Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s very good year Lupita Nyong’o is having a very good year, what with A Quiet Place: Day One being a respectable mid-budget hit this summer, and now The Wild Robot putting together an impressive run for a non-Pixar, non-Illumination animated film. Next year, she will star as Viola in Free Shakespeare in By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice Whether or not you are capable of finding any sympathy for Donald Trump is between you and Ali Abbasi’s new film, The Apprentice. Starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald just making a name for himself in the world of 1970s New York real estate, The Apprentice is a By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 10:56 am
Style Dream casting the Britney movie We know that the film adaptation of Britney Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me, is going to be made by Jon M. Chu and will be released by Universal. At some point in time, there will be a Britney movie. Which means someone needs to play Britney. Sydney Sweeney seems By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 10:04 am
Intro for October 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, The debate about the role of influencers in the film industry continues, with a new article in The Hollywood Reporter about influencers making their way to red carpet reporting and doing social media marketing for movie studios. This, though, is the side of influencers I don’t mind By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Saturday Night Not-Live There is a moment in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, a love letter to Lorne Michaels and his long-running late-night sketch series, where it seems like Reitman saw Aaron Sorkin’s own (short-lived) Saturday Night Live-inspired series and said, “I can do that, but better.” There is an inherent Sorkin-esque By Sarah • Oct 10, 2024 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Questioning A Complete Unknown When the teaser for the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, dropped, I said it would be my dad’s favorite movie of the year, because he loves folk music, and Pete Seeger is his favorite folk guy, and Joan Baez is one of his favorite folk gals, and the By Sarah • Oct 09, 2024 03:04 pm
Quiveration Sebastian the week of The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s film about a younger Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn, opens this Friday. I put my election ballot in the mail yesterday, and then last night, I watched The Apprentice because I like to live inside a full political nightmare. My review will run By Sarah • Oct 09, 2024 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker’s pratfall The writing was on the wall as the box office tracking went into freefall a couple weeks before the film even opened, but Joker: Folie à Deux tanked over the weekend, opening with just $40 million. For comparison, The Marvels, last year’s widely derided superhero bomb, opened with $46 By Sarah • Oct 07, 2024 11:07 am
What Else What Else Speaking of toxic fans! Racist incidents are on the rise in the WNBA fandom, and even as someone who barely pays attention to professional basketball, I can hear the tone policing going on within the media coverage of women’s basketball. It’s like some people expect “the girls” to By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun Addiction narratives can be bleak, and the waters of the North Atlantic can be bleak, but somehow, together, The Outrun finds great beauty in bleak circumstances. Director Nora Fingscheidt adapts Amy Liptrot’s memoir, The Outrun, with Liptrot co-writing the screenplay. The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Liptrot’s avatar, By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 02:22 pm
TV Updates One last turn in the Shadows What We Do in the Shadows is one of my favorite films of the 2010s, and the TV series spin-off of the same name has become one of my favorite shows of the 2020s. Since 2019, What We Do in the Shadows has been one of the most consistently funny By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 01:18 pm
Music Free Kesha After a decade locked in a battle for her music and her very self, Kesha is finally free. Her onerous contract with Dr. Luke was fulfilled with 2023’s Gag Order, the last lawsuit with Dr. Luke was settled that same year. Now, Kesha is coming back with a new By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux Joker: Folie à Deux is the sequel to Todd Phillips's billion-dollar and Oscar winning 2019 hit, Joker. Much of the first film’s creative team has returned, with Phillips once again directing and co-writing with Scott Silver, and cinematographer Lawrence Sher, editor Jeff Growth, and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 11:16 am
Girl Sh-t Rihanna at night It’s been a minute since we’ve checked in with Rihanna—since Natalie Portman was talking about her—so here she is, living her night owl life in New York in a cow-print coat over what looks to me like bed rotting clothes—an undershirt and underpants. It’s By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 10:05 am
Intro for October 4, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Variety published a feature on how movie studios are responding to the rise of “toxic fandom”, the phenomenon of fans attacking films and TV series for reasons often described as “relentlessly negative, often bigoted online campaign[s]”. It’s an interesting read, with some unnamed sources in By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 09:15 am
TV Updates Nicolas Cage’s live action Spider-Man Somehow, I totally missed the news earlier this summer that Nicolas Cage is starring in a live-action Spider-Noir series for MGM+ and Prime Video (as the kids say, none of these words are in the Bible). The series is supposedly called simply Noir, which sounds like a cologne, and is By Sarah • Oct 03, 2024 10:54 am
