Oscars 2022 Intro for February 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, Remember when the Academy wanted to do a “popular Oscar” to acknowledge the blockbuster films they’re pretty terrible at recognizing, and everyone was like, Ew, no thanks? Well, guess what? They’ve come up with something even more stupid! Instead of letting the Academy vote on a By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan plays a dirtbag again in Fresh One of the breakouts from Sundance this year is Fresh, Mimi Cave’s feature film directorial debut about a young woman and her new beau, who has, er, unique tastes. Everyone who has seen this film recommends learning nothing about it, so as to better experience its twists and turns. By Sarah • Feb 16, 2022 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The $500 million ring to rule them all Amazon’s Lord of the Rings spin-off series, The Rings of Power, has a famously enormous budget, with season one said to cost upwards of half a billion dollars alone. Well, a teaser for The Rings of Power landed over Super Bowl weekend, and yes, this show looks VERY expensive. By Sarah • Feb 15, 2022 02:17 pm
Top Reads The Oscars have three lady hosts Last week, it was announced that the Oscars would return to using hosts this year, with three people intended to emcee the show throughout the night. Yesterday, the three hosts were Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes. It’s the first time in 35 years the Oscars have had By Sarah • Feb 15, 2022 11:07 am
TV Updates Dearest gentle readers, Lady Whistledown is back The first teaser for Bridgerton season two arrived on Valentine’s Day, and it is all about the return of Lady Whistledown. The queen, the ton, the Bridgertons, everyone is reading Lady W. And now that we know Penelope is the authoress, we actually get to see her at work, By Sarah • Feb 15, 2022 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s Bad Miracle Last year, Jordan Peele teased us with a poster for his new film, Nope, which might be a play on the way people “nope” out of things, like horror movies. When the first trailer for Nope debuted on game day, Lainey texted me that she will be nope-ing out of By Sarah • Feb 14, 2022 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange is in trouble Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness debuted a new trailer during the Super Bowl, and it shows off more of Stephen Strange futzing about the multiverse that, apparently, he broke open despite his best efforts to shut it down in Spider-Man: No Way Home. It looks like Strange is By Sarah • Feb 14, 2022 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews DC leans on The Rock Instead of releasing a trailer for one of their upcoming movies, DC Films went with a preview for several of their 2022 films, including The Batman, The Flash, Black Adam, and Aquaman and the Last Kingdom. There is nothing new from The Batman here, but we get to see a By Sarah • Feb 14, 2022 10:33 am
What Else What Else Rita Ora joined the cast of the Disney+ Beauty and the Beast prequel series about Gaston and LeFou, and then three days later, the series was scrapped. I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy that Rita Ora joined the show only for the show to get cancelled, but I’ By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenneth Branagh and Gal Gadot in Death on the Nile Fresh off his Oscar nomination for Best Director, Kenneth Branagh is back in mystery mode, starring as Hercule Poirot and directing his second adaption of Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile. I mostly liked his first effort as Poirot and directing Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, but found the By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 03:18 pm
TV Updates Kevin Costner’s Indigenous documentary Kevin Costner is riding high on the success of Yellowstone, one of the most popular shows on television with Game of Thrones-level ratings, when everyone thought those numbers would be impossible to reach post-Thrones. So, what is Costner doing with his new hot streak? Is he subjecting us to more By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dr. Ellie Sadler and Alan Grant return We continue our Super Bowl trailer run with Jurassic World Dominion, supposedly the conclusion of the—what are we calling this? Jurassic Saga? Anyway, it’s supposedly the last Jurassic movie, and the one that unites the original Park cast with the World cast for an all-out dinos v humans By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson in Marry Me It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, and in the spirit of love, I am here to be the Daphne to Lainey’s Apollo and crush all her hopes and dreams about Marry Me, the rom-com starring Jennifer Lopez as herself a popstar on the rebound and Owen Wilson as A By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This is a 13 Going on 30 reunion It’s the Friday before the Super Bowl, which means new movie trailers are dropping. First up, it’s The Adam Project, the Netflix family-ish adventure film that reunites the Free Guy team of producer-star Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy, but EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, it reunites 13 Going on By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 10:23 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Have you heard? Supposedly, Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 will be Tom Cruise’s last outings as super-spy Ethan Hunt. In a report about how COVID has caused the budgets of these films, filming consecutively, to balloon out of control, it is also mentioned that M:I 7-8 By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lightyear conspiracy goes all the way to the top! In the content arms race brought about by the streaming revolution, Disney has been treating Pixar like cannon fodder. Unquestionably, Pixar is their most top-shelf marquee brand, not only a consistent producer of hits, but a winner of awards, too (to the extent that I call the Best Animated Feature By Sarah • Feb 09, 2022 01:49 pm
