Pedro Pascal Pedro before Behemoth! One of my lingering question marks for awards season is Behemoth!, the film about film composers written and directed by Tony Gilroy and starring Pedro Pascal. It premiered a couple weeks ago at the New York Film Festival to generally positive reviews, but so far, it doesn’t seem like By Sarah • Oct 14, 2026 10:08 am
Intro for October 14, 2026 Dear Gossips, I am still so mad about Shane Gillis hosting SNL for the THIRD time and continuing to be SO bad it—like literally each of his monologues is TERRIBLE—and like Lainey, I am clinging to Rosalía’s performances as an all-time highlight. (Related, have you seen By Sarah • Oct 14, 2026 09:23 am
What Else Jacob Tierney doesn’t hold back Jacob Tierney may not be as famous as Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie but even beyond the Heated Rivalry fandom, he is known for his work, for adapting Rachel Reid’s book into a smash television hit. While most of the attention to do with HR is around Hudson and By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 05:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 13, 2026 Kelly Clarkson versus the Brooklyn tchotchke magic store is a low-stakes celebrity scandal made for Twitter. It just doesn’t work on Instagram or Threads or TikTok. "I mean, it's a one-of-a-kind singing and dancing bird automaton, Michael. What could it cost? $15, By Maria • Oct 13, 2026 04:30 pm
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift: Autumn Girl in Autumn Colours As mentioned earlier, there’s been a lot of Grammy coverage in the trades and entertainment outlets because Grammy nomination voting is happening right now and it’s a pretty competitive year, with female artists dominating the industry. Between Ella Langley’s megahit “Choosin’ Texas” and Olivia Dean and Olivia By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 03:50 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Slayyyter Rises Once considered an underground pop artist mostly famous to queer audiences, Slayyyter has risen in the pop world going toe-to-toe with some of today’s biggest artists on both the top 40 radio and streaming charts. After her viral hit “DANCE…” blew up earlier this year along with By MC • Oct 13, 2026 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Deep Cut Romance Cailee Spaeny was seen in New York yesterday on the set of Deep Cuts, the film adaptation of Canadian author Holly Brickley’s bestselling book. It’s a good, quick read – about two people who are brought together and then torn apart by music. This is a classic soundtrack friend By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews MV85 LFG I like this thing that studios are doing just as production begins on a film – sharing footage from the screen test process as the actors begin to find their characters and their performances through their wardrobes. It helps to build anticipation for the project but also they often time it By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 11:14 am
Rosalia Vila Tobella Intro for October 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, In addition to the unfunny, lazy, and offensively bad jokes that the audience had to endure on Saturday Night Live this weekend, delivered by a host who Lorne Michaels obstinately insists on inviting back (because he’s the ultimate instigating troll), one of the other downsides is that By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 09:36 am
Rosalia Vila Tobella Intro for October 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, In addition to the unfunny, lazy, and offensively bad jokes that the audience had to endure on Saturday Night Live this weekend, delivered by a host who Lorne Michaels obstinately insists on inviting back (because he’s the ultimate instigating troll), one of the other downsides is that By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 09:36 am
Top Reads Crazy Rich Chinamaxxing It was announced yesterday that the Crazy Rich Asians sequel has been greenlit as a series on HBO. The film came out in 2018, becoming the highest-grossing rom-com of its decade, opening at #1 at the box office with around $30 million domestically, and ending up at almost By Lainey • Oct 09, 2026 12:47 pm
Style A Tribute to Jennifer Lawrence It’s wild to me that the original tribute is being tributed but, sure, I guess that much time has passed since Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute and now she’s the one who people are styling themselves after. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping opens By Lainey • Oct 07, 2026 12:17 pm
Top Reads Here comes Artificial Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, about Meta and Mark Zuckerberg and whistle blowing, opens this Friday. Reviews are embargoed until tomorrow but from the early reactions that I’ve seen so far, the most common description is that it’s “solid”. Solid is good, but it is not spectacular, By Lainey • Oct 06, 2026 02:06 pm
