Movie Reviews and Previews Inside People Outside Inside Out 2 opens this week, and even though I really like Inside Out, I just cannot get the sequel’s existence to stick in my mind. It has an enormous cast—as evidenced by the premiere’s turnout—and it’s been nine years since the original’s release, By Sarah • Jun 11, 2024 11:41 am
What Else What Else? House of the Dragon is coming back for season two, and with it, the HOT D is cast going places, wearing things, generally being hot in public. (Go Fug Yourself) This article has a headline so good I almost feel like I don’t want or need to read the By Sarah • Jun 07, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pharrell’s happy pieces Pharrell Williams has been working on an animated film for the last several years. Initially conceived as an original collaboration between Pharrell and Minions studio Illumination, the project ultimately became a biographical documentary about Pharrell, produced in the LEGO style, and it shifted over to Focus Features, which shares NBCUniversal By Sarah • Jun 07, 2024 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride or Die Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so is whether or not you’re going to enjoy Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth entry into the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as a pair of wise-cracking but tough Miami detectives. Ride or Die By Sarah • Jun 07, 2024 01:07 pm
Music Retired Rihanna A couple days ago I posted in What Else about Rihanna announcing Fenty Hair, but all her fans hounding her about her ninth album, and I said, “I’m starting to hope she never releases another album.” Yesterday, she stepped out in New York with A$AP Rocky wearing a By Sarah • Jun 07, 2024 10:12 am
TV Updates Intro for June 7, 2024 Dear Gossips, Baby Reindeer is one of the breakout series of the year (so far) and is expected to be a top contender in the limited series category at the Emmys. Stephanie wrote about the series’ “radical empathy” and the reason it has touched so many people though it is By Sarah • Jun 07, 2024 09:21 am
What Else What Else? Alexander Wang’s runway show was yesterday, and I am disturbed by the extremely 2000s ensemble on Selah Marley. We do not need to bring back Y2K fashion! Not everything deserves nostalgia! (Go Fug Yourself) Lady Gaga was maid of honor at her sister’s wedding and people speculated on By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 04:02 pm
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