Movie Reviews and Previews Contemplate mortality with Avengers: Doomsday Luke Winkie wrote an article last month for Slate about aged Beach Boy Mike Love performing with, essentially, a new band also called the Beach Boys and doing it at the age of 85. You can, and should, read it here, and let the specter of an octogenarian singing teenaged By Sarah • Jul 21, 2026 10:22 am
What Else Seth and Jonah at the beach Filming for The Studio continues, this time in Venice, California, with Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill filming scenes involving electric scooters. I really enjoyed The Studio, but then, I am the target audience, a person who loves films and filmmaking. I often tease Lainey about The Morning Show, a series By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Uprising trailer Just as we’re getting through The Odyssey, let’s look to another historical epic: Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising. The trailer dropped yesterday, showing off Andrew Garfield as 14th century rebel Wat Tyler, in a film that promises to be viscerally violent. Paul Greengrass doesn’t do it any By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 03:07 pm
Keanu Reeves Friday Keanu Ah, now it is time to bless the feed with some Keanu. A perfect little Friday treat before the weekend, Keanu Reeves popped up in Milan, where he is on tour with his band, Dogstar. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen Keanu, though I heard him (briefly) By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Living wives in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey No one in modern cinema loves a dead wife more than Christopher Nolan, whose oeuvre is littered with dead women, haunting their men, sometimes literally, from the beyond. These spectral spouses—in the case of Oppenheimer, it is a dead mistress—drive Nolan’s protagonists through his timey-wimey narratives By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 11:12 am
Tom Holland Tom and Zendaya are still outside The Odyssey opens today, which means Monday we get to switch into Spider-Man: Brand New Day mode. Tom Holland and Zendaya get to switch modes, too, but first they’re out for dinner in New York. Tom Holland, please explain how you’re wearing a sweatshirt in a heatwave, By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 09:53 am
Sports Intro for July 17, 2026 Dear Gossips, The men’s World Cup final is Sunday, between Spain and Argentina, it promises to be a great game, with Lionel Messi in his third World Cup finals. It’s been a great tournament for Messi, but also for soccer, and yes, here I am calling it soccer By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 09:09 am
What Else Anya Taylor-Joy x3 Anya Taylor-Joy’s new miniseries, Lucky, debuted the first two episodes on Apple TV+ yesterday. You know I’m watching this series because it co-stars my forever love Timothy Olyphant, but Lucky has not captured me the way Widow’s Bay did. I will watch Lucky, yes, but By Sarah • Jul 16, 2026 04:06 pm
Simone Biles Olympians at the ESPYs The ESPY Awards, the most prestigious participation trophy in the world, were last night, bringing out superstar athletes across many disciplines and countries, but most especially Olympic standouts, gold medalists Simone Biles, Alysa Liu, and Eileen Gu. I’m going to start with Eileen Gu, because she wore Guo Pei, By Sarah • Jul 16, 2026 03:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dine out on my Batman conspiracy theory I really, really liked Matt Reeves’ The Batman when it came out in 2022, since then, it has only risen in my estimation. I think it’s one of the best superhero movies ever made, and arguably the best Batman movie ever made. The film, released into the only-just- By Sarah • Jul 16, 2026 12:10 pm
Zendaya Coleman Zendaya stays golden The premiere for The Odyssey is over, but the press obligations continue right up until the movie hits theaters. Zendaya and Tom Holland are still in New York, continuing to make the press rounds. Zendaya sported two gold looks, first in high-necked Jitrois… Then in a gold suit by By Sarah • Jul 16, 2026 10:40 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 16, 2026 Dear Gossips, It’s a random Thursday so let’s try something different: good news! After years of delays and uncertainty and losses, the theatrical box office actually seems to be bouncing back in a big way. 2026 is only half over and is shaping up to be the biggest By Sarah • Jul 16, 2026 09:12 am
What Else Heartstopper Forever but also the end Over the last few years, Heartstopper has been a staple of teen entertainment, one of Netflix’s series that actually managed to connect with the youths. Kit Connor and Joe Locke became breakout stars, and now they’re saying goodbye via a film, Heartstopper Forever, in which Nick and Charlie By Sarah • Jul 15, 2026 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pedro Pascal’s Oscar movie It’s mid-summer, which means the countdown to back to school has begun because time is our enemy, but it is most violently the enemy of youth, but it also means we’re counting down to the fall festival season. After the Hollywood studios sat out Cannes, I have By Sarah • Jul 15, 2026 02:35 pm
Tom Holland The gentlemen of The Odyssey We’ve seen the women of The Odyssey show up and show out for their final premiere, now let’s turn our attention to the gentlemen, who certainly…showed up. Let’s start with Tom Holland, because he is always a ray of sunshine. He wore an all-black suit By Sarah • Jul 15, 2026 12:31 pm
Zendaya Coleman The goddesses of The Odyssey The Odyssey opens on Friday, and the New York premiere was last night, the last big blow out red carpet before what is sure to be one of the biggest films of the year opens. You know what that means, every famous person showed up, because every famous person is By Sarah • Jul 15, 2026 10:38 am
