Golden Globes 2025 The Brutalist vs Emilia Pérez Since the Golden Globes split drama and comedy into separate categories—truly, their best innovation in the awards show space—they crown two best pictures, and this year, The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez were the respective winners, with Emilia Pérez netting four wins overall, and The Brutalist right behind with By Sarah • Jan 06, 2025 07:57 am
Golden Globes 2025 The Golden Globes stay messy Usually, Duana would write this post and critique the Golden Globes as a telecast, with her expertise as a television writer, directress, and producer in her own right, but this year, the Golden Globes telecast was so f-cking janky even we peons with our untrained, non-professional eyes could see there By Sarah • Jan 06, 2025 06:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman & (Super) Friends It’s the holiday movie season, which means it’s also summer movie trailer season. Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch got a teaser, and Stitch is so cute, he’s going to make a billion dollars. Death of a Unicorn, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, sounds like the By Sarah • Dec 19, 2024 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl On the surface, Romy’s life is perfect. She’s the wealthy CEO of a rapidly growing robotics company; her husband, Jacob, is hot (he’s played by Antonio Banderas); her teenaged daughters are only mildly challenging to deal with; she looks like Nicole Kidman. It’s the holidays and By Sarah • Dec 18, 2024 01:20 pm
TV Updates Maybe just don’t go to the White Lotus Since it debuted in 2021, The White Lotus has become one of the most scathing comedy-dramas on TV, an unrelenting, pernicious takedown of entitled white people vacation culture from Mike White, filmmaker and Survivor season 37 runner-up. The trailer for the highly anticipated third season is here, teasing a February By Sarah • Dec 17, 2024 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Manimal! MANIMA-AH-AHL. 10 Questions for Kraven the Hunter What is Kraven the Hunter? Kraven the Hunter is either the latest—and possibly last—film in Sony’s attempt to launch an expanded cinematic universe centered on Spider-Man characters, OR it’s all a terrible dream I had. Doesn’t this movie star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Abbott, Alessandro Nivola, By Sarah • Dec 16, 2024 02:30 pm
What Else What Else? Will Ferrell was honored at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Kristen Wiig and Octavia Spencer showed up in support. This IS the table to be at during a reception. You know they’d be clowning on everyone else there in the funniest but sweetest way possible. Will Ferrell’s humor By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 04:09 pm
Award Season Campaigning The state of the race post-CCA nominations The Critics Choice Awards nominations were announced yesterday (I am a voting member of the CCA), giving a huge boost to the ongoing Oscar campaigns of Wicked and Conclave, which banked eleven nominations each. Dune: Part II, a lower key presence in awards season so far, got ten nominations, tied By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A creeping sense of dread in Nosferatu Over the last decade, Robert Eggers has established himself as one of the most meticulous auteurs working today, with his exactingly realized worlds occupied by characters undergoing total meltdowns. Nosferatu is his latest cinematic diorama of dread, a retelling of FW Murnau’s classic silent film of the same name, By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 11:48 am
TV Updates Let the Squid Game begin Two weeks until Squid Game returns and the Los Angeles premiere for season two was yesterday, bringing out series stars Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun, and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. Season two newcomers Yim Si-wan and Jo Yu-ri were also on hand. Not pictured: Lainey’s beloved Gong Yoo. You’re By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nobody puts Babygirl in a corner The Christmas day theatrical calendar is crammed with films squeezing in an Oscar-qualifying run before December 31, including Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. I’ll have a full review next week, but in short, it’s a holiday rom-com for the horny and deranged. Promotion for the film is kicking into By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 09:55 am
Intro for December 13, 2024 Dear Gossips, Happy Friday the 13th, Chanel has a new creative director and I’m sure this is not a bad omen! Matthieu Blazy, lately of Bottega Veneta, has been named Chanel’s creative director after months of speculation as to who would run the storied fashion house (Blazy' By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 08:59 am
What Else What Else? Legs were on display at the Out 100 event. My favorite look is Katy O’Brian. It’s like punk Beetlejuice. (Go Fug Yourself) Polo seems to have landed with a bit of a whimper, so honestly, I won’t be surprised if Harry & Meghan’s Netflix contract comes By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler stays extremely busy Austin Butler spent most of his year working, a trend that is not stopping going into 2025. A thing he has in common with Glen Powell is that he keeps booking more work, to the extent that I’m starting to wonder which of his upcoming projects he’ll end By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adrien Brody in The Brutalist Having previously tackled the formative years of a fascist leader (The Childhood of a Leader) and America’s insatiable appetite for celebrity (Vox Lux), filmmaker Brady Corbet turns his attention to the immigrant experience in America in The Brutalist. Directed by Corbet and co-written by him and Mona Fastvold, The By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another rom-com bites the streaming dust There was a time when Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon starring in a rom-com would be a major release, a film you could pretty well set your watch to, as it were, counting on it to make $100 million on name recognition alone. But these days? No one has a By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:47 am
