What Else Beautiful ladies + John Travolta at Cannes Please note, we are are dark on Monday for the Victoria Day long weekend. We'll return to regular posting on Tuesday. Have a great weekend! Cannes never lets up once it gets going, so here are a few more beautiful women in beautiful dresses…and John Travolta. Let’ By Sarah • May 15, 2026 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to Wildwood, Laika’s latest whimsy On the list of things that used to annoy me but now bother me much less, sitting near the top is the state of Laika, the stop-motion animation production company that has made films including Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings. Laika began life as Will Vinton Studios, By Sarah • May 15, 2026 03:14 pm
Cannes 2026 Cannes gets going The Cannes Film Festival kicked into high gear with the first gala premieres of the festival, and while the Hollywood studios are sitting it out this year, the stars are not. Demi Moore, Chloe Zhao, and Ruth Negga are all on the jury this year, and they are showing up By Sarah • May 15, 2026 01:55 pm
Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal’s Disney Year The Mandalorian and Grogu opens one week from today. The Devil Wears Prada 2 already kicked off summer movie season with a roar, now it’s up to Pedro Pascal and Baby Yoda to keep the train rolling. Pedro Pascal was in Los Angeles yesterday for the Los Angeles premiere By Sarah • May 15, 2026 12:09 pm
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift is bride trolling Taylor Swift is still in New York and continues going outside. Last night she was at Zero Bond, wearing trousers and a belted shirt. Rarely do my tastes align with Taylor, though I admire her commitment as an outfit girl, always putting together outfits where everything matches. Couldn’t be By Sarah • May 15, 2026 10:12 am
Lupita Nyong’o Intro for May 15, 2026 Dear Gossips, Last week, when the full trailer for Christopher Nolan’s take on The Odyssey dropped, I said “can’t wait to watch all the weird classical art bros lose their minds over a woman of color portraying a Hellenic goddess” in relation to Zendaya potentially, probably, playing the By Sarah • May 15, 2026 09:24 am
Zoe Kazan Will Zoe Kazan acknowledge her family’s legacy? Back in 2022, it was announced that Zoe Kazan would make a new series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, a text most famously adapted by Zoe’s grandfather, Elia Kazan. At the time, I said it would take “a couple of years” to see the project, but By Sarah • May 14, 2026 12:20 pm
Wagner Moura A Kristen Stewart movie made just for me The Cannes Film Festival is officially underway, which means a ton of movies, fashion, and news is coming as Cannes includes a film market where movies get sold and deals get made. One such deal is a new film from Panos Cosmatos, the director of Mandy, called Flesh of the By Sarah • May 13, 2026 12:47 pm
Jennifer Garner Five Star Weekend trailer I enjoy Jen Garner as a celebrity, I think she’s figured out her public persona and her niche—dorky mom who happens to be famous—and I find her genuinely wholesome and fun, and I am always thinking less of Ben Affleck for fumbling her. Oh, Ben Affleck made By Sarah • May 12, 2026 12:30 pm
Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal came through for Todd Haynes Remember last year when Joaquin Phoenix quit a new Todd Haynes film, a period piece queer romance, and screwed over the project and everyone associated with it when they were on the precipice of filming? You know I have not forgotten! Well, here is some good news for Todd Haynes By Sarah • May 12, 2026 10:33 am
What Else Let’s see who showed up to support the ballet During awards season all the dance and opera girlies got mad at Timothee Chalamet for basically calling ballet and opera dying arts (statistics show he’s not entirely wrong, they’re definitely financially challenged on an institutional level). Well, everyone who got mad at Timmy for saying ballet is not By Sarah • May 08, 2026 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crime-solving sheep in The Sheep Detectives Advancements in animation and technology means that we can now make photorealistic, hybrid live-action and animated movies about animals going on adventures entirely guilt free. Generations of us were scarred for life by learning of the fates of animals in such films as Free Willy, Homeward Bound, and Heaven’s By Sarah • May 08, 2026 03:13 pm
TV Updates Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain’s divorce drama Ben Stiller is in New York filming a new Apple TV+ series, The Off Weeks, with Jessica Chastain and Arian Moayed, which is how I learned that he is not expected to direct episodes of Severance for season three. Instead, Kogonada will take over directing duties. Low key incredible? Ben By Sarah • May 08, 2026 12:58 pm
Lucy Liu Superfake Lucy Liu I always love checking in with Lucy Liu, it warms my Millennial heart to see an Angel thriving. Lucy is in New York, filming a new series called Superfakes. It’s billed as a mystery-thriller and it’s about a working-class mom who sells counterfeits for cash and who gets By Sarah • May 08, 2026 11:28 am
Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal is warming up Well, I guess here is one middle-aged heartthrob, though I don’t think we really talk about Pedro Pascal in those terms, but he is fifty-one now. He has that certain timelessness that comes almost exclusively for men who don’t get famous until their thirties. Like Mark Ruffalo has By Sarah • May 08, 2026 10:10 am
Brendan Fraser Intro for May 8, 2026 Dear Gossips, One of the most heart-warming elements of pop culture over the last few years is all the comebacks we’ve gotten to see, including Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser, both of whom capped off their returns to Hollywood with Oscar wins. Brendan Fraser has been keeping busy By Sarah • May 08, 2026 09:22 am
