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
Movie Reviews and Previews Coop finally gets to do it Promote Maestro, that is. After getting itchy as f-ck as the SAG-AFTRA stretched well into autumn, Bradley Cooper finally gets to promote Maestro for real. He was at a BAFTA screening for Maestro held in New York yesterday, along with co-star Carey Mulligan, cinematographer Matthew Libatique, and makeup artist Kazu By Sarah • Nov 14, 2023 09:49 am
What Else What Else? Celebrate Elf on its 20th anniversary! Elf is, maybe, the last great holiday movie, a contemporary film that instantly entered the canon of re-watchable holiday films alongside Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, White Christmas, and the intolerable ode to mediocrity and sameness that is It’s A Wonderful Life. Elf and By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 04:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler’s Elvis voice is back Tom Hanks continues his quest to lionize every facet of World War II with Masters of the Air, a spiritual successor of his previous WWII-focused miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific. This time, Masters of the Air focuses on the US Army Air Forces and is based on Donald By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels has its moments The Marvels might be the first Marvel movie that doesn’t need a villain. At a brisk 105 minutes, The Marvels is the shortest film in the MCU to date, but it still suffers from being overstuffed and heavy on clunky exposition, as many Marvel movies are, no matter their By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney back in Sydney You know how Lainey has been all “I don’t know what days are” since she’s been on vacation in Japan? Well, I had a time-wimey moment looking at these new photos of Sydney Sweeney, already in Sydney, Australia to film pick ups for Anyone But You, her upcoming By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has ended, there are two things left to do: 1) an all-out awards season bonanza, and 2) figure out what the f-ck the 2024 film slate is going to be. Let’s talk about the latter. Some films, like Dune: Part Two, have By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 09:00 am
What Else What Else? The Country Music Awards were last night. Nicole Kidman was there with Keith Urban. Her dress is okay, his shoes are…a choice. (Go Fug Yourself) I rather like the Danish royals, they seem lowkey and drama free. Well, until now. There’s a rumor circulating that Crown Prince Frederik By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ghostbusters member berries are back Do you remember Ghostbusters: Afterlife? The rebooted reboot of Ghostbusters came out in 2021, just two years ago, but I would swear I saw it in like, 2017. It just feels of that era, when everyone was reboot mad and nostalgia was a helluva drug. Nostalgia is still a helluva By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 01:24 pm
TV Updates David Oyelowo in Lawmen: Bass Reeves David Oyelowo stars in Lawmen: Bass Reeves, an eight-part limited series depicting the life and times of Bass Reeves, the first Black US Marshal west of the Mississippi, and a lawman with a tremendous record of thousands of arrests—including of his own son, Bennie—with comparatively few deaths to By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A musical Mean Girls Mean Girls is a generation’s Clueless (which is a generation’s Heathers), but now Mean Girls will be another generation’s Mean Girls as the 2004 film has a new, musical version coming to theaters in 2024. Mean Girls—which some will insist on calling a “cult classic” despite By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 11:31 am
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
