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
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans goes to infinity, and beyond The teaser trailer for Lightyear, the Toy Story spin-off centered on the “real” Buzz Lightyear, dropped this week. It features a lot of David Bowie and only a little of Chris Evans speaking as the human Buzz. They’re going to hang onto Evans saying the catchphrase as long as By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga taps her tiny spoon Lady Gaga won an Oscar for Best Original Song for “Shallow”, but what she REALLY wants is a Best Actress statue and she is COMING FOR IT in House of Gucci. This is going to be a crazy competitive awards season all the way around, but the number of high-octane By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 09:50 am
Winona Ryder Intro for October 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, Today is Winona Ryder’s 50th birthday, which doesn’t seem possible, as she is one of the Forever Young who doesn’t seem to age. I don’t always remember birthdays, celebrity or otherwise, but Winona Ryder’s is seared in my brain because it’s so By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 08:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dune: Grey is for Drama Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel, Dune, has long been considered unfilmable, but director Denis Villeneuve, adapting with John Spaihts and Eric Roth, almost makes it work. Villeneuve’s Dune is good in a lot of ways and bad in a couple critically important ways. It’s a mixed bag By Sarah • Oct 28, 2021 03:06 pm
TV Updates Brace yourself for Tiger King 2 Tiger King is unquestionably one of the biggest hits of 2020, benefitting from both the true crime moment in pop culture, and its arrival on Netflix just as the first wave of COVID sent everyone home last spring. It succeeds in being a “wait WHAT” true crime documentary with more By Sarah • Oct 28, 2021 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser is DINING OUT Brendan Fraser was a big deal in the 1990s and a slightly less big deal in the 2000s and then he sort of disappeared and then we found out that was GOING THROUGH IT! And now, Brendan Fraser is BACK, baby! He is DINING OUT on role after role these By Sarah • Oct 27, 2021 03:45 pm
