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
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
