TV Updates The silly gay pirates sail once again Our Flag Means Death was the unexpected slow-burn sleeper hit of TV comedies in 2022, and now it is back with a second season that doubles down on all the things that garnered its passionately devoted fanbase—silly pirates, rom-coms, explorations of mental health, and unabashed queer love. Picking up By Sarah • Oct 11, 2023 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels countdown is on The Marvels opens in one month. While I am still reeling from the sudden end of summer, the fall movie season is barreling down on us. It’s going to be a light one, as some big movies, notably Dune: Part Two, moved out of 2023 to fill gaps in By Sarah • Oct 11, 2023 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The timeline of trying to fire Amber Heard Buckle up because this story has everything—Aquaman, drinking on set, rings – probably probably scarves—Elon Musk, and allegations of professional sabotage. Yesterday, Variety published a story about the behind-the-scenes goings-on of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the long-delayed sequel to 2018’s Aquaman. Aquaman 2 has been rumored to By Sarah • Oct 11, 2023 10:15 am
TV Updates The two-part Crown The final season of The Crown is coming later this year, and it will be split into two parts. “Part one” will drop on November 16 and focus on the period of time around Princess Diana’s death. “Part two” will then premiere on December 14 and will focus on By Sarah • Oct 10, 2023 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina as Callas The complicated women of pop culture are having a moment. Priscilla is one of the high-profile films of awards season, with star Cailee Spaeny front and center, and next year, we can anticipate Pablo Larraín’s latest biopic of a haunted woman to hit theaters as Maria, starring Angelina Jolie, By Sarah • Oct 10, 2023 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The actors finally figured it out As we learned after a summer of strikes, actors are not supposed to promote struck work, which is any project, film or television, produced and/or distributed by one of the 32 companies belonging to AMPTP. But as we saw earlier this week when Bradley Cooper attended a New York By Sarah • Oct 05, 2023 10:52 am
TV Updates Loki’s back After the meandering narrative wilderness of the post-Endgame MCU, Loki season two feels like someone pushed the reset button. While the story is perfectly in line with season one, picking up right where the previous season ended, and it does technically continue the “multiverse saga”, Loki season two feels like By Sarah • Oct 04, 2023 02:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The actors are getting on with it Behold! A rare strike-era movie premiere appears. Not a festival premiere, but an actual, honest to goddess red carpet for a new film. Rebecca Miller’s new film, She Came To Me, has an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA, so the cast was able to attend the screening in New York By Sarah • Oct 04, 2023 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews She’s Priscilla, he’s just Elvis When the first trailer for Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla dropped, Lainey wondered if Sofia would “interrogate” the age difference between Elvis Presley, a 24-year-old man serving a stint in the US Army, and Priscilla Beaulieu, the 14-year-old girl he, er, romanced in Germany and beyond. Based on the trailer that By Sarah • Oct 04, 2023 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper sort of showed up The New York Film Festival kicked off over the weekend, and one of the marquee films featured at the fest is Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, the biopic of Leonard Bernstein which he directs, stars in, and co-wrote (with Josh Singer). Though the directors and now writers have new deals with By Sarah • Oct 03, 2023 11:43 am
What Else What Else? Phoebe Dynevor covers Elle. I did not know she is a nepo baby. (Her dad is a screenwriter and her mom was on long-running series Coronation Street.) Brits probably already knew this. (Go Fug Yourself) There is a love triangle on Love Is Blind. If you, like me, only absorb By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I am here for the cat Matthew Vaughn made his name directing action films like Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and the Kingsman movies (as well as being Mr. Claudia Schiffer and the #1 suspect in the case of January Jones’s anonymous baby daddy). His latest film is Argylle, which has a “life imitates By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 03:12 pm
Kaia Gerber Austin and Kaia in Paris While her parents, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, were at The Albies with George and Amal last night, Kaia Gerber was in Paris with Austin Butler. They went to see Blackpink’s Lisa perform at the legendary Parisian cabaret, Crazy Horse. Austin and Kaia have been in Paris for fashion By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 11:47 am
Gorgessity George and Amal and all their friends Last night was the second annual “Albies”, a humanitarian award given by the Clooney Foundation for Justice to “those whose work and organizations are under threat” (you can read more about The Albies and this year’s recipients here). That means that Amal and George Clooney were out last night By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 10:02 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 29, 2023 Dear Gossips, Oh no, the worst possible unintentional outcome occurred—the studios/streamers banded together to form a lobbying group. Far from AMPTP splitting up—damn, I was hoping for that, honestly—Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and other studios with streaming interests have formed the Streaming Innovation Alliance (SIA) By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: A Guide to Becoming an Elm Tree Folk horror describes a sub-genre of horror cinema rooted in folklore and fairytale. At one end of the spectrum stands the graphic horrors of Midsommar, on the other the environmental haunting of Robert Eggers’ The Witch. Closer to The Witch end of the spectrum, in fact, even subtler and more By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 02:54 pm
