Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 15, 2021 Dear Gossips, Tomorrow is the second annual DC Fandome, a virtual event meant to whet the appetites of DC fans for projects like The Batman, Black Adam, Aquaman 2, and The Flash (But Secretly Batman Again). This event was created last year to (virtually) replace Hall H at Comic Con, By Sarah • Oct 15, 2021 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Poulter is Marvel’s new most powerful character We’ve entered the realm where there’s going to be a lot of debate among nerds over who is the most powerful character in the MCU, but one candidate is definitely Adam Warlock. He’s a super-space being who emerged from a cocoon, and in the comics, Adam By Sarah • Oct 12, 2021 03:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scream is back Scream scared the hell out of me as a teen. Specifically, that cold open with Drew Barrymore terrified me. It’s just such a visceral slasher scene, and the idea of home invasion had never really occurred to child-me until that moment, but worse was Casey (Barrymore) dying within By Sarah • Oct 12, 2021 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The all new, all different Eternals We are now less than a month from the release of Eternals, so here comes the featurette to show a little behind the scenes footage and a little new footage, including more shots of Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, an Eternal living life as a Bollywood star. I am SUPER into By Sarah • Oct 12, 2021 12:17 pm
What Else What Else Woody Harrelson has a history of getting physical with photographers, but this time he did it in defense of one of his daughters. Some dude in a bar—at the Watergate, of all the random historical places—was taking photos of Harrelson and his daughter, and Harrelson punched him, allegedly By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ranking the best of Daniel Craig’s Bond suits Hello, it is I, Real Science Person Doing Real Science, back again with more extremely scientific rankings for your consumption. This time, I have undertaken detailed and highly specific experiments in order to determine which are the very best suits worn by Daniel Craig during his fifteen-year reign as By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Noomi Rapace in Lamb Whatever you think Lamb is, check that expectation at the door. It’s not really a horror movie, it’s kind of but not completely a thriller, it’s sort of a domestic drama that might be science fiction? It’s like a science horror fairy thriller. From Icelandic director By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 02:53 pm
TV Updates Kathryn Hahn gets her own Marvel thing The Year of Kathryn Hahn continues as she will be returning to the MCU as Agatha Harkness, this time in an Agatha-centric spin-off series. It will be written and produced by Jac Schaeffer, the showrunner of WandaVision (Marvel has this thing where they want to call the people By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 12:47 pm
Royals Kristen Stewart’s next stop Kristen Stewart continues her winning streak, supporting Spencer at the BFI London Film Festival yesterday. With her on the red carpet were Sean Harris (lately of The Green Knight), Jack Farthing, who plays Prince Charles, and young actors Jack Nielen and Freddie Spry, who play William and Harry, respectively. The By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 11:26 am
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
