Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell get Scrooged Three years ago, before Apple TV+ even launched, we heard about one of their first big deals, to make a new, musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. At the time, I wasn’t into it, largely because A Muppets Christmas Carol already exists and By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Florence Pugh might join Dune 2 Florence Pugh is without question one of the most in-demand actors under thirty. She has numerous projects due out over the next couple years, including Olivia Wilde’s much anticipated Don’t Worry Darling, she’s one of the potential Madonnas (and is rumored to be Madonna’s preferred pick) By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 10:17 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, I’ve had “everything is awful” set to the tune of “Everything Is Awesome” stuck in my head for days, and all the anti-LGBTQIA legislation going on in the US right now isn’t helping. For a split second there, it felt like we were making some strides By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews If no one promotes it, does Deep Water even exist? On Valentine’s Day, approximately four hundred years ago now, Hulu dropped a teaser for Adrian Lyne’s new erotic thriller, Deep Water. This is, of course, the project that birthed BenAna, as stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas became a real-life couple after working together. When the teaser By Sarah • Mar 08, 2022 10:31 am
Award Season Campaigning Oscar’s hipster cousin had a party The Film Independent Spirit Awards, the Oscars’ hipster cousin, had their annual party over the weekend, and while they don’t have much to do with the Oscars, a couple nominees continued to build momentum as we prepare for final Oscar voting to open next week. One, Troy Kotsur won By Sarah • Mar 07, 2022 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew’s big weekend It was a big weekend for Best Actress nominee Kristen Stewart. First, she accepted the American Riviera Award, given for “outstanding achievement in film” at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, one of those fetes that is a highlight of awards season. She wore a sheer Chanel dress that reminds me By Sarah • Mar 07, 2022 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith in After Yang Kogonada follows his feature film debut, Columbus, with the sci-fi drama After Yang, a quiet, reflective work about family, humanity, and loss. Set in a future where technology has become so seamless it’s virtually invisible, people can buy “technosapiens”, a class of semi-organic robots engineered to perform specific tasks. By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s semi-weekly appearance Chris Pine! Once again! So soon! I feel like we don’t see or hear from Pine for long stretches, and then suddenly he’s unavoidable. For instance, showing off his salt-and-pepper wolfman look just a couple weeks ago, and just this week, news that he and Annabelle Wallis have By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 11:14 am
TV Updates Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is at the center of The Dropout, a dramatization of the story of Holmes’s rise and fall as the CEO of Theranos, a one-time tech darling claiming to revolutionize the blood testing industry. There are already documentaries, podcasts, and long-form journalism covering every angle By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 09:27 am
What Else What Else? The New York Times mixed up Venus and Serena Williams which is a HUGE gaffe for the US’s paper of record concerning two of the US’s most famous athletes of the last twenty years. As if you needed any more proof that editors are important and newspapers have By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 04:05 pm
TV Updates Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi in Our Flag Means Death Our Flag Means Death, loosely based on the life of Stede Bonnet, the unlikeliest pirate in history, is not quite what you think it is. Created by David Jenkins and produced by Jenkins Taika Waititi—who also directs the pilot episode—Flag is one part workplace comedy, one part fish-out-of-water By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 03:46 pm
TV Updates The Girl From Plainville skirts a tricky edge Netflix was the first streaming platform to catch the true crime wave in a big way with Making A Murderer, and while docu-series have been their particular forte, but Hulu is rapidly carving a niche for dramatic serializations of true crime stories, starting with The Act and carrying on with By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Evan Rachel Wood as the unauthorized Madonna In keeping with today’s Madonna theme, here is a first look at Evan Rachel Wood in character as Madonna in the Weird Al biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe. She looks GREAT. I wonder if Wood has also auditioned for Madonna? Or is she disqualified by virtue of playing an unauthorized By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Madonna is choosing her Madonna Today in Hot Casting Rumors, THE role to get for white actresses under thirty is Madonna, in the biopic of Madonna being written and directed by Madonna. First reported by Jeff Sneider in The Ankler newsletter, Madonna is currently auditioning potential Madonnas that include Florence Pugh, Julia Garner, the newly By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Two tickets for Bullet Train, please Last week, we saw a faux-mercial themed teaser for Brad Pitt’s summer action movie, Bullet Train. Now, we have a full trailer, and yes, I will take two tickets, please. Bullet Train comes from director David Leitch, who is touted here as the director of Deadpool 2, but is By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 11:52 am
Shout-Outs March 3, 2022 - Shout-Outs As you know, the situation in Ukraine remains urgent. More than 3 million people are in immediate need of humanitarian aid, and the numbers are expected to rise significantly in the coming days. People who are fleeing for their lives need food, water and hygiene, shelter, and health care. Members By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 09:29 am
