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
TV Updates Bridgerton Season 3: Good vibes return Bridgerton is back, baby, and nothing makes me happier than to announce that the good vibes have returned, too. After season two wandered into an unevenly paced, unevenly dramatic, and unevenly romantic arena, season three steps back into the blossom-bedecked Bridgerton light. Jess Brownell takes over showrunning duties from Chris By Sarah • May 16, 2024 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively’s weepy romance Colleen Hoover is a very popular writer who is obviously doing something right as her books connect with so many people, but I have never successfully completed one of them. Keep that in mind as I tell you about the trailer for It Ends With Us, a new film based By Sarah • May 16, 2024 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell kicks off his big summer Hit Man drops on Netflix on June 7, and while I am deep in my “I am mad about Hit Man selling to Netflix even though it was Glen Powell and Richard Linklater who decided to sell it to Netflix and yet I am not mad at THEM” feelings, I By Sarah • May 16, 2024 11:19 am
TV Updates Amazon’s traffic jam upfront I used to think the biannual television upfronts, in which TV networks hawk their wares for advertisers, were a relic of a bygone era, but then every streaming service started introducing user tiers that include ads, so now I guess the upfronts are more relevant than ever. To that end, By Sarah • May 15, 2024 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Megalopolis starring Adam Driver Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed new film, Megalopolis, will premiere at Cannes in two days. A teaser trailer dropped this morning, and despite a lot of rumors that this was a nightmare production followed by a baffled reception by potential distributors—the film does not yet have a distribution deal— By Sarah • May 14, 2024 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bucky Barnes back at it I mentioned that Sebastian Stan’s scumbag era is working for me after the Met Gala, and a LOT of you agreed. So here is Sebastian on the set of Thunderbolts*—the asterisk is part of the official title treatment, learn it, love it, embrace it—sporting a new look By Sarah • May 13, 2024 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s sunny attitude (and shorts) Even though school is still in session in much of the US (where primary/secondary students usually aren’t done until June), and the weather is capricious at best, Hollywood would have us believe it’s summer, with summer movie season starting the first weekend in May because Marvel tricked By Sarah • May 13, 2024 01:57 pm
What Else What Else? Is Ncuti Gatwa the most stylish Doctor Who ever, or is Ncuti Gatwa the most stylish Doctor Who ever? (Go Fug Yourself) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has a literal brain worm and he’s still running for president. One candidate is on actual trial for actual crimes, one has an By Sarah • May 09, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone’s other movie Fresh off Lily Gladstone’s first appearance at the Met Gala, a trailer has (finally) been released for Fancy Dance, Lily’s other dramatic film about the Native experience in America. This one is contemporary, about a woman searching for her missing sister while trying to care for her niece. By Sarah • May 09, 2024 03:24 pm
