What Else What Else? Sean Penn went to Ukraine to make a Vice documentary about the invasion, and ended up having to flee to Poland on foot. No jokes about that, but I DO love Mieka calling Penn’s documentary work “tantric auto high-fiving”. Damn, I wish I’d thought of that line! (DListed) By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 04:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 2, 2022 There’s a new cover story about Jessica Simpson for Entrepreneur magazine. I read it and because I’ve followed her career for so long, there wasn’t a lot of new information in there. She and her mother paid $65 million to get her name back and now they By Maria • Mar 02, 2022 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore looks like a mess A second trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was released this week, and I just have to heave a big ole sigh. There’s the wasted potential, and then there is how GOOD the Dumbledore half of this movie looks and how annoying it is we can’t By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Beetlejuice 2 actually happen this time? Buckle up, because we’ve got a battle of the trades underway. Earlier this week, Jeff Sneider in The Ankler newsletter reported that Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, took over producing duties on the long-gestating sequel, Beetlejuice 2. Sneider specifically mentions there’s no greenlight, but also that By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 01:56 pm
TV Updates Michael Douglas to play renowned historical horndog Benjamin Franklin Michael Douglas was at the SAG Awards on Sunday, where he was twice nominated for The Kominsky Method, a show I do not believe exists, or that anyone has ever seen. It is an elaborate ruse perpetrated by Netflix, and you will simply not convince me otherwise. But a man By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandra Oh stays busy Sandra Oh is SUPER busy. Coming off her SAG nomination for The Chair, she’s in the midst of the final season of Killing Eve, she has a Pixar movie, Turning Red, coming out this month, and also this month, she stars in the horror movie Umma. From writer/director By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 11:31 am
Dumbass Wow, Sam Elliott HATES The Power of the Dog If The Power of the Dog needed a little momentum after the SAG Awards, Sam Elliott may have just handed it over on a silver platter. This week, a clip of Elliott on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast went viral, of Elliott blasting the movie, and director Jane Campion, for By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batman’s super hot cast The Batman is just two days away, and the cast is in New York for the world premiere yesterday. (This is not to be confused with the “fan screening” in Miami earlier this week, or the “special screening” in London last week.) Robert Pattinson, sticking his ENTIRE foot down the By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 10:13 am
Intro for March 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, movie studios finally pulled their upcoming films from release in Russia. Disney did it first, followed by Warner Brothers yanking The Batman’s upcoming release, then Sony pulled Morbius, and so on. Cannes is also “blocking” Russian delegations unless and until the By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 09:06 am
What Else What Else Rihanna is, once again, not letting her bump get in the way of her Fashion. She’s in her “raciest maternity look” at Paris Fashion Week, but MORE IMPORTANTLY, she’s telling off impudent reporters. This kid is going to be fabulous, aren’t they? (ELLE) Someone in the crowd: By Sarah • Mar 01, 2022 04:16 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 1, 2022 Marry Me, JLo’s big rom-com that coincided with a big re-emergence in her personal life, wasn’t loved by critics (read Sarah’s review here) and the observations on Twitter have been comical. (I watched the scene mentioned in the tweet below and while I didn’t have the By Maria • Mar 01, 2022 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen, Andrew, and all the F-cks We’re in the timeline of award shows, award shows all around us. Last night at the Hollywood Critics Association Awards, Kristen Stewart was named Best Actress for her work in Spencer and Andrew Garfield won Best Actor for his performance in tick, tick…BOOM! Kristen and Andrew are also By Lainey • Mar 01, 2022 01:53 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict’s day after The day after The Power of the Dog got shut out at the SAGs, Benedict Cumberbatch was back on the scene, receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was there with his wife, Sophie Hunter, and their three kids. Here is something I appreciate about Cumberbatch: I By Sarah • Mar 01, 2022 11:53 am
Zoe Kravitz Team Zoë in New York The rumour right now is that Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet, after announcing their breakup on Instagram at the beginning of the year, are back together and that he’s moved back in. No major entertainment outlets have followed up with any confirmation though. But that IG post was deleted By Lainey • Mar 01, 2022 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson in The Batman It’s a familiar scene: a city with a skyline somewhere between Gothic and Art Deco, deep in night, or glimpsed through rain, or seen in the half-light of the dying day, dirty, overcrowded, downtrodden. The people: edgy, tense, and keeping to themselves. A good man: alone, the final bulwark By Sarah • Mar 01, 2022 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Garner’s Best Black Dress Jennifer Garner has been in New York the last couple of days to promote The Adam Project which releases on Netflix next Friday, March 11. The premiere happened on Monday night and this Alexandre Vauthier that she’s wearing might the best black dress I’ve ever seen on her. By Lainey • Mar 01, 2022 09:47 am