Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone is a colorful, cinematic weirdo One month after we saw the teaser for Poor Things, the film reuniting director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, we now have a full trailer showing off Stone in full cinematic weirdo mode, Willem Dafoe as some kind of Dr. Frankenstein/Dr. Moreau hybrid, and Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 12:25 pm
Succession Alexander after Succession You know a detail I love in the final season of Succession? The way Lukas Mattson keeps insisting that unflattering magazine illustration of Shiv working him like a marionette doesn’t bother him. Just the way he keeps saying, “It’s fine,” it’s so obviously NOT fine, but Alexander By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 11:38 am
TV Updates Taika + Rita down under The last time we saw Taika Waititi and Rita Ora was at the Met Gala, but they are now back in Sydney, Australia, which is more or less their home base lately (Rita is a coach on The Voice Australia). Taika and Rita are not exactly a low-key couple—here By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 09:45 am
Relationship Assumption Intro for June 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, I was just saying to Lainey that it’s summer and time for some good summer gossip, when boom, the gossips goddesses delivered a bit of news completely out of left field. According to The US Sun, Bill Murray and Kelis are dating. Now, I KNOW the source By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 09:14 am
TV Updates The Afterparty, sans Walt The Afterparty was an under-the-radar comedic gem last year (is Jury Duty the 2023 Afterparty: discuss). Starring Sam Richardson and Zoë Chao as high school besties and never-were sweethearts who reunite at an ill-fated reunion, The Afterparty is a murder mystery in which each episode is done in a different By Sarah • Jun 08, 2023 02:39 pm
Business of Hollywood The directors (probably) won’t strike At midnight on Sunday, the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reached a tentative labor contract for the next three years. This comes as the Writers Guild enters their second month of striking, and the Screen Actors Guild prepares to begin their By Sarah • Jun 05, 2023 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise vs. Christopher Nolan Ever since the trailers for Barbie and Oppenheimer started dropping, people have been trying to make a narrative of Barbie vs. the nuclear bomb since both movies have the same release date of July 21, but it turns out the REAL fight is between Tom Cruise and Christopher Nolan. According By Sarah • Jun 05, 2023 02:20 pm
Dominic Cooper Dom and Gemma and Mr. Kitty Today in Celebrity Cat News, Mr. Kitty, the rescue cat belonging to Dominic Cooper and Gemma Chan, was seen traveling comfortably in a bubble backpack the other day in London. Mr. Kitty, proclaimed by his human servant Gemma to be “the most affectionate cat in the world!”, enjoyed fresh air By Sarah • Jun 05, 2023 10:08 am
What Else What Else? Forbes has a ranking of the richest “self-made” women, “self-made” is in quotes because the list includes Kylie Jenner, who inherited wealth. Taylor Swift also comes from an affluent background, and she’s ranked #34 on the list. I don’t care who the richest self-made woman is, I want By Sarah • Jun 02, 2023 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney in Reality Playwright Tina Satter found a redacted transcript online of the FBI interrogation of Reality Winner, a twenty-five-year-old Air Force member contracted to translate for the NSA, who leaked classified documents regarding Russian interference in the 2016 US election to a US website, The Intercept. Satter turned the transcript into a By Sarah • Jun 02, 2023 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Swing Across the Spider-Verse Picking up about a year and a half from the events of the Oscar-winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse takes us back to the animated world of teenaged Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), who is Spider-Man in his universe after the death of his universe’ By Sarah • Jun 02, 2023 12:11 pm
Justified Raylan and the new Boyd The ATX TV Festival began last night in Austin, Texas with a screening and panel for Justified: City Primeval. Timothy Olyphant was on hand, along with the new Justified Boyd, Boyd Holbrook. Two of my faves, standing near each other, starting the weekend off right. Also present were executive producer By Sarah • Jun 02, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 2, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s time for a #Family news update, as Dwayne Johnson announced yesterday on social media that he is officially returning to the Fast/Furious franchise. We knew this from his appearance in a credit tag in Fast X, but now Johnson is confirming that he will actually By Sarah • Jun 02, 2023 09:09 am
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
