Boy Sh-t Vin Diesel and “little” Dwayne Johnson BACK AT IT As you know, boy sh-t is the best sh-t, and over the weekend Vin Diesel delivered some premium, grade-A boy sh-t when he uncorked his feud with The Rock in an Instagram appeal to get Dwayne Johnson to return to the Fast/Furious franchise for Fast By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 10:18 am
Outfit of the Week Outfit of the Week: Kristen Stewart’s Blazer and Lace Spencer opens today, currently sitting at 84% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes so it’s a matter of whether or not audiences will show up as an alternative to Marvel’s Eternals to boost Kristen Stewart’s already robust chances at an Oscar nomination. And as we have seen, she’s By Lainey • Nov 05, 2021 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma after Diana As we are poised to receive Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana this weekend as Spencer opens theatrically today, let’s check in on the previous pop culture Princess Diana, Emma Corrin. They're in Venice shooting a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, looking very 1920s glam. Jack By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika tackles Jodorowsky In the annals of cult cinema, few filmmakers stand taller than Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean-French filmmaker behind films like Topo and The Holy Mountain. He’s also known for his failed Dune adaptation, which was documented in Jodorowsky’s Dune. Jodorowsky is an artist of unquenchable curiosity, and while By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 10:48 am
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, 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 know 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 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 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 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
