Movie Reviews and Previews Pocket Prince Daniel Radcliffe to play Comedy King Weird Al Today in Short King News, it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe will star as Weird Al Yankovic in a biopic of the seminal comedian, musician, filmmaker, and polka legend for, of all places, the Roku Channel. (Did not know that Roku has a channel, but you learn something new every By Sarah • Jan 19, 2022 11:00 am
TV Updates Joss Whedon takes himself to the woodshed There is a longform profile of Joss Whedon in New York Magazine titled “The Undoing of Joss Whedon” and it is a masterclass in interviewing someone and letting them take themselves out back to the woodshed. The piece is from writer Lila Shapiro, and it could also be titled “Joss By Sarah • Jan 18, 2022 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews We have to relitigate Beanie Babies now Right at the end of December, a documentary dropped on HBO Max about the Beanie Baby collecting craze of the 1990s, Beanie Mania. It’s not groundbreaking, but it does bring shame to the entire Chicago area—the first avid collectors were suburban Chicago moms—and it does a pretty By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 02:42 pm
Award Season Campaigning Awards season takes shape As we’ve been saying, this awards season is wide open. But with the SAG nominations landing today, we’re finally starting to get a picture of what the Oscar race really looks like. For instance, The Power of the Dog, a favorite frontrunner since it hit the festival circuit By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 01:21 pm
BFFs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon chew the fat Ben Affleck is still on the combined promotional trail for The Tender Bar and campaign trail for that movie and/or The Last Duel, neither of which have serious hopes of major awards nominations. He follows his LA Times interview with a new Entertainment Weekly cover story, with an interview By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 12:21 pm
Top Reads A Gossip Wish: The Magic Mike Oscars During the Winter Television Critics Association virtual press tour yesterday, Craig Erwich, the president of ABC, which is the network that airs the Oscars, confirmed that this year’s show will have a host, after going host-less for the last three. The Oscars this year are happening later, at the By Lainey • Jan 12, 2022 10:10 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer: An Unplanned Reunion Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were seen out for lunch yesterday in West Hollywood, officially the first time they’ve been papped together in the new year. She looks really cute in that poncho, and it’s weather-appropriate since it’s chilly in LA right now, like for LA. Where By Lainey • Jan 11, 2022 10:55 am
Award Season Campaigning Ben Affleck pre-50 George Clooney’s The Tender Bar started streaming on Prime last Friday, which is why Ben Affleck was featured in the LA Times this weekend. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in the film (he didn’t win) and he does have a shot at an By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Actress Oscar Race post GGs As we’ve been seeing over the last few months, this is a wide-open award season. The Golden Globes may have been awarded last night but I don’t think the results there really established any clear frontrunners. In the Best Picture category, we always knew The Power of the By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney Mara is Audrey Hepburn On Friday, news broke (via Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter) that Rooney Mara has been cast as Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming biopic to be directed by Luca Guadagnino. People were IN their FEELINGS about this, mainly because Mara is sort of famously glum and Audrey Hepburn did not have By Sarah • Jan 10, 2022 10:46 am
Dumbass Intro for January 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, My entertainment priority last night was Euphoria, so I totally forgot that the Golden Globes were happening – and by happening, they were not televised or streamed, but the winners were announced via live tweets, which turned out to be a mess. “Chaotic mess” is 100% on brand with By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anderson + Cumberbatch + Dahl Wes Anderson is on a roll. With The French Dispatch out in 2021, and his next project, an ensemble film called Asteroid City, already in post-production and expected later this year, Anderson is already prepping his next-next project, a Roald Dahl adaptation for Netflix, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The news comes By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 02:36 pm
Business of Hollywood State of the Awards Season Union Hello, it is I, Chicken Little, to tell you a little more about how the sky is falling! We’ve already covered the fata morgana that is Spider-Man: No Way Home’s success and the box office, and now we need to talk about AWARDS SEASON. Oh, did you think By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews There won’t be another Denzel Denzel Washington is on the cover of this week’s Variety, promoting his two-fer as both the star of The Tragedy of Macbeth and director of A Journal for Jordan. For Macbeth, he’s a heavy favorite for an Oscar nomination; if it happens, it would be his ninth nomination By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, As the pandemic rages into its third year—THIRD! YEAR!—Hollywood continues to fret about the box office and movie theaters. The billion-dollar success of Spider-Man: No Way Home has some cheering that theaters are back, baby, but others take a more measured view. In The New York By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pam & Tommy won’t do that The full trailer for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy series is here, and besides leaning on a Meatloaf song for a winky meta-joke about the era, this looks like Craig Gillespie working very much in the vein of I, Tonya, reframing an infamous moment in a famous woman’s life By Sarah • Jan 06, 2022 09:30 am
