Marcus and Friends (dogs) Hot Brisket in LA Speaking of Twisters , that film’s Los Angeles premiere was yesterday. Glen Powell showed up in a truck and more importantly, with BRISKET. Glen Powell is running the Chris Evans Adorable Dog playbook, and it is WORKING. I LOVE BRISKET. Look at him! Look at his little face! Brisket is By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 12:23 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Deadpool inches closer The last two major blockbusters of summer 2024 are coming up over the next couple weeks, with Twisters opening next week, and then Deadpool & Wolverine on July 26. Deadpool is expected to be one of the biggest films of the year, and is tracking for a $160-165 million opening By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 10:20 am
Intro for July 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, In the grand tradition of cable channels before it, Netflix has built a stable of standup comedy to bolster their original library. It makes sense—standup is relatively cheap to produce, and there’s no shortage of new comics arriving on the scene every year to keep adding By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Costner’s box office bomb This is the year of rich A-listers spending their own dime on passion projects—some might say “vanity projects”—and in Kevin Costner’s case, it isn’t working out as hoped. His awkwardly titled Western epic Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is bombing at the box office, and By Sarah • Jul 11, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The FloField movie is here At last year’s Oscars Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield set the internet ablaze with their palpable chemistry when they presented Sarah Polley with the Best Adapted Screenplay award. They were immediately dubbed “FloField” by Lainey, and just as quickly we learned they were making a movie together. Well, that By Sarah • Jul 11, 2024 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie Comer’s next thing Well, The Bikeriders did not become the summer sleeper Focus Features was hoping. While it was never expected to be a $100 million blockbuster, it managed just $29 million, which isn’t a total disaster but given the film’s $30 million price tag, it isn’t great, either. The By Sarah • Jul 10, 2024 02:02 pm
TV Updates Marvel’s witch pitch After a recent rough patch, Marvel is attempting something of a comeback (there was definitely a post-Endgame malaise the pandemic exacerbated, but let’s be real that their box office losses didn’t really start until last year when Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania sh-t the bed, and even still, By Sarah • Jul 09, 2024 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will you be entertained? As Paramount and Skydance finally agree to a merger, here comes the first trailer for what will be the last big film of the Paramount Pictures era, and it’s a doozy. Gladiator is a nearly perfect film, one of Ridley Scott’s true opuses, which splits the difference between By Sarah • Jul 09, 2024 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers reassembled in Lakota Over the weekend, Marvel dropped a video online showing only some of the 15-month process to create a Lakota-language dub of The Avengers, reuniting the original cast to re-record their roles in the Lakota language. This is a HUGE step for Indigenous language preservation. As Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota By Sarah • Jul 08, 2024 02:08 pm
Sports Brad Pitt goes vroom Over the weekend we got our first look at Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 movie, now officially titled F1. It’s directed by Joseph Kosinski, and stars Pitt as a veteran racecar driver who comes out of retirement to show a younger driver, played by Damson Idris, the ways of By Sarah • Jul 08, 2024 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julianne Nicholson in Janet Planet Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes her feature directorial debut with Janet Planet, a film in which “nothing happens” except, probably, the most consequential summer of a young girl’s life. Set in 1991 in rural Massachusetts, the film follows eleven-year-old Lacy (newcomer Zoe Ziegler) and her mother, Janet (Julianne By Sarah • Jul 04, 2024 03:54 pm
Business of Hollywood A Paramount merger is back on (probably) This is starting to feel like Wayne and Garth shouting “game off” and “game on” as cars interrupt their street hockey. I know I am dating myself with this reference, but it feels the most apt for the start-stop nature of whatever the f-ck is happening at Paramount. Just last By Sarah • Jul 04, 2024 12:59 pm
TV Updates And Just Like That Cat And Just Like That… season 3 is filming now in New York. I didn’t f-ck with Sex and the City and I don’t f-ck with And Just Like That… but I DO love cats, and Carrie Bradshaw is a cat lady now, so I ALMOST care about this By Sarah • Jul 03, 2024 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Trap’s catchy pitch M. Night Shyamalan is coming this summer with a new film led by Josh Hartnett, and we have already declared ourselves ready for the Hartnettaissance, but the second trailer for Trap is so good, I’m also just ready for a good movie from Shyamalan. He’s an up-and-down director, By Sarah • Jul 02, 2024 02:35 pm
What Else What Else? Please note, we will be dark on Monday, July 1, for Canada Day. Kelly Ripa doesn’t like eating on TV. I don’t blame her. I have some remaining hangups around eating in public, remnants of a disordered eating past. It took a lot of time and therapy to By Sarah • Jun 28, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone in Kinds of Kindness Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has always made films with a challenging worldview, from the visceral cruelty of his breakout film, 2009’s Dogtooth, to the deeply weird love story of his English-language debut, The Lobster, to the mind-f-ck of The Killing of a Sacred Deer, his films are interesting, if unpleasant. By Sarah • Jun 28, 2024 01:41 pm
