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
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
