Gwyneth Paltrow The supporting actresses turned up So far, 2025 has been an okay year in film. There has been a lot of okay-to-good stuff, a few very good things, and maybe a couple great things (Hamnet, and One Battle After Another). But in the midst of it happening, 2025 doesn’t feel like a great year By Sarah • Nov 17, 2025 11:38 am
Style Elle Fanning: Campaign Outfits of the Week As mentioned at the start of the week, Elle Fanning is on a roll. And it hasn’t just been this week – but this week was big, with Predator: Badlands topping the box office and Sentimental Value doing really well in limited release as an Oscar contender. Joachim Trier’s By Lainey • Nov 14, 2025 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, It was a big weekend for Elle Fanning with two movies opening on Friday and both of them doing great business at the box office. Predator: Badlands exceeded projections, debuting with $80 million worldwide, the biggest in franchise history with surprisingly good reviews. Sentimental Value, meanwhile, brought in By Lainey • Nov 10, 2025 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve’s feature film debut was in Joachim Trier’s 2011 film Oslo, August 31st, the second film in the filmmaker’s “Oslo” trilogy. Ten years later, the final film in Trier’s trilogy, The Worst Person in the World, gave Reinsve her international breakout role. Now, By Sarah • Nov 07, 2025 11:34 am
Cannes 2025 A smattering of Cannes fashion The Cannes Film Festival ends this weekend, which means it’s time for that annual end-of-Cannes event, the amFAR Gala. As we’ve mentioned several times over the last couple weeks, the fest’s new dress code rules, targeting “naked and voluminous” dresses, has maybe contributed to a rather boring By Sarah • May 23, 2025 11:38 am
Oscars 2025 Oscar Night White Dresses It was announced last fall that Lupita Nyong’o had signed on to become Chanel’s latest ambassador. We’ve seen in the past that Chanel doesn’t work for all celebrities. For every Kristen Stewart, there’s a Margot Robbie. For every Jennie, there’s a Penelope Cruz. And By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in A Complete Unknown Walk Hard lampooned music biopics so thoroughly we should probably abandon the whole genre for a while, and yet, Hollywood persists in cranking out music biopics, the cinematic equivalent of a jukebox musical. A Complete Unknown is the latest, directed by James Mangold (who also directed Walk the Line, one By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Missing Timmy Last week I mentioned in a couple of posts that the first screenings for A Complete Unknown were taking place and that we should be hearing initial reactions. And indeed the ones right out the gate were overwhelmingly positive. There have since been a few that are more mixed and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2024 12:46 pm
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Emmy Neutrals and Maya’s “Neutrals’’ What is happening that all the looks last night were kind of amazingly on point? Everything was hitting - good fits, good takes on the classics… almost like everyone knew the show was going to be good, and so they had to bring their stylists’ A-Game too? The basic black By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy’s running Here’s a nice hump day surprise: the teaser for A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet has arrived…which makes me wonder if it’s going to be ready in time for the fall festivals. This film was just shooting two months ago, and though I By Sarah • Jul 24, 2024 12:29 pm
Cannes 2024 Payal, Viola, and Elle More history happened in Cannes this weekend as Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, the first Indian film in competition in 30 years, wins the Grand Prix, making Payal the first Indian female director to screen in Cannes and receive this honour…which was presented by Viola Davis, By Lainey • May 27, 2024 02:21 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 Dev Patel’s Chippendales movie is growing True crime is a vast genre, and every aficionado has their preferred corners of the true crime library. Mine is “cocaine-fueled mayhem of the Seventies and Eighties”, so the story of the Chippendales murder-for-hire plot is an old, well not favorite, because people died, but a much-revisited tale of excess By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 12:35 pm
TV Updates Nicholas Hoult and Elle Fanning are cheerfully antagonistic The Great season two drops on Hulu this Friday, and in advance of that, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult cover the digital edition of Entertainment Weekly. I love this format for a show like The Great, because the motion images allows both Hoult and Fanning to really pose in character, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 12:34 pm
TV Updates Oh my gosh, The Great! I really enjoyed the first season of The Great, but somewhere in the pandemic fog that has become my brain over the last eighteen months, I totally lost track of its return for season two. But it’s coming back! THIS WEEK! The second season begins on Friday. Here are By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 01:58 pm
TV Updates The Great: The Power of Gossip, the Power of Sex – and Teen Princess! Tony McNamara, Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Favourite, is back with another anachronistic tale of a woman in power. This time he focuses on Russia’s Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning), in a Hulu series titled The Great. It’s not as dark as The Favourite, and overall has a tone By Sarah • May 21, 2020 02:37 pm
