Movie Reviews and Previews Dude duos at the Governors Awards Just like the actresses, the actors find themselves in a wide-open competition, too, but in their case, it’s less about an abundance of strong performances and more that Daniel Craig and Ralph Fiennes, the presumed frontrunners, haven’t been hustling that hard, which leaves room for others to make By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 12:21 pm
Award Season Campaigning Icons at the Governors Awards As Lainey mentioned in the open today, the 15th annual Governors Awards were held last night, and if you’re wondering didn’t we just do this back in January, yes, we did. The 14th annual ceremony was bumped because of last year’s labor strikes, so like the Emmys, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 11:33 am
What Else What Else? Daniel Craig is in his dirtbag era to promote Queer. This is…kind of killing my crush. I would love to know Rachel Weisz’s opinion. (Go Fug Yourself) Being a Disney Adult will cost you about $14K per year, assuming you MOVE TO FLORIDA. I can’t even imagine By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain A Real Pain is a significant leap forward for Jesse Eisenberg: Filmmaker. His first feature film, When You Finish Saving the World, is the kind of navel-gazing drama you might expect from an actor known for playing uptight, even neurotic characters. A Real Pain, in contrast, has an intimacy and By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 01:48 pm
TV Updates Cameron Diaz is back (in action) It was almost two years ago that we saw Cameron Diaz on the set of her first film since 2014’s Annie. That film, made for Netflix and titled Back In Action, now has a teaser, showing off Diaz’s return to acting following a decade-long break in which she By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 12:25 pm
Top Reads The Conan Oscars In recent years, it has become accepted fact that hosting the Oscars is a bad gig, and the Academy increasingly struggles to get new, interesting people to host the show. Well this year, that is NOT the case, as they have already landed Conan O’Brien as the host of By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 10:54 am
Style WICKET Last night site manager Emily emailed me a photo list and she called Wicked “Wicket” and that is all I am thinking about. WICKET. I am seeing WICKET on Sunday, an unusual day for a press screening, but there are so many screenings right now as critics groups get ready By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 10:24 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, At the end of October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences laid off 16 employees, all from the AMPAS archive and the Margaret Herrick Library, which houses millions of film artifacts. Now, filmmakers from the indie space are sounding the alarm about the potential harm to By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 09:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Red One What is Red One? Red One is a Christmas themed action “comedy” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, and JK Simmons as super jacked Santa. It is directed by Jake Kasdan, who also directed Walk Hard and has been coasting ever since (Jake Kasdan Exert By Sarah • Nov 14, 2024 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s next big thing In purely coincidental timing, yesterday The Hollywood Reporter, er, reported that Lupita Nyong’o is the latest A-lister to sign up for Christopher Nolan’s mysterious new film. Coincidental because Lupita is, of course, linked to John Krasinksi through the Quiet Place franchise, though he did not write or direct By Sarah • Nov 13, 2024 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Sadvengers Over the weekend, Disney held a D23 fan event in Brazil, which included releasing two new trailers for the 2025 Marvel movies, Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*. Let’s start with Brave New World. First of all, this looks better than the first trailer. Like physically, it looks By Sarah • Nov 12, 2024 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Final Reckoning Last week, I wrote about Mission: Impossible 8 and Tom Cruise’s desire to do this until he dies, and now, behold, the trailer for M:I 8 is here, officially titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. After Dead Reckoning underperformed last year, they’ve done away with the “part By Sarah • Nov 12, 2024 09:36 am
What Else What Else? Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, November 11, in observance of Remembrance Day. Lashana Lynch is promoting her new series, The Day of the Jackal, which co-stars Eddie Redmayne as a deadly assassin. …Sure. Anyway, Lynch wore a interesting sweater dress to a press stop. It has like, By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 04:03 pm
Star Wars New New New Star Wars Here we go again: Lucasfilm has hired Simon Kinberg to write and produce a new (new new) trilogy of Star Wars films, which will allegedly consist of Episodes X-XII of the franchise. These films may or may not be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga, Deadline’s Mike Fleming reports By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle AND Chris on set Earlier this week, Halle Berry was seen on set, filming Bart Layton’s new heist thriller, Crime 101. Yesterday, she was back at work but this time with co-star with Chris Hemsworth, the largest man. You know intellectually that Chris Hemsworth is a big dude, but then you see him By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 12:11 pm
Amazingness Paul Mescal in Dublin (and grumpy Ridley Scott) When I was in Dublin last year, I stayed just down the street from Trinity College and met several people who were quick off the cuff to tell me they went to school with Paul Mescal. The local pride in Mescal for making it big was palpable, and yesterday he By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 11:03 am
