Music Intro for October 12, 2023 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in What Else? ahead of the premiere of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour movie, I wondered about who would be there, which members of the squad would show up, or if she’d ride solo. I don’t think anyone would have answered… BEYONCÉ The biggest By Lainey • Oct 12, 2023 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels countdown is on The Marvels opens in one month. While I am still reeling from the sudden end of summer, the fall movie season is barreling down on us. It’s going to be a light one, as some big movies, notably Dune: Part Two, moved out of 2023 to fill gaps in By Sarah • Oct 11, 2023 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The timeline of trying to fire Amber Heard Buckle up because this story has everything—Aquaman, drinking on set, rings – probably probably scarves—Elon Musk, and allegations of professional sabotage. Yesterday, Variety published a story about the behind-the-scenes goings-on of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the long-delayed sequel to 2018’s Aquaman. Aquaman 2 By Sarah • Oct 11, 2023 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina as Callas The complicated women of pop culture are having a moment. Priscilla is one of the high-profile films of awards season, with star Cailee Spaeny front and center, and next year, we can anticipate Pablo Larraín’s latest biopic of a haunted woman to hit theaters as Maria, starring Angelina By Sarah • Oct 10, 2023 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa and his Man Crush together again There’s really not much to this post other than thirst. Because where Oscar Isaac is, thirst often follows. And it’s not just us on the internet thirsting for Oscar; it’s also his friends, his co-stars. Here’s Jason Momoa a couple of years ago introducing Oscar By Lainey • Oct 05, 2023 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The actors finally figured it out As we learned after a summer of strikes, actors are not supposed to promote struck work, which is any project, film or television, produced and/or distributed by one of the 32 companies belonging to AMPTP. But as we saw earlier this week when Bradley Cooper attended a New York By Sarah • Oct 05, 2023 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The actors are getting on with it Behold! A rare strike-era movie premiere appears. Not a festival premiere, but an actual, honest to goddess red carpet for a new film. Rebecca Miller’s new film, She Came To Me, has an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA, so the cast was able to attend the screening in By Sarah • Oct 04, 2023 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews She’s Priscilla, he’s just Elvis When the first trailer for Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla dropped, Lainey wondered if Sofia would “interrogate” the age difference between Elvis Presley, a 24-year-old man serving a stint in the US Army, and Priscilla Beaulieu, the 14-year-old girl he, er, romanced in Germany and beyond. Based By Sarah • Oct 04, 2023 10:06 am
Gorgessity Annie throws down I didn’t love Anne Hathaway’s Versace dress at the Clooney Foundation gala last week. But in general I do really enjoy her collaboration with stylist Erin Walsh so that look was an exception. The standard that Annie and Erin have established over the last year or so is By Lainey • Oct 03, 2023 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper sort of showed up The New York Film Festival kicked off over the weekend, and one of the marquee films featured at the fest is Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, the biopic of Leonard Bernstein which he directs, stars in, and co-wrote (with Josh Singer). Though the directors and now writers have new deals By Sarah • Oct 03, 2023 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I am here for the cat Matthew Vaughn made his name directing action films like Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and the Kingsman movies (as well as being Mr. Claudia Schiffer and the #1 suspect in the case of January Jones’s anonymous baby daddy). His latest film is Argylle, which has a By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: A Guide to Becoming an Elm Tree Folk horror describes a sub-genre of horror cinema rooted in folklore and fairytale. At one end of the spectrum stands the graphic horrors of Midsommar, on the other the environmental haunting of Robert Eggers’ The Witch. Closer to The Witch end of the spectrum, in fact, even subtler and By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flower Moon is coming The New York premiere for Killers of the Flower Moon was last night. Martin Scorsese turned up accompanied by journalist David Grann, who wrote the book, and prominent members of Osage Nation, including Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and his wife, Julie Standing Bear; artist Addie Roanhorse, who worked behind the By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: Jackdaw Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Coleman currently star in the Prime Video series Wilderness together, and they’re reteamed in Jackdaw, a blistering thriller set in the bleak, industrial landscape of northern England. It’s like someone said, “Make the motorcycle scene in Under The Skin an entire movie,” and By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourself for more age gap discourse Age gap discourse is having a moment. First, Chris Evans stans infantilized Alba Baptista when they got married—he is 42, she is 26—and then everyone let out a collective yikes when Dane Cook married “longtime” girlfriend Kelsi Taylor this past weekend—he is 51, she is 24, and By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: There’s Something in the Barn Fantastic Fest is a film festival focused on genre films, hosted annually at Austin’s famed Alamo Drafthouse theater (and was founded by the same people behind the Drafthouse). While everyone else is focused on prestige and awards come autumn, Fantastic Fest brings audiences horror, mystery, cult and the occult, By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 03:00 pm