current entertainment By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 01:18 pm
TV Updates Kamala Khan is a brown girl saving the world One thing Marvel keeps poking at but not fully committing to is making stuff for actual children. Sometimes they get close, with stuff like Ant-Man, the most family-friendly film they’ve made, but then the sequel kind of veers out of those waters, or the Spider-Man: Homecoming, which feels very By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 10:46 am
TV Updates Selena Gomez is remaking Sixteen Candles for Gen Z It has happened, people who grew up in the Eighties. Enough time has passed that the Youths are reimagining the cultural objects of YOUR youth. Selena Gomez, along with playwright Tanya Saracho and writer/producer Gabriela Revilla Lugo, is reimagining the John Hughes coming of age classic Sixteen Candles as By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 10:18 am
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart makes one last pitch on Kimmel Final voting for the Oscars opens tomorrow, and Kristen Stewart is pushing for the finish line, keeping up her pace of appearing everywhere with a stop at Jimmy Kimmel Live. She wore a fabulous sparkly blue jumpsuit that looks GREAT on camera, and was generally lively and fun and confident, By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Cannes does. It was reported this week that Maverick: Legend of the Skies Top Gun: Maverick will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May. The Croisette? More like the CRUISETTE. Cannes is BIG, it is GLAMOR, it is By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone goes on a road trip I adore Lily Gladstone, as captivating a performer as has emerged anywhere in the last decade. Sometimes I re-watch Certain Women just to see if that performance happened, if that impression of stoic heartbreak is real, and yes, it DID, and yes, it IS. I am rooting for her as By Sarah • Mar 15, 2022 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews But what will Deadpool 3 be rated? On Friday, I mentioned that the Netflix-Marvel shows—the most violent/profane stuff affiliated with Marvel during the MCU era—have landed on Disney+ along with more sensitive parental controls, a step toward clearing a path for Deadpool to join the MCU. Then, late Friday afternoon, news broke that Ryan By Sarah • Mar 15, 2022 11:01 am
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
