What Else What Else for November 17, 2023 I 100% forgot there’s a new season of Fargo, this time starring Jon Hamm, Juno Temple, Dave Foley, Joe Keery, and Lamorne Morris. This one looks really good—Temple plays a housewife who is suspiciously good at escaping kidnapping. Into it. The premiere, however, is a bit rough, fashion-wise. By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colman Domingo in Rustin Bayard Rustin is a name you might not know, but you certainly know the results of his work—most notably, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of 1963, which culminated with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. Bayard Rustin is the man who put By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anyone But You is not sparking The teaser for Anyone But You, the sexy rom-com starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, was underwhelming. But now the full trailer is here, and it’s…also underwhelming. I WANT to like this movie so much, I like both Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, I like rom-coms, this is By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 02:51 pm
Gorgessity Fake and real Bonapartes Napoleon comes out next week, so it is cramming in as much press tour as possible between the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike and the day before US Thanksgiving. Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, and Ridley Scott were in London last night for the UK premiere. Joaquin showed up in the By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenna Ortega back at it Back in July, Jenna Ortega was incongruously dressed for fall, filming scenes for Beetlejuice 2 before the SAG-AFTRA strike went into effect. Now that the strike is over, she is back on set—which has relocated from Vermont to Massachusetts—and this time, thanks (“thanks”) to the nearly four-month delay, By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 11:16 am
BFFs Meghan Markle steps out Last night was Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles. Most of the top Best Actress and Supporting Actress contenders were there, including Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Margot Robbie, Greta Lee, and Fantasia Barrino (who is just kicking off her appearances for The Color Purple). There was a By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, The strikes this year were important, both for the people trying to have viable careers in the film industry, and as part of a larger labor movement in the US, but one of the sort-of bummers was that Lily Gladstone didn’t get her big moment when Killers By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 08:56 am
What Else What Else? In counterpart to Glen Powell’s Men’s Health cover, Sydney Sweeney is covering Women’s Health. It’s a sporty styled shoot, but it’s not NEARLY as flattering as Glen’s. Because he is good at being famous. He knows how to deliver in a 2D spread. Sydney By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pedro Pascal might be (Mr.) Fantastic On the heels of The Marvels’ disastrous opening weekend—the lowest ever for Marvel at $46 million—Marvel Studios is forging ahead, making moves and deals to set up the next few years of storytelling in the MCU. The latest headline news is that Pedro Pascal is in talks to By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 02:53 pm
TV Updates The Crown let down As a rule of thumb, it’s not a great sign when something is embargoed close to its release date. The closer the embargo lift is to the release of the film/episode(s), the more suspicious I get that what I am about to see is bad, and so By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 12:39 pm
Gorgessity The Men of the Year stepped out It’s the year of Taylor’s Eras, Beyoncé’s Renaissance, and Barbie, so yeah, let’s talk about the men of the year. The GQ Men of the Year, that is. Jacob Elordi is one of the cover features for MOTY, we’ve already heard from him, deep in By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 16, 2023 Dear Gossips, Last week in Friday’s What Else, I mentioned that Warner Bros. Discovery was going to shelve another completed film for a tax write-off, the victim being live action/animation hybrid Coyote vs. Acme, a movie about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme for all its faulty products which By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Do you care about Madame Web? The first trailer for Madame Web starring Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney is here, showing off Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a clairvoyant mutant with spider powers. She’s usually an old, blind woman in the comics, but the film reimagines her as sexy, young Dakota Johnson. Cassandra is Spider-Man adjacent By Sarah • Nov 15, 2023 02:42 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Glen Powell’s butt or pup Glen Powell is on the cover of Men’s Health this month and there’s a whole interview about his workout and diet and whatever, who cares, he shows his butt. And his dog! Whether you care more about Glen Powell’s bare ass or his adorable pup, Brisket, says By Sarah • Nov 15, 2023 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Memory is resonant in All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Hands buried in river mud, hands washing in the sink, hands holding babies, hands holding lovers, sisters’ hands clasped tightly, there is an exquisite focus on hands in artist and filmmaker Raven Jackson’s feature directorial debut, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The film is lazily paced, as if By Sarah • Nov 14, 2023 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Does Garfield work for you? The trailer for The Garfield Movie dropped yesterday—dropping a Garfield trailer on a Monday is a nice touch—and I assume Lainey thought I’d be interested because I love cats, and Garfield is a cat, but Garfield has never been my jam (I’m an Oliver & Company By Sarah • Nov 14, 2023 01:01 pm
