What Else What Else? In counterpart to Glen Powell’s Men’s Health cover, Sydney Sweeney is covering Women’s Health. It’s a sporty styled shoot, but it’s not NEARLY as flattering as Glen’s. Because he is good at being famous. He knows how to deliver in a 2D spread. Sydney By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pedro Pascal might be (Mr.) Fantastic On the heels of The Marvels’ disastrous opening weekend—the lowest ever for Marvel at $46 million—Marvel Studios is forging ahead, making moves and deals to set up the next few years of storytelling in the MCU. The latest headline news is that Pedro Pascal is in talks to By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 02:53 pm
TV Updates The Crown let down As a rule of thumb, it’s not a great sign when something is embargoed close to its release date. The closer the embargo lift is to the release of the film/episode(s), the more suspicious I get that what I am about to see is bad, and so By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 12:39 pm
Gorgessity The Men of the Year stepped out It’s the year of Taylor’s Eras, Beyoncé’s Renaissance, and Barbie, so yeah, let’s talk about the men of the year. The GQ Men of the Year, that is. Jacob Elordi is one of the cover features for MOTY, we’ve already heard from him, deep in By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 16, 2023 Dear Gossips, Last week in Friday’s What Else, I mentioned that Warner Bros. Discovery was going to shelve another completed film for a tax write-off, the victim being live action/animation hybrid Coyote vs. Acme, a movie about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme for all its faulty products By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Do you care about Madame Web? The first trailer for Madame Web starring Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney is here, showing off Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a clairvoyant mutant with spider powers. She’s usually an old, blind woman in the comics, but the film reimagines her as sexy, young Dakota Johnson. Cassandra is Spider-Man By Sarah • Nov 15, 2023 02:42 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Glen Powell’s butt or pup Glen Powell is on the cover of Men’s Health this month and there’s a whole interview about his workout and diet and whatever, who cares, he shows his butt. And his dog! Whether you care more about Glen Powell’s bare ass or his adorable pup, Brisket, says By Sarah • Nov 15, 2023 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Memory is resonant in All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Hands buried in river mud, hands washing in the sink, hands holding babies, hands holding lovers, sisters’ hands clasped tightly, there is an exquisite focus on hands in artist and filmmaker Raven Jackson’s feature directorial debut, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The film is lazily paced, as if By Sarah • Nov 14, 2023 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Does Garfield work for you? The trailer for The Garfield Movie dropped yesterday—dropping a Garfield trailer on a Monday is a nice touch—and I assume Lainey thought I’d be interested because I love cats, and Garfield is a cat, but Garfield has never been my jam (I’m an Oliver & Company By Sarah • Nov 14, 2023 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Coop finally gets to do it Promote Maestro, that is. After getting itchy as f-ck as the SAG-AFTRA stretched well into autumn, Bradley Cooper finally gets to promote Maestro for real. He was at a BAFTA screening for Maestro held in New York yesterday, along with co-star Carey Mulligan, cinematographer Matthew Libatique, and By Sarah • Nov 14, 2023 09:49 am
What Else What Else? Celebrate Elf on its 20th anniversary! Elf is, maybe, the last great holiday movie, a contemporary film that instantly entered the canon of re-watchable holiday films alongside Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, White Christmas, and the intolerable ode to mediocrity and sameness that is It’s A Wonderful Life. Elf By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 04:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler’s Elvis voice is back Tom Hanks continues his quest to lionize every facet of World War II with Masters of the Air, a spiritual successor of his previous WWII-focused miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific. This time, Masters of the Air focuses on the US Army Air Forces and is based on By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels has its moments The Marvels might be the first Marvel movie that doesn’t need a villain. At a brisk 105 minutes, The Marvels is the shortest film in the MCU to date, but it still suffers from being overstuffed and heavy on clunky exposition, as many Marvel movies are, no matter their By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney back in Sydney You know how Lainey has been all “I don’t know what days are” since she’s been on vacation in Japan? Well, I had a time-wimey moment looking at these new photos of Sydney Sweeney, already in Sydney, Australia to film pick ups for Anyone But You, her By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has ended, there are two things left to do: 1) an all-out awards season bonanza, and 2) figure out what the f-ck the 2024 film slate is going to be. Let’s talk about the latter. Some films, like Dune: By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 09:00 am
What Else What Else? The Country Music Awards were last night. Nicole Kidman was there with Keith Urban. Her dress is okay, his shoes are…a choice. (Go Fug Yourself) I rather like the Danish royals, they seem lowkey and drama free. Well, until now. There’s a rumor circulating that Crown Prince Frederik By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 04:02 pm