Movie Reviews and Previews Goth Gilmore Girls The first looks we’ve gotten at Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s legacy sequel of the 1980s horror-comedy classic Beetlejuice, really didn’t give away much about the new movie except nostalgia vibes and that Lydia Deetz has a daughter. The new trailer, though, coming just about six weeks before By Sarah • Jul 19, 2024 10:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Emmy Nominee Lewis Pullman Lewis Pullman is henceforth and forever to be known as Emmy Nominee Lewis Pullman. He’s been campaigning hard for Lessons in Chemistry, in which he plays sexy and lovable scientist Calvin Evans, so it’s not like he came out of nowhere for his nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor By Sarah • Jul 18, 2024 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Russo Brothers are returning to Marvel Today in No Duh News, it’s been reported that sibling filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo are returning to Marvel to direct Avengers 5 and 6. This after Shawn Levy, director of Deadpool & Wolverine, was being considered—maybe even offered?—the job, but honestly, the Russos returning makes all By Sarah • Jul 18, 2024 12:51 pm
TV Updates Qualified Emmy love The Emmy nominations are here and are largely as expected (lots of The Bear, Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer), but there are a couple nice surprises, and one maybe not so much surprise and disappointingly met expectation. Let’s start with the good news. Reservation Dogs FINALLY got major Emmy nominations! By Sarah • Jul 17, 2024 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan’s other face Sebastian Stan got some headlines earlier this summer when it was revealed that distributors are wary of buying the Trump movie he stars in with Jeremy Strong. But he has another movie this year, which premiered first at Sundance to some of the best reviews of his career. It’s By Sarah • Jul 17, 2024 12:52 pm
What Else What Else? The free bread and chips served at restaurants is there to make you hungrier. I believe the science behind it, which is that the carbs cause a spike in blood sugar and insulin, which can make you hungrier in the short term, and also that carbs release happy juices in By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Deadpool and the Deadpool Corps arrive Twisters is the big movie this week, and I expect it’s going to do better than expected, but Deadpool & Wolverine is the big movie next week, and it’s going to be one of the biggest movies of the year. This is an unforced error on Universal and By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg’s unlikely partnership Last week I mentioned Kate Winslet’s upcoming war biopic of photographer Lee Miller, titled Lee, mostly in reference to how hot Andy Samberg looks in this movie. Now there is a full trailer for Lee, though, so let’s talk about Winslet and Lee Miller, who was a very By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 02:40 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Glen Powell’s best boy Twisters opens this week, which is fitting as massive storms have ripped through the Midwest over the last forty-eight hours, and I’ve spent two nights in a row tucked into my closet with my cat as tornado sirens go off in Chicago (a rarity, I assure you). To promote By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 12:43 pm
Music Katy’s world As Maria alluded to yesterday, Katy Perry is currently getting obliterated in the court of public opinion over her new single, “Woman’s World”. It’s her first song since 2021, the lead single of her upcoming album 143, and Pitchfork deemed it “a monumental catastrophe” and called Perry “pop By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 10:35 am
TV Updates Intro for July 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Emmy nominations are tomorrow, and I know it feels like we just did the Emmys—because we did, in January—but this is actually the regular schedule for nominations ahead of the traditional September ceremony. Despite the strike-delayed 2023 award ceremony, though, the Emmys eligibility windows never By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 09:30 am
Legal issues Alec Baldwin’s shocking dismissal We’ve been on tenterhooks for weeks waiting for a Friday afternoon news dump in re: Bennifer, but this past Friday the news we got came from another direction and was shocking: the case against Alec Baldwin in the 2021 on-set death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was dismissed with By Sarah • Jul 15, 2024 02:25 pm
What Else What Else? Allegedly, stories about Prince William and Rose Hanbury, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, are like “water off a duck’s back” to William. I’m not sure I buy that, but I bring this up mostly to once again marvel that “Cholmondeley” is pronounced Chumley. English aristos, what are you all about! By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 04:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Queer Americana in National Anthem Luke Gilford’s feature film debut, National Anthem, is a coming-of-age tale of the tenderest sort, set in rural America as a young man discovers the place where he truly belongs. Inspired by Gilford’s own monograph National Anthem: America’s Queer Rodeo, National Anthem centers on Dylan (Charlie Plummer) By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews New world, new Cap With Deadpool & Wolverine and Comic Con just around the corner—Deadpool opens on Comic Con weekend—Marvel is ramping up for their latest round of major marketing, which means we’re getting a first look at Captain America: Brave New World, aka the one without Chris Evans. Anthony Mackie By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 01:16 pm
TV Updates Nicole Kidman riffs on Nicole Kidman It’s a match made in murder mystery heaven—mystery novelist Elin Hilderbrand, queen of prestige mystery TV Nicole Kidman, and The Night Manager director Susanna Bier are uniting for an adaptation of Hilderbrand’s novel, The Perfect Couple. People often describe Elin Hilderbrand as “the queen of the beach By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 12:58 pm
