Movie Reviews and Previews Indy flopped, too Two weeks after The Flash flopped, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opened for the extended Independence Day weekend in the US (which also included Canada Day this year for our neighbors to the north), earning a weak $60 million over the standard, Friday-Sunday three-day weekend, and an okay-ish By Sarah • Jul 05, 2023 10:08 am
What Else What Else? As previously mentioned, DListed, one of the best-ever gossip blogs, is shutting down as of today. Michael K and Allison revived DListed, The Podcast for one last episode to discuss why Michael K decided to get out of the gossip blogging game (and talk Scandoval, for the Pump people). The By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny There was a moment in the 9th century when a bunch of Italians dug up a dead pope and put him on trial. That’s what Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny feels like, a cadaver being propped up and shouted at for two and a half hours. After By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 03:33 pm
TV Updates The Summer of Timothy Olyphant It’s the summer of Timothy Olyphant! Justified: City Primeval is not the only television series he has airing this summer, as Full Circle is coming to Max—this is the stupidest name for a streaming platform yet, really—on July 13 (just five days before City Primeval premieres). A By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dune has worms and desert love There’s not an official rule about it, but the Motion Picture Association of America suggests film trailers run no longer than two and a half minutes, and that is where most full-length trailers clock in. However, studios usually reserve a few exceptions each year and do a three-minute trailer By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 01:08 pm
Style The Barbie hit parade continues The Barbie press stop in Sydney, Australia continues, and let’s enjoy it because depending on how things go down today, in the last hours of SAG-AFTRA negotiations, this might be it for the summer’s—maybe the year’s—most fun movie press tour. Following the fan event, at By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 11:19 am
Style Intro for June 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, As we wait to see if the actors go on strike—as I am writing this, the final hours of negotiations are ticking down—the Barbie press tour continues. Margot Robbie is in Australia with Greta Gerwig, Issa Rae, and America Ferrera. We’ve already seen Robbie’s By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 09:31 am
TV Updates The Afterparty was not coordinated The Afterparty season two is coming to Apple TV+ on July 12, and the premiere was yesterday in Los Angeles. Everyone is cramming their premiere in before the June 30 SAG-AFTRA strike deadline, just in case, EXCEPT Barbie, I’m not worried, who’s worried about missing potentially the best By Sarah • Jun 29, 2023 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet your new Superman and Lois Six weeks after the rumor mill started churning, James Gunn has cast Superman and Lois Lane for his DC cinematic universe reboot, Superman: Legacy. Relative unknown David Corenswet will play Superman, and Rachel Brosnahan, fresh off the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, will play Lois Lane. I am By Sarah • Jun 28, 2023 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Go see Lakota Nation vs. United States This week marks the 147th anniversary of the Battle of the Greasy Grass, or as it’s more commonly known, the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It’s a significant milestone in Lakota culture—as well as for the Cheyenne and Arapaho, who fought together with the Lakota against the By Sarah • Jun 27, 2023 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margaret and Geraldine and one (1) Coen brother The Coen Brothers are among the preeminent contemporary American filmmakers, and they’ve probably broken up. Their last collaborative effort was 2018’s Netflix movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which is pretty good—the Coens don’t really do “bad”—but was not as good as their previous film, By Sarah • Jun 27, 2023 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angela Bassett finally gets her man Little gold man, that is. After going viral earlier this year when Jamie Lee Curtis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Angela Bassett will at last get her Oscar. Bassett, who was previously nominated for Best Actress in 1994 for playing Tina Turner in What’s Love Got By Sarah • Jun 27, 2023 10:00 am
What Else What Else? One of the subplots of the OceanGate submersible tragedy is a new generation of people finding out that James Cameron makes movies as a side hustle, his real vocation is as an oceanographer and deep-sea explorer. Cameron can be a pill about a lot of things, but he actually does By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence in No Hard Feelings After a series of raunchy red-band trailers promised a sex-comedy romp in No Hard Feelings, the actual film itself can be called a case of false advertising. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman as a mismatched couple, No Hard Feelings is more of a friend-com with swearing than an By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone famous in Asteroid City Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who has long been interested in dysfunctional families, fathers and sons, grief, love, and a sense of style so precise he’s his own sub-genre of cinema. His latest, Asteroid City, embraces all of Anderson’s usual quirks and pursuits, with an added dash of By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Smart Dumb Money Remember the “meme stock” phenomenon of 2021, which was driven by the GameStop short squeeze on Wall Street? Well, there’s now a movie about it, two and a half years later, which is about as fast as you can turn around a feature film. From director Craig Gillespie, who By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 10:59 am
