Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, We are getting closer and closer to festival season. The Venice Film Festival kicks off next Wednesday. The Toronto International Film Festival begins two weeks from today on September 7. It’ll be interesting to see which celebrities show up to support their films – with waivers, of course, By Lainey • Aug 24, 2023 10:00 am
BFFs Zendaya: In her erotic era In my post about Jennifer Aniston earlier this week and her profile in WSJ. Magazine ahead of the premiere of season three of The Morning Show, I mentioned how we’re starting to see the rollout of banked press opportunities during the strike. As noted in that interview, it was By Lainey • Aug 23, 2023 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rebel Moon’s recycled space opera Zack Snyder’s Netflix era continues with the first trailer for his might-be sci-fi epic, Rebel Moon. Originally pitched as a potential Star Wars film—with new characters and maybe even an R rating—Snyder’s idea died on the vine in the wake of Disney’s purchase By Sarah • Aug 23, 2023 10:45 am
Style Couples Roundup: Lori, Jacob, and Austin Another post featuring celebrity couples from the last few days… We’ll start with Lori Harvey and Damson Idris last night – they were seen leaving Drake’s after-party following their dinner at The Nice Guy, presumably with Justin and Hailey Bieber who were also there last night and Lori By Lainey • Aug 22, 2023 10:06 am
Music An *NSYNC Reunion? There’s a new Trolls movie coming out in the fall. It’s called Trolls Band Together and apparently Branch used to be in a boyband called BroZone and I guess the story is that BroZone will reunite. None of this means anything to me since I’ve never seen By Lainey • Aug 21, 2023 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Tig stands up It has been a minute since we’ve seen her, but Tig Notaro showed up over the weekend for the Stand Up To Cancer biennial telecast. In case you forgot, let this be your reminder that Tig Notaro is hot. Also present for the telecast were Danai Gurira, Elizabeth Banks, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2023 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone in The Unknown Country America’s roadways are lonely, bleak, beautiful, traversed by strangers going hither and yon, lives intersecting for brief moments over counters at diners, motels, convenience stores. Morrisa Maltz, making her feature directorial debut, extracts from her own experiences driving alone across America a story about loneliness, grief, and connection, enhanced By Sarah • Aug 18, 2023 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Xolo Maridueña in Blue Beetle Xolo Maridueña is incredibly charming. That is the big takeaway from his superhero debut, Blue Beetle, in which he plays Jaime Reyes, a recent college grad who can’t get a job to help support his family. At home in the neon lighted, Miami-esque Palmera City, Jaime’s family By Sarah • Aug 18, 2023 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 18, 2023 Dear Gossips, Blue Beetle is the first major film of summer 2023 that didn’t have a press tour banked before the SAG-AFTRA strike kicked off on July 14 (this is implied Meg 2: The Trench shade and I won’t stand for it). Star Xolo Maridueña has been By Sarah • Aug 18, 2023 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Backlash Bradley Cooper dons a larger, prosthetic nose to play the late composer Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, a biopic he also directs and co-writes, but does this make him problematic? Well, it depends who you ask, and if you dip into Twitter today, his name is still trending, and not By Joanna • Aug 16, 2023 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Flo protests Florence Pugh has had a big summer, what with being in the Oppen-half of Barbenheimer, the biggest event of our cinematic summer. But she was also supposed to be at work this summer, filming Marvel’s Thunderbolts alongside Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Ayo Edibiri, Steven Yeun, Harrison Ford, Olga By Sarah • Aug 16, 2023 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Red, White & Royal Blue sells itself short Casey McQuiston’s best-selling novel, Red, White, & Royal Blue, has been adapted into a mostly cute rom-com about a pair of star-crossed lovers—the First Son of the United States and England’s “spare” prince. Taylor Zakhar Perez (Minx’s happy himbo centerfold) stars as Alex, By Sarah • Aug 15, 2023 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Maestro has arrived Oppeneheimer, slow your horses. Killers of the Flower Moon, don’t get too excited. Barbie…yeah, you’re fine by the pool. Maestro is here to ensure no one gets too comfortable in the early stages of the 2023 awards season. The teaser trailer for Bradley Cooper’s passion project By Sarah • Aug 15, 2023 01:02 pm
TV Updates The Summer of Ayo Ayo Edibiri is very busy this summer. She stars in the It show of the summer for two years running, The Bear; she voices April O’Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem—which has been VERY well received by critics and audiences, Seth Rogen solved it—she currently By Sarah • Aug 11, 2023 11:02 am
TV Updates Tom and Zawe’s theater date night Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton had a classy thespian date night at the after party for the press night of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect at the National Theatre. The play stars Bones and All’s Taylor Russell and Paapa Essiedu from I May Destroy You. The after party also By Sarah • Aug 10, 2023 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper sets the bar The Venice Film Festival starts at the end of the month, kicking off what is sure to be a strange fall festival season, even after enduring the weird pandemic years. Assuming the WGA and especially SAG-AFTRA strikes will still be going on—which they almost certainly will be —stars By Sarah • Aug 08, 2023 01:08 pm
