What Else Ben and Matt make good Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reunited for a Netflix movie called The Rip. It’s pretty good! Just a solid action flick, the kind of movie that used to make a reliable $100 million in theaters but now goes straight to Netflix. I bring up The Rip because it was By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews He-Man is Thor Last summer, we saw Nicholas Galitzine and Camila Mendes on set filming Masters of the Universe, a live-action He-Man movie that no one has the guts to just call He-Man. (Also, Masters of the Universe just makes me think of the theme song Queen wrote for Highlander, which is titled By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 03:16 pm
Style Rihanna and Rocky in Paris (ft. Pharrell) From Milan to Paris, the fashion week heatscore has been Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams, but Paris fashion week brings out many big names. To wit, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are there, too, and were out for dinner last night. Yesterday afternoon? Whatever. Time means nothing when the temperature By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 11:06 am
Award Season Campaigning Michael and Kate the morning after Yesterday morning, Michael B. Jordan earned his first Oscar nomination, one of sixteen record-breaking nominations earned by Sinners. Later in the day, he was all smiles while out in Los Angeles (he’s currently editing his remake of The Thomas Crown Affair). Like literally not even getting photographed by paparazzi By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 09:55 am
Legal issues Intro for January 23, 2026 Dear Gossips, I finally watched Heated Rivalry, so now I just want to talk about Heated Rivalry. Sorry to be late to the party, I tried to watch from the comfort of the post-holiday liminal space, but I wasn’t in the mood—to watch anything. All I did that By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 09:12 am
Happy Sinners Day! The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced earlier today, and it’s Sinners leading the way with a record-breaking SIXTEEN nominations. More than Titanic, more than La La Land, more than actual classic All About Eve. Among the nominations for Sinners are nods for Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo, By Sarah • Jan 22, 2026 11:52 am
Bridgerton Meet Yerin Ha T-minus eight days until the premiere of season four of Bridgerton on Netflix. The new season centers on second son Benedict, and introduces his love interest, Sophie, who is played by Aussie Korean actress Yerin Ha. Benedict and Sophie’s story is a dreamy Cinderella tale complicated by factors of By Sarah • Jan 21, 2026 11:36 am
TV Updates Sophie Turner flexes as Lara Croft Four months ago Sophie Turner was announced as the latest actress to play video game heroine Lara Croft in a new Tomb Raider series developed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yesterday, Prime Video, which is producing the new adaptation as a series, dropped a first-look photo of Turner done up as Lara, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2026 11:34 am
Business of Hollywood Kathleen Kennedy quit the Star War It’s official, after first being reported eleven months ago, Kathleen Kennedy has stepped down as the president of Lucasfilm. As was previously speculated, she is being replaced by not one but two people, with George Lucas’s protégé, Dave Filoni, moving up to president and chief creative officer (he By Sarah • Jan 16, 2026 10:38 am
TV Updates Spinning the Ryan Murphy wheel again Oh boy, it’s time for another round of my favorite game, How Long Can I Watch Ryan Murphy’s New TV Show?! The last time I played I made it through four episodes of All’s Fair, and now it’s time to try Ryan Murphy’s latest series, By Sarah • Jan 15, 2026 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dreading Doomsday Just before Christmas, when Avatar: Fire & Ash hit theaters, Marvel dropped the first of four teasers for Avengers: Doomsday. I was already halfway to the liminal space, so I told Lainey I would deal with it when all four teasers were available online. I regret to inform you, that By Sarah • Jan 14, 2026 09:47 am
What Else Cillian Murphy is not thrilled to be here Here’s something I completely disposed of while suspended in the year-end liminal space, the sequel to 28 Years Later, itself a late entry into the 28 Days Later franchise, opens this week. The premiere for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was held in London tonight/this afternoon (time By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mummy stuff Thanks to a combination of RL Stine’s The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, the 1999 action-adventure film The Mummy, and a formative trip to the Field Museum’s Egyptian display when I was eleven, I am forever cursed to watch every iteration of a Mummy movie that will By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 03:19 pm
Drama Mandy Moore: Unbothered The gossip story of 2026 so far—wow, the first of this year has really been a decade—is Ashley Tisdale’s toxic mom group drama. One of the assumed moms in the group is Mandy Moore, but she’s been staying out of it, unlike Hilary Duff’s husband. By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 10:14 am
Nicola Peltz-Beckham Nicola Peltz Beckham has a January birthday The slow-moving pop culture car crash we can’t look away from is the Beckham-Peltz family drama. Maria mentioned a round of holiday messiness in which Brooklyn Peltz Beckham unfollowed and/or blocked his family (according to Cruz Beckham, it was a family-wide block). His wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham, also By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 09:26 am
Golden Globes 2026 Intro for January 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globes are over, so let’s reflect on the Golden Globes. It was long acknowledged in better days within the industry that the Globes were a bit of a farce. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was a mysterious cabal of largely unknown international “journalists” who were By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 09:07 am
