Movie Reviews and Previews Snow White: What if we just don’t? There is one movie next year that I just don’t want to deal with, and it’s Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White. The movie is four months away and we’re already getting “this press tour is a mess” reporting on Snow White. In all fairness—it By Sarah • Dec 04, 2024 10:01 am
Award Season Campaigning Gotham rookies As I mentioned when discussing the Gotham guys, the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is just eking into awards competition this year. All eyes are on Timothée Chalamet, but we should also be watching his co-star, Monica Barbaro. I will keep saying it until the world catches up—she By Sarah • Dec 03, 2024 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gotham Ladies The Gotham Awards continued the all-season trend of 90s icons showing up to every event. Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore, and Pamela Anderson, were all on hand last night, keeping up visibility for their films. Anderson is the one doing the heaviest lifting—so far, she hasn’t built any momentum By Sarah • Dec 03, 2024 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gotham Gentlemen The Gotham Awards were last night in New York, or as I like to call them, the extremely early Oscar predictors. The Gothams aren’t a great bellwether for the Oscars, but the awards are decided by juries of actors and filmmakers, some of whom are Academy members, so it’ By Sarah • Dec 03, 2024 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Moana + the Witches = Big Holiday Box Office Hello, it is I, the box office doom fairy, back once again to talk about The State Of Things! Which right now is Not Terrible, thanks to the double whammy of family-friendly fare playing during the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend—and perhaps a desire to escape the house and unpleasant By Sarah • Dec 02, 2024 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie in Maria Of late, Pablo Larraín has made a study of iconic women of the 20th century, specifically catching them at dramatic turning points in their lives. Jackie finds Jacqueline Kennedy reflecting on her life in the White House as she is preparing to (finally) leave it following the assassination of her By Sarah • Nov 26, 2024 02:57 pm
TV Updates Zahn McClarnon at the White House Dark Winds, a crime series starring Zahn McClarnon, has become a little show that could over the last couple of years, thanks in no small part to the show becoming available on Netflix, where many new fans have discovered it. Not a lot of ink spills on behalf of Dark By Sarah • Nov 25, 2024 12:04 pm
What Else What Else? Jodie Turner-Smith is co-starring with Michael Fassbender in a series about spies, which I just learned about because Jodie turned up at the premiere in bright blue. (Go Fug Yourself) I’m a proponent of sleeping naked. It’s comfortable, and in my anecdotal experience, it did improve my relationship By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in Wicked Well, here we are. Once again, I have been subjected to a movie musical, a thing I almost never enjoy. And guess what? I didn’t enjoy it! Again! Although, on the scale of “Cats to Not Cats”, the cinematic adaptation of perennially popular stage musical Wicked is “Not Cats” By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s third act Six years ago, I wrote about Kristen Stewart’s intention to direct her first feature film, which she intended to adapt from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, The Chronology of Water. It feels insane to think about things said and done six years ago, everything pre-2020 feels like a completely different By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 12:22 pm
Quiveration ATJ sticking it out We have been talking about Kraven the Hunter for nigh on eighteen months, which is entirely too many months to allot to one of Sony’s Spider-Man films that doesn’t star Spider-Man. But after many false starts—Kraven was supposed to come out in January 2023, October 2023, and By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 10:04 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Back in 2021, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, host of the Golden Globes, was rocked by controversy, which very nearly was the end of the Globes. But while the HFPA was ultimately dissolved, the Golden Globes bounced back as a for-profit organization owned by billionaire Todd Boehly, who By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Mescal in Gladiator II Twenty-four years later, Ridley Scott revisits one of his most beloved films, the sword-and-sandal epic Gladiator, though the sequel picks up a mere 16 years after the action of that film. Gladiator II starts in north Africa, where Roman imperial daughter Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) sent her son, Lucius, to protect By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 11:27 am
TV Updates Monster Charlie A couple months ago we learned that Charlie Hunnam will star in the third season of Ryan Murphy’s extremely popular Netflix anthology series Monster, which fictionalizes the crimes of some of America’s most notorious killers. We now have our first look at Hunnam gussied up as Ed Gein, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Real live Toothless (sort of) I’ve lost track of how many Disney live action remakes there have been—and do we count something like Maleficent, which isn’t so much a remake as a reimagining, but still brings an animated world to live action?—and we still have more coming, with Mufasa due this By Sarah • Nov 20, 2024 12:00 pm
TV Updates Jimmy O. Yang in Interior Chinatown There is a moment in the first episode of Interior Chinatown in which the protagonist, Willis Wu goes “not far” to talk with a detective, and it turns out to be a kind of beach party situation like you’d see in an alcohol commercial. Indeed, “Deep Watr” hard seltzer By Sarah • Nov 19, 2024 11:13 am
