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
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
