Movie Reviews and Previews Moana + the Witches = Big Holiday Box Office Hello, it is I, the box office doom fairy, back once again to talk about The State Of Things! Which right now is Not Terrible, thanks to the double whammy of family-friendly fare playing during the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend—and perhaps a desire to escape the house and By Sarah • Dec 02, 2024 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie in Maria Of late, Pablo Larraín has made a study of iconic women of the 20th century, specifically catching them at dramatic turning points in their lives. Jackie finds Jacqueline Kennedy reflecting on her life in the White House as she is preparing to (finally) leave it following the assassination of her By Sarah • Nov 26, 2024 02:57 pm
TV Updates Zahn McClarnon at the White House Dark Winds, a crime series starring Zahn McClarnon, has become a little show that could over the last couple of years, thanks in no small part to the show becoming available on Netflix, where many new fans have discovered it. Not a lot of ink spills on behalf of Dark By Sarah • Nov 25, 2024 12:04 pm
What Else What Else? Jodie Turner-Smith is co-starring with Michael Fassbender in a series about spies, which I just learned about because Jodie turned up at the premiere in bright blue. (Go Fug Yourself) I’m a proponent of sleeping naked. It’s comfortable, and in my anecdotal experience, it did improve By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in Wicked Well, here we are. Once again, I have been subjected to a movie musical, a thing I almost never enjoy. And guess what? I didn’t enjoy it! Again! Although, on the scale of “Cats to Not Cats”, the cinematic adaptation of perennially popular stage musical Wicked is “Not Cats” By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s third act Six years ago, I wrote about Kristen Stewart’s intention to direct her first feature film, which she intended to adapt from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, The Chronology of Water. It feels insane to think about things said and done six years ago, everything pre-2020 feels like a completely By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 12:22 pm
Quiveration ATJ sticking it out We have been talking about Kraven the Hunter for nigh on eighteen months, which is entirely too many months to allot to one of Sony’s Spider-Man films that doesn’t star Spider-Man. But after many false starts—Kraven was supposed to come out in January 2023, October By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 10:04 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Back in 2021, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, host of the Golden Globes, was rocked by controversy, which very nearly was the end of the Globes. But while the HFPA was ultimately dissolved, the Golden Globes bounced back as a for-profit organization owned by billionaire Todd Boehly, By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Mescal in Gladiator II Twenty-four years later, Ridley Scott revisits one of his most beloved films, the sword-and-sandal epic Gladiator, though the sequel picks up a mere 16 years after the action of that film. Gladiator II starts in north Africa, where Roman imperial daughter Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) sent her son, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 11:27 am
TV Updates Monster Charlie A couple months ago we learned that Charlie Hunnam will star in the third season of Ryan Murphy’s extremely popular Netflix anthology series Monster, which fictionalizes the crimes of some of America’s most notorious killers. We now have our first look at Hunnam gussied up as Ed Gein, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Real live Toothless (sort of) I’ve lost track of how many Disney live action remakes there have been—and do we count something like Maleficent, which isn’t so much a remake as a reimagining, but still brings an animated world to live action?—and we still have more coming, with Mufasa due this By Sarah • Nov 20, 2024 12:00 pm
TV Updates Jimmy O. Yang in Interior Chinatown There is a moment in the first episode of Interior Chinatown in which the protagonist, Willis Wu goes “not far” to talk with a detective, and it turns out to be a kind of beach party situation like you’d see in an alcohol commercial. Indeed, “Deep Watr” hard seltzer By Sarah • Nov 19, 2024 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dude duos at the Governors Awards Just like the actresses, the actors find themselves in a wide-open competition, too, but in their case, it’s less about an abundance of strong performances and more that Daniel Craig and Ralph Fiennes, the presumed frontrunners, haven’t been hustling that hard, which leaves room for others to By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 12:21 pm
Award Season Campaigning Icons at the Governors Awards As Lainey mentioned in the open today, the 15th annual Governors Awards were held last night, and if you’re wondering didn’t we just do this back in January, yes, we did. The 14th annual ceremony was bumped because of last year’s labor strikes, so like the Emmys, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 11:33 am
What Else What Else? Daniel Craig is in his dirtbag era to promote Queer. This is…kind of killing my crush. I would love to know Rachel Weisz’s opinion. (Go Fug Yourself) Being a Disney Adult will cost you about $14K per year, assuming you MOVE TO FLORIDA. I can’t even imagine By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain A Real Pain is a significant leap forward for Jesse Eisenberg: Filmmaker. His first feature film, When You Finish Saving the World, is the kind of navel-gazing drama you might expect from an actor known for playing uptight, even neurotic characters. A Real Pain, in contrast, has an intimacy By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 01:48 pm
