TV Updates Enjoy Harrison Ford Harrison Ford is currently on TV (“TV”) twice over with the Yellowstone prequel series, 1923, and Shrinking on Apple TV+, but he also has a major film coming out this year, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Harrison Ford is 80, and he is busy, which is the theme By Sarah • Feb 09, 2023 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cameron Diaz: Back in Action This is slightly hyperbolic…but not that hyperbolic – like, I almost just cried when I saw these new shots of Cameron Diaz on set in London with Jamie Foxx. Cameron Diaz. On set! The last movie she was in was Annie, back in 2014. Which means that by the time By Lainey • Feb 08, 2023 03:05 pm
Break Ups Michael B. Jordan is living it up Eight months after his split from Lori Harvey, and just weeks after news broke of the relationship between her and Damson Idris, Michael B Jordan is doing good, and he’s taking his career to new heights. Between making his directorial debut with his latest film, Creed III, and hosting By Stephanie • Feb 08, 2023 12:03 pm
BFFs Ashton and Reese: More Friendly on the Carpet In the previous post about Bennifer, I mentioned Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon’s red carpet energy at their promotional events for their new rom-com Your Place or Mine. People have been commenting about how distanced they seem and whether or not it means anything and when asked about it By Lainey • Feb 07, 2023 03:06 pm
Quiveration Jonathan Majors is busy The world premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was last night in Los Angeles. The film comes out in less than two weeks. Which means Jonathan Majors is EVERYWHERE. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly are the stars, but as we saw with Devotion and Glen Powell, when Majors is By Sarah • Feb 07, 2023 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Pelphrey in American Murderer Netflix’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Evan Peters’ subsequent Golden Globes win for Best Actor – Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television Motion Picture kicked the conversation about the role of true crime in pop culture into high gear. As I always insist, it is right and good to By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who is your murder friend? We cannot get enough of the friendship between Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and it seems they can’t, either, as they have yet another new project together. After 9 to 5, after seven seasons of Grace and Frankie, after 80 For Brady, there is now Moving On, from writer/ By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G is on thin ice Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Jake Gyllenhaal filming his first scripted TV series—as a leading actor and not just a kid guest starring in a case of the week—and mentioned a trailer for Jake G’s new movie with Guy Ritchie was imminent. Well, it’s here now, and By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 11:48 am
TV Updates Jake’s First Series Jake Gyllenhaal was on set yesterday in LA – he is shooting David E Kelley’s Presumed Innocent for Apple TV+ which will mark his first time doing scripted television for a streaming service. Jake’s been on TV before, nearly 30 years ago, in Homicide: Life on the Street. But By Lainey • Feb 02, 2023 11:31 am
Aging Gorgessity Paul Rudd doesn’t drop the skincare routine Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a couple weeks away, so the press tour is in high gear now. Accordingly, Paul Rudd is on the cover of Men’s Health. First and most importantly: does he drop the skincare routine? NO. But his ageless looks do come up. I make By Sarah • Feb 02, 2023 10:08 am
Sports Tom Brady: A Premiere and (another) Retirement Tom Brady was in LA last night for the premiere of 80 For Brady with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Lily Tomlin. I don’t care if this movie gets destroyed by critics; I’m seeing it anyway and I’m pretty sure I’m going to love By Lainey • Feb 01, 2023 11:54 am
TV Updates DC things we may or may not see Yesterday, James Gunn and Peter Safran, the new heads of the new DC Studios of the new Warner Bros. Discovery, announced a new slate of films and TV projects. This is like, the sixth relaunch of DC stuff over the past few years, it’s hard to get excited about By Sarah • Feb 01, 2023 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Riseborough Affair Can we have ONE Oscar season without controversy? Just ONE! I am asking so little! I just want pageantry and glamor, dammit, and I keep having to talk about slaps and voting rules! This year’s fresh hell is the surprise Best Actress nomination of British actor Andrea Riseborough for By Sarah • Jan 30, 2023 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Lily Gladstone in Fancy Dance Lily Gladstone gives yet another powerhouse performance in Erica Tremblay’s quietly devastating drama, Fancy Dance, in which Gladstone stars as Jax, who is left to look after her niece, Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson), when Jax’s sister disappears. Tremblay, making her narrative feature debut, fills her film with the quiet By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The sweet, sweet misery of Succession I recently read something on how there’s too many billionaires on TV and that it whitewashes the harm of hoarding wealth. (Loot was mentioned, as was Succession.) Succession isn’t a satire and no one is getting lifestyle envy from watching this show. They are incalculably rich and go By Maria • Jan 27, 2023 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Randall Park’s Shortcomings Randall Park makes his directorial debut with Shortcomings, a non-rom-com centered on the kind of misanthropic twenty-something that could have been played by Ethan Hawke in the 1990s, but is now played by Justin H. Min (After Yang’s Yang). Adrian Tomine adapts his graphic novel of the same name, By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 09:48 am