Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson have Friendship I am so mad at myself for missing Friendship at TIFF last fall, but it didn’t fit into my schedule. I have never quite forgiven myself for that, though, not least because the film went on to be named second runner-up for TIFF’s Midnight Madness People’s Choice By Sarah • Feb 12, 2025 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My next prediction is that Danny Ramirez will be A Big Deal Captain America: Brave New World opens on Friday. I’ll have a full review after I think on it a little more, but in short: Danny Ramirez is the only reason to watch it, and he’s not in it nearly enough to justify it. Ramirez was at the premiere, By Sarah • Feb 12, 2025 11:22 am
TV Updates The White Lotus in bloom The White Lotus blooms again this Sunday, and the premiere was last night in Los Angeles. Given the show’s stature three seasons in, and its powerhouse cast, the premiere was a star-studded affair. Returning White Lotus star Natasha Rothwell was there in a beaded gown giving Art Deco vibes, By Sarah • Feb 11, 2025 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guilds are speaking Because of the Los Angeles wildfires, the awards season calendar is all screwed up. Hardly the most important thing, but a reality nonetheless. That means award shows are piling up on top of each other, and that the next three weeks are a sprint to the end of the trophy By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Super Bowl trailers: the other ones The blockbusters have had their say, now let’s look at the other movie trailers Hollywood elected to show off on game day. It’s mostly family-friendly stuff, plus trailers for a couple of movies I’m surprised studios are willing to spend this big on (in-game ads ran about By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Super Bowl brought blockbuster trailers In advance of the Super Bowl, studios released two of the biggest and most anticipated trailers, those for The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Jurassic World Rebirth. But game day still held plenty of new trailers, but before the game even started, two of Hollywood’s biggest stars anchored pre-game By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 10:26 am
What Else The Cruise-Pitt Bowl Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt both have big movies coming out this year. Cruise has maybe his last Mission: Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, due in May, and Pitt has racecar vroom movie F1 in June. Big stars, big movies—big stakes. Neither of these films is cheap. F1 is By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ke Huy Quan in Love Hurts Former child star, forever Goonie, and Academy Award-winner Ke Huy Quan logs his first leading role in Love Hurts, an action…comedy?...set during Valentine’s Day. Quan plays the perfectly named Marvin Gable, a Milwaukee realtor selling McMansions to McBoring people. But Marvin relishes the mundanity of his life, By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 02:59 pm
Award Season Campaigning Last night at AFI Last night, the American Film Institute honored their top ten films and TV series for 2024. You can see the full list of honorees here, but it’s pretty much an Oscar/Emmy hit list, with such titles as Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, and Wicked in the mix By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 09:36 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 7, 2025 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, Marvel debuted the teaser for its much anticipated film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps. In its first twenty-four hours, the teaser racked up 202 million views, the best trailer debut for a non-sequel Marvel film ever. That’s great news for Marvel, but three days By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 08:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily and Bryan on set Fresh off Sundance, where The Wedding Banquet got a very warm reception, Lily Gladstone is working, this time in Albuquerque alongside Bryan Cranston in a new film called Lone Wolf. For a lot of people, Bryan Cranston in Albuquerque brings back the Breaking Bad feels, but for me it’s By Sarah • Feb 06, 2025 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World Reborn The first trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth—which I think should be called Jurassic Reborn—dropped this morning, and as with yesterday’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps teaser, I expected to see this during the Super Bowl. We still might, a lot of people do not pay attention to By Sarah • Feb 05, 2025 01:11 pm
Equality Issues Karla Chaos Last week, I wrote about Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón and her increasingly off-the-rails, weirdly defiant apology tour for (not so) old racist, xenophobic, homophobic tweets that resurfaced in the wake of her Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Gascón is the first out transgender actor to be nominated for By Sarah • Feb 04, 2025 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The New New Fantastic Four I was expecting it during the Super Bowl, but Marvel just dropped the first teaser for Fantastic Four: First Steps, the film more than any other they hope will get the good ship SS Total Box Office Dominance back on track. They did a whole ass live launch event with By Sarah • Feb 04, 2025 09:59 am
What Else What Else? Katy Perry Why Are All Your Decisions Questionable 2025 (Go Fug Yourself) A lowkey controversy is the best kind of controversy, and this is a lowkey controversy. Are running influencers faking miles for views? (Popsugar) Add Suits star Gabriel Macht to the list of people who (can afford to) hightailed By Sarah • Jan 31, 2025 04:13 pm
TV Updates Is Netflix trying harder? Here is one sign that Hollywood is getting back to business as usual as the fires go out around LA: Netflix held their 2025 yearly preview at the Egyptian Theater yesterday. They had some stars on hand, like John Mulaney, whose Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney talk series launches By Sarah • Jan 31, 2025 02:33 pm
