Legal issues Jonathan Majors is guilty and fired Earlier this week, Jonathan Majors was found guilty on two counts stemming from his domestic violence arrest in March, one of reckless assault in the third degree, and one of harassment, both are misdemeanors. Majors is set to be sentenced in February and could face up to one year in By Sarah • Dec 20, 2023 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron in The Iron Claw In the 1970s and 1980s, Saturday nights at the Dallas Sportatorium was the home to a regional wrestling outfit run by Jack Adkisson and dominated by his sons, known as the Von Erichs. Jack himself wrestled as Fritz Von Erich, he had middling success and never won a world heavyweight By Sarah • Dec 19, 2023 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bikeriders’ new strategy One of the films I was most looking forward to this year is Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, an adaptation of Danny Lyon’s seminal photo essay charting the rise of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club (rebranded for the film as the “Vandals”). The first trailer dropped three months ago, on By Sarah • Dec 19, 2023 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney in two hemispheres I have said it before, but I do not understand time, I’m not sure I ever did, and now these photos of Sydney Sweeney are f-cking me up. She was photographed on Saturday, December 16 leaving Los Angeles with her fiancé, Jonathan Davino, in tow. She was then photographed By Sarah • Dec 18, 2023 11:27 am
What Else What Else? Prince Harry won one of his phone hacking lawsuits in England, this one against Mirror Group Newspapers, which publishes The Daily Mirror. A judge ruled that Harry be awarded about $180,000 in damages, and that Harry’s personal phone was “targeted” between 2003-2009. Further, the judge said that Piers By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in Wonka On the scale of “Cats” and “Not Cats”, Wonka is “Not Cats”. It’s actually…kind of good? Starring Timothee Chalamet as a young, literally fresh-off-the boat Willy Wonka, and directed by Paul King and co-written by King and Simon Farnaby—the team behind Paddington 2—Wonka is a musical By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews But what IS IF? Even as he continues working on Deadpool 3 with Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds has other projects on the hob—he always does, he is a BUSY guy. He legit seems to be the type who thrives on having a lot of plates spinning at any given moment. His latest is By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Poor Things and Ramy Youssef’s big year Poor Things opened to the third-best specialty box office of the year, but it’s real test comes one week from today, when it expands into wide release just in time for the holidays. It then opens in Europe in January, and to that end, there was a gala screening By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 10:41 am
TV Updates Stranger Things is theatre now Stranger Things is the only legit phenomenon Netflix has produced to date. They’ve had some big series—maybe if Squid Game season two really happens, it could match the fervor of Stranger Things—but nothing that matches the blockbuster heat of Stranger Things, which has made an actual cultural By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 15, 2023 Dear Gossips, Sundance is just around the corner, and the indie darling film fest seems determined to make 2024 the year of Kristen Stewart. She has two films premiering at the fest, Love Me co-starring Steven Yeun, and Love Lies Bleeding from Saint Maud director Rose Glass. But that’s By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 09:04 am
TV Updates The Crown ends with a whimper The final season of The Crown was split into two parts, with season six part one reaching the series’ nadir. Part two is now streaming and is at least a little step up from the first four episodes of this season. Six episodes make up the second part of the By Sarah • Dec 14, 2023 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron’s should-be nomination The Iron Claw is one of the hundred movies premiering in the next week—December is always a clusterf-ck but it feels extra bad this year and I can’t decide if it’s because there IS a glut of films premiering late due to the strikes, or I’m By Sarah • Dec 12, 2023 11:18 am
TV Updates The unserious Golden Globes nominations The nominations for the Golden Globes were announced this morning. Remember how we almost didn’t have to go through with the Golden Globes anymore? Le sigh, so close, yet so far. Instead, this is the first post-HFPA Globes, as the HFPA has dissolved, and the Globes are now voted By Sarah • Dec 11, 2023 12:21 pm
What Else What Else? The Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire press tour has begun. The title is a lot, but the cast is very good-looking, and it’s always good to see Sofia Boutella on a red carpet. (Go Fug Yourself) The only gift guide I am interested in, shopping for By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lee Byung-hun in Concrete Utopia Concrete Utopia, a post-apocalyptic disaster thriller from Um Tae-hwa, is a film almost singularly uninterested in subtlety. It hits plenty of familiar beats from Lord of the Flies to Parasite, but between Lee Byung-hun’s outstanding performance, immaculate production design, and a free-wheeling sense of humor, Concrete Utopia finds a By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 03:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone in Poor Things Poor Things asks two questions: 1) What must women overcome to self-actualize, and 2) what if Emma Stone was gross? Adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things is about Bella Baxter, a baby-brained sexy lady growing into herself and past all By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 01:46 pm
