Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels’ not-Comic Con trailer Undoubtedly taking advantage of Barbenheimer weekend—and hinting at what a Marvel Comic Con appearance could have been—Marvel dropped a new trailer for The Marvels just in time to stick it in front of at least one of the two big new movies this weekend. Building on the good By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian Murphy and half of Hollywood in Oppenheimer Films about Great Men are usually acts of hagiography, and in many ways, Oppenheimer is no different. Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, is invested in Oppenheimer as a once-in-a-generation genius, a Great Man who literally moved the earth, but Nolan is By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie Every possible question you could have about Barbieland is answerable with an enthusiastic “yes!”. Barbieland is a feminine utopia where women occupy all jobs from construction worker to president, everyone is aggressively positive and supportive, and everything is violently pink. Barbie—all Barbie, every Barbie, everyone is Barbie, you are By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 11:26 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 21, 2023 Dear Gossips, Happy Barbenheimer weekend to all who celebrate! But before we talk about those two films—reviews for both coming today—let’s check in on Hot Strike Summer. We’re one week into the double SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, and while picket lines remain active and support rallies By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 09:19 am
Justified Raylan Givens is back in Justified: City Primeval The opening minutes of Justified: City Primeval establishes three things: 1) Willa Givens inherited her father’s love of ice cream, 2) the writers of Justified can still deliver a handsomely turned phrase, and 3) Raylan Givens is back, baby. Timothy Olyphant returns as Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens, the By Sarah • Jul 20, 2023 01:40 pm
TV Updates Dork Storm Strikes (Back) San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow and it’s gonna be a weird one. With actors and writers on strike—and most of the studios already skipping this year even before the double strike started—there is not a whole lot going on, at least in Hall H, where most of By Sarah • Jul 19, 2023 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dead Reckoning’s plan backfired It has been a bad box office summer so far (lots of pressure on Barbie and Oppenheimer to turn things around!). Sure, a couple big movies are doing well—Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is sitting at $842 million, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is at $663 million—but By Sarah • Jul 17, 2023 11:35 am
What Else What Else? Simu Liu, one half of the “Kenadians”, has been so charming on the Barbie press tour. Here’s one last interview with Simu, to mark the official end of Barbie press, now that the actors are on strike. (Popsugar) Heather is right, now is the time for brand parties galore, By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 04:00 pm
TV Updates Sam Richardson is back in The Afterparty It got buried by the SAG-AFTRA strike news, but The Afterparty returned this week, with the first two episodes of season two premiering on Apple TV+. Sam Richardson returns as Aniq, the well-meaning yet hapless suspect of a murder mystery taking place during an afterparty. In season one, Aniq was By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Cera’s Allanergy Ever since we got our first look at Ryan Gosling as Ken in Barbie, we’ve been talking about his “Kenergy”, and even though barely anyone has seen the movie yet, consensus is already that Gosling was perfectly cast. We have not, however, given equal attention to Michael Cera as By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenna’s last day Fresh off her first Emmy nomination, Jenna Ortega was filming a scene for Beetlejuice 2 this week in Vermont (in the same town where the original film was made in 1987). She’s playing Lydia Deetz’s daughter, and she’s been working all summer along with Tim Burton, Winona By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 14, 2023 Dear Gossips, Oppenheimer’s UK premiere was yesterday in London, and as Lainey mentioned, they moved the start time up in order to officially begin before the SAG strike was called. That’s a shady as hell move, but the New York premiere is now cancelled, so this was Universal By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 09:39 am
Top Reads It’s a double strike Seventy-two days after the writers’ strike began, the actors are on strike, too. It’s the first time in fifty-three years both guilds have been on strike at the same time. We’ve been watching the increasingly frantic pace of the Barbie and Oppenheimer press tours over the last couple By Sarah • Jul 13, 2023 03:50 pm
TV Updates James Marsden: Emmy nominee Jury Duty remains the TV show of 2023 that I am most frequently and loudly recommending to people, so I am happy to see it on the list of Emmy nominees. It earned four nominations, not the most by any means, but its hybrid scripted/reality format made it something By Sarah • Jul 13, 2023 11:25 am
TV Updates The White Lotus is a “drama” now The Emmy nominations were announced yesterday, for a ceremony scheduled in September that may or may not happen, depending on what happens with the SAG-AFTRA strike vote this morning. Unsurprisingly, The White Lotus was one of the most nominated series with 23 nods, including a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series, By Sarah • Jul 13, 2023 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One The Mission: Impossible movies have never been about much beyond impossible missions and Tom Cruise’s devotion to increasingly life-threatening stunts, but ever since filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie took over directing duties—he also co-writes the films—with 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, there has been a halfhearted effort to By Sarah • Jul 12, 2023 02:48 pm
