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
Movie Reviews and Previews Elizabeth Olsen’s strategic lunch While hanging out during TIFF, Lainey and I were talking about paparazzi photos, and I said that ever since taking over editing the site on Fridays, I’ve really come to appreciate the celebrities who get their picture taken when they have trailers and new movies, etc, dropping. It’s By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 10:29 am
Intro for September 13, 2024 Dear Gossips, First, we will be live chatting the Emmys on Sunday, September 15, on The Squawk starting at 7:30 PM ET. Join us! And now in Why Are Disney Adults Like This news, an Arizona couple’s years-long legal battle with Disney came to an end, when a By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 08:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl The Coppola filmmaking dynasty is full of notable directors, writers, and actors, and with The Last Showgirl, director Gia Coppola announces herself as the latest Francis-spawn (he’s her grandfather) that must be taken seriously. Nine years after her feature directorial debut, Palo Alto, Coppola delivers a film that feels By Sarah • Sep 12, 2024 02:36 pm
TV Updates Kathryn and Aubrey before Agatha Agatha All Along premieres next week on Disney+, which means the cast is out doing the publicity rounds. Yesterday, Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza were both in New York, though making separate appearances. Aubrey was at Howard Stern’s show, and Kathryn was doing the hotel to and fro. Can By Sarah • Sep 12, 2024 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan made his name directing horror films and television series like Oculus, Hush, Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, and The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Besides being one of the best genre directors working today, he’s the preeminent cinematic By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Beat writers are notoriously difficult to adapt into cinema, probably something to do with the intense interiority of their narratives (some might even say, solipsistic). Luca Guadagnino, though, manages to turn William S. Burroughs’ early, semi-autobiographical novel Queer into an interesting piece of cinema unto itself, though this is a By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Apprentice commits to the bit Well, here it is, the first trailer for The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s film about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn and their f-cked up history, and the early years in which Cohn mentored Trump into the, er, man we know today. You know what? It doesn’t look bad. Looks By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 09:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Angelina Jolie’s Without Blood Angelina Jolie is something of a frustrating filmmaker. She has no lack of technical skill, her eye is good, and she has a deft touch with actors, but her films never seem to add up to much. That is especially prevalent in her latest film, Without Blood, an adaptation of By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Destin Daniel Cretton is taking over Spider-Man When TIFF is happening, I don’t like to think about anything else which, naturally, means Marvel is up to some nonsense. Whenever you least want to work, you can count on Disney and/or Marvel to force you to work. (I’m glad they seemed to have broken their By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Sometimes in my reviews I will cheekily dub a character “Lady Mom”, such as in my review of Unstoppable, in which Jennifer Lopez stars as a stereotypically underwritten mother character. “Lady Mom” is a derogatory shorthand for characters definable only by being female and mothers, with no real individual narrative By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Unstoppable Here I am being a grump about a well-intentioned film again. But as with We Live in Time, the issue with Unstoppable is how extremely well-trod the genre is, and how the film does not find a way to inject new life into it. Unstoppable is an underdog sports drama By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 01:48 pm
