Movie Reviews and Previews Adrien Brody in The Brutalist Having previously tackled the formative years of a fascist leader (The Childhood of a Leader) and America’s insatiable appetite for celebrity (Vox Lux), filmmaker Brady Corbet turns his attention to the immigrant experience in America in The Brutalist. Directed by Corbet and co-written by him and Mona Fastvold, The By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another rom-com bites the streaming dust There was a time when Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon starring in a rom-com would be a major release, a film you could pretty well set your watch to, as it were, counting on it to make $100 million on name recognition alone. But these days? No one has a By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone else in Mufasa The Mufasa press tour continues apace, stopping in London yesterday. No Bey or Blue Ivy this time, though, which means we can talk about everyone else involved with this film. Let’s start with Barry Jenkins, the director of the film. It is for his sake that I hope Mufasa By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:01 am
Hair Angelina: still in Paris Angelina Jolie continues to work on the upcoming film Stitches in Paris, now accompanied by Zahara and Pax. She also got in some Christmas shopping, which makes me feel smug because I am all done with my holiday shopping (I am one of those people who sees a good gift By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, During the summer, critics heaped praise on JT Mollner’s serial killer horror flick Strange Darling, but that did not translate into box office, as the film made only $3.7 million, slightly less than its reported budget of $4 million. Films fail to find their audience all By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 09:17 am
What Else What Else? Nicole Richie is promoting Paris & Nicole: The Encore, her return to reality TV alongside Paris Hilton, and honestly? She looks GREAT. The fits are fantastic. Did Nicole always have personal style this good? Was it just the millennial fashion that was bad? (Go Fug Yourself) Speaking of trajectories, Lana By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 04:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 11, 2024 While some celebrity beauty lines are struggling (like Goop), Scarlett Johansson’s The Outset is expanding and retailing on Amazon. The micro polish is good, I’ve restocked on it a few times. Kylie Kelce’s podcast is an instant hit but I think she’s about to experience her By Maria • Dec 11, 2024 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Boots boots boots Today in No Thank You news, the trailer for 28 Years Later, the long-awaited third film in the 28 Days Later franchise, dropped and it’s pants sh-ttingly scary. This trailer is a two-minute master class of jangling nerves and upsetting imagery. The new film is set, appropriately, 28 years By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 02:47 pm
Quiveration This is an excuse for Keanu Sonic the Hedgehog has become an improbable hit franchise, cranking out three films and one streaming series, Knuckles, in the last four years. The franchise stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic, James Marsden and Tika Sumpter as his human friends, Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, and Idris Elba By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in A Complete Unknown Walk Hard lampooned music biopics so thoroughly we should probably abandon the whole genre for a while, and yet, Hollywood persists in cranking out music biopics, the cinematic equivalent of a jukebox musical. A Complete Unknown is the latest, directed by James Mangold (who also directed Walk the Line, one By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 01:15 pm
As Seen on Social Media As Seen On Social Media: Everyone wants Angelina’s cardigan and an SNL moment Angelina Jolie’s closet of classics Angelina Jolie is many things, but a fashion risk-taker isn’t one of them. She sticks to her shades (black, grey, cream, camel), the same Louboutin pumps, and flowing silhouettes. You won’t catch her in prints or experimental cuts. She likes what she By Maria • Dec 11, 2024 12:29 pm
Relationship Assumption Best Chris dating update It’s been a couple months since we’ve talked about Chris Pine, the best Chris, and it’s a good time for a check-in because he was spotted in New York yesterday with his girlfriend, identified as Keana Sky Wenger. You might remember her as the “mystery woman” he By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 11:24 am
Award Season Campaigning Ladies Who Lunch At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, that is. The Academy Women’s Luncheon was yesterday, held at the Academy’s own museum in Los Angeles—the Academy WILL make that museum worth it if it kills them! Which it might!—and as has been the case all of this By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, On the heels of the Critics Choice Awards kinda-sorta accidentally excluding Last Week Tonight from the talk show category, we have another awards show “controversy”, this time involving Dune: Part II and the Golden Globes. The “controversy” is that Dune 2 was not nominated for the Cinematic and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 09:43 am
What Else What Else? Keira Knightley weighs in on the greatest Christmas controversy of all time—the cue card scene in Love Actually IS “quite creepy”. (Celebitchy) TIL Timothee Chalamet’s older sister is on The Sex Lives of College Girls. Also, she definitely doesn’t need a belt THERE. (Go Fug Yourself) People By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JAW the Hutt Continuing casting news, Jeremy Allen White will voice Jabba the Hutt’s son, Rotta the Hutt, in the upcoming Star Wars spin-off, The Mandalorian & Grogu (the news was first reported by Jeff Sneider). The film is the culmination of the story told thus far on the streaming series The By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 03:14 pm
