Denzel Washington Franny McD and Denzel on the carpet The Los Angeles premiere for The Tragedy of Macbeth was last night. With a new COVID variant on the loose and new waves of outbreak spreading, it’s starting to feel like red carpets are going to go away again for a while. I was a little surprised to see By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 10:29 am
Ryan Reynolds Intro for December 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s been a big week for Peloton. First, they killed Mr. Big on And Just Like That…, then they rapidly produced an ad featuring Chris Noth along with Ryan Reynolds’ marketing firm, Maximum Effort, and now they have wiped that ad off the face of the earth By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: No Way Home brings Peter Parker full circle Mild spoilers, nothing big but a little more context than the trailers. Marvel movies typically go one of two ways: they start out great but fall apart in the third act, or they start slow but end strong. Spider-Man: No Way Home, directed by Jon Watts, falls into the second By Sarah • Dec 16, 2021 01:45 pm
TV Updates Amanda Seyfried gets her blood up There are multiple projects about Theranos founder and alleged fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in the works, including a film based on John Carreyrou’s book, Bad Blood, from Adam McKay and Jennifer Lawrence. But the first project out of the gate is The Dropout, Hulu’s limited series about the Theranos By Sarah • Dec 16, 2021 12:11 pm
Top Reads Aline will haunt us forever Moonfall is already the dumbest movie of 2022, but you know what the most INSANE movie of 2022 will be? Aline. There is no doubt in my mind that NOTHING will top Aline for sheer, jaw-dropping scope of absurdity. Aline, an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, is written By Sarah • Dec 16, 2021 11:17 am
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts isn’t done wasting its potential Because franchise death is slow and grinding, we still have to get through Fantastic Beasts 3, officially titled Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The first trailer dropped yesterday—one day after JK Rowling wrote some new transphobic sh-t in The Times that I won’t link to because it’ By Sarah • Dec 14, 2021 03:19 pm
Henry Cavill Henry Cavill is keeping busy The Witcher season two drops on Netflix this Friday, and Henry Cavill is out doing the publicity rounds. I do not love the outfit going into The Late Show, something about the pocket square and shirt with no collar is bugging me. Or maybe it’s the entirely too dad By Sarah • Dec 14, 2021 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics’ Choice nominations: As expected, no Green Knight The Critics’ Choice Association just announced their film nominations, on the heels of the HFPA announcing the Golden Globes nominations earlier this morning. Full disclosure, I am a member of the CCA, so I get to nominate films, and while I didn’t expect all my nominations to line up By Sarah • Dec 13, 2021 02:21 pm
What Else What Else Adele is going to make bank with her Vegas residency. I wonder which is more lucrative, a Vegas residency or a worldwide tour? The tour seems like it would have way more overhead, but the Vegas theaters are a lot smaller than the stadiums and arenas that make up touring By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Simon Rex (yes, that’s right) in Red Rocket Erstwhile MTV VJ and 2000s It Boy actor Simon Rex makes a, frankly, shocking comeback in Sean Baker’s latest slice of life realist drama, Red Rocket. Starring as Mikey, a washed-up porn star, Rex (who has his own history with the adult entertainment industry) gives the kind of livewire By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 03:43 pm
TV Updates See the show that broke up Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Last week, Adam McKay blamed a casting decision for his new HBO series about the Lakers as the reason for his falling out with Will Ferrell. Now that series, titled Winning Time, has a trailer, and, well, John C. Reilly looks f-cking amazing in it as Dr. Jerry Buss, owner By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel’s Chippendales movie is growing True crime is a vast genre, and every aficionado has their preferred corners of the true crime library. Mine is “cocaine-fueled mayhem of the Seventies and Eighties”, so the story of the Chippendales murder-for-hire plot is an old, well not favorite, because people died, but a much-revisited tale of excess By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fine, yes, I like West Side Story Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story, originally adapted to film in 1961 and now reimagined by Spielberg and Tony Kushner, is about as good as movie musicals get. It’s big, it’s melodramatic, the songs, penned by Steven Sondheim, fill the room with emotion, and Leonard Bernstein’ By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews At last, Halo A long time ago, in what feels by now like a previous life, I saw a movie adaptation of the popular Halo video game series implode in spectacular Hollywood fashion. It was a lesson in crash-and-burn Hollywood dealmaking, and I honestly thought Halo would never get made. The video game By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 10, 2021 Dear Gossips, All year, Lainey has been exhorting us to enjoy Bennifer 2.0, to be glad of Bennifer 2.0, to recognize Bennifer 2.0 as the great gift from the gossip gods that it—they—are. But let us also recognize that the gossip gods have given a By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos Being the Ricardos, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, takes three things that happened in the lives of legendary entertainers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and compacts them into one fictitious week. While producing an episode of their hit show I Love Lucy, Walter Winchell outs Lucy (Nicole Kidman) as By Sarah • Dec 09, 2021 02:07 pm
