Movie Reviews and Previews Pitch Perfect but for Eurovision Eurovision, the delightful annual summit that pits (mostly) European countries against each other in a bonkers singing competition, was cancelled earlier this year, along with basically everything else, due to the pandemic. I love anything that is countries competing against each other, and I firmly believe all geopolitical issues should By Sarah • May 19, 2020 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2: Who cares? Lainey asked me this question—who cares about the Avatar sequels? It is the eternal debate of Avatar, how big is it REALLY, when it left no cultural footprint? Sure, it’s the second biggest movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation), and it was a technological marvel when By Sarah • May 15, 2020 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Capone There is a line between “good” and “bad” where quantifiable binary judgments don’t matter because the thing itself is so interesting. Great filmmakers like David Lynch and David Cronenberg frequently walk this line, creating works that are unpleasant, indecipherable, possibly in bad taste and yet are captivating regardless of By Sarah • May 14, 2020 10:56 am
Gossip Nostalgia Mad Max: Fury Road turns 5 Mad Max: Fury Road was released on May 5, 2015 – 5.15.15. To mark its fifth anniversary on Friday, The New York Times has published an oral history of Mad Max: Fury Road featuring commentary from several of the key players, including director George Miller, lead stars Charlize Theron By Lainey • May 13, 2020 11:55 am
TV Updates Is Kristen Wiig pregnant? I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Hollywood Lockdown Baby Boom and the growing list of celebrities who’ve announced their pregnancies over the last few weeks. Are we adding Kristen Wiig to it? During the season finale of Saturday Night Live @ Home this weekend, Kristen was the By Lainey • May 12, 2020 11:58 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Tenet and its status now as the “Last Blockbuster Standing” because, at the time, Warner Bros had yet to push back its release date, July 17, 2020. Tenet’s director, Christopher Nolan, is one of the leading crusaders for the By Lainey • May 08, 2020 08:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The failed legacy of The Rise of Skywalker SPOILERS With Star War: The Rise of Skywalker hitting Disney+, and since it’s May the 4th week, it is time now to revisit The Rise of Skywalker, a movie that is not even five months old and already aging poorly. At first watch, TROS is an uneven movie that By Sarah • May 07, 2020 03:14 pm
Equality Issues Issa Rae wants to be The One Issa Rae covers the June 2020 issue of Cosmopolitan and it’s Ira Madison III who interviews her so everyone else better come correct with their June magazine offerings because how are you going to top this? Issa is currently promoting … well… SO much. Insecure Season 4 is currently in By Lainey • May 07, 2020 02:39 pm
Star Wars Taika’s inevitable Star War After winning his Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi shot down reports that he was in talks with Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars movie. Well guess what? Taika Waititi is now making a Star Wars movie. There is zero information about this film except that he will co-write it By Sarah • May 05, 2020 10:03 am
Xenu Intro for May 5, 2020 Dear Gossips, Fifty years ago, there was a race to the moon, a dick swing between two nations that resulted in major advancements in science and tech. Now in Hollywood there’s a race to space. A one man race to space. Because I don’t know that anyone else By Lainey • May 05, 2020 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Secret Love is a tender portrait of queer romance Here’s my review of A Secret Love, a new Netflix documentary about the seven-decade relationship, most of which was spent in the closet, between Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel: I started crying less than three minutes in and I didn’t stop crying until ten minutes after it ended. By Sarah • May 01, 2020 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen’s Encino Man goes to HBO Max Seth Rogen’s next film, An American Pickle, is about a turn-of-the-last-century immigrant who accidentally gets pickled and preserved before being restored to life in the present day. So basically, it’s Encino Man, but with a pickled immigrant instead of a frozen caveman and much less shirtless peak Brendan By Sarah • Apr 29, 2020 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oh sit down, AMC Universal was early to the emergency digital release game, pushing their previously released films, like The Invisible Man and The Hunt, onto premium on demand within the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown. They also were the first studio to decide to bypass a theatrical release for a big-budget film By Sarah • Apr 29, 2020 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth in Extraction Early in his Hollywood career, Chris Hemsworth tried to be the kind of action-fueled star we had much of in the 1980s and 1990s, but audiences were indifferent. Then he activated his comedy gene, and for the last few years, we’ve known Hemsworth best as an action-comedy guy—even By Sarah • Apr 28, 2020 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daisy Ridley’s next job Daisy Ridley has booked her next job, for whenever productions resume. This is notable, because over the years and various Star Wars press tours, Ridley has often talked about not having jobs lined up outside Star Wars in a way that is sort of joking but also sort of serious: By Sarah • Apr 28, 2020 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, Sunday and yesterday marked the anniversary of the release of both Avengers: Infinity War (April 27) and Avengers: Endgame (April 26). To commemorate the occasion(s), screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and Anthony and Joe Russo, who directed both, were online sharing secrets and stories from the By Lainey • Apr 28, 2020 08:06 am
