Music A Quiet Bennifer Holiday As of the timing of this writing, we’ve yet to see Bennifer in 2023, but that’s only a matter of time. Their holiday seemed relatively quiet, although she did step out for work on December 29, seen arriving at a photo shoot. The work for Jennifer Lopez never By Lainey • Jan 04, 2023 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale in The Pale Blue Eye Filmmaker Scott Cooper and Christian Bale have a fruitful collaboration going on, with the very good crime drama Out of the Furnace and the better than you expect it to be Hostiles, but their third cinematic effort together is…interesting, to say the least. The Pale Blue Eye is an By Sarah • Dec 22, 2022 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Let’s talk about Avatar’s “magical Natives” Avatar: The Way of Water is poised to dominate the long holiday weekend in the US. Christmas is traditionally one of the biggest movie-going periods of the year, though we have yet to see what it really looks like on the other side of the pandemic, and before anyone By Sarah • Dec 21, 2022 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Flo makes the list For their February 2023 issue, just in time for the BAFTAs which are happening on February 19, and just three weeks before the Oscars, Empire Magazine has released its list of the 50 Greatest Actors of All Time based on readers’ votes. Two years ago, the New York Times put By Lainey • Dec 21, 2022 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt in Babylon Damien Chazelle continues his cinematic study of obsession and achievement with Babylon, a three hour and ten-minute odyssey through the end of the silent era of film that drags the audience through piles of cocaine, piss, vomit, and ten gallons of elephant sh-t. It’s the most glamorous By Sarah • Dec 21, 2022 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu is in LOVE Simu Liu and Allison Hsu publicly confirmed their relationship not even a month ago at the premiere of Violent Night when they wore matching holiday sweaters on the carpet. Prior to that, Simu revealed back in September that he’d broken up with Jade Bender. But now it sounds like By Lainey • Dec 21, 2022 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ takes the Tom Cruise route Kind of. He’s not flinging himself out of an airplane while filming a thank you video, but Michael B. Jordan is taking a page from the Tom Cruise Playbook for Creed III. A behind-the-scenes featurette dropped yesterday, and in it MBJ emphasizes two things: big cinema and By Sarah • Dec 20, 2022 01:27 pm
Amazingness Tom Cruise: Rides and Dives Yesterday I posted about Tom Cruise jumping out of an airplane and falling through the sky while delivering a thank you and happy holidays message and promoting Top Gun: Maverick on streaming and on its Oscar campaign. Today I’m back, because he’s back, and instead of jumping out By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aubrey and Adam in the cold Francis Ford Coppola commenced filming his long-gestating passion project, Megalopolis, in Atlanta in November. Among the sprawling ensemble cast are Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza, who is sporting blonde hair for a character called “Wow Wee”. I’m sure that name isn’t an indication of anything about the By Sarah • Dec 20, 2022 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bomb movie goes boom Just like Barbie, a teaser for next summer’s Oppenheimer played in front of IMAX screenings for Avatar: The Way of Water over the weekend, and just like Barbie, Oppenheimer’s teaser is now online for all of us to see. Like Barbie, Oppenheimer looks good. Completely different, of course, By Sarah • Dec 19, 2022 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver cashes in Human sequoia Adam Driver puts up with a lot from his adoring public, from graphic “Reylo” fanfic, to being called things like “human sequoia” on the internet, to John Oliver’s massive crush, and in exchange for his endless patience and not stepping on us all like ants with his By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in White Noise Somewhere there exists a film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel, White Noise, that is as good as the production design in the currently existing film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel, White Noise. Written for the screen and directed by Noah Baumbach, White Noise is the odd misfire from By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-People are back Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is arguably the best superhero movie ever made (cases can be made for Superman, 1978, Batman, 1989, and Black Panther). Not only is it eye-wateringly beautiful animation, but it captures the essence of both Miles Morales as a singular character and Spider-Man By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews We’re in our Barbie Era For a lot of us, Barbie is one of the most anticipated movies of 2023. It’s not even that we’re all fans of Barbie, it’s the sheer combination of unlikely factors—that a Barbie movie exists in the 2020s, that it’s directed by Greta Gerwig, that By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, Babylon, the last major entry into awards season before the holidays, premiered in Los Angeles last night. Everyone turned out, from headliners Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Diego Calva, to members of the massive ensemble including Jean Smart, Flea, comedian Rory Scovel, Li Jun Li, Tobey Maguire, Lukas By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The CCAs have what the Oscars want The nominations for the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards were announced yesterday, and the coverage was overall more robust than what we saw earlier in the week for the Golden Globes. The Critics’ Choice Association is actively trying to snake the Globes’ place as THE pre-Oscar awards show, and so By Sarah • Dec 15, 2022 02:37 pm
