Movie Reviews and Previews Ready for Renfield With John Wick: Chapter 4 opening this weekend, and Dungeons & Dragons and Tetris next weekend, we are rolling toward the absolute car crash that is the film release calendar for the rest of 2023. Things start picking up steam in April, and the film I am most excited about By Sarah • Mar 23, 2023 11:39 am
Business of Hollywood The Marvel Mess In a bombshell announcement on Monday, Victoria Alonso, a long-time executive at Marvel Studios, “exited” the company. Alonso, one of the few high-profile female executives in film production, left for “unclear” reasons, per The Hollywood Reporter. Sources are saying that she was not fired. But her departure was definitely an By Sarah • Mar 22, 2023 11:22 am
TV Updates Daniels did a Star Wars By now, it’s a familiar pattern: an up-and-coming indie filmmaker makes a splash, often by being nominated for and/or winning an Oscar and is immediately sucked into the franchise moviemaking machine. The latest case is Daniels, the directing duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the newly minted By Sarah • Mar 21, 2023 11:43 am
TV Updates Ted Lasso heals the nation At least in its first few episodes, Ted Lasso season three is a mixed bag, as delightful as ever but undoubtedly overburdened by too much plot and too many characters. And yet, those faults exist because of what the show has become in the last few years, and how instantly By Sarah • Mar 21, 2023 09:43 am
What Else What Else? Writer and producer Steven DeKnight, probably best known for the Netflix Daredevil series, called Jenna Ortega “entitled” and “toxic” online after she talked about “protecting” Wednesday Addams from bad writing on Wednesday. He’s not the only writer who came out with “talk to writers, don’t rewrite them” online, By Sarah • Mar 17, 2023 04:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon in Boston Strangler It’s a testament to how arid contemporary cinema is when it comes to adult-oriented drama that Boston Strangler feels old-fashioned. Thrilling crime procedurals used to people the cinematic landscape with regularity, even just this century brought us standout examples like Zodiac and Prisoners, but as character-driven dramas were driven By Sarah • Mar 17, 2023 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Gunn’s Superman fanfic Perhaps to the surprise of no one, James Gunn is going to direct the new Superman movie being written and produced by James Gunn. We first learned that Gunn was working on a script for a new Superman movie back in December, when we also learned that Henry Cavill was, By Sarah • Mar 17, 2023 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu! John Wick: Chapter 4 opens next weekend, so we are in the thick of the press tour, which means Keanu Reeves is out and about, making the rounds. He was in New York yesterday, in his typical press tour wardrobe of dark suit/dark tie, doing talk show appearances. My By Sarah • Mar 17, 2023 10:43 am
Oscars 2023 Intro for March 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, Despite fears that The Last of Us’s show-stopper finale could cannibalize a portion of the Oscars’ audience, both shows ended up doing just fine. TLOU reported a season-high viewership of 8.2 million, while the Oscars also trended up, gaining 13% on last year’s audience for By Sarah • Mar 17, 2023 08:58 am
TV Updates Ted Lasso’s last lap Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, similarly, when it comes to Ted Lasso season three, “good” is entirely down to how much you like this show, and these characters. With four episodes available to review (out of twelve), the third and final-season-centered-on-Ted-anyway shows a lot of wear and By Sarah • Mar 15, 2023 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Nancy Meyers kitchen is gone We flew too close to the sun, fellow production design-loving Icarii, for the dream of Nancy Meyers returning to direct a new film, featuring, we may presume, new glorious kitchens, is no more. Netflix has dropped Meyers’ prospective new film, called Paris Paramount, over budget disagreements. Meyers wanted a budget By Sarah • Mar 15, 2023 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The FloField movie is real Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield presented together during the Oscars, and the internet fell in love with them as a duo. Lainey has already dubbed them “FloField”. Of the potential for FloField, either personally or professionally, Lainey said, “At the very least, the internet wants them in a movie together. By Sarah • Mar 15, 2023 09:54 am
Oscars 2023 Sarah’s Best Dressed: Cara Delevingne I’m not going to get into the full breadth and depth of my hatred for the arrivals setup of the Oscars, suffice to say, I hated it with the fire of ten thousand suns and it did everyone who wore white/ neutrals/ pastels dirty. Literally! That carpet was dirty! By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 04:13 pm
Oscars 2023 Top Gunners without Tom Despite being nominated as a producer in the Best Picture category, Tom Cruise was a no-show at the Oscars. I wonder if Jimmy Kimmel knew that, or if it was a late-stage decision, because his intro transitioned from a bit about him ejecting from Maverick’s jet, and it kind By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 11:29 am
Oscars 2023 The Little Mermaid’s janky commercial Disney is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, as is Warner Bros. (Discovery). Both studios had featurettes during the ceremony marking their milestone years. Really, they were more advertorials, Disney straight up debuted the full trailer for The Little Mermaid, and Warners went with a sizzle reel of mostly recent By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 10:06 am
Oscars 2023 Team RRR at the Oscars Despite being a sprawling historical epic with comedy, drama, romance, friendship, and leopard fights, RRR only earned one Oscar nomination, for Best Original Song. But it won that Oscar, making “Naatu Naatu” both the first Telugu-language film to win an Oscar, and first Indian film to win Best Original Song. By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 08:48 am
