Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan launches his campaign(s) Sebastian Stan has two films out this year, A Different Man and The Apprentice. Both have earned him the highest praise of his career so far, including the Silver Bear for acting at the Berlin International Film Festival for A Different Man. And despite the controversy surrounding it—threats of By Sarah • Sep 20, 2024 11:29 am
TV Updates Squid Game returns Three years since its debut, Squid Game remains the biggest series on Netflix. Now, we have our first look at season two, coming on December 26. It looks as tense and upsetting as ever! Lee Jung-jae returns as Seong Gi-hun, who, despite winning the game in season one, decides to By Sarah • Sep 20, 2024 10:26 am
Style Oh yeah, there’s a new Transformers movie And this time it’s animated! It’s called Transformers One and it’s the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron and their whole deal. I know children who are excited for this—the childish appeal of shape-shifting robots is eternal—and no one else. As an adult with By Sarah • Sep 20, 2024 09:44 am
Oprah Winfrey Intro for September 20, 2024 Dear Gossips, Every American presidential election cycle is the most consequential election of our lifetimes, and also a chance for people to insist that celebrity endorsements don’t matter, and yet politicians keep trotting out celebrities who support them. Case in point: last night Kamala Harris held a rally in By Sarah • Sep 20, 2024 09:19 am
TV Updates Kathryn Hahn in Agatha All Along WandaVision was Marvel Studios’ first foray into television, and it was mostly very good. One of the standouts of WandaVision was the antagonist, Agnes aka Agatha Harkness, played with boundless bitchy glee by Kathryn Hahn. Now, Hahn returns as Agatha in her own miniseries, Agatha All Along, and carrying over By Sarah • Sep 19, 2024 01:23 pm
Gorgessity Lily Gladstone in a great suit Post Emmys, Lily Gladstone is back at work, promoting Fancy Dance, alongside co-star Isabel Deroy-Olson and director Erica Tremblay. The film is now streaming on Apple TV+ and it is very good. They attended a SAG screening in Los Angeles on Monday, as the gears of awards season are starting By Sarah • Sep 18, 2024 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Twice the RPattz Bong-Joon Ho’s Parasite follow-up, Mickey 17, has been a source of much interest, as Bong is allegedly engaged in a power struggle with executives at Warner Bros. Discovery for final cut of the film. I wonder if that situation is now resolved, because the first trailer for Mickey 17 By Sarah • Sep 18, 2024 10:28 am
TV Updates Charlie Hunnam is Ryan Murphy’s new Monster Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is one of the worst-titled series in Netflix history, but it is also Netflix’s third-most popular original English language series. Besides being a hit for the platform, it also won a bunch of awards, including an Emmy for Niecy Nash Betts—I will By Sarah • Sep 17, 2024 10:34 am
Style Allison Janney: Emmys Best Dressed (Sarah) The West Wing’s 25th anniversary is next week, so cast members from The West Wing appeared at the Emmys to present the award for Outstanding Drama Series. No matter how annoying Aaron Sorkin gets, I will always love The West Wing. It’s a comfort show. I can go By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 12:09 pm
Equality Issues Another historic night for Indigenous representation Reservation Dogs earned its first Emmy nominations this year but, sadly, went home empty handed. Lily Gladstone, nominated for Under the Bridge, also struck out, as did Kali Reis, nominated for True Detective: Night Country. So, it was a little bit of a bummer given that no one won, but By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 11:15 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper The sparkly dress moment at the Emmys Sparkly dresses had a moment at the Emmys. But they very specifically had a moment with women of a certain age, as Catherine O’Hara, Jennifer Aniston, Candice Bergen, Kristin Wiig, Janel Moloney, and Christine Baranski all wore gleaming gowns. And we can pretty much blame it all on Laura By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 10:12 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Is the tide turning against The Bear? I’ve been saying since practically day one that The Bear is not a comedy and should not be nominated as a comedy at the Emmys. After three seasons of increasingly stressful kitchen meltdowns and family get-togethers, people are pretty much universally wondering why The Bear is categorized as a By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 08:07 am
What Else What Else? Programming note: We will be live chatting the Emmys on Sunday, September 15 starting at 7:30 PM ET. Join us! Michelle Williams at the Deauville Film Festival in France. I really like the black outfit. The gown sort of looks like a bathmat. (Go Fug Yourself) Is fall the By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Hyun Bin in Harbin South Korean filmmaker Woo Min-ho has a knack for thrillers, having previously made the spy thriller The Man Standing Next, Inside Men, and The Spies, though that film takes a more comedic approach to the genre. His latest film is another spy thriller, Harbin, which fictionalizes the 1909 assassination of By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Andrea Arnold’s Bird Andrea Arnold’s work is often concerned with animals, whether it’s the horse of Fish Tank, the turtle of American Honey, or the titular cow in Cow. In Bird, there are, yes, birds. But there are also horses, dogs, foxes, fish, and a patch of green thriving on the By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Stephen King saved Salem’s Lot Spooky season, pumpkin spice season, sweater weather time, autumn, fall, whatever your preferred terminology, we’re almost there, and that means it’s time to start looking at trailers for all the scary movies coming in October. Salem’s Lot would be notable at any time, as it is one By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 11:07 am
