Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler’s Elvis voice is back Tom Hanks continues his quest to lionize every facet of World War II with Masters of the Air, a spiritual successor of his previous WWII-focused miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific. This time, Masters of the Air focuses on the US Army Air Forces and is based on Donald By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels has its moments The Marvels might be the first Marvel movie that doesn’t need a villain. At a brisk 105 minutes, The Marvels is the shortest film in the MCU to date, but it still suffers from being overstuffed and heavy on clunky exposition, as many Marvel movies are, no matter their By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney back in Sydney You know how Lainey has been all “I don’t know what days are” since she’s been on vacation in Japan? Well, I had a time-wimey moment looking at these new photos of Sydney Sweeney, already in Sydney, Australia to film pick ups for Anyone But You, her upcoming By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has ended, there are two things left to do: 1) an all-out awards season bonanza, and 2) figure out what the f-ck the 2024 film slate is going to be. Let’s talk about the latter. Some films, like Dune: Part Two, have By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ghostbusters member berries are back Do you remember Ghostbusters: Afterlife? The rebooted reboot of Ghostbusters came out in 2021, just two years ago, but I would swear I saw it in like, 2017. It just feels of that era, when everyone was reboot mad and nostalgia was a helluva drug. Nostalgia is still a helluva By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 01:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A musical Mean Girls Mean Girls is a generation’s Clueless (which is a generation’s Heathers), but now Mean Girls will be another generation’s Mean Girls as the 2004 film has a new, musical version coming to theaters in 2024. Mean Girls—which some will insist on calling a “cult classic” despite By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 11:31 am
Style Oh yeah, the Hunger Games My brain refuses to retain the information that there is a new Hunger Games prequel opening next week, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. I think my brain is protesting that ridiculous title. The movie opens next Friday, and the cast was doing more promotion in London By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, The second strike is over! The SAG-AFTRA strike officially ended at 12:01 AM today, Thursday, November 9, 2023. The SAG-AFTRA TV/theatrical committee voted unanimously to approve the deal on Wednesday, the work stoppage ends today, and tomorrow, the deal goes to the union’s national board By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The two sides of Tyler Perry Tyler Perry was overcome by emotion over a remark made by The View cohost Sara Haines yesterday. During a stop on the talk show to promote his new documentary, Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, Sara expressed that she was introduced to his mother through watching, and you can By Stephanie • Nov 08, 2023 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla A fresh-faced teen with her stylish bobby soxer outfits and hairdos is bored out of her skull in an American army outpost in Germany in 1959. She is wide-eyed and open to the world, but the world is made up of adults and fuddy-duddies—the two are almost synonymous—and By Sarah • Nov 07, 2023 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gos is The Fall Guy I forgot that Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a remake of the Eighties TV show, The Fall Guy, but a trailer dropped yesterday, and now I am SUPER into this movie. Gosling stars as Colt, a stunt man working on a film directed by his ex, played by By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 01:52 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession RPattz’s Heron voice A trailer dropped yesterday for the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s new film, The Boy and the Heron. People have strong opinions on subtitles vs. dubs, but while I am usually a subtitle person, when it comes to films aimed at children, I am more sympathetic to dubbing voices By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 3, 2023 Dear Gossips, I was going to use this intro to make jokes about Joe Biden reportedly getting serious about AI concerns after seeing Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One—not “Chubb Insurance” funny, but close—but then more things happened this week. For one thing, HBO honcho Casey Bloys copped By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 08:53 am
Style Intro for November 2, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Sundance Institute yesterday announced that three filmmakers will be honoured at this year’s opening night film festival gala: Christopher Nolan, Celine Song, Maite Alberdi. Christopher Nolan doesn’t make independent films anymore, but Memento was a big moment for him in 2001 and he will be By Lainey • Nov 02, 2023 09:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s me, hi, I’m the Halloween Grinch, it’s me. Welcome to one of my least favourite days of the year. The best part of Halloween, for me, is that it’s the last day of this ugly season and tomorrow people will (hopefully) start picking By Lainey • Oct 31, 2023 09:13 am
TV Updates Timothee returns to SNL My brain refuses to retain the knowledge that Wonka is coming out this December—it is protecting me—so when Timothee Chalamet was announced as the host of the November 11 episode of SNL, I thought it was a holdover Dune thing. And then Lainey reminded me of Wonka and By Sarah • Oct 30, 2023 11:13 am
