Movie Reviews and Previews The dismal holiday box office It was Memorial Day weekend in the US, a three-day weekend that often signals the start of summer. For film fans, though, Memorial Day is usually a big movie weekend, dominated by a blockbuster release. Well, not this year. 2024 is the worst Memorial Day box office in almost 30 By Sarah • May 28, 2024 10:47 am
What Else What Else? Glen Powell has a cover profile on The Hollywood Reporter, and he talks about how the success of Anyone But You is what really put him on the map in terms of being a bankable star. I don’t think that’s taking credit for Sydney Sweeney’s work, as By Sarah • May 24, 2024 04:03 pm
Winona Ryder Beetlejuice is autumn vibes and Scooby Doo I was divided on the teaser for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the decades in the making sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 classic, but the full trailer has me feeling hopeful that this won’t suck? There’s less memberberry juice in the full trailer, as it introduces some new characters, though By Sarah • May 24, 2024 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth in Furiosa In 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road revitalized the Mad Max franchise, a rare legacy sequel that improves upon its forebears, and a film that is, in its own right, a contemporary classic. Fury Road roars with action, a bastion of practical stunts and the judicious implementation of CGI that arrived By Sarah • May 24, 2024 01:06 pm
Style Lily Gladstone’s next act One year after premiering Killers of the Flower Moon at Cannes, Lily Gladstone is on the jury, and she’s been killing it on the Croisette. Yesterday at the premiere of L’Amour Ouf (Beating Hearts), it was an embroidered black dress, spangled shawl, and stellar pink earrings. I can’ By Sarah • May 24, 2024 11:59 am
Equality Issues Tomdaya’s theater date night Zendaya is hot off her busy spring, starring in Dune: Part Two and Challengers, and now it’s Tom Holland’s turn in the spotlight. (Celebrity couples build better longevity when they take turns being center stage: discuss.) Kathleen once dubbed them “Tomdaya”, which still sounds like a disease to By Sarah • May 24, 2024 10:07 am
Intro for May 24, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, the US Department of Justice, along with thirty state and district attorneys, filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Live Nation and its subsidiary, Ticketmaster. They’re alleging monopolistic behavior and guess where the suit was filed? The Southern District of New York, baby, the most f-ck around and By Sarah • May 24, 2024 09:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Of course The Apprentice has legal issues Sebastian Stan took a break from filming Thunderbolts* to hop over to Cannes for the world premiere of The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s film about the rise of Donald Trump in the 1970s and 80s. Stan was there with Abbasi and Maria Bakalova, who plays Ivana Trump. Jeremy Strong, who By Sarah • May 22, 2024 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The daddest of all dad movies Kevin Costner’s western epic Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (hate the title!) premiered at Cannes over the weekend. Festival reviews are not to be trusted, but Vulture’s critic, Bilge Ebiri, called it “Dune: Part One for dads” which made me laugh out loud. My dad only watches By Sarah • May 21, 2024 03:01 pm
Top Reads ScarJo strikes again It’s time to talk about AI again! This time, it’s in context of another Scarlett Johansson lawsuit. People should just know that if you give her an opportunity, ScarJo will sue you, so stop giving her opportunities. The latest is this: Open AI, the tech company behind talkative By Sarah • May 21, 2024 10:21 am
What Else What Else? Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, May 20 in observance of Victoria Day. More Cannes fashion! Including Lily Gladstone in a great sequined dress. (Go Fug Yourself) Boy sober? A dating cleanse? I kind of hate how wellness buzzwords infiltrate every area of life, but I DO think By Sarah • May 17, 2024 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry’s post-apocalyptic kids There is no worse person to be stuck in an apocalypse with than a child. Show me a kid in an apocalypse movie, and I will show you an adult standing next to that kid who is about to die. An interesting apocalypse movie might be one in which a By Sarah • May 17, 2024 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Cailey Fleming in IF IF review take one… IF, written and directed by John Krasinski, is a sweet film aimed at kids with enough jokes the adults will understand to make it tolerable family viewing. Cailey Fleming stars as Bea, who has already lost one parent and is faced with losing the other, and By Sarah • May 17, 2024 01:03 pm
Sports The TNT Oreo TNT is not yet in their second act—I think that will be when they’re a year deep into their relationship and it’s no longer new and sustaining it with their respective schedules becomes work—but they are in their second round of honeymoon phase, as Taylor Swift By Sarah • May 17, 2024 11:14 am
Cannes 2024 Cannes parties and Megalopolis mess After a year of rumor and innuendo that it’s a nightmare production and a mess of a movie, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis premiered at Cannes yesterday and…it’s a mess. Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘MEGALOPOLIS’ includes a sequence in which a man walks onto the physical stage By Sarah • May 17, 2024 10:32 am
TV Updates Intro for May 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, Emmy nominations begin in June, and we have an interesting development in the Outstanding Talk Series category. Youtube show “Hot Ones”, hosted by Sean Evans, has successfully petitioned to be included in the talk series category, which puts Evans up against network stalwarts like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, By Sarah • May 17, 2024 09:22 am
