Cold Brew #13
#13 Includes Trailer and Pop Culture Round-Up
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Wednesday’s Pop Culture Cold Brew is a collection of pop culture adjacency news that’s sincerely piqued our interest, only without the celebrity worship culture. Along with social commentary pieces, there’s also entertainment news like new film teasers/trailers, directly from our inbox to yours. Get into it below.
Here are the latest teasers and trailers for your unadulterated pleasure.
🎥 Marvel and Walt Disney Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home
My favorite web-slinging human spider is back. MCU prejudices aside, the latest 57th installment of Spider-Man will rocket us straight into the Multiverse. I’ve been waiting for this since the superb 1994 animated series, which is currently on Disney +.
🎥 MGM’s House of Gucci
Ridley Scott’s latest directorial is out next Thursday, on Thanksgiving for us Americans, so if you need a familial escape— House of Gucci is it. Yet as we’re forced to watch Jared Leto try to do his best budget Daniel Day-Lewis we at least have Lady Gaga’s portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani. Now that’s looking camp in the eye, take notes, Karlie.
🎥 Amazon’s Harlem
Harlem, New York City’s known as a mecca of multifaceted Black culture in America, and Tracy Oliver’s newest show mirror that. Harlem is a comedy centered around four stylish and ambitious best girlfriends. Created, written, and executive produced by Oliver (Girl’s Trip, First Wives Club, Little) and features Meagan Good, Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai, and Jerrie Johnson.
Camille (Meagan Good) is a popular young anthropology professor at Columbia with extensive knowledge of the dating norms of many cultures but has a hard time navigating her own love life. Tye (Jerrie Johnson) is a successful, queer dating-app creator who prefers to keep vulnerability and romantic partners at arm’s length. Quinn (Grace Byers) is a hopeless romantic and trust-fund fashion designer trying to give back to the world while running a struggling business. Angie (Shoniqua Shandai) is a confident, vibrant, filter-free singer and actress who lives rent-free and fabulously with Quinn. Leveling up from their twenties, the friends are in the next phase of their careers, relationships, and big-city dreams. Harlem premiers December 3rd via Amazon Prime.🎥 Amazon Studios’ Being the Ricardos
Image via Amazon Studios.
As a young Mexican-American girl living in America, I found comfort in the comfort of nostalgic television shows of the past. I Dream of Jeannie, That Girl, Bewitched, The Mary Tyler Moore, and I Love Lucy were all heavily played in my tv rotation— if I was lucky enough to fight my remote-hogging older sister for screen time in those days.
Cue my excitement when news of a film broke. Being the Ricardos is set to take audiences into the writers’ room; onto the soundstage and behind closed doors with Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz during one critical production week of their groundbreaking sitcom, I Love Lucy. Candidly, my curiosity has now peaked with writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s latest interview. However, this brings in a whole new curiosity— even when Hollywood features Latinx trailblazing stars, the story is still someone else’s exhaustive portrayal due to a reductive discernment. Conversely, I don’t adhere to the Debra Messing casting choice trend on Twitter since impersonation isn’t the embodiment. While Nicole Kidman is a vastly intriguing choice, I will mesmerizingly watch. Being the Ricardos premieres in theaters on December 10th and globally on Prime Video on December 21st.
🎥 An HBO Original Musical Box
HBO Documentary Films presents a Ringer Films Production, MUSIC BOX series launched in July with Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage. The weekly series will air on subsequent Thursdays and will be available to stream on HBO Max, starting with tomorrow’s Alanis Morissette centered JAGGED.
🎥 Apple Tv+’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
The highly-anticipated reboot of the beloved classic series Fraggle Rock, titled Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, is making its debut on January 21st, 2022. The new 13-episode Apple Original series from The Jim Henson Company in association with New Regency follows last year’s celebrated wonderfully nostalgic Apple original shorts Fraggle Rock: Rock On! live on with new generations.
🎥 HBO Max’s Gossip Girl
It’s that time of the year where the autumnal pangs of the diet-Succession-like drama of Gossip Girl hits. As I previously wrote in my Gossip Girl piece HERE, the Upper East Siders (and sometimes Vanessa) somehow came together to celebrate Thanksgiving. Although season five missed the memo, the frivolous one-percenters of Manhattan’s elite delivered deliciously drama-filled episodes that live on post-show-mortem, making it a cult classic. So it’s no exception that Gossip Girl 2.0 is back for the seasonal drama it’s known for; watch the trailer below.
Britney Spears is FREE from her nearly fourteen-year conservatorship. It’s also an alarming reminder that conservatorships affect many people with disabilities. In her latest social media posts, Britney mentions a sit-down interview with Oprah. Hearing her empowered voice, despite seemingly shaky, will hopefully make her advantageous family shake in their greedy boots.
Arctic Monkeys are back— soon. Matt Helders spoke about the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino during a recent appearance on BBC Radio via NME…
“Yeah, pretty much, yeah. It was a bit disjointed how we had to do it, and there are bits to finish off, but yeah, it’s all in the works. I think by the time we get everything together it’ll be next year. Hopefully, we can get out and tour next summer.”
The Broadway musical Spring Awakening, whose 2006 original cast reunited for the first time on November 16th as part of a sold-out concert, will soon be the subject of an HBO special with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik in 2022.
“Thank you to HBO and RadicalMedia for all you’ve done to make our Spring Awakening reunion happen and for bringing the magic and vitality of this story to the world while continuing to drive awareness to the crucial work The Actors Fund provides our community through this documentary,” said producers and original cast members Jonathan Groff and Lauren Pritchard.
Baz Luhrmann announced that his Elvis biopic is coming out on June 24th, 2022, along with a teaser.
This weekend I’ll be last-minute shopping and prepping for Thanksgiving even though we all had prior plans, but such is life. Also, by prepping, I mean doing my part in appetizers and watching seasonal films to avoid any small talk about my dating and personal life, all the while my mom side-eyes my sister’s cooking takeover of the holiday. ‘Tis the season, after all!
Lastly, on Sunday’s impromptu T̶G̶I̶F TGIS post, I briefly mentioned another potential winning Star-Crossed prize— which, I will go in detail Friday’s TGIF post.