What Else Ted Lasso with bonus Heated Rivalry news Ted Lasso returned this week. I’m waiting for the finale before reviewing, because while the first season of Ted Lasso is nearly perfect, the third season proved you have to wait to see how it all ends before rendering final judgment. The third season of Ted Lasso, at the By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 04:06 pm
Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson’s generational run continues In May we saw the teaser for Primetime, the film in which Robert Pattinson stars as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen. Now, as the film readies for a Venice launch, we have a full trailer, and holy HELL, RPattz is on a crazy run right now. Every performance By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 03:04 pm
Callum Turner Sexual Fascism in One Night Only Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise is a romantic staple of cinema, in which a couple meets and falls in love over the course of one night of long, meandering conversation. Will Gluck’s One Night Only is like if Before Sunrise happened in a fascist hell in which bodily autonomy By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 11:05 am
Bradley Cooper BCoop and Gigi in Paris (still) Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid continue in Paris, amidst speculation that they got secret married. Secret marriage: it’s 2026’s hottest trend. Is it a secret if your family and friends are there, or did you just not issue a press release? And/or stage your wedding in one By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 09:55 am
Intro for August 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, Here’s a blast from the past, Nikki Finke resurfaced this week. Not literally, as she passed away in 2022, but the specter of her long-rumored fictionalized telling of Hollywood tales has emerged from the shadows and is being shopped for publication by her estate. It’s By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 09:16 am
Connor Storrie Connor Storrie’s before/after Production on Heated Rivalry season two is underway (and Jacob Tierney is already pleading with fans to just be f-cking normal about it), but before we get to the second season—expected next spring—we have to do the befores and afters. You know, the stuff made before that By Sarah • Aug 06, 2026 11:19 am
What Else Tessa Thompson, relaxing alone Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, August 3, for Canada’s Civic Holiday. Have a great long weekend, gossipers! We are steaming right into August and the last days of summer because the sun is an asshole that never slows down, but for now, it is still Celebrity By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 04:03 pm
Alexander Skarsgard Alexander Skarsgård is the OTHER wicker man Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård are two actors I enjoy immensely, so I am delighted that they’re co-starring in a twisted romantic comedy/fantasy film, Wicker. It premiered at Sundance earlier this year and is due in theaters in October, a sort of spooky season rom-com about By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 02:48 pm
Monica Barbaro Monica B in NYC But wait! Ladies going outside is a coast-to-coast phenomenon! While Kristen Stewart and Dakota Johnson were holding it down in LA, Monica Barbaro is in New York City, undoubtedly getting ready for the One Night Only (aka “the Purge sex movie”) press run. Honestly, a woman in a By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 01:07 pm
Tom Holland Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Brand New Day Even as Marvel has struggled with the unwieldy MCU post Avengers: Endgame, one remaining bright spot are the Spider-Man films fronted by Tom Holland. In 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home saddled Peter Parker with almost unbearable circumstances, to sacrifice not his life but his heart, by allowing the By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 10:49 am
Kristen Stewart Ladies in LA Kristen Stewart will be hitting the press circuit soon for her new film, The Wrong Girls, a stoner comedy written and directed by her wife, Dylan Meyer. But first: coffee. Here she is in Los Angeles on a coffee run. Her hair lately is bringing me back to the days By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 09:55 am
Katie Holmes Intro for July 31, 2026 Dear Gossips, The Shards, a Ryan Murphy-produced adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel of the same name, is coming to the FX/Hulu/Disney+ conglomerate next week. Lainey wrote about it here, it’s notable in part because the series stars Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, the children By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 09:02 am
Michael B Jordan Michael B. Jordan’s sexy Thomas Crown Affair Michael B. Jordan is the reigning Best Actor, but he is not taking any time off from straight f-cking excellence as he is back in the director’s chair for The Thomas Crown Affair, his update of Norman Jewison’s classic heist thriller-romance. The original 1968 film starred By Sarah • Jul 29, 2026 11:07 am
Business of Hollywood The Paramount-WBD merger is on hold A couple of weeks ago I checked in on the state of the fakakta Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, which has been snarled up in court as multiple state attorneys general have filed anti-trust suits against Paramount. At that time, I said, “We’ll see how that shakes out, By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 02:07 pm
Hudson Williams Get spooky and horny with Yaga Sure enough, as Comic-Con got going over the weekend, new footage being released died instantly, with one notable exception. Crave and AMC+ released the teaser for Yaga, the upcoming mystery/thriller series starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo (Letterkenny’s one and only Rosie, a great gal) By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 11:48 am
David Jonsson Marvel bounces back with good news Marvel’s Hall H presentation happened Saturday night, and though Kevin Feige was focused on the future of the MCU, it felt like a blast from the past, with stunts and a huge assemblage of famous people to promote upcoming films. Kayleigh Donaldson called it a “recession indicator” in the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 10:19 am
