Movie Reviews and Previews How Tall is Julia Roberts in Ocean’s 11? Oceans 11 came out 20 years ago this week. Read my post from yesterday on the film and its influence here. And now, it is I, Real Science Person Doing Real Science, back to answer a singular question plaguing our land for far too long: How tall IS Julia Roberts By Sarah • Dec 08, 2021 03:34 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Ocean’s 11 at 20 Heist movies never go out of style because people LOVE heists. And in 2001, Ocean’s 11 combined everyone’s natural interest in heists with superstar glamor in a moment shadowed by tragedy—Ocean’s 11 premiered three months after September 11th—but not yet touched by post-recession distaste for By Sarah • Dec 07, 2021 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The best Spiderverse is back Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse is arguably the best superhero movie ever made, and I only say “arguably” because I’m not going to fight with anyone who brings up Batman, Batman Returns, Superman: The Movie, or Spider-Man 2. To me, though, Spiderverse IS the best superhero movie made to date, By Sarah • Dec 06, 2021 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dancing Tom Holland Press for Spider-Man: No Way Home is underway, and at a press event in London, Tom Holland confirmed he will be playing Fred Astaire in a new biopic of the legendary singer-dancer-actor. Promoting #SpiderManNoWayHome in London, Tom Holland says he'll play Fred Astaire in a film and discusses By Sarah • Dec 06, 2021 11:48 am
What Else What Else Demi Lovato has given up their “California sober” ways and is now entirely sober-sober. Good for them, I genuinely wish them well on their journey, but also, “California sober” was a perfect description of a certain way of existing. They got so much sh-t for saying that, but it’s By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 04:01 pm
TV Updates The Cowboy Bebop caveat The live-action Cowboy Bebop remake comes with a big caveat. Based on the near-universal complaints of people who know and love the classic anime of the same name, the live-action remake is a travesty. But as someone who has not seen the anime, I can tell you that live-action Cowboy By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 03:12 pm
TV Live Blog Hawkeye easy, breezy Marvel fun Marvel Studios’ foray into television has yielded some highs (the Emmy-lauded WandaVision and wildly confident Loki) and some lows (the pedestrian bordering on boring The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). With Hawkeye, Marvel seems to have found their footing at last—you can practically feel them learning on the job By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu vu The Matrix Ressurections is just three weeks away. Keanu Reeves will soon be on the promotional trail—the profiles have already started. Over the last decade, as popular opinion of Keanu The Actor and Keanu The Movie Star have been revised upward, Keanu press tours have become highlight reels of By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 11:33 am
Assy Style Here comes Nicole Being The Ricardos comes out next week, and while reviews are still embargoed, Oscar buzz is building momentum for Nicole Kidman. Awards season remains extremely competitive, but Kidman is looking more and more like a solid pick for a nomination (along with Olivia Colman and Kristen Stewart). Here’s Kidman, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 10:21 am
Alec Baldwin Intro for December 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Alec Baldwin gave his first official interview since the on-set death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October, sitting down with George Stephanopoulos for a special that aired on ABC. It was about as messy as you’d expect. Baldwin is obviously still stricken and upset, and how could By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Awkwafina will fight vampires After crashing and burning spectacularly with the so-called “Dark Universe” cinematic universe of classic movie monsters, Universal is trying again with a filmmaker-driven approach to reimagining their classic monsters in the modern era. The first movie of their second effort to reboot the classic monsters was Leigh Whannell’s very By Sarah • Dec 02, 2021 01:15 pm
BFFs Will Ferrell and Adam McKay aren’t friends anymore Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s creative partnership is one of the driving forces of contemporary comedy. They first worked together on SNL, McKay as a writer and Ferrell as a cast member, and over the years they’ve made some of the best and/or most quotable comedies of By Sarah • Dec 01, 2021 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry in Bruised Halle Berry makes her directorial debut with Bruised, a film that is half comeback-story sports drama, half family drama, and all cliché. Berry also stars in Bruised, as disgraced MMA fighter Jackie Justice, whose career is ended after she climbs out of the octagonal cage during a bout she is By Sarah • Nov 25, 2021 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga and Adam Driver in House of Gucci Ridley Scott has already hit one out of the park this year with The Last Duel, now he returns with House of Gucci, an overlong film that is unequally a family drama and a half-hearted true crime docu-drama. Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani, daughter of a middle-class Italian family. By Sarah • Nov 24, 2021 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield in tick, tick...BOOM! Based on a musical by Jonathan Larson, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Rent, tick, tick...BOOM! is an autobiography self-aware of its subject’s death. The stage version of BOOM was also written by Larson and was first performed as a workshop Off-Off Broadway in 1990, and then By Sarah • Nov 23, 2021 01:58 pm
TV Updates Wheel of Time gets off to an uneven start Based on the long running fantasy series by Robert Jordan—15 books in total—Wheel of Time is (one of) Amazon’s big-budget bets on generating “the next Game of Thrones”. I can tell you right now, it’s not going to be that, but maybe, if the rest of By Sarah • Nov 22, 2021 03:24 pm
