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
TV Updates This is not good timing Station Eleven is an award-winning dystopia novel by Emily St. John Mandel about a flu epidemic that devastates the world. The book isn’t even 350 pages, it’s a breezy read, and unique in the way it centers culture over humanity as the thing worth preserving in the face By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors, Regina King, and Idris Elba in The Harder They Fall Jeymes Samuel’s revisionist Western, The Harder They Fall, is less interested in history and more interested in aesthetic. It’s a film built on the cultural cache of gunslingers and bank robbers and the inherent coolness of its stars, especially Jonathan Majors. The Harder They Fall, written by Samuel By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crush me, moon daddy! Moonfall, the dumbest movie of 2022, is here with a new trailer about the moon obliterating Earth. Or maybe it’s really the secret aliens—robots?—that have been hiding inside the moon trying to kill us. Either way, the moon is the harbinger of our doom, which is slanderous By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maybe Morbius isn’t terrible? I have not been high on the Morbius train, as this pandemic-delayed Spider-Man spin-off finally wends its way to theaters in January 2022. But a new trailer is the best of the bunch by a huge margin, and maybe Morbius doesn’t look terrible? They’re still throwing everything and By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s next act Robert Downey, Jr. is in his post-Marvel reinvention phase, and if we ignore Dolittle, which we should, then his most significant post-Avengers project is Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie about Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy is already on board to play Oppenheimer, By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 10:19 am
Equality Issues Intro for November 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Following the breakout success of Framing Britney Spears, The New York Times Presents is debuting a new documentary on FX/Hulu on November 19 called Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson. We’ve seen a spate of documentaries focused on famous women of the aughts, from Britney By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 08:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews But WHY Chris Pratt? On the one hand, I get it. Chris Pratt is a very bankable star, and despite being Worst Chris he remains widely popular among general audiences. Whenever he gets a new role, a big part of me understands why. Chris Pratt is good business. But there is a little part By Sarah • Nov 02, 2021 02:42 pm
TV Updates Whoops, Kathryn Hahn’s Joan Rivers show is cancelled Last month, we learned that Kathryn Hahn would star as Joan Rivers in a Showtime bio-series called The Comeback Girl. Well, hold your horses, because it turns out the producers, including super-producer Greg Berlanti, of said show did not secure Rivers’ life rights and so the project has been cancelled. By Sarah • Nov 01, 2021 02:43 pm
What Else What Else Today in Well We TRIED news, James Ivory, the nonagenarian screenwriter of Call Me By Your Name, revealed that Shia LeBeouf was almost cast as Oliver. But then he had some “bad publicity” and director Luca Guadagnino ghosted him and cast Armie Hammer instead. And to think, all to avoid By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 03:57 pm
TV Updates Jeremy Renner flashback Jeremy Renner always knows just when the world needs him, whether it’s bringing us mediocre dad rock during a pandemic, or revolutionizing social media with the Jeremy Renner app. Now, however, Jeremy Renner is bringing us something I almost forgot he had in his repertoire—decent acting. He has By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas is a dancing assassin Ana de Armas is one of the best parts of No Time To Die, and as Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the producers behind Bond, are not interested in spin-offs, her interesting and fun character, Paloma, will likely never be seen again. I get that Broccoli and Wilson are protective By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 11:16 am
