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
TV Updates Kiki and Andrew should work together After a slower than normal start to the year, entertainment-wise, April is chock full of stuff coming out in theaters and on TV (then later this year we’ll be hit with another void when we reach the period when all the productions that didn’t happen in 2023 don’ By Sarah • Apr 05, 2024 10:47 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for April 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, The billionaire business daddies ended their fight this week, as Nicola Peltz-Beckham’s father got his ass handed to him in the proxy fight for seats on Disney’s board. I originally covered the proxy fight here, basically the whole thing boiled down to former Marvel CEO and By Sarah • Apr 05, 2024 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia Garner Marveled up I realized a horrifying statistic—with Madame Web, Kraven the Hunter, and Venom 3, Sony’s SPUMC (Spider-Man Universe of Marvel Characters lol) is the dominant superhero universe of 2024. Marvel only has Deadpool & Wolverine coming to theaters this year, and DC only has Joker: Folie a Deux, so By Sarah • Apr 04, 2024 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourself for the Joker 2 discourse Joker was one of the most discussed films of 2019, setting itself up as a controversial, daring piece of art that took silly superhero sh-t and, supposedly, did something Important with it. Except for how star Joaquin Phoenix wasn’t prepared to have the exact conversation the film, or at By Sarah • Apr 03, 2024 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Short haired Keanu This week has been nine years and it’s only Wednesday. I am TIRED, I am OVER IT, I am mentally on my COUCH under a BLANKET, do not call me, I have thrown my phone into the SEA. And just when I think I cannot TAKE any MORE, lo, By Sarah • Apr 03, 2024 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel Week Monkey Man opens on Friday, and I am VERY ready for this movie. Dev Patel was on The Today Show on Friday talking it up, and I bring this up for two very specific reasons: 1. General Handsomeness 2. He talks about wanting to see himself and his culture reflected By Sarah • Apr 01, 2024 12:35 pm
What Else What Else? Reminder: We will be dark tomorrow, Friday March 29, but we will be live chatting Cowboy Carter on The Squawk at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific. I see a lady in a blazer, and I immediately hear She’s changing her name, from Kitty to Karen… Cake remains a By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Early: Leading Man Everyone has their Search Party favorite, and mine remains John Early, a true triple threat—he sings, he acts, he tells jokes. Whether it’s his episode of Characters, stealing scenes on things like 30 Rock and Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, or dropping perfect line deliveries By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 03:48 pm
