Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Priest and Connell in a time warp Fall festival season is not quite over, with two more marquee fests coming in October, the New York Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Both take place over the first couple weeks of October, and both will feature Andrew Haigh’s new film, All of Us Strangers. The By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 02:41 pm
Business of Hollywood Schrödinger's strike As Lainey mentioned, the latest word on the strikes is “encouraging yet suspicious”. Suspicious because the only reports are from unnamed sources undoubtedly coming from the AMPTP side—because it’s the same three trades owned by Penske Media, which also owns Dick Clark Productions, an AMPTP member company, publishing By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 01:01 pm
Matt Damon Not the most fascinating dinner There’s been this commercial playing in front of my maritime disaster videos on Youtube for Stella Artois featuring Matt Damon, Ludacris, Jeremy Allen White, and Zoe Saldaña. They sit around a table and pretend they’ve met before and talk about who they would have dinner with if they By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 11:46 am
Scarlett Johansson Can you spot Benny Cumbercubes It’s fashion week in Milan, so that’s where all the celebrities are right now. The Prada show brought out some big names, including Hunter Schafer—obsessed with her chunky shoes—Amanda Gorman, Edward Enninful, Rosalía, Letitia Wright, Emma Watson, Scarlett Johansson—with the worst LBD on display at By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Sometimes important things happen in the world, and sometimes you find out there’s an insurance company called Chubb. This is the latter instance. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was one of the better movies of the summer, but it struggled at the box office, barely eking By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine on a boat Chris Pine’s directorial debut, Poolman, premiered at TIFF, and, um, it didn’t go well. The movie isn’t great, and people walked out “in droves” at the premiere (the press screening the next morning was sparsely attended, as most people wrote the movie off after word about the By Sarah • Sep 21, 2023 10:37 am
John Waters John Waters is officially next to the gutter Cinema icon, queer icon, fashion icon, art icon, icon icon, John Waters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. The Baltimore legend, the so-called King of Filth, currently being lionized at the Academy Museum as the “Pope of Trash”, has been a boil on the butt of By Sarah • Sep 19, 2023 01:33 pm
TV Updates Drew Barrymore got on the right side What a week it’s been for Drew Barrymore. Last weekend, she announced she would be resuming tapings of her daytime talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show. This was not met well, to say the least. Then, on Friday, she posted an apology on Instagram—it was a bad week By Sarah • Sep 18, 2023 10:02 am
What Else What Else? Donald Glover is still working on a Lando-centric spin-off for Star Wars. According to his collaborator and brother, Stephen, it is now being developed as a movie, not a series. Given that the Star Wars TV shows are prone to bloat, even at just 6 episodes, this is probably smart. By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 04:01 pm
Break Ups Hugh’s Friday news dump It’s a classic gossip phenomenon, the Friday afternoon news dump! Per an exclusive report in PEOPLE, Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness are divorcing after 27 years of marriage. In a joint statement signed “Deb and Hugh Jackman”, they said in part, "We have been blessed to share almost By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 02:40 pm
TV Updates The silly gay pirates are back! Our Flag Means Death is one of my favorite shows currently, the first season was practically perfect, a blend of humor, romance, and more melancholic themes that give the show a sense of pathos belying its quirky Kiwi humor. It returns for season two on October 5, and as dumb By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Limbo First Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen has carved out a niche making neo-noir crime dramas about lonely men in lonely places, investigating lonely crimes. His latest, Limbo, is true to his thematic motif, centered on a lone detective sent to a remote Outback town, the titular Limbo, to investigate the cold-case By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Dumb Money Director Craig Gillespie has a thing for unlikely underdogs. Whether it’s Tonya Harding in I, Tonya or Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy, or even Cruella De Vil in Cruella, he makes movies about protagonists we might not otherwise think of as being an underdog. But in Dumb Money, By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman returns Aquaman was the surprise hit of the DCEU, the now-defunct iteration of the DC cinematic universe. It made more than any other DCEU film, pulling in over $1.1 billion in 2018. Now, finally, the sequel is coming, just in time to not matter anymore. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 11:02 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 15, 2023 Dear Gossips, The writers’ strike is entering its 20th week, and things are happening, none of it particularly good. Drew Barrymore is resuming her daytime talk show, with The Talk and The Jennifer Hudson Show following suit. Bill Maher is also resuming Real Time without writers. Bill Maher sucks so By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 08:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Knox Goes Away Yet another actor-director at TIFF! That was big this year, gee, I wonder why? Michael Keaton directs his first feature since 2008’s The Merry Gentleman with Knox Goes Away, a thriller about a hit man battling dementia in a race to save his son. (It was interesting to see By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 03:13 pm
