Robert Downey-Jr Tony Stark and Fake Tony Stark The 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony was held over the weekend and brought out a truly random list of celebrities and billionaires. The Breakthrough Prize was established by billionaire Yuri Milner, a self-described “disappoint[ing] physicist” who hit the first tech wave at just the right moment in the 1990s to By Sarah • Apr 15, 2024 10:08 am
What Else What Else? I forget who said it, but I think a lot about the Lunchables/charcuterie dichotomy, that Lunchables are just the working class version of a charcuterie board. Anyway, turns out Lunchables are full of lead, which actually…proves that point? Rich people food is rarely, if ever, contaminated. The kind By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kirsten Dunst in Civil War Alex Garland breaks from tradition with his new film, Civil War. Leaving behind his detailed and haunting sci-fi landscapes, he throws his considerable talent for meticulously crafted worlds into a stark, grounded portrayal of a near-future America sundered by civil war. California and Texas joined forces and seceded, Florida’s By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 02:27 pm
TV Updates Conan’s big week Yesterday, Conan O’Brien was feted at the Paley Museum in New York at a PaleyLive event celebrating his “life after late-night TV”. And earlier this week, he made his return to The Tonight Show after his short stint hosting in the early 2010s. He got a hero’s welcome By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 01:43 pm
TV Updates Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins in Fallout If The Last of Us was too goddamned depressing for you but you still want to watch a post-apocalyptic video game adaptation, then boy, do I have the series for you! Fallout is a fantastic adaptation of the role-playing video game series, capturing the spirit of the game while still By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinemacon 4-11 CinemaCon drags on, or is it just this week? Yesterday, Paramount held their panel, which is a little weird given that that the studio is currently for sale and several board members are stepping down as the company is engaged in talks with David Ellison’s Skydance for a sale By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, The lineup for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival was announced yesterday. It includes new films from Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Schrader, Sean Baker, Ali Abbasi, Andrea Arnold, Jacques Audiard, Yorgos Lanthimos, Paolo Sorrentino, David Cronenberg, Leos Carax, and Coralie Fargeat. The out of competition premieres include Furiosa and By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 08:57 am
TV Updates Dear Readers, A trailer at last! Finally! After much teasing, a proper trailer for Bridgerton’s third season has arrived, and at nearly three minutes, Netflix is making the most of it. It is full of Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington, determined to marry because she can no longer stand living under her mother’s roof By Sarah • Apr 11, 2024 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked is already exhausting As Lainey mentioned, CinemaCon, the annual showing of Hollywood wares, is happening now in Las Vegas. Yesterday, Universal and Focus Features—which is owned by Universal—showed their wares to the National Association of Theater Owners, or as I like to call them, the other NATO. Their big presentations were By Sarah • Apr 11, 2024 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker: Folie a here we go again The trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux has arrived, and much like the first trailer for Joker, it’s pretty great. There’s Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, an inmate at Arkham Asylum, and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, who also appears to be an inmate at Arkham. There is By Sarah • Apr 10, 2024 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The ScarJo and CTates lunar rom-com Here is a movie I did not know I needed and am now completely obsessed with—Fly Me to the Moon. Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum co-star in a space race-set romantic comedy about the moon mission and a fake moon landing. First of all, excellent casting. ScarJo has always By Sarah • Apr 09, 2024 12:10 pm
What Else What Else? Yellowjackets and Fallout star Ella Purnell is wearing entirely too many pieces of flair. (Go Fug Yourself) Gordita Chronicles was one of the television shows David Zaslav had unceremoniously hoiked from HBO/Max so that no one could watch it, period. The show only lasted one season under Zaslav’s By Sarah • Apr 05, 2024 04:06 pm
Break Ups Friday news dump: Isla and Sacha are done In a classic Friday afternoon news dump, Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen revealed they filed for divorce last year. They’ve been together since 2001, married since 2010, and have three children together. Of course, given the timing of the announcement, my mind went right to Rebel Wilson, who By Sarah • Apr 05, 2024 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Prince Andrew’s sweatless glands in Scoop Based on TV producer Sam McAlister’s book, Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews, Netflix’s new film Scoop focuses specifically on the 2019 Newsnight interview of Prince Andrew, which turned into one of the most spectacular implosions of a public figure in recent memory. By Sarah • Apr 05, 2024 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pamela Adlon’s Babes Pamela Adlon has been working steadily since the 1980s—she was in Grease 2 AND Say Anything… AND she inspired the Toto song “Pamela”!—but she broke out in the 2010s as a writer and actor on Louie, Louis CK’s hit TV series, at least until he was revealed By Sarah • Apr 05, 2024 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel’s Monkey Man Dev Patel makes his directorial debut with Monkey Man, a blazingly ambitious revenge thriller that is an immediately impressive calling card for Patel as a very talented filmmaker. Working from a script he co-wrote with Paul Angunawela and John Collee, Patel directs and stars in the film as a man By Sarah • Apr 05, 2024 11:21 am
