Intro for December 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, As we float through the liminal space of the last week of the year, there is something to keep in mind about 2022—it’s the year the Paramount consent decrees dies in the US. At 12:01 AM on January 1, 2022, movie distributors will be able By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 09:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Matrix Resurrections: a radical reclamation of mythology Twenty-two years after its debut, The Matrix is a landmark technical achievement in cinema memorable for its mind-bending use of philosophy, but it’s also remembered for its less than acclaimed sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and for how its “red pill” terminology has been coopted by By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange meet in the multiverse The post-credit scene on Spider-Man: No Way Home is a teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has now been released online. It’s fine. It doesn’t feel especially like a Sam Raimi movie, but it does feel like a teaser for a movie that is By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 12:02 pm
TV Updates Hawkeye is the low stakes hangout Marvel needs Hawkeye wrapped up yesterday, and it ended as it began—fun, light, not super invested in the larger lore of the MCU. Sure, we have a new Hawkeye in Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), and Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) is off to reinvent herself as something more like a hero, and By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Armie Hammer is still in Death on the Nile The much-delayed Death on the Nile is set to finally premiere on February 11, 2022 (supposedly, let’s see if anything changes over the next couple of months). A new trailer dropped yesterday to remind everyone that this movie exists, and unlike the first trailer, which was borderline camp, this By Sarah • Dec 22, 2021 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in The Tender Bar The basic concept of The Tender Bar is “what if Hillbilly Elegy, but mediocre?” Directed by George Clooney and adapted by William Monahan from J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name, The Tender Bar is a very similar premise to Hillbilly Elegy (while the film version beat The By Sarah • Dec 22, 2021 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard fulfills his destiny in The Northman Robert Eggers, auteur of the itchiest goddamn cinema, is back with a new film starring Alexander Skarsgard, The Northman. Skarsgard fulfills his destiny by playing Thor a Viking prince called Amleth. In medieval Scandi literature, Amleth is the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a boy whose father, the king, is By Sarah • Dec 21, 2021 11:15 am
Royals Lady Louise out for a drive Lady Louise Windsor was photographed driving a carriage around the grounds of Windsor yesterday. Carriage driving is some real rich people sh-t. As if horses aren’t expensive enough, as if competition-quality tack isn’t already prohibitive to most participating in the sport, let’s add f-cking CARRIAGES to the By Sarah • Dec 21, 2021 09:08 am
What Else What Else A New Yorker did an impression of John Oliver on the street, for John Oliver. John Oliver took it well, which immediately makes him a better sport than 50% of the celebrities Tom Hiddleston has done impressions in front of. (Pajiba) Explore the terrible fashion of the post-grunge 1990s and By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 04:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in 'Don’t Look Up' Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay and written by McKay from a story he developed with David Sirota, wants to be Network but for climate change. Roughly two-thirds of the way into the film, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio, whose performance is one of the only redeemable things By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the greater Los Angeles milieu of the 1970s, but instead of a despairing tale about the failure of the American Dream, he’s here with a sweet, mostly gentle coming of age dramedy loosely inspired by his own adolescence in the Valley. As someone who By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 01:47 pm
Keanu Reeves One last Keanu The Matrix Resurrections opens this week, so it’s time for one last Keanu before he goes away again. Here he is at the US premiere of Resurrections, held at The Castro in San Francisco. I appreciate a movie premiere that has the stones to occur somewhere other than New By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 11:54 am
Marisa Tomei Intro for December 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, Spider-Man: No Way Home obliterated the box office this weekend, proving that people ARE willing to go to the movies during a pandemic…if your movie is a Marvel movie, more specifically with “Spider-Man” in the title. No Way Home opened with a massive $253 million three-day weekend, By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Review: Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter Maggie Gyllenhaal makes her feature directorial debut with The Lost Daughter, an adaptation, also by Gyllenhaal, of Elena Ferrante’s novella. Gyllenhaal is astoundingly assured, as both a director and a screenwriter, interweaving past and present into a crushing tale of motherhood and personhood that are not always in agreement. By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Review: Hell is other people in Nightmare Alley Following the fish f-cking of The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro returns the slightly more normal world of monstrous humanity, where there are no fish-men or haunted houses or magical labyrinths, only the hell of other people. Directed by Del Toro, and adapted by Del Toro and Kim Morgan By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 01:58 pm
Keanu Reeves Keanu as Dolly Bunny Keanu Reeves is still promoting The Matrix Resurrections, which means new Keanu content every day. We must enjoy these moments when they come, because when Keanu isn’t promoting a new project, he tends to disappear completely from view. He appeared along with Carrie-Anne Moss and (virtual) Priyanka Chopra on By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 10:54 am
