Justified Raylan Givens returns (without Boyd Crowder) It feels like every TV show is ending this week, but one show is here to remind us that television is still good, and that show is Justified: City Primeval, the sequel series to Justified, which dropped its first full trailer yesterday. I am not going to be remotely objective By Sarah • Jun 01, 2023 01:09 pm
TV Updates Ted Lasso spins its wheels to the (probable) end Spoilers for Ted Lasso season 3 A lot of big TV shows ended their series runs this week, from Succession to Barry to Ted Lasso, the show that perhaps most defines “comfort watch” in the age of COVID. (In case you’re wondering, yes, Barry sticks the landing in its By Sarah • Jun 01, 2023 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-Men Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to the 2018 Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, opens this Friday. I’ll have a full review then, but…yeah. This is it, y’all. I said it after Into the Spider-Verse, and I’ll say it again—animation is where superheroes By Sarah • May 31, 2023 11:33 am
What Else What Else? Can’t wait for Air 2: That Time We Tried to Warn Adidas About Kanye. (DListed) Maria name-checked Offset today, and in related news, a suspect has been indicted in the November 2022 murder of Takeoff. (Popsugar) Interesting observation here that the amfAR Gala at Cannes is not as well By Sarah • May 26, 2023 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLaw’s Buick movie Barbie casts a long, hype-filled shadow, but one of the other movies we’re paying attention to this summer is No Hard Feelings, which is both hopefully a comeback for the R-rated studio comedy in theaters, and also part of Jennifer Lawrence’s post-blockbuster career strategy. A new red-band trailer By Sarah • May 26, 2023 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid, Disney’s latest live-action reboot of a classic animated film, begins with a quote from Hans Christian Andersen about suffering. It really sets the stage for what comes next. The Little Mermaid, in this incarnation written by David Magee and directed by Rob Marshall, is neither the By Sarah • May 26, 2023 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbie’s existential crisis We have been hyped for Barbie for months, and with the arrival of the full trailer, well, the hype is reaching new, “bespoke song” levels. After a couple of stellar teasers, Barbie allows us into Barbieland, where Margot Robbie’s Barbie is having an existential crisis and suddenly flat feet By Sarah • May 26, 2023 11:05 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, The writers’ strike continues, while the Directors’ Guild is currently in closed-door talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and SAG-AFTRA is gearing up for a strike authorization from its 160,000+ members. June is going to be a VERY active month on the strike By Sarah • May 26, 2023 09:12 am
TV Updates I think you should watch I Think You Should Leave One of my favorite shows over the last few years, one I have rewatched countless times, is the sketch show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. It doesn’t matter if I can recite every sketch verbatim, I laugh every time I put ITYSL on. Even just seeing By Sarah • May 25, 2023 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey’s other musical The Little Mermaid comes out at the end of the week, but before we talk about that, let’s take a second to talk about Halle Bailey’s OTHER musical this year, a new adaptation of The Color Purple. It’s the latest in the long adaptation chain of Alice By Sarah • May 23, 2023 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone and some other guys Killers of the Flower Moon premiered at Cannes on Saturday, and immediately everyone is raving about Lily Gladstone, AS THEY SHOULD. Variety ponders her Oscar odds—long way to go, but fingers crossed!—and calls the film “the birth of a star”. I mean, sure, NOW, if you’re LATE By Sarah • May 23, 2023 10:52 am
What Else What Else? Update: It's a Civic Holiday in Canada on Monday May 22nd. We'll be back on Tuesday. Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Joe Alwyn is reportedly “distraught and slighted” over his breakup with Taylor Swift (I BET). Joe won a Grammy writing songs with Taylor. Do you By Sarah • May 19, 2023 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Platt’s comeback Ben Platt has been my nemesis since I sat through Dear Evan Hansen, but I am almost ready to forgive him for that wild piece of emotional manipulation because his new film, Theater Camp, is a fun, quirky comedy about drama dorks and musical nerds. (Full disclosure, Theater Camp was By Sarah • May 19, 2023 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Fast X Day to Jason Momoa only I am not, historically, a fan of the Fast/Furious movies, especially the last few since Paul Walker’s untimely death. They have become too serious and small, overly invested in Dominic Toretto’s boring life outside of racing cars. Vin Diesel is not a compelling leading man, especially without By Sarah • May 19, 2023 12:18 pm
Style Schrödinger’s applause Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiered at Cannes yesterday, and we have our first breathless applause reporting of the 2023 festival season. The standing ovation was rousing! Or it was lukewarm! It was five, maybe even SIX minutes long! Umm…that’s not that long. Gala premieres at By Sarah • May 19, 2023 10:46 am
Owen Wilson Intro for May 19, 2023 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, a group famous Texan men appeared in a PSA touting support for a bill in the state legislature that would open up tax incentives and funding for film and television productions in the state. Film productions are very lucrative, and in the last few years By Sarah • May 19, 2023 08:43 am