Kylie Jenner Kylie Jenner’s Bachelorette Weekend This was inevitable. Six months ago when Kylie Jenner covered Vanity Fair, basically a press release announcing her acting ambitions pegged to her appearance in Charli XCX’s The Moment, for their spring issue that dropped right before the Oscars, it was only a matter of time. That time is By Lainey • Oct 06, 2026 11:47 am
Just Andrew Who is paying for Just Andrew’s defiant lawsuit? Not that anyone actually believed that Just Andrew, the no-title brother of the king of England, and the British royal family f-ckup, would be content to keep a low profile and spend the rest of his days in comfortable obscurity… but now we have confirmation that he has By Lainey • Oct 05, 2026 11:38 am
Music Stray Kids rejects the Grammys too To recap – back in June, the Recording Academy announced several new categories, among them the Best Asian Pop Music Performance Grammy, controversial from the jump. Critics of the new category, including me, felt that the creation of the new Asian category would be a way for the Recording Academy to By Lainey • Oct 02, 2026 12:38 pm
Top Reads Tom Cruise: Daytime and Dancing Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, starring Tom Cruise, opens tomorrow and while box office projections back in the spring were predicted to be around the $30 million mark, the updated figures are showing that the film may not crack $15 million because audiences don’t seem to be interested in By Lainey • Oct 01, 2026 01:41 pm
Celine Dion Céline is Paris Of course I know Céline Dion isn’t Paris, officially, but for the last several weeks, she’s become the symbol of the city – and I don’t think the city would object to this. Céline has brought so many people to Paris for her residency. She has brought music By Lainey • Sep 29, 2026 10:39 am
Madonna Madonna: The Queen of MTV Madonna carried the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, because for a show that has made its name by featuring the biggest names in music, it was light on major stars. It also didn’t help that the entire telecast was delayed 20 minutes due to a football game going into By MC • Sep 28, 2026 11:16 am
Rosalia Vila Tobella Intro for October 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, In addition to the unfunny, lazy, and offensively bad jokes that the audience had to endure on Saturday Night Live this weekend, delivered by a host who Lorne Michaels obstinately insists on inviting back (because he’s the ultimate instigating troll), one of the other downsides is that By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 09:36 am
What Else Here comes John Malkovich Programming note: it’s Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday. We’ll resume on the site on Tuesday but as always, we’ll keep the chat threads going on The Squawk. Join us there! The BFI London Film Festival is happening, which is the stop on the trophy trail that best serves By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Grace Moretz is back with a rom-com It’s October! It’s spooky season! You know what that means…it’s time for a rom-com! Seriously, there’s a history of romantic comedies coming out in October. I clocked it first twenty years ago with Sweet Home Alabama, when I spent half the film pondering the By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 02:51 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 9, 2026 There’s a segment of the very passionate Ted Lasso fandom that ships Hannah Waddingham’s character Rebecca and Ted together. Now that season 4 is complete, a few sleuths analyzed how much screen time the two shared (not much). I wonder if this is kind of a reverse fan By Maria • Oct 09, 2026 02:36 pm
Top Reads Crazy Rich Chinamaxxing It was announced yesterday that the Crazy Rich Asians sequel has been greenlit as a series on HBO. The film came out in 2018, becoming the highest-grossing rom-com of its decade, opening at #1 at the box office with around $30 million domestically, and ending up at almost By Lainey • Oct 09, 2026 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Sorkin’s insufferable attitude in The Social Reckoning Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for The Social Network, a film about Facebook’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s rise to power that has aged incredibly well, as it is more scathing and prescient now than it was in 2010. Now, Sorkin is back with a sequel-ish film, The Social By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 11:20 am
Zendaya Coleman Zendaya and her pixie in Paris Paris Fashion Week is over, but Zendaya is still in town and still serving face with that pixie cut that is making everyone long for short hair, like Halle Berry before her. She was seen shopping at Prada, which could be just another Thursday, or it could maybe be looking By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 10:19 am
Glen Powell Intro for October 9, 2026 Dear Gossips, Glen Powell is on the cover of Esquire’s October issue, because JJ Abram’s The Great Beyond, in which he stars, was supposed to hit theaters in November, only it got moved to October 2027, taking over The Batman Part II’s original(ish) release date (that By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 09:15 am
