Movie Reviews and Previews The Electric State and the cinematic state Since Avengers: Endgame, the Russo Brothers haven’t been able to replicate their Marvel success anywhere else. As directors, their Tom Holland-led TV series Cherry failed to get mainstream notice—to be fair, a common problem for Apple TV+ series—and their Netflix film, The Gray Man is synonymous By Sarah • Oct 18, 2024 11:38 am
Colin Farrell Colin + Cristin The Penguin is halfway through its run and it’s a hit for HBO (probably, we’re taking HBO at their word regarding their ratings). With New York Comic Con happening this weekend, stars Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti appeared on a panel yesterday, alongside their co-stars including Clancey By Sarah • Oct 18, 2024 10:45 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for October 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, Once again I wanted to make dumb jokes about something stupid—specifically, the Hallmark cruise, which is a compendium of personal nightmares, from cruises to hyper-formulaic films—but once again, we have to talk about f-cking TikTok! This time it’s The Wrap publishing a feature By Sarah • Oct 18, 2024 08:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jude Law and unsilly Nicholas Hoult I really wanted to catch Justin Kurzel’s new film, The Order, at TIFF and it just did not fit into my schedule. But it’s coming in December, so just in time for the holidays, let’s have a film about neo-Nazis and white supremacists. I love how By Sarah • Oct 17, 2024 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Proper scares with The Monkey Just based on a title treatment teaser, I was into Oz Perkins’ new film, The Monkey. But now that the actual teaser has dropped, well, I texted Lainey “EXTREMELY MY SH-T” because The Monkey is, to be clear, EXTREMELY MY SH-T. Perkins’ work has always been right up By Sarah • Oct 16, 2024 11:17 am
What Else What Else? Programming Note: We will be dark on Monday, October 14, in observance of Canadian Thanksgiving. Andra Day went to an art opening dressed as a painting. (Go Fug Yourself) “Is Ozempic ruining friendships” is the kind of headline that guarantees a click. What’s in the article, though, isn’t By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Martha’s moment Martha Stewart is an icon, and she’s having a moment with multiple documentaries about her life on streaming. A few months ago, it was The Many Lives of Martha Stewart on Max, and now it’s RJ Cutler’s documentary, Martha, coming to Netflix on October 30. The trailer By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s very good year Lupita Nyong’o is having a very good year, what with A Quiet Place: Day One being a respectable mid-budget hit this summer, and now The Wild Robot putting together an impressive run for a non-Pixar, non-Illumination animated film. Next year, she will star as Viola in By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice Whether or not you are capable of finding any sympathy for Donald Trump is between you and Ali Abbasi’s new film, The Apprentice. Starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald just making a name for himself in the world of 1970s New York real estate, The Apprentice is a By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 10:56 am
Style Dream casting the Britney movie We know that the film adaptation of Britney Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me, is going to be made by Jon M. Chu and will be released by Universal. At some point in time, there will be a Britney movie. Which means someone needs to play Britney. Sydney Sweeney seems By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 10:04 am
Intro for October 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, The debate about the role of influencers in the film industry continues, with a new article in The Hollywood Reporter about influencers making their way to red carpet reporting and doing social media marketing for movie studios. This, though, is the side of influencers I don’t mind By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Saturday Night Not-Live There is a moment in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, a love letter to Lorne Michaels and his long-running late-night sketch series, where it seems like Reitman saw Aaron Sorkin’s own (short-lived) Saturday Night Live-inspired series and said, “I can do that, but better.” There By Sarah • Oct 10, 2024 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Questioning A Complete Unknown When the teaser for the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, dropped, I said it would be my dad’s favorite movie of the year, because he loves folk music, and Pete Seeger is his favorite folk guy, and Joan Baez is one of his favorite folk gals, and the By Sarah • Oct 09, 2024 03:04 pm
Quiveration Sebastian the week of The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s film about a younger Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn, opens this Friday. I put my election ballot in the mail yesterday, and then last night, I watched The Apprentice because I like to live inside a full political nightmare. My review will run By Sarah • Oct 09, 2024 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker’s pratfall The writing was on the wall as the box office tracking went into freefall a couple weeks before the film even opened, but Joker: Folie à Deux tanked over the weekend, opening with just $40 million. For comparison, The Marvels, last year’s widely derided superhero bomb, opened with $46 By Sarah • Oct 07, 2024 11:07 am
What Else What Else Speaking of toxic fans! Racist incidents are on the rise in the WNBA fandom, and even as someone who barely pays attention to professional basketball, I can hear the tone policing going on within the media coverage of women’s basketball. It’s like some people expect “the girls” to By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 04:00 pm
