Style Black Dress Brigade, (plus a couple of rogue jewels) Did they know something? The Black dress babies, did they know? Because with the exception of Anna Sawai, whose perfect Armani Privé sparkling column was perfect for her presenting job – sorry, but there are no other adjectives, particularly when that woman’s face is involved: Anna Sawai #Emmys — Pop Noire By Duana • Sep 15, 2025 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia, Gwyneth, and a long-awaited gossip matchup Now that we are halfway through summer, with the fall film festivals just a few weeks away, it’s time to start looking ahead to awards season. What? No! Surely, it’s too soon! Alas, time is a relentless drummer. To that end, the trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s After By Sarah • Jul 17, 2025 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Starry Sundance It was a star-studded opening weekend for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, maybe the most star-studded since the pandemic. A slew of weekend premieres and parties brought out the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Lily Gladstone, Carey Mulligan, Chloe Sevigny, and Joel Edgerton (who is already getting trophy By Sarah • Jan 27, 2025 02:28 pm
Style Ladies outside at LACMA The 13th annual LACMA Art + Film Gala was held in Los Angeles over the weekend. The turnout was good, but maybe not as starry as in recent years? It definitely doesn’t feel like there were as many A-listers this year. Still, the event, which was co-chaired by Leonardo DiCaprio By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 10:02 am
Met Gala 2024 Met Gala Becomes One With The Earth Here’s a take I didn’t know I had until just now: I kind of like it when the themes are amorphous and mean everything and nothing. Yes, it’s fun to screech “dress on THEME” at people when they get it wrong, but some people are going to By Duana • May 07, 2024 08:51 am
TV Updates Outfits of the Week: The Swans! Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloe Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Molly Ringwald, and Demi Moore, of course, have been slaying the sidewalks of New York all week on promotion for FEUD: Capote vs The Swans. I’ve been posting for weeks about how much I can’t wait to watch this show By Lainey • Jan 26, 2024 01:56 pm
TV Updates Incoming: The Year of FEUD? If you’ve been reading this site over the years, you may remember how obsessed I am with Truman Capote and his Swans. “All literature is gossip” is what Truman once said… and, ironically perhaps, he knew it better than anyone else. Because the gossip that he wrote is what By Lainey • Jan 04, 2024 11:20 am
TV Updates Russian Doll is slightly less good the second time The first season of Russian Doll is basically perfect, so the bar for a second season is especially high. There is also the Fleabag standard to contend with, in which a one-off limited series is extended to a second season after breakout success, and in Fleabag’s case, the second By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 03:53 pm
TV Updates The Girl From Plainville skirts a tricky edge Netflix was the first streaming platform to catch the true crime wave in a big way with Making A Murderer, and while docu-series have been their particular forte, but Hulu is rapidly carving a niche for dramatic serializations of true crime stories, starting with The Act and carrying on with By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A bunch of ghouls in The Dead Don’t Die Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature, The Dead Don’t Die, is a curious movie that exists in two realities at once: one in which it is good, and one in which it is bad. It’s like Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe in that it is By Sarah • Jun 14, 2019 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver saying “Ghouls” Up until this very moment, pop culture has had only one ghoul expert, and that is Charlie Kelly, who knows a ghoul on sight. Now, however, Charlie Kelly is joined by Adam Driver in Jim Jarmusch’s new zombie movie, as he correctly identifies ghouls and, incidentally, creates a new By Sarah • Apr 01, 2019 03:12 pm
TV Updates Exploring Russian Doll’s labyrinth of trauma You have now had two entire weekends to watch Russian Doll, so the spoiler-gloves are off. If you still haven’t seen it, stick with the spoiler-free review, but if you have, let’s dig into the show’s serpentine coil of story and allegory. This show’s repeating-day structure By Sarah • Feb 12, 2019 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny in Love & Friendship Lady Susan, an early Jane Austen manuscript that apparently never made it to the rewriting stage and was published over fifty years after Austen’s death as an unfinished novella, is the unlikely source of Whit Stillman’s new film, Love & Friendship. Reuniting with this Last Days of Disco By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 12:35 pm
Business of Hollywood Working with auteurs made Chloe Sevigny hate directors Chloe Sevigny is doing the rounds for her new movie, Love & Friendship, and while promoting it she gave an interview to The Guardian in which she says that working with auteurs has given her “a total disdain for directors” that is “very strong, very deep”. “Auteur” is one of By Sarah • May 17, 2016 11:32 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Chloe’s Pi dress The first thought in my mind when I saw this dress was Life Of Pi. I like this dress better than I liked the movie. Everyone liked the movie. And everyone hates this dress. That sounds about right. But, really, what’s wrong with it? The dress, I mean. Are By Lainey • Nov 09, 2015 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Kristen Stewart/Chloe Sevigny axe murder movie First of all, a movie about an axe murder—any axe murder—is right up my alley. But then you tell me that it’s going to star Chloe Sevigny AND Kristen Stewart? Shut up and take my money. THR is reporting that Sevigny and Stewart are teaming up for By Sarah • Oct 29, 2015 10:38 am
