Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson in Primetime Documentarian Lance Oppenheim makes the leap to narrative feature film with Primetime, a psychological thriller/horror movie about Chris Hansen and the 2000s TV show, To Catch a Predator (Primetime is adapted by Ajon Singh from Luke Dittrich’s book, Tonight on ‘Dateline’ This Man Will Die). Primetime is a By Sarah • Sep 25, 2026 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can You Can See Everything break the Oscar doc curse? As we approach October and the trophy machine clicks into high gear, I don’t think there is a film I am more excited for than You Can See Everything, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary made by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. We saw the first trailer last month, and now By Sarah • Sep 24, 2026 09:59 am
Business of Hollywood ParaSky WarnerDance is here After months of lawsuits and posturing in the media, it is all but over, and the Paramount/Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger will go through. Yesterday, following a weekend of talks, and pressure from California governor Gavin Newsom, the multi-state anti-trust lawsuit against Paramount Skydance was settled, as By Sarah • Sep 22, 2026 10:41 am
What Else Celine’s joy I have declared it Friday Funday and we will go out on a high note! A very long, sustained high note with crystalline tone and richest vibrato! A high note as only Celine Dion can deliver it! La Diva! I am enjoying this era of Celine so much. Her joy By Sarah • Sep 18, 2026 04:03 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Our Lady Peace honors fans with Gail Band documentaries can be as insipid as band biopics, glossy and polished and cutting away all the rough spots in favor of presenting a favorable, often self-aggrandizing view of the musicians. Not so in Gail, a documentary that is, ostensibly, about the 30th anniversary tour of Canadian rock band By Sarah • Sep 18, 2026 02:54 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Anna Biller’s The Face of Horror Anna Biller’s 2016 film The Love Witch has ascended to cult status over the last decade, and now she is back with a new, extremely aesthetic film, this time set in medieval England and done in the style of Technicolor schlock horror (think of all those Edgar Allen Poe By Sarah • Sep 18, 2026 11:30 am
TIFF 2026 coverage Hudson Williams at TIFF TIFF has a television section called “Primetime” (I will keep my opinion about TV shows playing at film festivals to myself but I will also mention that television festivals DO exist), and the highlight of this year’s Primetime program is Yaga, the Crave series starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah By Sarah • Sep 18, 2026 09:49 am
Mariska Hargitay Intro for September 18, 2026 Dear Gossips, I could write about the latest billionaire shenanigans threatening Hollywood (read here and here if you want), but you know what? It’s Friday. It’s my first few days back in the office after the respite of TIFF—as crazy as TIFF is, it’s better than By Sarah • Sep 18, 2026 09:11 am
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Mahershala Ali in Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother Mahershala Ali and filmmaker Bassam Tariq were supposed to make a Blade reboot for Marvel, but that project eventually fell apart. What emerges instead is Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, an original action-drama starring Ali and written and directed by Tariq. It is unquestionably a far better movie By Sarah • Sep 17, 2026 02:25 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Andrew Scott in Elsinore Andrew Scott is a very fine actor, no one doubts this. He has in Elsinore, a quasi-biopic of Scottish actor Ian Charleson, what should be the role of a lifetime. Certainly, Scott pours his heart and talent into his performance, but the film around him is so unimaginative and By Sarah • Sep 17, 2026 11:37 am
What Else TIFF rolls on We’re approaching the final days of TIFF, but premieres are going strong. For instance, Danny Boyle’s Ink, about Larry Lamb and Rupert Murdoch revamping The Sun. The premiere was yesterday, with Boyle and stars Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell. Lainey has developed a real Jack O’Connell By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 04:01 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Rosalind Eleazar in Misty Green There is a real theme at TIFF this year of actors giving tremendous central performances only for the film around them to fall flat. Chris Rock’s latest directorial foray, Misty Green, is one such instance. The film, which Rock also wrote, follows down-on-her-luck actress Misty Green By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 03:20 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Josephine is a shattering experience There are certain films that will stick with you forever, once seen, they can never be forgotten. Beth de Araújo’s Josephine is such a film, an emotionally harrowing cinematic experience that is as tender as it is brutal. Josephine won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year, By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 01:26 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell in Wild Horse Nine Playwright-cum-filmmaker Martin McDonagh is back to challenge everyone’s media literacy with his latest film, Wild Horse Nine. Like his feature film debut, In Bruges, it’s a two-hander centered on bad men contemplating their bad deeds and wondering what is left at the end of it By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 11:03 am
Anne Hathaway All the celebrities in NYC The Emmys were Monday night in Los Angeles, but everyone is in New York City. Verity stars Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway (in custom Alémais) were both out and about in the big apple yesterday; I wonder if they’re doing advance press for Verity? That press tour has to By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 10:34 am
Tom Cruise Intro for September 16, 2026 Dear Gossips, Can you hear that sound? It’s the sound of a million gossip hounds howling with delight as Tom Cruise gave an interview to GQ, his first cover profile with that magazine in twenty years, and it is a SCREAM. It’s entertaining in the way that only By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 09:15 am
