Movie Reviews and Previews Ralph Fiennes in Conclave Edward Berger takes a break from the muddy battlefields of Europe to make a film set in a considerably more beautiful location—the Vatican. Conclave is Berger’s follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front, and it is a cinematic palette cleanser, a psychological thriller with a high By Sarah • Oct 25, 2024 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina is showing up The teaser trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Maria promised Angelina Jolie emoting, and the official trailer is now doing a really good job selling Angelina’s performance as Maria Callas in a true career-defining role. The trailer is all about Angelina as Maria, she looks impossibly gorgeous and fragile By Sarah • Oct 25, 2024 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ke Huy Quan: Action Star Ke Huy Quan’s acting career comeback is one of the most heartwarming and wholesome entertainment stories of the 2020s, and his acting career continues to thrive as he is now starring in his first leading action role. Of course, we saw him do some action in Everything Everywhere All By Sarah • Oct 24, 2024 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Venom: The Last Dance What is Venom: The Last Dance? Venom: The Last Dance is the third and probably final entry into the Sony’s only successful Spider-Man spin-off franchise, centered on Spider-Man’s rival, Venom. The film stars Tom Hardy in the dual role of Eddie Brock and Venom, who By Sarah • Oct 24, 2024 11:42 am
TV Updates Welcome to Chinatown [int] Two years ago, it was announced that Charles Yu would adapt his own award-winning novel, Interior Chinatown, into a TV series starring Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, and Chloe Bennet, and co-produced by Taika Waititi, who is also directing the pilot. Well, that series is now here, set By Sarah • Oct 23, 2024 11:24 am
What Else What Else? The Office star Jenna Fischer is talking about her breast cancer diagnosis, hoping sharing her cancer journey will help others walking their own path, and also remind women to get regular mammograms and screenings. One of my aunts was just declared in remission earlier this summer, it is SO important By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leigh Whannell’s scraggly Wolf Man In the late 2010s, Universal tried to reverse engineer a cinematic universe with the “Dark Universe”, which was meant to start with Tom Cruise’s version of The Mummy, but after that movie ate sh-t at the box office, the whole thing was cancelled, taking down a series of By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christohper Nolan is bullying David Zaslav Speaking of Warner Bros. Discovery and their spiky relationships with filmmakers, over the last year, I’ve been keeping an eye on Christopher Nolan’s next film, chiefly because even after Universal met every one of his demands to release Oppenheimer—including releasing the film in his favored late July By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adrien Brody’s Oscar comeback begins The reason I am leading the site today is that Lainey and I switched from my regular Friday nonsense, since I thought I would be seeing The Brutalist on Thursday night, and that movie is three and a half hours long, so I expected it to f-ck up my By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy does the least This week bring us Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy’s capstone project in the world’s least likely superhero trilogy—yes, even less likely than Deadpool, because Deadpool is considered a good movie and Venom is not. Yet fans love Hardy in the dual role of down on his By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 10:30 am
Style Emilia Perez again The press tour for Emilia Pérez has entered its hundredth year as the film celebrated its Los Angeles premiere last night. It feels like this film has been on a never-ending publicity tour since Cannes, giving Wicked a run for its money as the most over-advertised film of By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 09:15 am
Douchebags Intro for October 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Sometimes my folks ask me about movies to decide if they want to bother finding and watching them, such as asking if I’ve heard of “Concave”, aka papal thriller Conclave. So when they asked me about a new Clint Eastwood movie, for which they had seen a By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 08:35 am
Style Academy Museum Gala power couples Some couples stepped out at the 4th annual Academy Museum Gala, starting with Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song. They were at TIFF together, too, since Brenda stars in The Last Showgirl, which is now set for a limited release on December 13, courtesy Roadside Attractions. That means it’s full By Sarah • Oct 21, 2024 01:06 pm
Style Dudes at the Academy Museum Gala Dudes showed up to the 4th annual Academy Museum Gala and we HAVE to start by talking about the ABOSLUTE GOSSIP GIFT of Joaquin Phoenix showing up to the same event as Danny Ramirez, who was supposed to star with Phoenix in Todd Haynes’ now-toast queer romantic drama. Do By Sarah • Oct 21, 2024 10:21 am
What Else What Else Victoria’s Secret is still trying to reimagine their runway show for a more inclusive era, but the results are mixed, at best. Yes, they have a little more body diversity on the runway, and this year featured two transgender models, but compared to a Savage x Fenty show, their By Sarah • Oct 18, 2024 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett in Rumours Celebrated Canadian surrealist Guy Maddin and his equally surreal collaborators Galen and Evan Johnson are back on their oddball bullsh-t with Rumours, a political satire cum apocalypse film, with an emphasis on cum because there is a lot of it in this film. The three filmmakers collaborate as co- By Sarah • Oct 18, 2024 01:38 pm