Movie Reviews and Previews Is Borderlands our new Fifth Element? The quest to permanently dispel the video game curse—and maybe overtake the superhero movie as the dominant popcorn entertainment genre—continues with Borderlands, Eli Roth’s take on the popular game series that debuted in 2009. The first trailer dropped and it’s sort of a wild mess, but By Sarah • Feb 21, 2024 02:15 pm
Goldie Hawn Celebrity Scenes from Aspen It’s slow out there in celebrity, just as it is for the rest of us. This is the supposed to be the week we recover from the pre-Christmas and holiday rush, and get ready for to pick up the grind next week, when a new year begins. And we By Lainey • Dec 29, 2021 10:49 am
Amazingness Intro for December 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, I didn’t even realise it last week when I posted about Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience and their back-to-back re-enactments of an episode each of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes that it was counterprogramming against NBC’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 09:06 am
Amazingness Intro for August 13, 2021 Dear Gossips, For the second time in two weeks, a clip involving Kevin Hart has gone viral. Last week it was when he and Snoop Dogg were calling the dressage event at the Olympics. I still watch that back once a day and crack up. “The horse Crip walking, cuz! By Lainey • Aug 13, 2021 09:08 am
Amazingness Intro for August 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, If you could do commentary on any Olympic sport, what would it be? For me, since I’m obsessed with sports commentating, I wouldn’t be choosy, I’d be good with any rotation, I’ll take whatever sport they put on at 3am. That said, if there By Lainey • Aug 03, 2021 08:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock’s matching dinner outfits Dwayne The Rock Johnson and his wife, Lauren Hashian went out for dinner last night in LA. The Rock doesn’t get papped super often. It might not seem that way because he’s quite active on social media, but I don’t see weekly shots of him on the By Lainey • Jun 09, 2021 01:35 pm
TV Updates The Quibi Experiment, Three Months Later Here’s a real question for us to ponder in the summer of nothing better to do: Which is going worse, the first months of Apple TV+ or the first months of Quibi? Both are enormously expensive streaming ventures, both had flashy launches touting impressive rosters of A List talent, By Sarah • Jul 07, 2020 12:03 pm
Ali Wong Netflix flexes their comedy power Netflix has done many things to the entertainment industry over the last decade, from creating a new viewing model for audiences to drive award season spending even higher in pursuit of a Best Picture Oscar. But one thing they’ve done that we don’t talk about as much is By Sarah • Mar 02, 2020 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The players return in Jumanji: The Next Level Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a surprise hit in 2017, a sequel/soft reboot that actually manages to add to the lore of the original movie, such as changing the Jumanji game from a board game to a video game, while also standing on its own. Jumanji: The Next By Sarah • Dec 13, 2019 12:28 pm
Douchebags Lil Nas X Holds His Own Against Kevin Hart Tuesday’s episode of The Shop is in the headlines because of a conversation involving Lil Nas X and Kevin Hart. Check out the clip: I love @LilNasX so much pic.twitter.com/8EVbE7QHPf— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 4, 2019 SIGH. A little context here. At the end of June By Prem • Sep 05, 2019 10:59 am
TV Updates Kevin Hart is also joining Quibi Earlier, Prem wrote about Sasha Velour’s upcoming show on Quibi, the “bite-sized” streaming platform designed for quick hit entertainment. Whenever Quibi comes up in my social media, there’s a real air of condescension and thinly veiled contempt for it surrounding the news releases. But as Prem pointed out, By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ready Player Jumanji Back during the 2017 holidays, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a surprise, near-billion-dollar hit. So, naturally, a sequel (three-quel, technically) was immediately rushed into development. That movie, Jumanji: The Next Level, is scheduled for the 2019 holiday season, obviously hoping to repeat the fortunes of its predecessor. The first By Sarah • Jul 02, 2019 10:35 am
Ellen Degeneres Intro for January 4, 2019 Dear Gossips, Big weekend! It’s the Golden Globes on Sunday! The Golden Globes do not have a hosting problem. It’s the Oscars that have a hosting problem. Which is why the Oscar host dilemma is making headlines today, just two days before the Globes. With only 7 weeks By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 09:10 am
Douchebags Kevin Hart is not hosting the Oscars Two days ago it was announced that Kevin Hart would host the Oscars and I wrote, “…everyone likes Kevin Hart. He’s the Platonic ideal of an Oscar host: popular, funny but not offensive…” And then a lot of you emailed to let me know that you don’t like By Sarah • Dec 07, 2018 09:48 am
Kevin Hart Kevin Hart is hosting the Oscars Yesterday morning The Hollywood Reporter called hosting the Oscars the “least wanted job in Hollywood”. Less than three months from the 2019 telecast, the Oscars had no host, and, apparently, no hope of a host. My suggestion was either Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, or a pack a wolves. Picture By Sarah • Dec 05, 2018 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle The lasting impression of the comedy Central Intelligence is that Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson are a terrific screen duo. They must have known that, too, because just eighteen months later, they’ve reunited for the Jumanji sequel/reboot, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. They wasted no time in finding By Sarah • Dec 22, 2017 10:12 am
