TV Updates Hawkeye’s branding problem One of the smoother aspects of Disney+ Day was the new Hawkeye clip, probably because it came via Good Morning America and live television demands a certain amount of—maybe not “polish”, because anything can and will go wrong at any moment, but certainly—preparation. So Jeremy Renner popped up By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 02:53 pm
TV Updates Oh my gosh, The Great! I really enjoyed the first season of The Great, but somewhere in the pandemic fog that has become my brain over the last eighteen months, I totally lost track of its return for season two. But it’s coming back! THIS WEEK! The second season begins on Friday. Here are By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What is Oscar Isaac doing with his voice One major reason Disney+ Day felt like nothing—besides the fact that it is hollow marketing, and thus, actual nothing—is that they didn’t have full trailers for anything they were showing off. It was all title treatments and single images, like the ten-second teaser for Secret Invasion that By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 12:02 pm
TV Updates Ms. Marvel suits up Friday was “Disney+ Day”, aka a global marketing bonanza in which Disney tried to gin up some interest in new subscriptions for Disney+ after they missed Wall Street expectations and added “just” 2.1 million new subscribers in their fourth quarter. Honestly, the insistence on total global domination is exhausting, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 10:25 am
Award Season Campaigning Lady Gaga in red Without even looking for a dress ID, I knew this was a Versace (or, as Nomi Malone would say, Versayce.) This is Lady Gaga at the Milan photo call for House of Gucci, rocking red Versace bustier gown and diva makeup and diva hair. Diva is very much Gaga’s By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 09:06 am
Britney Spears Intro for November 15, 2021 Dear Gossips, Today in Is Britney Free Yet news, Britney Spears is finally free. After thirteen years, her conservatorship has ended. Is this the one and only case of hashtag activism working? Of course, there was a lot more to it than that, but #FreeBritney started as an online movement, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 08:50 am
What Else What Else John Mulaney changed lawyers in an effort to hasten his divorce from Anna Marie Tendler. What really kills me is referring to Mulaney’s year as a “packed schedule”. (DListed) Olympic gymnast Suni Lee on her post-Olympic plans and what’s next. She’s just 18! She has to finish By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot in Red Notice I have already seen one Ryan Reynolds action-comedy this year that is total screaming nonsense, so when I tell you that Red Notice is more or less fine, realize that I am grading on a curves. My nerves are still deadened from The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, so Red By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga in Passing In 1920s New York, two childhood friends reconnect by chance. Irene (Tessa Thompson) is now married to a doctor and living in Harlem, the epicenter of the Black American renaissance. Clare (Ruth Negga) has moved to Chicago, where she is married to a white man and passing for white herself. By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Absolutely NOT, Jake! In the entirety of American cinema history, there is one perfect film: Road House (1989). It is a masterpiece, untouchable and pristine, and no one should ever remake it. So of course, someone is trying to remake it. We’ve been threatened with remakes before, including one starring Ronda Rousey, By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Sorkin’s bad Ricardos takes A full trailer for Being the Ricardos has arrived, and it is…still not convincing. Seeing more of Nicole Kidman in motion as Lucille Ball isn’t making me feel better about the casting, it’s just doubling down on the initial impression that she’s the wrong type of By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan and Will swap Ryan Reynolds is promoting Red Notice, out today on Netflix (my review is posting later today), and Will Ferrell is promoting The Shrink Next Door, dropping on Apple TV+ today, too. They did a jokey thing where they “swapped” late night appearances, with Will Ferrell appearing in place of Reynolds By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Power of the Dog screened last night at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles. The whole cast and Jane Campion turned up, including Kirsten Dunst, Best Supporting Actress contender, and Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Actor contender. So far, Kiki’s campaign has consisted of turning up places looking By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 08:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix plays just, like, a guy The “make up Oscar” is a real phenomenon, when an actor gives a great performance but doesn’t win a trophy, only to come back within the next few years and win for an obviously less interesting/challenging role, making up for the previous loss. The most obvious modern example By Sarah • Nov 10, 2021 01:55 pm
TV Updates Maya Rudolph on set? Here are photos of Maya Rudolph in a fuchsia dress and horrible crocs “on set” for “Human Resources”. Why the quotations? Because I think these photos might be mislabeled. Human Resources is a spin-off of Big Mouth centered on the hormone monsters and other imaginary creatures of Big Mouth. Rudolph’ By Sarah • Nov 10, 2021 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart in Spencer: A Fox in a Trap A spiritual sequel to Jackie, his 2016 biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy, Pablo Larraín’s Spencer is a portrait of a lady in distress, a biopic less interested in historicity than it is hysteria. Set over three days during the Christmas holiday at Sandringham, Spencer finds Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) hanging By Sarah • Nov 10, 2021 11:08 am
