Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Look Up and Jennifer Lawrence’s big news The never-ending deluge of trailers continues with Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, another Netflix movie we won’t remember in six months. This is the fancier version of Moonfall, about a comet headed for Earth and, I guess, the political maneuvering that goes on around an end-of-the-world scenario. By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 11:45 am
Equality Issues Intro for December 18, 2020 Dear Gossips, A few years ago at the London Film Festival, Meryl Streep had something to say about film critics – specifically how male film critics largely outnumber female film critics and the effect that disparity has on how films are received, both commercially and culturally. She was talking about how By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Famous People in The Prom Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Prom is a strange artifact from another time. Though it debuted in 2016 and hit Broadway in 2018, it feels like flotsam from the Obama-era, something from a less contentious, less overtly divisive time when “NYC Broadway liberals” versus “small-town By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 02:13 pm
Emma Stone The Met Gala 2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened in April 1870 so next year the Met celebrates its 150th anniversary and many of its exhibits will commemorate the milestone. Which means the Costume Institute Gala, aka the Met Gala, will also be a birthday party on the first Monday By Lainey • Nov 08, 2019 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Laundromat of smugness So far, The Laundromat is my biggest TIFF disappointment. I was looking forward to this film for a few reasons, but only one of them proved out—Meryl Streep’s bucket hat is very jaunty, indeed. Every other element of the film is either miscalculated or confusing. The Laundromat is By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl’s bucket hat Meryl Streep is receiving the TIFF Tribute Actor Award at this year’s film festival, to go along with the North American premiere of her new film, The Laundromat, directed by Steven Soderbergh. I’m not going to lie, when I first heard Soderbergh made a movie starring Meryl Streep By Sarah • Aug 29, 2019 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep is the star of The Prom: The Musical – The Movie Around the time of Tonys, I learned there is such a thing as The Prom, a musical about prom, and I felt acute relief that I could go through life, not knowing anything about The Prom. But now, I must study up on The Prom, because Ryan Murphy is adapting By Sarah • Jun 26, 2019 12:35 pm
TV Updates Yes and No – Season 2 Trailer of Big Little Lies There is nothing that makes me feel more ‘yes and no’ than the trailer for Season 2 of Big Little Lies. I specifically don’t mean ‘conflicted’, which at least to me means that you’re so full of all kinds of back and forth feelings that you can’t By Duana • Apr 15, 2019 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everybody loves Emily There were some significant snubs today when the SAG nominations were announced. We’ll discuss them here and there in other posts later and what that means for Oscar. It’s a competitive year. That’s the simple, incomplete explanation. It’s also, as always, a popularity contest. And what By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 04:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the summer fling of 2018 I have not seen Mamma Mia! and I don’t know enough ABBA to make a go of it at karaoke, and I hate musicals, so Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again had a lot of ground to make up with me. I sat through the whole movie, and I By Sarah • Jul 19, 2018 10:22 am
Zoe Kravitz Meryl gets another Emmy The official news is that Meryl Streep is joining the cast of Big Little Lies but we all know what that really means. Season two won’t air until next year so they should just go ahead and put Meryl’s name on the 2020 Emmy ballot. #Meryl2020 Let’s By Kathleen • Jan 25, 2018 10:39 am
Golden Globes 2018 Kelly Clarkson’s fun night at the Globes There were fears that the tone of the Golden Globes would be somber this year. In fact, Ryan Seacrest kept implying over and over that guests would have a hard timing having fun inside the show during his red carpet broadcast like you can’t have fun while also attempting By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 06:29 am
Golden Globes 2018 Intro for January 8, 2018 Dear Gossips, Before we begin, and if you haven’t already, please read the excellent interview featuring the Fug Girls, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, by Constance Grady for Vox about red carpet coverage during #MeToo. I don’t want to excerpt one particular comment or answer because I don’ By Lainey • Jan 08, 2018 02:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post Set during the pre-Watergate Nixon administration, The Post follows the Washington Post back when it was considered a “local paper”. The New York Times is the paper of record, but the Post is under the control of Kay Graham, whose father left the family publishing empire to her husband, who By Sarah • Dec 06, 2017 04:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Delivering The Post Not unlike P.T. Anderson’s Phantom Thread, when it comes to Oscar odds, everyone left room for Steven Spielberg’s latest, The Post. It features a heavyweight ensemble led by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, and it’s about the Washington Post going up against Nixon’s administration over By Sarah • Nov 10, 2017 10:07 am
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein & the Hollywood Hierarchy Harvey Weinstein was fired by The Weinstein Company, his own company, on Sunday. Before his termination, he sent a letter to other powerful Hollywood executives, asking for their support. According to The Hollywood Reporter the recipients of his memo included David Zaslav, Discovery Networks CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, the By Lainey • Oct 10, 2017 10:07 am
