Style A brief Wonka break Before we get back to Gotham Awards madness, let’s take a brief break for the Wonka photocall yesterday in London. The actual premiere is today, which is why, I assume, everyone saved their best looks for later. Even Timothee Chalamet, a reliable red carpet star, dressed relatively down, by By Sarah • Nov 28, 2023 09:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Gotham Awards, the first relevant awards of Oscar season, were last night in New York. A lot of the Oscar hopefuls were there, but because the Gothams focus on indie film (ostensibly, some recent rule changes opened the door to bigger films like Barbie), some of the By Sarah • Nov 28, 2023 08:58 am
What Else What Else? Recapping Hunter Schafer’s superior Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes press tour fits. A bonkers, steezy delight the whole way through. This girl can DRESS, and she knows it, and she does it. (Go Fug Yourself) Kayleigh Donaldson is tackling “accent accuracy” after the fit everyone is By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 04:00 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 27, 2023 After so much Bennifer news today, checking in on Jennifer Garner (I lowkey don’t love how she gets shoved aside in the Bennifer narrative, she supported Ben Affleck through some real sh-t and came through it with her grace and sense of humor intact). She’s doing fine, dressing By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 03:19 pm
TV Updates Charles Melton avoids the trap Lainey gets full credit for engineering the Charles Melton hype train since 2019. I liked him as Reggie on Riverdale, but was not prepared to go all-in on him, but Lainey is right—that guy is a star, and he’s the best kind, the sweet kind, the humble kind. By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 02:00 pm
Music JLo’s romance novel come to life As Lainey says, nobody loves love quite like Jennifer Lopez. With Bennifer back on and over a year into wedded bliss, JLo is celebrating love, and her love, and her being in love, with new music. This Is Me…Now drops on January 10, 2024, 22 years after its spiritual By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 12:12 pm
Jeremy Allen White Jeremy Allen White saves the day (for me) I should send Jeremy Allen White a bouquet of flowers because every time I have to put together posts for the site, he appears on the horizon like the hero I need. I can always count on JAW for content! He was out the day after Thanksgiving with his kids, By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Beyoncé Way RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé opens this Friday. The concert film’s premiere was held over the weekend in Beverly Hills, drawing a lot of important Black artists and creative industry talent despite the long holiday weekend in the US. Such is the power Beyoncé—she becomes the holiday. This By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 09:40 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 27, 2023 Dear Gossips, In the ongoing “state of cinema” conversation, which has mostly been reduced to Marvel nerds yelling at Martin Scorsese for not liking cape sh-t, Christopher Nolan has entered the chat with a very measured response and sensible perspective. What! Someone being sensible about a topic we love yelling By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 09:01 am
What Else What Else? It’s Native American Heritage Day in the US. A day makes it all better! Anyway, here’s First Nations activist Michelle Chubb, aka @IndigenousBaddie, on growing up Indigenous, activism, and the damage of centering whiteness in history. (Popsugar) The window for New York’s Adult Survivors Act ended on By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lies and delusions in May December Inspired by the story of Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, May December is Todd Haynes’ latest exploration of the outer bounds of the world of women. Longtime Haynes collaborator Julianne Moore stars as Gracie, a fifty-something woman married to Joe (Charles Melton), a noticeably younger man. The film opens By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barry Keoghan in Saltburn Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut, Promising Young Woman, is a scorched-earth cinematic lambasting of rape culture. Her sophomore effort, Saltburn, is considerably less furious, a little less focused, and a lot more perverted. Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver Quick, a “scholarship case” at Oxford who doesn’t fit in with By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 12:30 pm
Music Beyoncé Day Parade The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is annual tradition of crass commercialism and letting Jimmy Fallon pretend he’s a rockstar, but this year, Beyoncé graced the parade with her presence, instantly elevating the parade for forty seconds. Beyoncé debuts new trailer for RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé on NBC’ By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom back at work One of the most cursed productions recently is Mission: Impossible 7 and 8. The films were supposed to be shot back-to-back, but COVID happened and shut M:I 7 down for months in 2020, then it was finally released this past summer as Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One after By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 09:43 am
Intro for November 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the US. It’s a complicated holiday for many, either because of family drama or because of its roots in a colonial celebration of conquest (don’t come at me with any “but they were friends” nonsense, the Wampanoag saved their dumbass starving English By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in Maestro Bradley Cooper is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker with talent to back up his ambition, which makes him a good candidate to bring the life of legendary American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein—a biography chased by Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Jake Gyllenhaal—to the big screen. But Bradley Cooper, while By Sarah • Nov 23, 2023 12:03 pm
