Movie Reviews and Previews Hijinks and tomfoolery in The Wedding Banquet Ang Lee’s classic romantic dramedy The Wedding Banquet is now 32 years old, and besides being old enough for a mortgage, the film also straddles a significant cultural divide—the legalization of gay marriage. Lee’s 1993 rom-dramedy of manners centers on a queer couple who must hide their By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 02:38 pm
Style The Wedding Banquet party did not coordinate The Wedding Banquet opens this weekend, which means Lily Gladstone is back in our lives, and this time she’s in a rom-com. I love it when actors known for heavy work get to cut loose—which is why I am currently plotting The Pitt spin-off Dr. Robby’s Relaxing By Sarah • Apr 15, 2025 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bowen Yang’s banquet I have this theory that SNL hasn’t produced a real movie star in over a decade, since the mid-2000s class that mostly departed the show in the early 2010s. That group includes Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, and Andy Samberg, all of whom went on to greater fame outside of By Sarah • Mar 18, 2025 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, When Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet was released in 1993, about a queer Taiwanese American man who marries a Chinese woman to get her a green card and hiding the truth from his family as they plan the wedding, it’s not like there were a lot By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 09:20 am
Gorgessity Outfit of the Week: Kelly Marie Tran Disney’s Raya and The Last Dragon is now available to stream on Disney+. Read Sarah’s review of the film here – spoiler alert: it’s GOOD. I loved it. I loved the story, I love the actors, I laughed, I cried more than I expected to, and it looks By Lainey • Mar 05, 2021 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina in Raya and the Last Dragon Disney’s latest animated adventure is Raya and the Last Dragon, a magic-laced quest picture in the vein of Frozen and Moana, but this time taking its cues from Southeast Asian culture and folklore. Raya, voiced by Kelly Marie Tran, is the first Southeast Asian heroine of an animated Disney By Sarah • Mar 04, 2021 01:31 pm
Top Reads Kelly Marie Tran showed up for herself On the eve of Raya and the Last Dragon hitting theaters/Disney+, star Kelly Marie Tran covers The Hollywood Reporter, discussing her period away from the spotlight after racist and misogynistic bullying drove her off social media in the wake of The Last Jedi, and her return as Disney’s By Sarah • Mar 04, 2021 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran is Disney’s latest heroine It is a truth universally acknowledged that Kelly Marie Tran deserves way better than she got from her Star Wars experience. But what is done is done, and it’s onward and upward for Tran, who is the latest Disney heroine in Raya and the Last Dragon. The teaser dropped By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran: Historic Princess Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is due for release on March 12, 2021. It has already made history – because Kelly Marie Tran is now the “first actress of Southeast Asian descent to lead a Disney animated movie” and the movie is also the first Disney film to be By Lainey • Aug 27, 2020 03:12 pm
Dumbass #RoseTicoDeservedBetter The last week of the year is a liminal space. It is the abandoned shopping mall of time: It once was, it is not yet. Nothing happens in the last week of the year, when post-holiday blues and pre-New Year’s Eve nerves set in. And everything happens in the By Sarah • Jan 08, 2020 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars concludes (for now) in The Rise of Skywalker To follow a much-debated middle installment in a trilogy is a big task, and to wrap up a nine-film saga is a big task, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is better at one of those things than the other. As a conclusion to the “Skywalker Saga”, it is By Sarah • Dec 18, 2019 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rey’s new lightsaber Disney biennial fan convention, D23, happened over the weekend, and now the question is when Disney is just going to make this an annual event. This year felt like Comic-Con Part II, with an unending cycle of weekend news, including movies and TV shows that won’t be coming out By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 11:29 am
Top Reads Loan Tran, a.k.a Kelly Marie Even if you don’t follow Star Wars, even if you tune out any headline that includes the words ‘social media’, you heard about Kelly Marie Tran. That she quit social media after she was bullied and berated by Star Wars truther bros for daring to appear in their beloved By Duana • Aug 21, 2018 04:14 pm
Star Wars Intro for June 6, 2018 Dear Gossips, As I’ve written about several times already, I loved The Last Jedi, I loved the Rose Tico and Finn parts in The Last Jedi, and I love Rose Tico. I love what Rose Tico did. Which was to introduce us to the greater Star Wars world. Because By Lainey • Jun 06, 2018 09:16 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 14, 2018 Dear Gossips, Have you read Shia LaBeouf’s new Esquire interview yet? The highlight of the piece is probably what he says about Kanye West taking his clothes. Which is why Kanye has been seen in Shia’s clothes. Shia is contrite. Or, depending on how you look at it, By Lainey • Mar 14, 2018 09:13 am
Oscars 2018 Star Wars at the Oscars Remember when Kelly Marie Tran almost quit acting and then, a year later, she was cast in Star Wars: The Last Jedi? And now she’s presenting at the Oscars!?! Rose Tico! At the Oscars! There are some people who weren’t feeling the Rose Tico and Finn storyline in By Lainey • Mar 05, 2018 04:38 am
