Movie Reviews and Previews The Stath is back and some Oscar haterade I needed a little break today and I got it in the form of a red band trailer for A Working Man, the upcoming Jason Statham film that I cannot wait to see. Besides the fact that I generally enjoy Jason Statham movies, it looks like a perfect palate cleanser By Sarah • Feb 28, 2025 04:03 pm
TV Updates Everyone is outside before Oscar The pre-Oscar party circuit continues, and last night it was the 18th ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards. Among the honorees was Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, in a GREAT tulle dress. This dress says “Wicked” without also saying “costume”, which is how theme dressing should be. Also present was Keke By Sarah • Feb 28, 2025 12:00 pm
Style A$AP Rocky’s new gig A$AP Rocky has been in Los Angeles for weeks during his assault trial, but since being found not guilty, he can now come and go as he pleases. And he is pleased to be in Milan for fashion week, where sunglasses brand Ray-Ban threw a party after announcing Rocky By Sarah • Feb 28, 2025 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, How about some low stakes cartoon conflict to kick off Oscar Friday? Yesterday, a sub-30 second teaser announcing Shrek 5 dropped, and everyone lost their damn minds over Shrek’s glow up, or glow down, depending on your preference for slimy or sticky looking boogers. Check it out: By Sarah • Feb 28, 2025 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Havoc doesn't look like garbage I was scanning for new trailers when I came across a Tom Hardy movie for Netflix called Havoc. I was going to give it a pass, but then Timothy Olyphant popped up for a second. Such is my love for this man, I will watch any amount of garbage. To By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s just Another Simple Favor I love A Simple Favor. It’s a movie that totally surprised me on first watch and only got better with time. It’s a black comedy that excels at being both dark and funny, it’s a pitch-perfect satire of true crime and mass-market murder mystery publishing, it features By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 02:47 pm
TV Updates Kate & Co. Running Point starring Kate Hudson drops today on Netflix. To promote the show, Kate and her co-stars Jay Ellis (v. handsome), Scott MacArthur, Drew Tarver, Justin Theroux, and Brenda Song appeared at the Paley Museum in New York last night. I’m not convinced this show is appointment viewing, but By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 01:48 pm
TV Updates Celebrities in Milan Everyone not in LA for the Oscars this weekend is apparently in Milan for fashion week. The Fendi show was yesterday, along with a 100th anniversary party for the brand, bringing out the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Elizabeth Olsen, Hailee Steinfeld, Naomi Ackie, and Matt Bomer, who was later By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 11:22 am
Style All the Hollywood youths It’s Oscar week, which means plenty of pre-Oscar parties are happening. Last night it was the Vanities: A Night For Young Hollywood party, presented by Vanity Fair and Instagram. The hosts included Oscar nominee Monica Barbaro—still gloating about calling that, by the way!—Keke Palmer, Anna Sawai fresh By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 10:23 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, In 2012, Kathleen Kennedy was named co-chair of LucasFilm alongside George Lucas. Then, when Lucas sold his company to Disney, Kennedy was promoted to sole president of LucasFilm. Ever since then, Kathleen Kennedy has been the top dog at LucasFilm. Now, though, her reign is rumored to be By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 09:11 am
Style SAG miscellany Going into the fall festival season, everyone was leaving room for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer to be a major awards contender, not least because Daniel Craig is a candidate for an “it’s his time” Oscar campaign. Well, that did not pan out (we all should have remembered the Academy By Sarah • Feb 24, 2025 01:34 pm
Gorgessity Team Anora at the SAGs Anora has been all over awards season, a multiple nominee at every major awards show—and a sometimes winner—but they got shut out last night at the SAGs. Bad for them going into Oscar week, but good for us because it means Best Picture is still competitive, which is By Sarah • Feb 24, 2025 10:53 am
Gorgessity Queen Keke I saw Keke Palmer at the SAG Awards, and I GASPED. Actually, physically gasped, complete with dramatic noise and all. You know it’s good fashion when you have an audible reaction to it. Or bad fashion, but in this case it’s GOOD fashion. Keke turned up at the By Sarah • Feb 24, 2025 09:46 am
What Else A fun little murder mystery in the White House Fun little murder mystery alert! A new Shondaland show is coming to Netflix and it’s a fun little murder mystery created by Paul William Davies and SET IN THE WHITE HOUSE. It’s called The Residence and it’s “based on” The Residence by Kate Andersen Brower, which complies By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 04:03 pm
TV Updates Angela Bassett (and some other people) Did you know Angela Bassett has a new series coming out? Probably not, because it’s on Netflix and they barely advertise anything. But she does, a limited series co-starring Robert De Niro called Zero Day. It’s on Netflix as of today. Here’s the trailer: The series also By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 02:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Theo James in The Monkey Osgood Perkins has been making high-quality horror since 2015’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter—he comes by it honestly, he’s the son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins—and broke out in the mainstream with last year’s serial killer sleeper hit, Longlegs. Now, he’s back with The Monkey, By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 01:15 pm
