Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller emerges as The Flash’s future is questioned One of the major pop culture narratives of summer 2022 is “where in the world is Ezra Miller”, as headlines out of Hawaii in the spring painted an image of an increasingly troubled star going through…something…in the public eye. But then Miller disappeared, while stories about their behavior By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 10:37 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 5, 2022 Dear Gossips, Following the shocking news that Warner Brothers is shelving a couple of nearly finished films, including Batgirl, CEO of the newly formed and poorly named Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, hopped on an earnings call to tell everyone what his big plan is for the merging of Warner By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 09:25 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 3, 2022 Dear Gossips, When we last met, we discussed the state of the visual effects industry off the back of an expose from Vulture about how terrible it is to work VFX on a Marvel movie. This week, the pile-on continues as Defector’s Drew Magary documents the “VFX crisis” By Sarah • Aug 03, 2022 09:09 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 29, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s Beyoncé Day, I know that is all anyone cares about. I mean, even as I write this, Act One: Renaissance is playing in the background. Like, this is the sh-t I have to finish so I can devote all my attention to Queen Bey. There By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 09:00 am
Top Reads Sydney Sweeney talks about money It’s been a breakout 12 months for Sydney Sweeney – she was terrifying on The White Lotus and she was heartbreaking on Euphoria season two, and now she’s a double Emmy nominee for her performances on both shows and has a mystery role in the upcoming Madame Web and By Lainey • Jul 28, 2022 01:15 pm
Douchebags Surprise: The SnyderCut phenomenon was fake! Cheeky headline, but it is at least partly true. Monday night, Rolling Stone released a comprehensive report of how the “SnyderCut”, Zack Snyder’s $100 million mulligan of The Justice League, came to be, and guess what? Just as everyone who has ever used social media already knew, there was By Sarah • Jul 20, 2022 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Endless Summer Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick is the movie phenomenon of the year. And maybe of the decade so far? It’s been out now for two whole months…and is STILL doing solid business at the box office around the world. With a total global take of $1.25 By Lainey • Jul 20, 2022 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A little less love for Thor It should have been a relatively quiet weekend at the box office, with the only major new releases being a kids’ movie, Paws of Fury, and a female-driven literary adaptation, Where the Crawdads Sing. But a furious debate ignited online over whether or not Marvel is in trouble because By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 01:30 pm
Dumbass Intro for July 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Gray Man opened in theaters over the weekend, before hitting Netflix on July 22. Surrounding that, directors Joe and Anthony Russo gave an interview to The Hollywood Reporter in which they said some stuff about Netflix and movie theaters and elitism and by Hera’s long hair, By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 09:03 am
TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Issa Rae is in Cannes this week and yesterday spoke on a panel at the Cannes Lion festival, a marketing and advertising convention. Issa challenged the ad industry to promote diversity in their work and on their teams by confronting their biases and by also following up and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 09:24 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Disney had an epically bad run back in March. It started with their owned-goal response to Florida’s “Don’t say gay” bill, and it just got worse and worse and worse. Don’t worry, things are still bad! More recently there was a C-suite kerfuffle By Sarah • Jun 17, 2022 09:08 am
BFFs Intro for June 15, 2022 Dear Gossips, I’m only halfway through the new Bradley Cooper episode of the Smartless podcast and if you haven’t listened yet, I’m sure you’ve seen the big headline coming out of it about how BCoop shared that it was Will Arnett who got real with him By Lainey • Jun 15, 2022 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Neve Campbell knows her worth Earlier this year, Scream, the fifth movie in the Scream franchise and sadly not titled 5cream, was a hit, earning $140 million against a $25 million budget. Even by non-pandemic standards, that is a solid success story. A successful reboot means the franchise has new life and Scream 6 By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews On Top Gun: Maverick’s big weekend and big propaganda After two years of COVID delays, it turns out that the long game paid off and Top Gun: Maverick will likely go down as the movie that “saved” summer blockbusters. It has banked $126 million for the three-day weekend and pulled in $156 million over the four-day Memorial By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:00 am
Douchebags Kevin Spacey’s new charges Yesterday, news broke in the UK that the Crown Prosecution Service announced four new charges of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey, involving three different men. The timeframe of the charges ranges from 2005 to 2013, for reference, Spacey was the artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theater from 2003- By Sarah • May 27, 2022 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Netflix drama! The first trailer for Chris Hemsworth’s new Netflix movie, Spiderhead, is here, and it looks like a trip. I’m not sure I’d be 100% on board except that Bad Times at the El Royale is one of my favorite contemporary films, and that has Hemsworth working in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:48 pm
