Style Oh yeah, the Hunger Games My brain refuses to retain the information that there is a new Hunger Games prequel opening next week, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. I think my brain is protesting that ridiculous title. The movie opens next Friday, and the cast was doing more promotion in London By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, The second strike is over! The SAG-AFTRA strike officially ended at 12:01 AM today, Thursday, November 9, 2023. The SAG-AFTRA TV/theatrical committee voted unanimously to approve the deal on Wednesday, the work stoppage ends today, and tomorrow, the deal goes to the union’s national board By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 09:10 am
Hollywood Strike 2023 Keanu three times We have been seeing so much of Keanu lately! He was out with friends on Halloweekend, and then at the LACMA Art + Film Gala with his partner, Alexandra Grant. Yesterday, he grabbed coffee with friends in LA. Three times in a week! And just as the SAG-AFTRA strike might really By Sarah • Nov 08, 2023 12:18 pm
Business of Hollywood Strike end in sight? Over the weekend, AMPTP launched their “last, best, and final” offer to SAG-AFTRA, but the actors’ side was quick to clarify one of the major hurdles after weeks of negotiating between the guild and the AMPTP. Unsurprisingly, it’s coming down to AI protections for actors. In that “last, best, By Sarah • Nov 08, 2023 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla A fresh-faced teen with her stylish bobby soxer outfits and hairdos is bored out of her skull in an American army outpost in Germany in 1959. She is wide-eyed and open to the world, but the world is made up of adults and fuddy-duddies—the two are almost synonymous—and By Sarah • Nov 07, 2023 02:55 pm
TV Updates Echo’s trial run a little Marvel exclusive Marvel currently has a lot of problems, which Variety detailed last week. I am of the opinion that they can recover—are already taking the right steps in that direction—but the big question is really if audiences will hang in long enough, at least another year after an already By Sarah • Nov 07, 2023 01:05 pm
Margot Robbie Margot in Oz In the wake of Barbie’s billion-dollar success, Margot Robbie had a pretty quiet summer. And just as summer wound down in North America, she hop-scotched back to her native Australia, where she is starting summer over in the southern hemisphere. This has to be one of the best perks By Sarah • Nov 07, 2023 10:05 am
Gorgessity Half of Hollywood at the LACMA Gala While the SAG-AFTRA strike may be entering its final days—the guild is reviewing AMPTP’s “last, best, and final offer”, which is a vaguely threatening way to word labor negotiations, but also par for the course with AMPTP—some parts of the year-end calendar are continuing unabated. One event By Sarah • Nov 06, 2023 09:50 am
What Else What Else? HBO has shuffled a lot of premiere dates around due to the strikes work stoppage. Season three of The White Lotus is now expected in 2025. Also, Natasha Rothwell will be back as Belinda! (Popsugar) Lionsgate isn’t part of AMPTP so the Hunger Games prequel Snake Song or whatever By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gos is The Fall Guy I forgot that Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a remake of the Eighties TV show, The Fall Guy, but a trailer dropped yesterday, and now I am SUPER into this movie. Gosling stars as Colt, a stunt man working on a film directed by his ex, played by By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 01:52 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession RPattz’s Heron voice A trailer dropped yesterday for the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s new film, The Boy and the Heron. People have strong opinions on subtitles vs. dubs, but while I am usually a subtitle person, when it comes to films aimed at children, I am more sympathetic to dubbing voices By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 10:55 am
Business of Hollywood Timmy Chalamet from New York to LA Timothee Chalamet is having a busy week. He was just in New York at the WSJ’s Innovator Awards, ostensibly to present to honoree Martin Scorsese—and kinda-sorta scab while doing it—but he was also there with his girlfriend, another honoree, Kylie Jenner (someone please clarify what Kylie has By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 3, 2023 Dear Gossips, I was going to use this intro to make jokes about Joe Biden reportedly getting serious about AI concerns after seeing Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One—not “Chubb Insurance” funny, but close—but then more things happened this week. For one thing, HBO honcho Casey Bloys copped By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 08:53 am
Kirsten Dunst Kiki the day after As Lainey has made abundantly clear, she hates Halloween. I love it, it’s my second favorite holiday. Now, in the first days of November, I am recovering from the extended Halloweekend, and it looks like Kirsten Dunst is doing the same. After trick-or-treating with her family and not being By Sarah • Nov 02, 2023 10:04 am
Dumbass Bradley Cooper said hold my beer I have been annoyed at Glen Powell since the weekend for dressing as Ricky Bobby from Talladega Nights for the Casamigos Halloween party. Talladega Nights is owned by Sony, an AMPTP member company and thus, a struck company. The SAG-AFTRA leadership specifically asked members NOT to dress as characters from By Sarah • Nov 01, 2023 09:32 am
Business of Hollywood The post-Halloween strike situation As we saw over the weekend, some SAG-AFTRA members did not heed the guideline about dressing as characters from struck work for the spookiest Halloween (still so disappointed in Glen Powell). Megan Fox actually went as far as tagging SAG-AFTRA in an Insta post of her Kill Bill look. You By Sarah • Oct 31, 2023 10:12 am
