Quiveration This is an excuse for Keanu Sonic the Hedgehog has become an improbable hit franchise, cranking out three films and one streaming series, Knuckles, in the last four years. The franchise stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic, James Marsden and Tika Sumpter as his human friends, Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, and Idris Elba By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in A Complete Unknown Walk Hard lampooned music biopics so thoroughly we should probably abandon the whole genre for a while, and yet, Hollywood persists in cranking out music biopics, the cinematic equivalent of a jukebox musical. A Complete Unknown is the latest, directed by James Mangold (who also directed Walk the Line, one By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 01:15 pm
Relationship Assumption Best Chris dating update It’s been a couple months since we’ve talked about Chris Pine, the best Chris, and it’s a good time for a check-in because he was spotted in New York yesterday with his girlfriend, identified as Keana Sky Wenger. You might remember her as the “mystery woman” he By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 11:24 am
Award Season Campaigning Ladies Who Lunch At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, that is. The Academy Women’s Luncheon was yesterday, held at the Academy’s own museum in Los Angeles—the Academy WILL make that museum worth it if it kills them! Which it might!—and as has been the case all of this By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, On the heels of the Critics Choice Awards kinda-sorta accidentally excluding Last Week Tonight from the talk show category, we have another awards show “controversy”, this time involving Dune: Part II and the Golden Globes. The “controversy” is that Dune 2 was not nominated for the Cinematic and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 09:43 am
What Else What Else? Keira Knightley weighs in on the greatest Christmas controversy of all time—the cue card scene in Love Actually IS “quite creepy”. (Celebitchy) TIL Timothee Chalamet’s older sister is on The Sex Lives of College Girls. Also, she definitely doesn’t need a belt THERE. (Go Fug Yourself) People By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JAW the Hutt Continuing casting news, Jeremy Allen White will voice Jabba the Hutt’s son, Rotta the Hutt, in the upcoming Star Wars spin-off, The Mandalorian & Grogu (the news was first reported by Jeff Sneider). The film is the culmination of the story told thus far on the streaming series The By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans MCU part deux Today in Of Course He Is news, Chris Evans is returning to the MCU in Avengers: Doomsday, which will also star Robert Downey, Jr. in his new capacity as Doctor Doom. The film, which is due in 2026, won’t even be Evans’ first return to Marvel since Avengers: Endgame, By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 01:36 pm
Style Aunjanue goes full Elphaba Last night was the Critics Choice Association’s 7th Annual Celebration of Black Cinema and Television, which brought out a cavalcade of stars, including honorees Regina King, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, John David Washington, Natasha Rothwell, Jharrel Jerome, Ryan Destiny, and Cynthia Erivo. You can see the full list of honorees here. By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 12:24 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Demi’s party week Another Best Actress contender maintaining momentum this week is Demi Moore, who started her week with a belated birthday bash, then got nominated for a Golden Globe, and then stepped out, with her dog, Pilaf, at the SFFILM Awards Night in San Francisco, where she was honored with the Maria By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina in Paris Fresh off her Golden Globes nomination for Best Actress/Drama, Angelina Jolie is back at work in Paris on a new film called Stitches. It’s from French actor and filmmaker Alice Winocour, who is best known for the films Disorder, Proxima, and Revoir Paris. Stitches is about an American By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 09:31 am
TV Updates Intro for December 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations were announced yesterday, and on Thursday, it’s the Critics Choice Association’s turn to announce the film nominees for their 2024 honors (I am a voting member of the CCA). Something is different for the CCAs this year, though, which is a category By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pretty people at CCXP I thought that CCXP, the Brazilian answer to Comic-Con, had already happened this year, but CCXP is held every December and it’s only just December now, so I think I’m just remembering December 2022 as, like, two months ago. Time really is a construct, and the pandemic definitely By Sarah • Dec 09, 2024 12:31 pm
Award Season Campaigning The farcical Golden Globes Awards season is in full swing with the Golden Globes nominations just announced, but before we dive into these nominations, there are two points of order to address. Point the first – why are we still doing this? The Golden Globes and their voting body, once called the Hollywood Foreign Press By Sarah • Dec 09, 2024 10:47 am
What Else What Else? TIL Mindy Kaling has THREE kids. Anyway, I try really hard not to have opinions on her situation with BJ Novak. They’re exes, they’re close friends, he’s in her children’s lives. It seems to work for her. Okay. (Celebitchy) To Maria’s point, people should just By Sarah • Dec 06, 2024 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in The Order Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel has carved out a niche directing taut psychological thrillers out of true crime stories, exploring less the deeds done than the circumstances that drive men—and it is usually men in Kurzel’s lens—to commit them. With The Order, he turns his eye to America By Sarah • Dec 06, 2024 02:46 pm
