TV Updates Kogonada and Justin Chon team up for Pachinko Kogonada’s sophomore feature film, After Yang, isn’t the only project he has coming up. He is also, along with Justin Chon—Twilight supporting actor turned filmmaker—adapting Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel, Pachinko, into a lavish limited series for Apple TV+. Together, Kogonada and Chon are producing By Sarah • Feb 24, 2022 10:37 am
What Else What Else Rita Moreno covers Town & Country and the photos are STUPENDOUS. She’s photographed by Ruven Afanador, but these photos wouldn’t be amiss in an Avedon portfolio. Great, classic glamor photography. (Go Fug Yourself) Rosie O’Donnell apologized on TikTok for assuming that Priyanka Chopra’s dad is wellness By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the ice skating apocalypse A film left out of Netflix’s sizzle reel for 2022 is the Swedish thriller Black Crab starring Noomi Rapace. The trailer dropped yesterday, and I cannot fathom why they left this one out, it looks AWESOME. A post-apocalyptic action-thriller centered on an ICE SKATING MISSION? Are you kidding me? By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alden Ehrenreich comes back Alden Ehrenreich exploded overnight in 2016, selected by the Coen Brothers to anchor the ensemble in Hail, Caesar!, and then named the new-young Han Solo, to headline a Star Wars spin-off centered on that beloved character. But then that all went to sh-t, and Ehrenreich, who has such amazing screen By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 02:40 pm
TV Updates Bill Nighy is the new Bowie If you’re making a new adaptation of a film that stars David Bowie, who do you get to replace David Bowie? When illness kept Bowie out of Twin Peaks: The Return, David Lynch replaced him with a talking teapot, because, well, why not. It’s David Lynch, Twin Peaks, By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 02:17 pm
Business of Hollywood Aziz Ansari, moving on and moving up Four years after having a #MeToo scandal of his own, Aziz Ansari is doing just fine. He has continued touring as a top-selling stand-up comedian, and he has a new stand-up special on Netflix, Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian, his second post-scandal, plus he dropped a new season of Master of By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews DanRad with the accordian The Weird Al Yankovic biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe is underway, and after set photos leaked over the weekend, the production has released the first official image of DanRad done up like Weird Al. He is unsettlingly convincing. “Wearing the Hawaiian shirt is a huge responsibility that I don’t take By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:36 am
Hair Andrew Garfield out and about Can I just say that I am very much enjoying Andrew Garfield this awards season? It’s his second time around as a Best Actor nominee (following his 2017 nomination for Hacksaw Ridge), and he seems to understand he’s not a frontrunner, so all the pressure is off and By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:00 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for February 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Just in case you thought the Academy was done making stupid decisions in re: the Oscars, gird your loins because they are not. The latest bad idea is a rehash of something they’ve tried in various configurations in recent years, which is cutting certain awards from the By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 08:52 am
TV Updates Hot Taika and Leading Man Rhys Darby (at last) Last month, we saw a teaser for Our Flag Means Death, the pirate comedy coming from David Jenkins and Taika Waititi. Now, we have a full trailer, and yes, I have been mainlining this for DAYS. The combination of pirate history and New Zealand humor, it feels like this was By Sarah • Feb 22, 2022 02:03 pm
Judy Greer The First Ladies rally One of the splashiest drama due this year is Showtime’s anthology series, The First Lady, which depicts the lives of three former first ladies. Viola Davis stars as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt. The cast also includes Kiefer Sutherland, Aaron Eckhart, By Sarah • Feb 22, 2022 10:47 am
What Else What Else? Candace Bushnell says she was “startled” by some of the decisions in the Sex and the City sequel series, And Just Like That… What really kills me is when she calls it a “television product”. The stigma between film and TV is long gone, but there is something so funny By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 04:04 pm
Equality Issues Yalitza Aparicio, at last It has been four years since Yalitza Aparicio made her acting debut in Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning film, Roma. But despite being a Best Actress nominee in 2019, Aparicio has not appeared in a feature film or television series since. She hasn’t been completely idle, having appeared in a By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Uncharted Well, it’s happened. After thirty years of trying, video games movies have finally reached the middle. Uncharted, the globe-trotting Indiana Jones-riff adventure game, comes to the big screen at last, starring Tom Holland as a young, just-starting-out adventurer, Nathan Drake, and Mark Wahlberg as his shady mentor, Sully. It By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bat and The Cat cover hotness The Batman comes out in two weeks, so we’re in the full-court press for, er, press. Yesterday, it was Robert Pattinson at Jimmy Kimmel Live, today it’s RBattz and Zoë Kravitz together on the digital cover for Entertainment Weekly. (In a heart-crushing blow to the celebrity/pop culture By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Trek for Chris Pine Chris Pine! Twice in one week! Feels like a good omen to roll into the weekend with. Here’s Chris Pine at an event for Prada in Los Angeles yesterday. Also present: Zachary Quinto, his co-star in the Star Trek franchise, which just got a kick in the pants this By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 10:37 am
