Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Marvel’s Eternals Marvel has taken a lot of hits over the years for their formula, and it’s a fair assessment at times that they lean too hard on the known and don’t take many real risks with their films. In that way, Eternals is the biggest swing they’ve ever By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked, finally The musical Wicked is nearly twenty years old—the book is twenty-six—and, finally, it is coming to the big screen. Jon M. Chu continues to not make the Crazy Rich Asians sequel will direct Wicked, following up his previous song and dance efforts Step Up 2 & 3, Jem By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, As you may have heard by now, Eternals is rating a 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the first “rotten” movie in the MCU, and the lowest rated MCU movie ever. My full review will be posted later today, but while I don’t love the movie as By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 09:20 am
Gorgessity Kristen Stewart Is So Good At Campaigning Kristen Stewart seems to think that her performance in Spencer will be the only time she contends for an Oscar. I don’t agree - but if this is her one shot at it, she’s definitely giving it her 8 Mile. (I feel like not enough people remember or By Lainey • Nov 04, 2021 01:55 pm
Quiveration Intro for November 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, We are in the final week of Michael B Jordan’s reign as PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive. The SMA of 2021 should be announced soon and in the past I’ve run down a list of possible candidates with what I think their odds are of securing By Lainey • Nov 04, 2021 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors, Regina King, and Idris Elba in The Harder They Fall Jeymes Samuel’s revisionist Western, The Harder They Fall, is less interested in history and more interested in aesthetic. It’s a film built on the cultural cache of gunslingers and bank robbers and the inherent coolness of its stars, especially Jonathan Majors. The Harder They Fall, written by Samuel By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crush me, moon daddy! Moonfall, the dumbest movie of 2022, is here with a new trailer about the moon obliterating Earth. Or maybe it’s really the secret aliens—robots?—that have been hiding inside the moon trying to kill us. Either way, the moon is the harbinger of our doom, which is slanderous By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maybe Morbius isn’t terrible? I have not been high on the Morbius train, as this pandemic-delayed Spider-Man spin-off finally wends its way to theaters in January 2022. But a new trailer is the best of the bunch by a huge margin, and maybe Morbius doesn’t look terrible? They’re still throwing everything and By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s next act Robert Downey, Jr. is in his post-Marvel reinvention phase, and if we ignore Dolittle, which we should, then his most significant post-Avengers project is Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie about Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy is already on board to play Oppenheimer, By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga Gives Good Vogue Is it too early to declare, officially, that the celebrity profile is back?! Because in the last month, we’ve had multiple excellent celebrity profiles, two of them written by the same person, about two of the world’s biggest superstars, and another that included the now-iconic sentence, “I am By Lainey • Nov 03, 2021 09:40 am
Equality Issues Intro for November 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Following the breakout success of Framing Britney Spears, The New York Times Presents is debuting a new documentary on FX/Hulu on November 19 called Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson. We’ve seen a spate of documentaries focused on famous women of the aughts, from Britney By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 08:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews But WHY Chris Pratt? On the one hand, I get it. Chris Pratt is a very bankable star, and despite being Worst Chris he remains widely popular among general audiences. Whenever he gets a new role, a big part of me understands why. Chris Pratt is good business. But there is a little part By Sarah • Nov 02, 2021 02:42 pm
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer are engaged Well this is a big get for Howard Stern. Spencer opens on Friday and Kristen Stewart stopped by his show this morning during this final leg of her promotional push – for the film; she’ll be on the Oscar circuit still for months to come. Kristen and Howard have a By Lainey • Nov 02, 2021 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas is a dancing assassin Ana de Armas is one of the best parts of No Time To Die, and as Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the producers behind Bond, are not interested in spin-offs, her interesting and fun character, Paloma, will likely never be seen again. I get that Broccoli and Wilson are protective By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans goes to infinity, and beyond The teaser trailer for Lightyear, the Toy Story spin-off centered on the “real” Buzz Lightyear, dropped this week. It features a lot of David Bowie and only a little of Chris Evans speaking as the human Buzz. They’re going to hang onto Evans saying the catchphrase as long as By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga taps her tiny spoon Lady Gaga won an Oscar for Best Original Song for “Shallow”, but what she REALLY wants is a Best Actress statue and she is COMING FOR IT in House of Gucci. This is going to be a crazy competitive awards season all the way around, but the number of high-octane By Sarah • Oct 29, 2021 09:50 am
