Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, How about some low stakes cartoon conflict to kick off Oscar Friday? Yesterday, a sub-30 second teaser announcing Shrek 5 dropped, and everyone lost their damn minds over Shrek’s glow up, or glow down, depending on your preference for slimy or sticky looking boogers. Check it out: By Sarah • Feb 28, 2025 09:05 am
Top Reads Jerrod went there I am not at all surprised Jerrod Carmichael turned out to be a good host for the Golden Globes, I have insisted all along he is too good for this show. What did surprise me is just how HARD he went at EVERYTHING. I expected his monologue to focus on By Sarah • Jan 11, 2023 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenya Barris’s parting gift Rewind time and recall that Kenya Barris, the creator of Black-ish, signed a mega-deal to produce series and films for Netflix. That was 2018. By January 2021, Barris broke up with Netflix, dissatisfied with the inability to be as “edgy” as he wanted. He said he wants to do “in-your-face By Sarah • Dec 06, 2022 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is there value to Coming 2 America? The highly anticipated Coming 2 America dropped on Amazon Prime to record numbers last Friday. While Sarah handled the review, I was intending to write about what a joyous occasion this movie release was, despite the pandemic. I wanted to paint a picture of what life would look like if By Melayna • Mar 09, 2021 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall in Coming 2 America Well poop. This one is disappointing guys. I guess it’s not surprising that a years-later sequel to a wildly beloved comedy doesn’t deliver—they rarely do—but it feels especially egregious with Coming 2 America because Eddie Murphy seems to be having SUCH a good time in it, By Sarah • Mar 08, 2021 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zamunda knows about Wakanda I was expecting WAY more streaming service advertisements during the Super Bowl. We’re all still stuck at home and movies aren’t coming out any time soon, so I thought the streamers would go all-in on advertising their wares for post-game viewing (or mid-game viewing if you gave up By Sarah • Feb 08, 2021 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie and Arsenio (and Eddie and Arsenio) are back One of the casualties of the 2020 movie season was Coming 2 America, which Paramount took off their release calendar, then sold to Amazon. Now, however, Coming 2 America is finally coming to the world as an Amazon release in March 2021. The first trailer has dropped and it’s By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 11:08 am
Eddie Murphy Vanity Fair: The Hollywood Issue 2020 Every year, Vanity Fair puts out a Hollywood Issue during award season, timed as Oscar momentum is building. This year, since the Oscars are earlier, the Hollywood Issue has come out earlier, just one day after Oscar nominations were announced. And, well, the timing is… The front cover features Eddie By Lainey • Jan 14, 2020 11:20 am
Golden Globes 2020 Eddie, Tom, Joaquin, Adam: the lead actors at the Globes My biggest interview last night was Eddie Murphy. I don’t think we really believed we would get him going into it. This is Eddie Murphy, he’s not the most accessible of celebrities and he’s never the celebrity who gives every outlet on the press line a few By Lainey • Jan 06, 2020 08:56 am
Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy returns to SNL Eddie Murphy, who is often credited with saving Saturday Night Live during the tumult of the early 1980s, the years in which Lorne Michaels walked away from the show, finally returned to Studio 8H after 35 years, hosting SNL for the first time since he left in 1984. (He appeared By Sarah • Dec 23, 2019 10:34 am
TV Updates Intro for December 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’m so excited about Eddie Murphy’s return to Saturday Night Live this weekend, it’s almost pathetic. But I can’t be the only one. SNL is excited. And I wonder if they’re actually planning two shows – the main show, obviously, but also a show By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 09:15 am
BFFs Whitney according to Robyn If you are a fan of Whitney Houston, you know about Robyn Crawford. Robyn was Whitney’s best friend from adolescence to adulthood. Robyn was Whitney’s creative director for a while and toured with her often. Where there was Whitney, there was always Robyn, until Robyn quit and left By Lainey • Nov 07, 2019 10:16 am
BFFs Eddie and Jamie steal the show When you give Jamie Foxx a microphone at the Governors Awards, and let him know he has three to four minutes to adlib remarks while in a room with this year's Oscar contenders like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scarlett Johansson, you have to know the hype-man is By Joanna • Oct 28, 2019 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Dolemite Is My Name Eddie Murphy returns to acting after a three year hiatus with Dolemite Is My Name, a biopic of Dolemite creator Rudy Ray Moore. Like every other biopic I’ve seen at TIFF this year, Dolemite is standard, run-of-the-mill biographical stuff, taking no real risks and doing nothing particularly inventive with By Sarah • Sep 13, 2019 03:36 pm
TV Updates Intro for August 28, 2019 Dear Gossips, I predicted back in July that Lizzo would be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live’s season premiere. I was wrong. It’s going to be Billie Eilish and the host is Woody Harrelson to promote Zombieland: Double Tap which opens in October. When SNL announced their By Lainey • Aug 28, 2019 08:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Does Eddie Murphy have a shot at Best Supporting Actor this year? He definitely could be in contention. Eddie Murphy’s performance in the little-seen indie Mr. Church — which hit DVD and on-demand yesterday* — has been dubbed a “revelation” by The Hollywood Reporter. Whoever is running Eddie’s Twitter appears to agree with that take. All week long – Eddie’s Twitter account By Joanna • Oct 26, 2016 12:55 pm
