Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn in A Quiet Place: Day One In 2018, A Quiet Place introduced a horror universe in which melon-headed blind aliens invade Earth and hunt and kill humans using sound. It’s a good movie. Its sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, is also good. Its prequel, A Quiet Place: Day One might actually be GREAT. Part By Sarah • Jun 28, 2024 11:28 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer Friday News Dump Watch Forget bump watch, forget ring watch, it’s the return of the weekly Bennifer Friday News Dump Watch, in which we hold our breath on a Friday in hopes that we DON’T have to cover a Bennifer divorce. Well, I’m holding my breath, because I’m lazy and By Sarah • Jun 28, 2024 10:26 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, Six months ago, there was a report that Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount, two of the oldest and most storied Hollywood studios, were considering a merger. That deal did not materialize, though Paramount ended up coming within literally TWO MINUTES of merging with Media—owned by tech nepo By Sarah • Jun 28, 2024 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Not my Here I like comics. If you’ve been reading this site for any length of time, you know that based on how I cover superhero movies. But I also like comic strips. From the time I learned to read until I left for college, my dad would leave the “funny pages” By Sarah • Jun 27, 2024 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside of you are two trailers Inside of you are two trailers, and they are always fighting. One of them is emptiness and despair, one of them is justice and light. Which one will win? Whichever one you watch more. Exhibit A: Abandon All Hope The trailer for Red One, the action-comedy Christmas movie starring Dwayne By Sarah • Jun 26, 2024 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews June Squibb in Thelma Two isn’t a trend but it is interesting that 2024 brings us two films about elder fraud and revenge. The Beekeeper is the insane action version, and Thelma is the more grounded, family-oriented version of the tale. Like The Beekeeper, Thelma starts with an elderly woman being targeted by By Sarah • Jun 25, 2024 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Eggers takes on vampires Robert Eggers is back, and frankly, I don’t think we deserve him, given how badly we let him down in re: The Northman, a totally f-cking rad movie that basically no one saw. And yet! Robert Eggers is humble, he is magnanimous, he is a GIVER who will GIVE By Sarah • Jun 25, 2024 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews New New New Superman and Lois on set Cinematically speaking, Christopher Reeve was Superman, Brandon Routh was New Superman, Henry Cavill was New New Superman, which makes David Corenswet New New New Superman. Corenswet was on set in Cleveland yesterday along with Rachel Brosnahan, giving us a look at our many-new Superman and Lois in action. People are By Sarah • Jun 25, 2024 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy O. Harris deconstructs Jeremy O. Harris Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play. tells you up front what it is: it’s Slave Play, which is not a movie, it’s a play. Chiefly, it is Harris’s incendiary Broadway debut, a play that unpacks centuries of colonialism, racism, and sexual politics By Sarah • Jun 24, 2024 01:42 pm
TV Updates Revisiting Swoki Photos of Tom Hiddleston filming a second season of The Night Manager in London with Indira Varma popped up on Friday, and it immediately sent me down a nostalgic gossip rabbit hole. Remember Swoki? The short, cursed relationship between Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift in the summer of 2016, before By Sarah • Jun 24, 2024 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy in The Bikeriders Jeff Nichols has always centered his films on ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances, and in The Bikeriders he finds his most typically Hollywood subject yet—a biker gang in 1960s Chicago. Inspired by photographer Danny Lyon’s eponymous photo collection, The Bikeriders follows the rise of the Vandals MC By Sarah • Jun 21, 2024 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin and Todd before Folie à Deux I keep forgetting, partly because time has no meaning and partly because of dread, but Joker: Folie à Deux is coming out this October. Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Phillips were seen having dinner in LA this week, while a new trailer for the film debuted at CineEurope, the European By Sarah • Jun 21, 2024 10:31 am
TV Updates Maybe this will get you to watch Apple TV+ The general feeling in re: various streaming platforms and their relative popularity is that no one watches Apple TV+, with the exception of Ted Lasso, which was a genuine hit (especially season one). But outside of Ted Lasso, Apple TV+ isn’t really breaking through, which is a shame, because By Sarah • Jun 20, 2024 02:11 pm
Style Elizabeth Olsen has entered the chat Through the early part of summer, we tracked Dakota Johnson on the set of Celine Song’s Materialists, because her wardrobe was made up of enviable, wearable basics and everyone was into it. Now, Elizabeth Olsen is filming in Vancouver, showing up in her own enviable and wearable basic, a By Sarah • Jun 20, 2024 11:03 am
What Else What Else? Ralph Lauren is dressing Team USA in denim and a wool blazer that looks very prep school-inspired to me. I actually really like the blazer, 10/10, would buy. The white denim jacket is less my bag, but it does look appropriately sporty. Ralph Lauren, as they say, understood the By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone went outside Following her stint on the Cannes jury last month, Lily Gladstone has gone outside again, this time to attend a screening of Fancy Dance in New York. Alongside Lily was her young co-star, Isabel DeRoy-Olson, director Erica Tremblay, and co-stars Ryan Begay. The film premiered at Sundance last year, and By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 02:11 pm
