Golden Globes 2024 Barbenheimer Showdown at the Globes Barbenheimer emerged because Barbie and Oppenheimer had the same release date of July 21, 2023. There was an attempt by some media outlets to frame this as a showdown, but the culture collectively rose up, rejected the competition narrative, and turned Barbenheimer into a phenomenon that benefitted both films. However, By Sarah • Jan 08, 2024 09:55 am
What Else What Else? Quick programming note: next week, there will not be a newsletter for The Squawk, as there are two awards shows back-to-back to start the week, so we’ll be working through those shows and red carpets here on LG. We will, however, be live-chatting on The Squawk on Sunday for By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Diablo Cody is back It’s the new year, which means everyone’s favorite fake holiday, Valentine’s Day, is right around the corner. Since the death of horniness in movies and the rom-com’s revival being mostly limited to streaming, theatrical releases around Valentine’s Day have become very fraught. Last year’s By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Color Purple’s Excellent Cast Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has been a seminal presence in American literature since its publication in 1982, inspiring both a film adaptation from Steven Spielberg in 1985 and a Broadway musical adaptation in 2005. Do I wish this latest Color Purple was just a straightforward adaptation of Walker’ By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 10:55 am
BFFs The Best Actors showed up The Palm Springs Film Festival opened last night, and it brought all the Oscar contenders out of the post-holiday woodwork. As proof that he does care about these things, Leonardo DiCaprio ditched Cabo earlier in the day, his p-ssy posse mates Tobey Maguire and Lucas Haas and current girlfriend, Vittoria By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, One of the (only) intriguing movies on Marvel’s slate right now is the villain team-up flick Thunderbolts. It is intriguing in the way Barbie was—an unexpected creative team working in a space you wouldn’t expect to see them, which makes you wonder what the end By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire Zack Snyder is a very talented cinematographer who is also probably one of Hollywood’s best pitch men, and has built a career out of slow-motion action scenes, grimdark style, and prominent needle drops. Now in a partnership with Netflix, he has finally made a story he initially pitched as By Sarah • Jan 04, 2024 03:27 pm
TV Updates Fun little murder mysteries on a boat The success of Only Murders in the Building and Knives Out has created a mini-revival of the fun little murder mystery, leading to shows like Poker Face and, now Death and Other Details starring Mandy Patinkin as the quirky detective type. Death and Other Details was created by Mike Weiss, By Sarah • Jan 04, 2024 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most popular rom-coms about two people who can’t stand each other being tricked into seeing one another with new eyes so that they fall in love, thus relieving their friends and families of their constant bickering. Anyone But You is By Sarah • Jan 03, 2024 12:48 pm
Douchebags New year, new bad man New year, new day, new bad man alert! On December 21, 2023, Asta Jonasson filed a lawsuit in California against Vin Diesel alleging, in part, sexual battery and wrongful termination. In 2010, Ms. Jonasson was hired to work as an assistant to Diesel, who was in Atlanta filming Fast Five. By Sarah • Jan 02, 2024 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is a follow-up to the improbable 2018 hit, Aquaman, and much like that film, Lost Kingdom is not as bad as expected. Now, to be clear, the bar was on the floor. But Lost Kingdom swims easily on a current of good times and excellent By Sarah • Dec 22, 2023 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney has gone full Dad Movie When you think of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and an underdog sports story from America about an unlikely competitor winning against the odds on Hitler’s home turf and showing up the Nazis, who do you think of? If you said Jesse Owens “the white boys from Washington state”, you’ By Sarah • Dec 22, 2023 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver in Ferrari Director Michael Mann returns after an eight-year hiatus with Ferrari, a biopic of legendary automotive engineer and designer Enzo Ferrari. Adapted from Brock Yates’ biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine by Troy Kennedy Martin, Ferrari is a sometimes frustrating snapshot of a man who shaped By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew’s other Sundance film Kristen Stewart has a long history with the Sundance Film Festival, which they’re recognizing by giving her the Visionary Award on opening night in January. She has two films in the fest, Love Me with Steven Yeun, and Love Lies Bleeding, which will premiere in the Midnight Madness lineup. By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 12:15 pm
Business of Hollywood Another ill-advised merger Today in Thanks, I Hate It news, David Zaslav and Bob Bakish reportedly met (over lunch) earlier this week to discuss a merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global. Zaslav you know as the guy who gets booed everywhere he goes, and Bakish was named CEO of Viacom in By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lulu Wang is back Lulu Wang’s follow-up to The Farewell is (finally) here, and it’s a flashy limited series with Nicole Kidman called Expats. Based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s novel The Expatriates, the series follows three American women living in Hong Kong as their lives intersect around a personal tragedy. By Sarah • Dec 20, 2023 10:37 am
