Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 31, 2024 Dear Gossips, After a crush of award shows in January, we have a little break—on the film side, anyway—until the end of February, when the BAFTAs and the SAG Awards open and close the week of February 18th. That does not mean, however, that awards season is quiet. By Sarah • Jan 31, 2024 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Another Marvel swap Following the news that Lewis Pullman—get on that train now, I am telling you!—is in talks to replace Steven Yeun in Thunderbolts, there is another casting shakeup for that movie. Ayo Edebiri is also bailing on Marvel, and Geraldine Viswanathan is taking over her undisclosed role. While it By Sarah • Jan 30, 2024 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Once again, I am begging them to cast Dev Patel as Bond I was so distracted last week by being annoyed at the new Road House trailer, I missed the first trailer for a film I VERY much care about—Monkey Man, Dev Patel’s directorial debut. The Monkey Man trailer dropped on Friday, and it is just the palate cleanser we By Sarah • Jan 29, 2024 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney’s second swing Sydney Sweeney is not only the star of but also the producer of Anyone But You, which is now a $100 million hit. As an actor, I don’t think that movie shows Sweeney at her best, but her producer instincts seem pretty sharp, because her follow-up to a By Sarah • Jan 26, 2024 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Not my Road House Today in Thanks, I Hate It news, the trailer for the remake of Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal dropped and thanks, I hate it! It’s not for lack of talent, with Jake G taking over the role of bar bouncer extraordinaire Dalton, and directed by Doug Liman, who has By Sarah • Jan 25, 2024 12:37 pm
TV Updates Handsome people on both sides of the pond The first two episodes of Masters of the Air premiere tomorrow on Apple TV+, and in advance of that, the series’ handsome white boy cast attended a screening and Q&A at the 92nd Y in New York. Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan, Austin Butler, Anthony Boyle, and Nate Mann By Sarah • Jan 25, 2024 12:18 pm
TV Updates Jon Stewart returns to The Daily Show (part-time) Earlier this week Variety reported that The Daily Show, which has been without a permanent host since Trevor Noah left at the end of 2022, would return with no host this year, and instead use a rota of correspondents to lead the show. Technically, they’re right, as it is By Sarah • Jan 25, 2024 11:12 am
What Else What Else? Colman Domingo has a rom-com story of his own with how he met his husband. I am so jealous of all these people with their meet cutes! (Pajiba) Rahul Mishra’s collection presentation at Paris fashion week was wild. The garments are good, the presentation is outrageous. I love By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Strangers after the shutout Despite picking up six BAFTA nominations, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers—one of my best films of the year—was shutout of nominations at the Oscars. 2023 was a good year in film, and there were never going to be enough spots to recognize all the deserving films By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2023 Finally! This took forever because 2023 was a REALLY good year in film, and I did some re-watching before committing to my list. It’s notable how many films in 2023 feature large ensemble casts, it was also the year the raunchy sex comedy at least attempted a theatrical By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 11:56 am
Award Season Campaigning BCoop heading out Bradley Cooper picked up three Oscar nominations yesterday for Maestro, for writing, acting, and producing the film. He did not, however, get nominated as a director, and where everyone rose up on behalf of Greta Gerwig, it kind of felt like everyone equally agreed to be fine with BCoop’s By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 24, 2024 Dear Gossips, Following his Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Ryan Gosling issued a statement. Usually, these things are pretty standard—I’m so grateful, I’m so honored, yadda yadda. But Gosling broke with tradition, specifically mentioning Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie being overlooked in their respective, individual categories By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 09:03 am
What Else What Else? Julia Fox is almost totally reasonably dressed at Sundance. (Go Fug Yourself) A dude who donated sperm (hundreds of times) as a broke college student found out he has 97 offspring. He is now devoting his life to both providing resources for donor-born children and their families, and also By Sarah • Jan 23, 2024 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The actually sexy Glen Powell rom-com Glen Powell is currently at Sundance, where his upcoming film, Hit Man, screened yesterday. The film was bought by Netflix out of TIFF last year, and now has a new teaser trailer and a release date of June 7. It will have a limited theatrical run before dropping on Netflix, By Sarah • Jan 23, 2024 12:07 pm
Award Season Campaigning Barbie’s rough nomination morning The 2024 Oscar nominations are here, and the big headline is Barbie’s mere 8 nominations. It’s been a heavyweight contender all awards season, but after their near shutout at the Golden Globes, I’m not sure we should be surprised that, in the end, Barbie “only” logged 8 By Sarah • Jan 23, 2024 10:11 am
BFFs Intro for January 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, During the Golden Globes Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig did a bit using a piece of royalty free music popular with the youths on TikTok. During our live chat, I said that Will Ferrell has done an excellent job, as he has become one of the eminent men By Sarah • Jan 23, 2024 08:58 am
