Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in King Richard In King Richard, Will Smith stars as Richard Williams, a man so determined to produce champions he mapped out his daughters’ paths to victory before they were even born. He takes his young daughters, Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton), to practice every day at a run-down tennis court By Sarah • Nov 22, 2021 02:11 pm
What Else What Else Serene Charlene of Monaco has been in a treatment facility outside Monaco after spending six months separated from her family in South Africa. Prince Albert would like everyone to know none of this has anything to do with the state of their marriage. I don’t know, it kinda looks By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 04:00 pm
TV Updates American Downton Abbey Back at the height Downton Abbey’s popularity, creator Julian Fellowes was developing a prequel series about the Gilded Age-era romance between Cora Levinson and a young Lord Grantham. As we learned during the series, Cora was one of the “dollar duchesses”—I guess in her case, a “coin countess” By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 03:32 pm
TV Updates Pam & Tommy & The Tape The teaser for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy dropped this week, and while the physical transformations of Lily James and Sebastian Stan into Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, respectively, are jaw-dropping, you know what really hooks me? The way James lands on the line, “No, not like me you’re By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Revisit the past in Ghostbusters: Afterlife Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the third Ghostbusters movie that comes after the other third Ghostbusters movie which everyone involved with Ghostbusters would now like to disavow. Somewhat ironically, Afterlife is no better than Ghostbusters (2016)—now retitled Ghostbusters: Answer The Call—a highly divisive movie that, in a way, should have By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nightmare Alley continues teasing us Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley opens in a month, and so far, it’s the least thirsty of the major awards contenders. I’m sure that will change as we get closer to the press tour and unleashing Bradley Cooper in a year with the toughest dude competition in By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The other SJP revival Filming on Hocus Pocus 2 has begun, and THIS is the only Sarah Jessica Parker revival I care about. The Sanderson Sisters are back, baby, and looking very Sandersony. You have to admire a cursed witch’s commitment to her aesthetic by way of not changing her clothes for centuries By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 11:09 am
John Cho Intro for November 19, 2021 Dear Gossips, Two LaineyGossip favorites sat on a couch together, as both Kirsten Dunst and John Cho appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night. As Corden notes, both appear in the 1997 film Wag the Dog, though Cho is quick to clarify that he was basically By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 09:16 am
TV Updates Lizzy Caplan week Lizzy Caplan, perennially underappreciated actor and wearer of an equally underappreciated Emmys dress, has had a busy week. The erstwhile Janis Ian has been announced as the star of a Fatal Attraction television series, which…okay, sure. Caplan will play the Alex role previously inhabited by Glenn Close, and while By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 02:22 pm
TV Updates Nicholas Hoult and Elle Fanning are cheerfully antagonistic The Great season two drops on Hulu this Friday, and in advance of that, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult cover the digital edition of Entertainment Weekly. I love this format for a show like The Great, because the motion images allows both Hoult and Fanning to really pose in character, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland Is Very Tired GQ’s annual Men of the Year issue is here, and Tom Holland is on one of the covers as the “Superhero of the Year”. It’s a genial interview, because Holland is a genial guy, though there is a recurring thread about Holland’s disturbed sleep and how his By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence explains Don’t Look Up Upon seeing a teaser for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, I called it “a movie we won’t remember in six months”. That is mostly to do with Netflix’s method of releasing so much stuff at once that it is like a veritable fire hose of content By Sarah • Nov 17, 2021 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man looks exhausting Remember when, for five whole seconds, Peter Parker was a kid with kid problems, who had to fit his superheroing around school and family obligations? Remember how fun and refreshing that was? That the stakes of a Marvel movie weren’t the fate of the whole world, but just this By Sarah • Nov 17, 2021 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews So much for Lethal Weapon 5 Today in Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist news, Mel Gibson has been tapped to direct Lethal Weapon 5, the next—and hopefully, last—“no one asked for this” installment of the Lethal Weapon franchise. Richard Donner has directed all official, existing Lethal Weapon movies (Mac & Dennis directed the unauthorized By Sarah • Nov 16, 2021 03:14 pm
What Else What Else The MTV Europe Awards are always good for some bonkers fashion, and this year was no exception. (Go Fug Yourself) Kristen Dunst says she had a controlling boyfriend when she was younger. Is she jumping on the Jake G Shade Bandwagon? Or just talking about some random? (DListed) The annual By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 04:13 pm
TV Updates The Proud Family is back Look at this, it’s a trailer from Disney+ Day that is longer than three seconds. The Proud Family is back, rebooted as The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, set to debut on D+ in February 2022. As An Old, I did not watch The Proud Family in its original By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 03:32 pm
