Douchebags Dave Chappelle’s new special is unwatchable I have long been a fan of Dave Chappelle, but I could not make it even fifteen minutes into his new standup special, The Closer, his sixth and final special as part of his gargantuan Netflix deal. He’s always had his blind spots, but when he’s on, he’ By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 10:22 am
Amazingness Intro for October 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, Lots of back and forth in my email this week about my stance on musicals—chiefly, “no” and “stop”—and you know who agrees with me, at least in one instance? Andrew Lloyd Weber, creator of Cats. He says he hasn’t recovered from Cats. Me either, Sir By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 09:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What did I JUST say about musicals! I begged, I pleaded, I threw myself on the mercy of the gods, imploring that no more musicals infest my life, but the gods merely laughed and said, “No,” as gods are wont to do. And so, I am besieged by musicals, plagued by them, haunted from every aspect by By Sarah • Oct 07, 2021 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart is winning the game As we creep closer to Spencer’s November 5 release date, Kristen Stewart continues the press blitz that started at the trifecta of fall film festivals: Venice, Telluride, and TIFF. Now, she’s on the cover of Entertainment Weekly for what might be the first time since the Twilight days. By Sarah • Oct 06, 2021 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Please just stop with the musicals Please…please I am begging you…no more musicals…no more. The Greatest Showman, The Prom, Dear Evan Hansen, CATS… I don’t think I can take anymore. Are all these musicals punishment for liking La La Land? I take it back! I hate La La Land! I will do By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 01:55 pm
TV Updates Where be the dragons? The Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, is due next year, and we now have a teaser by which to judge it. Yep, that’s Westeros all right! There’s the Red Keep, and the Iron Throne, though it has been reimagined for an era centuries before By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 11:45 am
Business of Hollywood The IATSE Strike: What to know Over the weekend, IATSE, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees, voted by an overwhelming 98% majority to authorize a strike, which will shut down virtually all film and television production across the US (and it could affect some Canadian productions, which often have a portion of American crew, especially By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 09:45 am
What Else What Else Britney Spears’s father has been suspended as her conservator, bringing her one step closer to being #FreeBritney. To celebrate, she freed herself—of everything—on Instagram. Seriously, though, why are we still censoring nipples in the year of our lady 2021? Popsugar has some pop-culture inspired ideas for your By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson in Venom: Let There Be Carnage Venom was a mess, so let’s be honest, the bar for its sequel is low. But Venom: Let There Be Carnage not only clears the bar, it actually raises it. It is not a mess, and by leaning into the accidental magic of Venom, chiefly that alien symbiote Venom By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 02:39 pm
Top Reads Scarlett Johansson and Disney settle And just like that, the tectonic lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney has settled, just two days before the two-month mark. ScarJo and Disney have brought an end to hostilities, having reached a settlement agreement yesterday. In a statement, ScarJo said: “I am happy to have resolved our differences with By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 12:35 pm
Theatre Nerd Daniel Craig after Bond Macbeth is having a moment. Joel Coen’s filmed version of the Scottish play is sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after premiering at the New York Film Festival, and now there is a new version coming to Broadway starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga as the ill-fated power couple. By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig in No Time To Die Like the entire Daniel Craig era of Bond, No Time To Die, Craig’s final performance as James Bond, is a mixed bag. It’s a very silly movie wrapped in serious clothes, it wants to be another link in the Bond chain while also serving as Craig’s swan By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 09:14 am
Daniel Craig Intro for October 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, With No Time To Die (finally) hitting theaters today—it opens in North America next week—Daniel Craig’s time as 007 is coming to an end. It’s been quite a run—Craig has been 007 in three different decades. He was Bond so long he went By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 08:35 am
TV Updates Cowboy Bebop evades Netflix knows what the people want, and that is a trailer for Cowboy Bebop starring John Cho. So, of course, we did not get that during their “Tudum” fan event on Saturday. Why bury Cowboy Bebop, one of their biggest projects coming this year, amidst the content avalanche of the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2021 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Harder They Fall looks cool as hell One of the coolest looking movies this year is The Harder They Fall, a Western starring Idris Elba, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, and Jonathan Majors. It’s from director Jeymes Samuel, aka the musician The Bullitts, and it’s due on Netflix on November 3. Man, By Sarah • Sep 29, 2021 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper revisits A Star Is Born (kinda) After posting about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, Licorice Pizza¸ Southern California gossips wrote in to let us know that Licorice Pizza was a record store in the region during the 1970s and 1980s. Cool, it’s still word salad to the rest of the world. I don’t By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 01:54 pm
