Movie Reviews and Previews Catching up with MaXXXine Over the last couple of years, filmmaker Ti West, who got his start with low budget horror flicks The Roost and Trigger Man before breaking out with 2009’s double bill of The House of the Devil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, has quietly become one of American cinema’ By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 03:19 pm
TV Updates The intense, unknowable Jake G Jake Gyllenhaal has a new series—his first television role—premiering on Apple TV+ next week. Presumed Innocent comes from David E. Kelley and is another adaptation of Scott Turow’s novel of the same name, which previously inspired Alan Pakula’s 1990 film starring Harrison Ford. It looks intense. By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 01:06 pm
Style Dakota back in Ralphcore At this point, yes, I am just trolling Maria by setting her up for requests for “As Seen On Social Media”. Dakota Johnson is back on the set of Materialists in New York, rocking new outfits for Maria to source. One should be easy, it’s just classic jeans and By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bikie Austin Australians call bikers “bikies” which I will never not find funny. Bikies! It’s like talking to your dog about going on a ride, Do you want to go on bikies? I bring this up because Austin Butler is in Australia promoting The Bikeriders, which legit makes sense because Oz By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 10:13 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 6, 2024 Dear Gossips, In 2020, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture for Parasite. He had previously directed the masterful Memories of Murder, as well as international hits The Host and Mother, and he’s made a couple of films for the Hollywood system, By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 09:23 am
What Else What Else? The Gotham TV Awards are a new awards show from The Gotham Film & Media Institute, which also presents The Gotham Awards. The first television edition was yesterday, and people showed up. Kristen Wiig looks AMAZING. (Go Fug Yourself) Now HERE is the fancy wedding I care about: Hugh Grosvenor, By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cailee Spaeny’s busy year Following the trailer for Venom: The Last Dance, which is technically a movie about an alien that latches onto humans to survive, Disney/20th Century Studios (Fox, you are missed) released a new trailer for Alien: Romulus. This is the latest film in the Alien franchise, it comes from filmmaker By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 03:24 pm
Style Dakota and Chris again Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans continue work on Celine Song’s Materialists in New York, and I am highlighting these set photos mainly because it’s funny to me that every time Dakota pops up on set, someone asks Maria to source her wardrobe, including in today's As By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 01:34 pm
TV Updates Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae in The Acolyte I have long held that the Jedi are a bunch of killjoy nerds and the galaxy far, far away is better off without them, and finally, a piece of Star Wars media agrees with me. The Acolyte, a new series set in the Star Wars universe, takes place a century By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 11:59 am
BFFs Cyndi’s farewell Cyndi Lauper was honored with a hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theater yesterday. Bebe Rexha and Cher turned up to support her. Iconic friendship! Cher and Cyndi have been turning up for each other for decades, including Cyndi singing for Cher at the Kennedy Center Honors in By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 10:15 am
TV Updates Intro for June 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, Today in What PLANET Are You ON news, Alec Baldwin and his wife, notable Spanish Bostonian Hilaria, announced they are filming a reality series for TLC focused on their home life with their seven young children. The show is tentatively called The Baldwins and is tentatively slated to By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Venom is the little franchise that could We have talked plenty about Sony’s attempts to launch an MCU-adjacent, live-action “Spider-Man Universe of Marvel Character” (SPUMC, lol), with films such as Morbius and Madame Web, and how it never goes well for them…except in the case of Venom. In 2018, Tom Hardy’s passion project—seriously, By Sarah • Jun 04, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another batch of Marvel reshoots Captain America: Brave New World, the fourth Cap film in which Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes over as Captain America, wrapped principal photography last spring. But then post-production got dinged by the dual labor strikes last summer—presumably chiefly affecting their ability to do reshoots—so the Marvel brain By Sarah • Jun 04, 2024 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No one wants the Trump movie Ali Abassi’s film about a younger Donald Trump and his business daddy, Roy Cohn, The Apprentice, debuted at Cannes to generally good reviews. The film stars Jeremy Strong in his first post-Succession screen role, Sebastian Stan, and Maria Bakalova, plus Abassi is a generally admired filmmaker whose last film, By Sarah • Jun 03, 2024 11:29 am
What Else What Else? Bad Boys 4 is coming, and the premiere was last night. I have very little interest in this movie (change my mind, Bad Boys!), but I am SO interested to see how the general public reacts to it. This is his first film release since The Slap. (Go Fug Yourself) By Sarah • May 31, 2024 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Expanding the Knives Out 3 fantasy cast Knives Out 3, officially titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, continues casting apace. On top of recent additions Andrew Scott, Josh O’Connor, and Cailee Spaeny, Glenn Close has joined the cast—will she play a patrician matriarch or a kook?—as have Jeremy Renner and Mila By Sarah • May 31, 2024 01:50 pm
