Movie Reviews and Previews Supersized trailer double whammy It’s a double whammy of supersized trailers for Universal’s big upcoming movies, and I am SO excited because 1) The Fall Guy looks really great, and 2) Universal is approaching Dev Patel’s Monkey Man with the same enthusiasm as The Fall Guy. Let’s start with the By Sarah • Mar 22, 2024 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More nostalgia with Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Ghostbusters: Afterlife was an overly serious effort to place Ghostbusters on the hallowed ground of (aging) fandom after the misfire of 2016’s Ghostbusters – Answer The Call (ironically, that film did spawn some new, younger fans who are prohibitively shut out of enjoying the newer films in the franchise). Ghostbusters: By Sarah • Mar 22, 2024 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beetlejuice…Beetlejuice… With Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire hitting theaters this weekend, it’s time for the other revered 1980s horror-comedy that is ostensibly for children but also definitely not, Beetlejuice, to get the legacy sequel treatment. The first teaser for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—admittedly, a clever title—dropped yesterday, showing off Winona Ryder’s By Sarah • Mar 22, 2024 12:15 pm
Gorgessity Anne Hathaway is outside, too You know who is almost as outside as Zendaya? Anne Hathaway! We have seen more of Annie over the last year or so than we did since before the pandemic. Here is Annie outside in Atlanta, shooting a new movie from David Robert Mitchell, the filmmaker behind It Follows and By Sarah • Mar 22, 2024 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Late Night with the Devil, starring That Guy David Dastmalchian as a 1970s late-night host suffering through personal loss and a ratings slide, opens in theaters today (it will stream on Shudder as of April 19). It’s been trending on social media off and on for the By Sarah • Mar 22, 2024 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House (2024) I’m just a girl, standing in front of a movie, asking it to forgive her for repeatedly saying it looks sh-tty both to its face and behind its back. I have been hard on the concept of a Road House remake, in general, and on the remake starring Jake By Sarah • Mar 21, 2024 02:16 pm
TV Updates Travel Conan is back Ever since Anthony Bourdain passed, pop culture has been missing an embodiment of the spirit of travel and adventure. People have tried to fill the void, such as Jack Whitehall and most notably Gordon Ramsey with Uncharted—not to say Ramsey wasn’t doing travel shows before, he was, but By Sarah • Mar 21, 2024 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in Love Lies Bleeding Rose Glass’s debut feature film, 2019’s Saint Maud, is a shockingly strong introduction to a filmmaker of singular style and voice. Her follow-up film, Love Lies Bleeding, builds on the style introduced in Saint Maud—body horror, artistic application of gore, women bound and unbound by strict societies, By Sarah • Mar 20, 2024 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Witness Furiosa Summer movie season is almost upon us—incredible. Yet more proof that time is fake, January and February were a collective eleven years, March has been four days, and tomorrow is summer, or so it seems. This summer movie season is going to be real f-cked up because of last By Sarah • Mar 20, 2024 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Finally, The Crow The Crow is one of the 90s’ genuine cult classics, and for the last 16 years, a remake has been stuck in development hell, to the extent that this became an “I’ll believe it when I see it” movie. Well, I believe it, because yesterday a trailer for a By Sarah • Mar 15, 2024 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scream rolls back Yesterday, Neve Campbell posted an image on her Instagram of the “Untitled Scream 7” script with a caption that includes in part: Sidney Prescott is coming back!!!! This after Campbell sat out Scream VI following a pay dispute and Campbell, who is the iconic final girl of the original franchise, By Sarah • Mar 13, 2024 11:00 am
TV Updates Lily, onward and upward Awards season is over, and with it, the end of Lily Gladstone’s campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon. I have a feeling this Best Actress result will be litigated for a while, but Lily Gladstone’s career is already moving on. She is booked, she is busy, she By Sarah • Mar 12, 2024 02:19 pm
Oscars 2024 Sarah’s Best Dressed: Carey Mulligan The minute I saw Carey Mulligan on the red carpet, I claimed her as my best dressed. Black and white was a trend for the night, and there were some good examples, but Carey just looked so exquisite in this black velvet gown with white tulle hem. It’s a By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 02:55 pm
Oscars 2024 It was still a historic night for Native representation So, Lily Gladstone lost Best Actress to Emma Stone, but you know, last night was still a historic night for Native American representation at the Oscars. Scott George and the Osage Singers performed their nominated original song, “Wahzhazhe (A Song for my People)” live on stage, at an event where By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 12:40 pm
Oscars 2024 Why can’t actresses be friends? Speaking of the five-presenter format and when it works, here is an example of when it DOESN’T work—the actresses. The matchups were much more awkward, the intros, more stilted, and even when real-life friendship does exist, they didn’t take advantage of it. Let’s start with the By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 12:19 pm
Oscars 2024 Just dudes being bros This year, the Oscars brought back the five-presenter format for the acting awards, in which previous winners personally introduced each of the five nominees. It’s a fun piece of living Oscar history, even if I would ALSO like to see clips of the nominated performances (make the show four By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 09:19 am
