Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire What is Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire? It’s the latest entry into Warner Bros. Pictures’ “MonsterVerse” films featuring Godzilla and all his pals, plus King Kong. It’s directed by Adam Wingard, returning from Godzilla vs. Kong, and is written by Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett, and Jeremy Slater. By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yorgos & Emma, again Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone only just wrapped up their Oscar run for Poor Things, but they’re back already with Kinds of Kindness, their fourth collaboration, and the first one with a contemporary setting. This is not, however, Lanthimos’s first contemporary-set film, some of his most f-cked up By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 11:42 am
Models Gigi, with bonus BCoop Despite rumors it would be so, Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper did not hard launch at the Vanity Fair Oscars after party. BCoop didn’t even go to Vanity Fair, he went to Netflix’s after party, instead, and Gigi was nowhere to be seen. But they appear to be By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 09:16 am
Douchebags Intro for March 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, Programming note: LaineyGossip will be dark on Friday, March 29, but we will be squawking about Cowboy Carter in a live chat on The Squawk at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific. The mailbag will drop next Tuesday, in lieu of a newsletter. Earlier this week, the Department By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 08:34 am
TV Updates The Bridgertons pass the torch We’ve had a teaser, we’ve had a clip, and in the ongoing “Netflix won’t just give us a Bridgerton season 3 trailer” string of promotion, the latest are a pair of “passing the torch” videos between The Viscount and Viscountess Bridgerton and Colin and Penelope. That is, By Sarah • Mar 27, 2024 01:58 pm
TV Updates Archie Panjabi is also in Under the Bridge A new trailer is here for Under the Bridge, the limited series starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough, based on Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the murder of Reena Virk. This trailer sets up a little more of the events, the disappearance of teenager Reena Virk, the girls she hung By Sarah • Mar 26, 2024 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Monkey Man is coming We’re a little more than a week away from Monkey Man, Dev Patel’s directorial debut in which he also stars as an ass-kicking revenge machine. I am SO stoked. Road House was a surprise because I expected literally less than nothing from it, but I have HIGH expectation By Sarah • Mar 26, 2024 12:20 pm
What Else What Else The psychology of trends! I love applying data science to dumb sh-t, so I am here for analyzing how trend culture works. (Popsugar) Speaking of trends, Sydney Sweeney is embracing trend-dressing for her Immaculate press tour, leaning into flowers and fertility and maybe Italy for her nunsploitation flick. (Go Fug By Sarah • Mar 22, 2024 04:56 pm
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
