Movie Reviews and Previews Tom back at work One of the most cursed productions recently is Mission: Impossible 7 and 8. The films were supposed to be shot back-to-back, but COVID happened and shut M:I 7 down for months in 2020, then it was finally released this past summer as Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 09:43 am
Intro for November 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the US. It’s a complicated holiday for many, either because of family drama or because of its roots in a colonial celebration of conquest (don’t come at me with any “but they were friends” nonsense, the Wampanoag saved their dumbass starving English By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in Maestro Bradley Cooper is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker with talent to back up his ambition, which makes him a good candidate to bring the life of legendary American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein—a biography chased by Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Jake Gyllenhaal—to the big screen. But Bradley Cooper, By Sarah • Nov 23, 2023 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult is the new new new Lex Luthor With the strikes over, casting for James Gunn’s DC universe reboot Superman: Legacy has resumed. Earlier this year, David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan were tapped to play Superman and Lois, with a rumor going around that Nicholas Hoult was going to play Lex Luthor. Now, Deadline is reporting Hoult By Sarah • Nov 22, 2023 02:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby in Napoleon Two popular images of Napoleon Bonaparte survive 200 years after his death: 1) Napoleon the bold military strategist who nonetheless ran into the insurmountable wall of a Russian winter, and 2) Napoleon the weird little guy who was led around by his dick by his older, promiscuous wife. Smash these By Sarah • Nov 22, 2023 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Twilight, 15 years later Fifteen years ago, Twilight hit theaters, marking one of the 2000s’ seminal pop cultural phenomena. We’ve been talking—celebrating?—Twilight’s anniversary over on The Squawk all month (shameless plug to subscribe if you haven’t), but one main question lingers, and that is…how is the movie? Twilight By Sarah • Nov 21, 2023 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman is serious business We are now one month away from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the sequel to the surprise 2018 superhero hit, Aquaman. The first trailer was okay, the second trailer is also okay. I do think they’re doing a really good job laying out the basic premise and stakes: Black By Sarah • Nov 21, 2023 12:37 pm
TV Updates Never change, Owen Wilson Two years ago, Lainey decided that Duana is right and yes, Owen Wilson can get it. (Duana is usually right about things). I am wondering if that decision still holds up, with Owen Wilson wandering Los Angeles in a sweatsuit and cowboy hat combo. I feel like the only other By Sarah • Nov 20, 2023 02:23 pm
TV Updates Clowning on Anyone But You Well, this is probably not how anyone involved with Anyone But You wants things to go, but as the film is ramping up press, Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone took a shot at the new trailer to promote their own project, The Curse. Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone present The By Sarah • Nov 20, 2023 10:36 am
What Else What Else for November 17, 2023 I 100% forgot there’s a new season of Fargo, this time starring Jon Hamm, Juno Temple, Dave Foley, Joe Keery, and Lamorne Morris. This one looks really good—Temple plays a housewife who is suspiciously good at escaping kidnapping. Into it. The premiere, however, is a bit rough, fashion- By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colman Domingo in Rustin Bayard Rustin is a name you might not know, but you certainly know the results of his work—most notably, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of 1963, which culminated with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. Bayard Rustin is the man who put By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anyone But You is not sparking The teaser for Anyone But You, the sexy rom-com starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, was underwhelming. But now the full trailer is here, and it’s…also underwhelming. I WANT to like this movie so much, I like both Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, I like rom-coms, By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 02:51 pm
Gorgessity Fake and real Bonapartes Napoleon comes out next week, so it is cramming in as much press tour as possible between the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike and the day before US Thanksgiving. Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, and Ridley Scott were in London last night for the UK premiere. Joaquin showed up in By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenna Ortega back at it Back in July, Jenna Ortega was incongruously dressed for fall, filming scenes for Beetlejuice 2 before the SAG-AFTRA strike went into effect. Now that the strike is over, she is back on set—which has relocated from Vermont to Massachusetts—and this time, thanks (“thanks”) to the nearly four- By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 11:16 am
BFFs Meghan Markle steps out Last night was Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles. Most of the top Best Actress and Supporting Actress contenders were there, including Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Margot Robbie, Greta Lee, and Fantasia Barrino (who is just kicking off her appearances for The Color Purple). There was a By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, The strikes this year were important, both for the people trying to have viable careers in the film industry, and as part of a larger labor movement in the US, but one of the sort-of bummers was that Lily Gladstone didn’t get her big moment when By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 08:56 am
