Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya and her little white boys in Challengers “Tennis is a relationship,” proclaims Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), a teenage phenom sitting on top of the world. She’s just won the Junior US Open, she has an Adidas campaign already, she is tapped to be the next big thing in professional tennis. Until, that is, an injury at Stanford By Sarah • Apr 26, 2024 11:46 am
Assy Style Gossiping at the Time 100 Gala Today got off to a dark start, so let’s take a break and look at some beautiful people. The Time 100 Gala was last night in New York, and the beautiful people showed up. Like, Dev Patel was there. That’s enough for me. Just let me gaze upon By Sarah • Apr 26, 2024 10:51 am
Douchebags Intro for April 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was going to write about Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger being a couple of basic ass bitches after they demolished a notable mid-century modern home by architect Craig Ellwood to make way for a modern farmhouse by basic bitch architect to the stars, Ken Ungar. But then, By Sarah • Apr 26, 2024 09:34 am
TV Updates Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai in Shōgun James Clavell’s epic Shōgun, the third volume of his “Asian Saga” series of novels depicting the conflicts between eastern and western civilizations over hundreds of years, was a monster hit after it was published in 1975. It spawned a 1980 TV miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, and Yoko By Sarah • Apr 25, 2024 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Kravitz’s director era Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut has been an object of curiosity since it was announced, in part due to Kravitz’s steady rise up the actor ranks, plus her own mystique, and learning that she was dating now-fiancé Channing Tatum while they were making the movie together. It used be By Sarah • Apr 24, 2024 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Teflon JLo Jennifer Lopez is maybe not having the banner year she hoped for, with album sales not as high as one might hope and/or expect, and ticket sales also, er, depressed, but as Duana once said, JLo is Teflon. Nothing sticks. Not bad reviews, not bad sales…not bad movies? By Sarah • Apr 24, 2024 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews LFG As William Goldman once said, in the movie business, nobody knows anything when it comes to the movie business. Every movie is a roll of the dice. But as sure as anything CAN be in this industry, especially in these turbulent times which were tough before COVID and now are By Sarah • Apr 22, 2024 11:25 am
What Else What Else? Pulp Fiction turned 30 this week, and the celebration brought out everyone except Bruce Willis, because he isn’t well enough, and Quentin Tarantino for reasons unknown. For all that QT can gab forever about movies, he doesn’t get super bogged down talking about his OWN movies. At least By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 04:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Josh Hartnettaissance Josh Hartnett had a little bit of a moment last year with Oppenheimer putting him back in front of blockbuster audiences, and now he’s starring in M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie, Trap. He also has a thriller coming up co-starring Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran—good things only for By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 01:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Henry Cavill in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare It turns out, despite his tenure as the dourest Superman to date, that Henry Cavill having a grand ole time on screen is a pure joy. The Enola Holmes films figured this out, Witcher did not, but Guy Ritchie has been on the Let Henry Cavill Have Fun train since By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 12:21 pm
Quiveration Colin at work Here is Colin Farrell on the set of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, the upcoming film from Kogonada, with whom Farrell previously made After Yang. It co-stars Margot Robbie, Jodie Turner-Smith (another After Yang alum), Lily Rabe, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and comes from Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Seth By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 10:43 am
Style Zendaya’s power suit Zendaya continues living her best outside life, appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night in a mini suit dress with killer white pumps. After her Vera Wang ballgown moment at the LA premiere of Challengers, there was a discussion over on The Squawk about how that look ties into the By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 09:53 am
TV Updates Intro for April 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s time to talk about AI again! This is going to be an ongoing and ever-evolving conversation, but this week a couple things happened that clearly illustrate the pitfalls of engaging with AI in the entertainment space. First, beloved indie studio A24 used AI to generate some By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Yes I am dying mad about Hit Man! The full trailer for Hit Man is here, and I am going to DIE MAD about Netflix buying this movie. As a reminder, Hit Man is GREAT, a true audience movie, wildly funny, thrilling, sexy, just a great time all around to see with a crowd. Like it’s DESIGNED By Sarah • Apr 18, 2024 12:32 pm
TV Updates Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough in Under the Bridge Another term for a destructive cycle is a whirlpool, something with so much centrifugal force it pulls everything in its proximity downward, into destruction. A whirlpool sits at the heart of Under the Bridge, an adaptation of Rebecca Godfrey’s haunting book about the 1997 murder of teenager Reena Virk By Sarah • Apr 18, 2024 10:01 am
Reese Witherspoon Reese’s Horses But like, pronounce it like “Reesee’s Peesees”. Here’s a sidebar fight to start: Do you say “Reese’s Pieces” or do you do the deliberate mispronunciation of “Reesee’s Peesees”? I THINK this might be a north/south thing, because I grew up with “Reesee’s Peesees” in By Sarah • Apr 17, 2024 09:51 am
