Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson’s meticulous, highly stylized worlds are particularly suited to stop-motion animation, the most meticulous and stylized form of animation. It’s no coincidence that one of Anderson’s best films is The Fantastic Mr. Fox, his first attempt at stop-motion, and now he follows up Fox with another By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 12:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, November 14, 2016 Is Jay Z working on new music? Let’s hope it’s not some Suit & Tie sh-t again. That was awful. Remember when he rapped about “truffle season”? I can’t even blame JT for that. Wonder what #Zaytoven and #JayZ have cookin up in the studio! A photo By Maria • Nov 14, 2016 03:49 pm
Media Manipulation George Clooney, character actor Money Monster is coming out next month. It’ll be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. George Clooney is now starting to promote it with his 9th Esquire cover. And at the beginning of this interview, he’s actually credited with the magazine’s resurgence for the first time he By Lainey • Apr 21, 2016 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Jungle Book is true magic Disney has already had one family hit this year, with Zootopia, and they’ve got another one on their hands with Jon Favreau’s update of The Jungle Book. It’s not only an eye-popping piece of mostly-digital filmmaking, but it also manages to fix pretty much everything creepy and By Sarah • Apr 15, 2016 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Forget Revenant Bear, now we have Bill Murray Bear And isn’t that the best of all fake computer movie bears? A new trailer for Jon Favreau’s update of The Jungle Book was released as part of the Super Bowl Trailer Apocalypse, and goddamn this movie looks gorgeous. Watch the new trailer and keep in mind two things: By Sarah • Feb 09, 2016 12:36 pm
TV Updates All I Want For Bill Murray’s Christmas special is more Miley I was looking forward to Bill Murray’s A Very Murray Christmas special on Netflix, but it turns out this is a case of all the good stuff being in the trailer. Directed by Sofia Coppola and written by Coppola, Mitch Glazer (Rock the Kasbah), and Murray, A Very Murray By Sarah • Dec 07, 2015 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Very Murray Christmas, indeed On December 4, Bill Murray will attempt to revive the tradition of the celebrity Christmas special with his Netflix special, A Very Murray Christmas. The first trailer has just been released, and it is delightful. Directed by Sofia Coppola, the special stars Murray and a slew of celebrity guests, including By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Murray in Rock the Kasbah Not even Bill Murray’s benevolent-wizard persona could save Rock the Kasbah, a movie so baffling, so bad—so bafflingly bad—that it evokes the specter of Ishtar more than once. This is such an ill-advised, tone deaf movie I don’t even know where to start. I guess with By Sarah • Oct 26, 2015 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews At the very least, The Jungle Book looks gorgeous I have serious reservations about bringing Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book back, which I discussed last year when it came out that there are TWO new versions of the story coming to the big screen. Well, we now have a trailer for one of those adaptations, the one from By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 01:50 pm
Assy Style Katniss’s last Comic-Con The Mockingjay 2 panel just wrapped not too long ago at Comic-Con. The big 3 were all there – Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. But, really, the story is Katniss. Always Katniss. Always JLaw. According to the tweets I’ve been reading, she really delivered for the fans. Which means By Lainey • Jul 09, 2015 06:01 pm
TV Updates David Letterman signs off Last night marked the official end of The Late Show with David Letterman. After his final interview, his last broadcast was dedicated to best-of segments, tributes, thank yous, and one last Top 10, which lined up some of Letterman’s most frequent and favorite celebrity guests. He’s always been By Sarah • May 21, 2015 10:23 am
TV Updates So long, Dave, and thanks for all the fish Tonight is David Letterman’s last show as a late night host. All week he’s had special guests—including Eddie Vedder who performed a rendition of “Better Man” with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra that made me teary-eyed—and last night Bill Murray sat in as Letterman’s By Sarah • May 20, 2015 11:26 am
TV Updates SNL40: The Good Like Saturday Night Live itself, the 40th anniversary celebration show was a mixed bag. Here’s everything that was good. Andy Samberg’s digital short Because they are ALWAYS good, but this one, sung with Adam Sandler featuring an assist from Chris Parnell, highlighted the history of character breaks on By Sarah • Feb 17, 2015 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: St. Vincent I have officially hit the halfway point of the Chicago International Film Festival. It is October 16th, and between the festival and squeezing in some commercial releases to meet writing commitments, I’ve seen sixteen movies so far this month. I have fifteen left to go, including four double-headers. Perhaps By Sarah • Oct 16, 2014 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa & Bill’s big night The highlight of TIFF tonight is probably the premiere for St Vincent at 9pm at the Princess Of Wales theatre. The festival is honouring Bill Murray. They’re telling fans to dress up as him. And of course, he’ll put on a show, like he always does. All that By Lainey • Sep 05, 2014 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 31, 2014 Dear Gossips, The best article I read yesterday was about Bill Murray. Murray’s film St Vincent will be screening at TIFF. The festival wants to also take the opportunity at the gala to honour Murray’s career. Only no one was able to find him. Because, as you know, By Lainey • Jul 31, 2014 10:01 am
