Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in The Roses Warren Adler’s divorce-themed novel, The War of the Roses, was published in 1981, born of the era in which the introduction of no-fault divorce led to a huge spike in divorces. In 1989, Danny DeVito—an underappreciated director of comedy—adapted Adler’s novel into the similarly titled The By Sarah • Aug 27, 2025 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Roses at war (again) When a remake of The War of the Roses, Danny DeVito’s pitch black 1989 divorce “comedy”—quotes because the film is emotionally and literally violent—was announced last year, I thought why. I mean, besides the fact that you almost can’t get a script greenlit without it stemming By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie Every possible question you could have about Barbieland is answerable with an enthusiastic “yes!”. Barbieland is a feminine utopia where women occupy all jobs from construction worker to president, everyone is aggressively positive and supportive, and everything is violently pink. Barbie—all Barbie, every Barbie, everyone is Barbie, you are By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 11:26 am
Style Kenadians and More Barbies in the Spotlight Of course it wasn’t just Margot Robbie holding it down for Barbie at the Hollywood premiere last night. Margot and director Greta Gerwig were joined by other Barbies and some Kens and as you would expect, there was a lot of pink. America Ferrera went for a lighter pink By Lainey • Jul 10, 2023 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbies, Kens, and Humans Barbie, the movie, is coming for our Tuesday. Warner Bros just dropped over a dozen character posters for their expected summer blockbuster and it’s perhaps our best indication of what the story might be…sort of. Margot Robbie is Barbie. “Barbie is everything” is how her poster is described. By Lainey • Apr 04, 2023 11:27 am
TV Updates The bonkers big cat people are back The first of the fictionalized Tiger King projects is here, and it’s Peacock’s Joe vs Carole, which stars Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin and John Cameron Mitchell as Joe Exotic, with Kyle MacLachlan as Howard Baskin, Carole’s currently living husband. The series drops the first week of By Sarah • Jan 24, 2022 02:35 pm
Kristen Wiig Intro for December 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was so good to see Maya Rudolph and Kate McKinnon join Kristen Wiig onstage for the opening monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They’ll go down as all-time greats on the show for sure. Actually, they already are. The women of SNL have always held By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 09:18 am
TV Updates Adele’s SNL Promo Adele is the host of this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, a surprise announcement to almost everyone when it was made after last week’s show. Of course that led to all kinds of speculation as to why Adele is hosting. She says it’s been a lifelong By Lainey • Oct 23, 2020 01:08 pm
SD Recommendations What not to watch during self-quarantine I’ve made a couple rounds of recommendations of things to watch while self-quarantined, but with several more weeks of lockdown to go—at least—I’m starting to worry about our screen time. As in, I cannot possibly be the only person who’s had to shut off the By Sarah • Apr 20, 2020 03:41 pm
TV Updates Saturday Night Live, At Home On Saturday night we had a games night over FaceTime (shout-out to whomever is writing the article about which group chat apps are chosen for which activities.) It was the most fun – and the most ‘out’ – I’ve felt in weeks. But even though it was great, or maybe because By Duana • Apr 13, 2020 12:50 pm
Amanda Seyfried Margot Robbie is not my Carole Baskin Have you watched Tiger King yet? I feel like it’s the show of the moment. Does anybody care about Love is Blind anymore? Every three weeks or so, there’s a Netflix series that everyone is talking about, at least online. I’m sure that drives other streaming services By Lainey • Apr 01, 2020 11:08 am
Emmy Awards 2018 That’s How You Open the Emmys? Credit where credit is due – the way the nominees, then presenters, then winners were announced was so inexplicable and utterly confusing that it probably made people pay a lot more attention. To the point where, when Kate McKinnon and Kenan “Holy Sh*t He Looks Good” Thompson came out, people By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 01:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon’s buddy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me is being marketed as an action-comedy but it isn’t really that. There is action and there is comedy, but describing it as an action-comedy is like calling Planes, Trains and Automobiles a travelogue. The heart of The Spy Who Dumped Me is the friendship By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 11:05 am
Issa Rae TOO MANY HANDS Next week is GQ’s comedy issue, and in advance they’ve released the cover which features Kate McKinnon, Sarah Silverman, Issa Rae, and HANDS. SO. MANY. HANDS. It creeps me out. Which is the intent, based on the satirical write up accompanying the cover, calling the plethora of HANDS By Sarah • May 18, 2018 08:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are bad spies Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon went on Ellen to premiere the first trailer for their upcoming comedy, The Spy Who Dumped Me, and holy crap does this movie look good. Comedy trailers are tricky—the trailer could be all the funny bits and then the movie itself disappoints—but this By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 03:25 pm
Emmy Awards 2017 Kate & Alec: Emmy ‘Supporting’ Comedy There was more, this year, about SNL than in… almost decades. That sounds insane, but it’s true—and you heard Lorne Michaels say so in one of the most dour acceptance speeches in my memory. Maybe he was tired from having won four more trophies last week, but you By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 08:01 am
