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
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
