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
Movie Reviews and Previews Cult Leader Leo Every true crime aficionado has a handful of stories they know back to front. “Favorite” is a weird word to use in this context, so I call them the highlight reel, the stories we go back to no matter how many times we’ve heard them retold, the ones that By Sarah • Nov 09, 2021 02:41 pm
What Else What Else Everybody and their dog was at the LACMA Art + Film Gala over the weekend, but I am posting this because I want to study Elle Fanning’s makeup for my festive season party looks. She looks like a witch on her way to a solstice celebration, which is very much By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 04:03 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Power of the Dog parties The Power of the Dog crew showed up in force at the LACMA Art + Film Gala. Benedict Cumberbatch—who introduced himself to Lil Nas X—along with Sophie Hunter, was there, as were power couple Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, and scene-stealer Kodi Smit-McPhee. The film is a heavy favorite By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Are audiences finally tiring of Marvel? Eternals opened over the weekend and the result is as divisive as the reviews have been. It banked $71 million domestically and over $90 million internationally, for a cumulative $161 million weekend. That is either a death knell for the MCU, or perfectly respectable, or even great, given the pandemic, By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 12:23 pm
Boy Sh-t Vin Diesel and “little” Dwayne Johnson BACK AT IT As you know, boy sh-t is the best sh-t, and over the weekend Vin Diesel delivered some premium, grade-A boy sh-t when he uncorked his feud with The Rock in an Instagram appeal to get Dwayne Johnson to return to the Fast/Furious franchise for Fast 10. Did you think By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 10:18 am
Travis Scott Intro for November 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, On Friday night, the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas turned into a tragedy as a crowd surge caused a “mass casualty event” with at least eight dead. The Houston Chronicle has been doing an amazing job all weekend with the updates as more details have emerged from concert By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 08:49 am
What Else What Else Lana Wood, Natalie Wood’s younger sister, has a memoir coming out in which she corroborates a long-standing rumor in Hollywood, that Kirk Douglas sexually assaulted Natalie Wood at a party. Since Kirk is dead, Michael Douglas issued a statement: “May they both rest in peace.” Natalie’s peace might By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 04:03 pm
TV Updates Even more Miracle Workers I don’t talk about Miracle Workers much because I genuinely love it so much that I just don’t want to turn it into work, but I must tell you that Miracle Workers has been picked up for a FOURTH season. If you told me two years ago when By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma after Diana As we are poised to receive Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana this weekend as Spencer opens theatrically today, let’s check in on the previous pop culture Princess Diana, Emma Corrin. They're in Venice shooting a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, looking very 1920s glam. Jack By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika tackles Jodorowsky In the annals of cult cinema, few filmmakers stand taller than Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean-French filmmaker behind films like Topo and The Holy Mountain. He’s also known for his failed Dune adaptation, which was documented in Jodorowsky’s Dune. Jodorowsky is an artist of unquenchable curiosity, and while he’ By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Marvel’s Eternals Marvel has taken a lot of hits over the years for their formula, and it’s a fair assessment at times that they lean too hard on the known and don’t take many real risks with their films. In that way, Eternals is the biggest swing they’ve ever By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked, finally The musical Wicked is nearly twenty years old—the book is twenty-six—and, finally, it is coming to the big screen. Jon M. Chu continues to not make the Crazy Rich Asians sequel will direct Wicked, following up his previous song and dance efforts Step Up 2 & 3, Jem By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, As you may have heard by now, Eternals is rating a 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the first “rotten” movie in the MCU, and the lowest rated MCU movie ever. My full review will be posted later today, but while I don’t love the movie as By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 09:20 am
Child Stars Macaulay in the Love Parade The Gucci Love Parade runway show was a mega-Hollywood affair, literally held in the heart of Tinseltown, on Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theaters. Models stomped down the Walk of Fame, and the audience and runway alike included A-list names. Jared Leto’s appearance on the runway By Sarah • Nov 04, 2021 10:38 am
What Else What Else In the Britney Spears Conservatorship Drama, everyone has been focused on Jamie Spears, Britney’s father and conservator. But Britney took to Instagram to let us know that her dad is too dumb to think of a conservatorship on his own, and actually it was her mom, Lynne Spears, whispering By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 04:05 pm
