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 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 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio: Halloween’s Laziest On the plus side, Leonardo DiCaprio was not a Halloween scab. On the downside, Leonardo DiCaprio did as he always does for Halloween: hit up every single party and put in the least amount of effort on his costume. Every year he shows up in a hoodie and jeans and By Lainey • Oct 30, 2023 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in The Killer David Fincher’s latest film, The Killer, is an adaptation of the French comic book of the same name by Matz and Luc Jacamon. It asks the basic question—what if the secret assassin world of John Wick was actually boring and full of working stiffs? The Killer stars Michael By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is still waiting for his turn The full trailer for Maestro is here, showing off Bradley Cooper’s passion project about composer Leonard Bernstein. Casting misgivings aside, this movie does look really good, and I am so curious to see it because reviews from fall festivals have been strong, but a couple people whose taste I By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meg Ryan is ready to come back After eight long years since her last movie, Ithaca, which was her directorial debut, Meg Ryan recently spoke to PEOPLE about finally coming back into the fold with a new romcom called What Happens Later, which she wrote, directed and stars in. Having starred in classics like When Harry Met By Stephanie • Oct 26, 2023 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, By Beyoncé standards, this has been an active week! As Maria mentioned the other day in Celebrity Social Media, she unveiled her new fragrance, CÉ NOIR, in time for the holidays. And yesterday, we all tripped over ourselves when she actually posted an unboxing video, casually in her By Lainey • Oct 26, 2023 08:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flower Moon discourse has arrived And I am already exhausted. Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, star of Reservation Dogs, took to the platform formerly known as Twitter on Monday to share her reaction to Killers of the Flower Moon. It was not positive. Particularly, she highlights how “underwritten” the Indigenous characters are compared to the white men By Sarah • Oct 25, 2023 10:40 am
