Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise and Alejandro Iñárritu are teaming up Once upon a time, Tom Cruise worked with auteur filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, and Michael Mann, pretty regularly, but somewhere in the 2000s he shifted his focus to action blockbusters, and it’s been a long time since he’s made a film that has By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 11:14 am
BFFs Meryl and Marty friend-date When Meryl Streep’s six-year separation was outed via DeuxMoi last year, Maria wondered who we should Gossip Genie a single Meryl Streep with, and said, “What if paps caught her canoodling with her co-star Martin Short?!” A couple months after that, Meryl and Marty looked super cozy together at By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 09:48 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, One thing that came up a lot during the height of pandemic lockdowns, movie-wise, was the theater-going experience and saving it from utter destruction in the face of convenient at-home streaming, especially in a pandemic environment. Four years removed from the strictest lockdowns, theatergoing is climbing its way By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 09:05 am
Emma Stone Stone & Lanthimos I keep saying to Lainey that this awards season feels one million years long, but this awards season feels one million years long. The whole schedule is thrown off because some stuff, like the Emmys, shifted their traditional date due to the strikes last year (Dune: Part Two’s press By Sarah • Feb 22, 2024 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya’s next movie Zendaya’s big year is going from strength to strength on this insane Dune: Part Two press tour, but let’s not forget there’s ANOTHER Zendaya press tour in just two months. This is the definition of “step on our necks and don’t let up”. Challengers opens April By Sarah • Feb 22, 2024 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Borderlands our new Fifth Element? The quest to permanently dispel the video game curse—and maybe overtake the superhero movie as the dominant popcorn entertainment genre—continues with Borderlands, Eli Roth’s take on the popular game series that debuted in 2009. The first trailer dropped and it’s sort of a wild mess, but By Sarah • Feb 21, 2024 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Madame Web What is Madame Web? Well, in many ways, it’s a movie, but it’s also now a massive box office bomb that has once again cut off Sony’s plans for a Spider-Verse spinoff franchise at the knees. Why does Sony keep doing this to themselves? Deep-seated masochism? I’ By Sarah • Feb 21, 2024 12:09 pm
Ryan Gosling Dressed Up Dudes at the BAFTAs Dudes showed up to the BAFTAs dressed up, and I bring this up for two reasons. One, I thought of a good joke, see if you can spot it. Two, I want to talk about the shift in men’s red carpet fashion and workshop a name for the new By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 12:26 pm
Award Season Campaigning It’s about OppenPoor now The BAFTAs were last night in London, and forget Barbenheimer, it’s all about OppenPoor now. Barbie was, once again, shut out at an awards show, and we should now expect a similar result at the Oscars for Team Barbie, including Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and Ryan Gosling (America Ferrera By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 10:50 am
What Else What Else Brian Grubb doing the important work, as always, laying out a plan to get a new Nice Guys movie made by Christmas. In a just world, we’d already been on a third one of these, I can’t believe in the wake of the Kennification of Ryan Gosling, no By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 04:13 pm
TV Updates The Girls are back (5eva) Girls 5Eva was one of those “I KNOW there’s too much TV, but you HAVE to watch this one!” shows in 2021-2022. It streamed on Peacock, which nobody watches, and even still, it managed to catch on a little bit, though ultimately, Peacock decided not to renew it in By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 03:28 pm
TV Updates A Bridgerton Valentine’s treat Bridgerton’s third season is still three months away, but Netflix hosted a Valentine’s Day panel event for it this week. Season three’s central couple of Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan were there, as were fellow Bridgerton siblings Luke Thompson and Claudia Jessie, and Adjoa Andoh, Golda Rosheuvel, By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 01:23 pm
Sports Executive Producer Travis Kelce Travis Kelce was a football star, winner of two Super Bowls and a colorful character in the world of American sports, but then he did a good job of hosting SNL and hooked up with Taylor Swift, and now he’s one of the most famous people on the planet. By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian and Matt before the finale Oppenheimer is one of the biggest movies of 2023, it’s a heavy favorite to win a lot of Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and star Cillian Murphy is in a heated competition with Paul Giamatti for Best Actor. But before all that, Cillian is at the Berlinale, By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 11:20 am
Music That’s Beyoncé’s best friend Last night was the premiere of Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa, which stars Kelly Rowland. Beyoncé went to the premiere to support her, along with Jay Z, Miss Tina, and Angie Beyince. Bey and Jay skipped the red carpet, but Queen Bey still let her support of her best friend By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, One thing I was not looking for this week was more Road House drama, but here we are, it’s Friday, and there is more Road House drama. The first bit of Road House drama is that the trailer for the remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal came out, and By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 08:59 am
