Style The Barbie hit parade continues The Barbie press stop in Sydney, Australia continues, and let’s enjoy it because depending on how things go down today, in the last hours of SAG-AFTRA negotiations, this might be it for the summer’s—maybe the year’s—most fun movie press tour. Following the fan event, at By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 11:19 am
Style Intro for June 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, As we wait to see if the actors go on strike—as I am writing this, the final hours of negotiations are ticking down—the Barbie press tour continues. Margot Robbie is in Australia with Greta Gerwig, Issa Rae, and America Ferrera. We’ve already seen Robbie’s By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 09:31 am
Maple Leaf Margot’s Stripes and Strawberries As Sarah just noted in her Afterparty post, tomorrow is the deadline – we could know by tomorrow if a new deal is not reached whether or not the actors will be on strike alongside the writers. And if that really is the case, one of the most anticipated red carpets By Lainey • Jun 29, 2023 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet your new Superman and Lois Six weeks after the rumor mill started churning, James Gunn has cast Superman and Lois Lane for his DC cinematic universe reboot, Superman: Legacy. Relative unknown David Corenswet will play Superman, and Rachel Brosnahan, fresh off the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, will play Lois Lane. I am By Sarah • Jun 28, 2023 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Barbie global press tour is now underway and here in Toronto, where I live, there’s a big fan event happening today. As Sarah noted a couple of weeks ago, the marketing for this movie has been outstanding. Like right now our nation has had a name By Lainey • Jun 28, 2023 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Go see Lakota Nation vs. United States This week marks the 147th anniversary of the Battle of the Greasy Grass, or as it’s more commonly known, the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It’s a significant milestone in Lakota culture—as well as for the Cheyenne and Arapaho, who fought together with the Lakota against the By Sarah • Jun 27, 2023 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margaret and Geraldine and one (1) Coen brother The Coen Brothers are among the preeminent contemporary American filmmakers, and they’ve probably broken up. Their last collaborative effort was 2018’s Netflix movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which is pretty good—the Coens don’t really do “bad”—but was not as good as their previous film, By Sarah • Jun 27, 2023 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angela Bassett finally gets her man Little gold man, that is. After going viral earlier this year when Jamie Lee Curtis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Angela Bassett will at last get her Oscar. Bassett, who was previously nominated for Best Actress in 1994 for playing Tina Turner in What’s Love Got By Sarah • Jun 27, 2023 10:00 am
Style Margot Robbie: Barbie in Valentino Barbie promotional tour is well underway. The cast was in LA yesterday for a photo call. I feel like they might be trying to get in as many appearances and press opportunities as possible over the next six days before whatever happens on June 30 which is when the current By Lainey • Jun 26, 2023 02:04 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession JLaw’s Pride The story at the box office this weekend is basically that in its second weekend The Flash is tanking. Variety calls it a “catastrophic result” for the movie against its budget and it’ll be interesting now to see how Warner Bros and DC move ahead with their plans, or By Lainey • Jun 26, 2023 10:15 am
Music Intro for June 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, The BET Awards were last night and Beyoncé and SZA were the big winners winning three awards each, including tying for Album of the Year. Both Beyoncé and SZA are on tour in Europe and did not attend the event. But Ice Spice was there and even though By Lainey • Jun 26, 2023 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence in No Hard Feelings After a series of raunchy red-band trailers promised a sex-comedy romp in No Hard Feelings, the actual film itself can be called a case of false advertising. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman as a mismatched couple, No Hard Feelings is more of a friend-com with swearing than an By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone famous in Asteroid City Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who has long been interested in dysfunctional families, fathers and sons, grief, love, and a sense of style so precise he’s his own sub-genre of cinema. His latest, Asteroid City, embraces all of Anderson’s usual quirks and pursuits, with an added dash of By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Smart Dumb Money Remember the “meme stock” phenomenon of 2021, which was driven by the GameStop short squeeze on Wall Street? Well, there’s now a movie about it, two and a half years later, which is about as fast as you can turn around a feature film. From director Craig Gillespie, who By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Priscilla by Sofia Sofia Coppola’s upcoming film, Priscilla, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir “Elvis and Me”, comes out in October and the first trailer dropped yesterday. This of course is just a year after Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis was released – the film would go on to receive eight Oscar nominations, including By Lainey • Jun 22, 2023 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Tennis Idol Ever since The Idol debuted on HBO, everyone is like, Is it good, is it bad, is The Weeknd’s acting bad on purpose or just bad, is this show as edgy as it wants to be or is it just sleazy? (No, yes, just bad, no, yes but not By Sarah • Jun 21, 2023 12:32 pm
