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
TV Updates Introducing the new Mr. & Mrs. Smith To review, back in 2021 it was announced that Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge would collaborate on and co-star in a new take on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the sexy spy rom-com that brought us Brangelina. Then, seven months after that announcement, Phoebe Waller-Bridge departed the project over “creative differences” By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 12:41 pm
Helen Mirren A lot of women in entertainment As previously mentioned, The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event brought out a lot of people, as every red carpet has since the end of the actors’ strike. Besides Lily Gladstone and Adele, the event brought out members of Team Barbie including Alexandra Shipp, Dua Lipa wearing a belt By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 11:27 am
BFFs Charles and Julianne on repeat (Coop on the grill) Following the London premiere of May December, Charles Melton and Julianne Moore stuck around for another screening and Q&A at Soho House, finessing the BAFTA voters and whatever Academy members are in London right now. As Lainey mentioned, the Golden Globe nominations will be announced Monday, and it’ By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 09:28 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 8, 2023 Dear Gossips, There is too much stuff going on! Awards season is always chock-a-block with events, but it feels especially bad this year, with strike-delayed premieres finally happening, and films that would have done more promotion earlier in the year cramming it all now. It also feels like all the By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 08:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Yeun Looks (at Kristen Stewart) The lineup for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival was announced yesterday, and we’ll talk more about it in the new year, closer to the actual festival in January. For now, I just want to talk about Love Me, a film starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, which was named By Sarah • Dec 07, 2023 01:26 pm
BFFs Emma Stone ft. Taylor Swift Poor Things opens tomorrow. Right now, it’s one of the top contenders for Best Picture, and Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo are in the thick of their campaigns for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. The premiere was last night in New York, and it drew some big By Sarah • Dec 07, 2023 11:32 am
Anna Kendrick The Most Dangerous Game as a rom-com Jake Johnson is a lowkey fave, always and forever appreciated for his perfect performance as Nick Miller on New Girl but also appreciated for his great taste in projects outside of the hit sitcom that made him famous. He spent the hiatuses of his New Girl years wisely, often collaborating By Sarah • Dec 06, 2023 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Independent Spirit Awards are in the thick of it Coming off their record-breaking trip to the Oscars earlier this year, in which they won all “big six” awards for acting, directing, and Best Picture, A24 clocked another impressive list of nominations for the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards. They earned eleven nominations overall, with five going to Past Lives, which By Sarah • Dec 06, 2023 12:12 pm
