Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix shows off new mov—KNIVES OUT 2! THERE IS KNIVES OUT 2! Every movie this year comes with an asterisk in my head: Not Knives Out 2. Even stuff I’m super looking forward to, like The Northman, has that asterisk in my mind, because my A #1 most anticipated film of the year is Knives Out 2. So, it is with By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Notable BAFTA Snubs: KStew and Kidman We’ve discussed the chaotic nature of the BAFTA nominations this year, but now let’s talk about two specific snubs: Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman for Best Actress. They are two of the leading contenders for the Oscars, and have been all awards season, but they were excluded by By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 11:38 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs are CHAOTIC The British Academy of Film and Television Arts woke up yesterday and chose CHAOS, announcing their nominations and throwing several spanners into several works as we move deeper into awards season. The BAFTAs don’t have a ton to do with the Oscars, nominations for which already closed earlier this By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Friday Keanu It was Lunar New Year this week, and the tiger is already a LOT. This week has been one million years long and the snow gods sh-t on a lot of us, which is exhausting on top of everything else, so here is some Keanu to carry you into the By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 10:23 am
Sports Intro for February 4, 2022 Dear Gossips, Nathan Chen! The Olympics are one (1) day old, and we already have a GREAT Olympic story. The figure skating team event started last night, even though the opening ceremony isn’t till tonight—or, it’s today and it’s airing in North America tonight, time is By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 09:16 am
TV Updates Pamela Anderson is surrounded by dirtbag men in Pam & Tommy The first three episodes of Pam & Tommy, the limited series depicting the story behind the leak of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s intimate home videos, is like a horror movie staged in broad daylight. From the perspective of 2022, we know how this story goes, even as we By Sarah • Feb 03, 2022 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews CTates is BACK Somehow, in the brain drain of the last couple years, I didn’t even notice that Channing Tatum went on hiatus. But he did, he didn’t appear on screen after his 2017 double whammy of Logan Lucky and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. He’s done some voice roles over By Sarah • Feb 03, 2022 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kogonada returns Kogonada, the video essayist turned filmmaker, follows up his spectacular and melancholy feature debut, Columbus, with After Yang, a science fiction film about a family coping with the loss of a robotic family member, Yang. After Yang premiered at Cannes and just played Sundance, where it won the Alfred P. By Sarah • Feb 02, 2022 01:19 pm
TV Updates Matthew Goode is going to steal The Offer The Offer is one of two projects about the making of The Godfather, one of the famously nightmarish film shoots of the 1970s, and it’s the first to come out, with a teaser dropping yesterday, revealing an April premiere date on Paramount+. Right now, The Offer might best be By Sarah • Feb 02, 2022 11:20 am
TV Updates HALO continues the faceless hero trend A full trailer for Paramount+’s flashy new video game series, HALO, premiered during the AFC Championship game yesterday. It shows off more of Master Chief, the helmeted, faceless hero of the series played by Pablo Schreiber. Or, we assume that’s Pablo Schreiber in every shot. This invites the By Sarah • Jan 31, 2022 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa is #Family In late 2021, Vin Diesel revived his boy sh-t with Dwayne Johnson, publicly entreating him to “rise to the occasion” and return to the Fast/Furious franchise for the “final” movie in the franchise—yeah right, like they’re going to abandon such a lucrative series—only to have Johnson By Sarah • Jan 31, 2022 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t blame Peter Dinklage for Snow White’s representation problem Last week, Peter Dinklage guested on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, and Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Snow White came up. Of the film, set to star Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, Dinklage had this to say: “Literally no offense to anyone, By Sarah • Jan 31, 2022 10:04 am
What Else What Else? Evangeline Lilly is Marvel’s other anti-vaxxer. Look, all the politics and opinions aside, vaccinations are a major part of going back to work “like normal” in the film industry. So, not only is Lilly probably vaccinated because she recently completed Ant-Man and the Wasp 2, but one wonders what By Sarah • Jan 28, 2022 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Dinklage in Cyrano Cyrano is a lavish musical update of Edmond Rostand’s classic play, directed by Joe Wright and written by Erica Schmidt, adapting from her own stage musical, and if all of the original songs sound like they’re from The National, that’s because they are. Peter Dinklage and Hayley By Sarah • Jan 28, 2022 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Uncharted makes its final push Uncharted opens in three weeks, and tickets go on sale this weekend, so Sony is here with a final trailer to try and convince people that THIS is the movie that will break the video game curse. Tom Holland is currently the reigning box office champ, so maybe? And it’ By Sarah • Jan 28, 2022 11:32 am
Emilia Clarke Kingsley Ben-Adir appears Filming of Secret Invasion continues in England, and here is Kingsley Ben-Adir, playing an unidentified villain, on set with Emilia Clarke yesterday. So, this is probably the bad guy contingent. I would like to point out, once again, that Emilia Clarke is still wearing cool boots—I support women in By Sarah • Jan 28, 2022 10:46 am
