Cannes 2025 A smattering of Cannes fashion The Cannes Film Festival ends this weekend, which means it’s time for that annual end-of-Cannes event, the amFAR Gala. As we’ve mentioned several times over the last couple weeks, the fest’s new dress code rules, targeting “naked and voluminous” dresses, has maybe contributed to a rather boring By Sarah • May 23, 2025 11:38 am
Break Ups Middle-Aged Man Beef Lainey emailed me yesterday about Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly popping in on Snoop Dogg’s set at Will Ferrell’s Best Night Of Your Life 2 benefit event for Cancer For College, which helps cancer survivors pursue higher education (because treatment costs often wipe out college funds, we’ By Sarah • Oct 24, 2023 11:11 am
TV Updates See the show that broke up Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Last week, Adam McKay blamed a casting decision for his new HBO series about the Lakers as the reason for his falling out with Will Ferrell. Now that series, titled Winning Time, has a trailer, and, well, John C. Reilly looks f-cking amazing in it as Dr. Jerry Buss, owner By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ferrell and Reilly re-team Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have made two funny movies together: Talladega Nights and Step Brothers. They are re-teaming for Holmes & Watson, a comedy riff on Sherlock Holmes. The first trailer is terrible. I mean, it is so bad, it’s almost artful, how bad it is. That By Sarah • Oct 04, 2018 12:53 pm
TIFF 2008 Red Carpet TIFF Review: The Sisters Brothers Opening this weekend is the latest in the budding sub-genre of sensitive, revisionist Westerns (following on the heels of Slow West and Damsel), The Sisters Brothers, a view on the classic gunslinger trope that allows for existential dilemmas and regret. Adapted by Thomas Bidegain and director Jacques Audiard from Patrick By Sarah • Sep 21, 2018 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bad Nuns One of my favorite literary sub-genres is “Stuff Written During The Plague”. There’s a whole shelf in my bookcase dedicated to Stuff Written During The Plague (between “Angry Repressed Victorians” and “Maritime Mysteries [Non-Fiction]”). Medieval plague breakouts drove people out of cities—if you could afford to leave the By Sarah • Apr 18, 2017 03:11 pm
Brad Pitt Judge Pitt, Councillor Clooney, and President Bartlet God I miss The West Wing (seasons 1 to 4). As mentioned last week, Dustin Lance Black’s 8 was read in LA on Saturday night featuring many major celebrities including Brad Pitt and George Clooney playing Judge Vaughn Walker and David Boies respectively. Martin Sheen took on the part By Lainey • Mar 05, 2012 05:06 pm
