Vol. 30
No. 44
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Priscilla
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) meets Elvis
Presley (Jacob Elordi) at a party, the man who is already a
meteoric rock and roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private
moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a
great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent
marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in
this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.
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Old Dads (Netflix)
Jack Kelly (Bill Burr), Connor Brody (Bobby
Cannavale), and Mike Richards (Bokeem
Woodbine) are best friends, business partners, and
old dads. After agreeing to sell their throwback sports
apparel company, they're excited to punch their tickets
to the lives they've always dreamed of. But when the
company is made over by an eccentric new millennial CEO
(Miles Robbins), Jack's anger boils over,
creating a series of crises at work, home, and his son's
ultra-progressive preschool. In the aftermath, Jack and
his fellow old dads must fight to win back their
families and self-respect on an unlikely quest that
takes them from Palm Desert casinos to strip clubs to
the e-scooter-riddled streets of Los Angeles.
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Lessons In Chemistry (AppleTV+)
The adaptation of the best selling novel arrives with
the perfect casting of Brie Larson in the
lead. She plays Elizabeth Zott, an icy (for good reason)
chemist in the 1950s who isn’t taken seriously in her
job except by one man. It isn’t until she becomes the
science-minded lead on a cooking TV show that she’s
finally recognized. And that’s just scratching the
surface of this tale.
The Buzz...
Timothée Chalamet will host the Nov. 11 Saturday Night
Live episode, with Boygenius as the musical guest.
Hailey Bieber is getting into the Halloween spirit by channeling
Carmen Electra’s sexy opening scene from Scary Movie
on Instagram. It was her scantily clad riff on Electra from the 2000
slasher parody that generated heaps of praise on social media. “SCARY MOVIE,”
the model wrote alongside a carousel of images that kicked off with her posing
in a push-up bra and lacy panties while being sprayed by a sprinkler.
The Indigenous Women’s Collective is calling for Buffy Sainte-Marie
to lose her 2018 Juno Award for Indigenous album of the year,
after a CBC story raised doubts about the singer’s ancestry.
Emaza Gibson claims in her lawsuit Derulo signed her to his new
record label in 2021. Jason Derulo is being sued by a woman
claiming he signed her to his record label but then terminated her deal after
she continually refused his alleged sexual advances.
The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds
and Snakes has received an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA,
which means that stars Zegler, Blyth, Viola Davis,
Peter Dinklage and Hunter Schafer are allowed to
promote the film before it premieres in theaters on Nov. 17.
Five Nights at Freddy’s scared up $80 million at the domestic box
office in its first weekend of release, above Sunday’s already-huge estimate of
$78 million.
AMC has secured North American rights to Disney’s live-action UK
series Nautilus based on Jules Verne’s novel Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. The 10 episode drama was originally
commissioned by Disney+ in the UK but was axed by the streamer earlier this year
as part of cost cuts. It will air in the US and Canada on AMC and its
streaming platform AMC+ in 2024.
CBS has a brand new hit on its hands with the broadcast run this fall of
Paramount Network drama Yellowstone. Nearly 22 million
viewers tuned in to at least one episode of the Taylor Sheridan
drama. Paired with Paramount Global’s cross network promotions, the show’s
ratings success could be a blueprint for legacy media companies looking to
leverage hit shows across both linear and streaming platforms.
Doctor Who fans can look forward to more animated reconstructions
of missing episodes as the 60th anniversary approaches. These reconstructions
provide a chance for younger viewers to experience the purged early episodes of
the show. The dedicated fanbase's efforts in rediscovering and reconstructing
the missing episodes have helped to preserve the legacy of Doctor Who.
To celebrate the life of Matthew Perry, who died on Saturday at
the age of 54, TBS will host a weeklong Friends marathon dedicated
to Perry’s beloved Chandler Bing. The marathon will include special tributes
showcasing what Perry and Chandler, who was ranked as the best “Friends”
character and second funniest character of all time, meant to the show’s fans.