Movie Reviews and Previews The Boss’s Big Night Between A Complete Unknown last year and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere this year, it’s a great time for rock’n’roll dads at the movies. The four upcoming Beatles movies might be overkill, though. The dads can’t rock out too hard or they’ll spontaneously combust. Anyway, By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Thomas Anderon’s One Battle After Another Throughout his career, Paul Thomas Anderson has examined the American mythos from every angle, picking apart the American dream and all the various ways it can and will fail. His examinations are not really critiques, though, as much as they are clockworks depicting specific times and places in the “American By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 01:34 pm
Style Too much fashion Paris Fashion Week begins today, so you know what that means—all the famous people are in Paris. Emma Stone, Walton Goggins, Pharrell, and Ana de Armas were in Paris over the weekend for pre-game activities, including a dinner hosted by Louis Vuitton. Paris Fashion Week actually overlaps with the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 11:54 am
Intro for September 29, 2025 Dear Gossips, Big news over the weekend, which is that Disney’s two largest ABC affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair Media, both gave up on their blackouts of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Just a stunning goose egg for both companies, as they tucked tail and slunk away from a free speech fight By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Strong is the new Zuckerberg It was just confirmed today that Jeremy Strong will take over the role of “Mark Zuckerberg” in Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network. Sorkin will direct this time around, too, and the film will also star Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, and Bill Burr. The film has already By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews June Squibb in Eleanor the Great One must think, at times, of Dear Evan Hansen. It is an unfortunate reality that once seen, that the second-most cursed movie musical can never be forgotten. (The most cursed movie musical is, of course, Cats.) What has lately brought Dear Evan Hansen to mind is Eleanor the Great, Scarlett By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 03:13 pm
TV Updates Everybody Wants This Spooky season is almost upon us, but just in case all things hallow’s eve isn’t your bag, don’t worry, Netflix has got you covered. In their quest to be the something for everyone, one-stop entertainment shop, they’re releasing the second season of the romantic comedy-drama Nobody By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 11:32 am
Style Shirtless Becks in Milan Milan Fashion Week is happening, and David Beckham is thirst-trapping from his hotel balcony. This is a man who knows what the people want, and what the people want is shirtless Becks. Or maybe Bond villain Becks? He turned up to the BOSS runway show looking like he has James By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 26, 2025 Dear Gossips, There’s a lot going on, it’s been a big week what with Jimmy Kimmel’s return to television—and the ongoing blackout from Disney’s largest ABC station affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair Media—and it’s not like I’m ignoring that stuff. For instance, I By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bride! and her hot dead boyfriend Jessie Buckley is about to have a huge six months, with Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet sure to propel her to the top of the Best Actress race, and just as the Oscars will be peaking in 2026, Buckley will be in theaters with another movie, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! By Sarah • Sep 24, 2025 11:14 am
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel 2.0 With all eyes on him—except those in blacked out markets controlled by Nexstar and Sinclair Media (but they could and probably did watch on YouTube)—Jimmy Kimmel returned to host his first episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! since his show was abruptly pulled off the air last week. Call By Sarah • Sep 24, 2025 10:34 am
Star Wars Baby Yoda is a choice Lucky break for Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and Pedro Pascal that Disney is putting Jimmy Kimmel Live! back on the air, because it means at least for a little while, no one will expect them to do anything about Disney dropping the free speech ball. The teaser trailer for The By Sarah • Sep 23, 2025 11:37 am
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel returns I was originally planning to address the Jimmy Kimmel situation in a newsletter at The Squawk, prompted by a question posed for our mailbag: Regarding the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel. How can Hollywood respond? WGA and SAG-AFTRA both responded but beyond that what actions could they take? Another strike? (Courtesy By Sarah • Sep 23, 2025 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s Chase Infiniti’s time Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, One Battle After Another, is earning rave reviews in the run-up to its release next week. I see it Monday night, can’t wait. I’ve already said that my favorite Leonardo DiCaprio performances are when Leo goes full unhinged, and by all accounts, By Sarah • Sep 19, 2025 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Filmmaker Kogonada has two feature films to his name, Columbus and After Yang. One is a slice of life drama about loss, opportunity, and legacy; the other is a grounded sci-fi exploration of grief, identity, and life. Both are films Kogonada wrote, directed, and edited himself. They are singular films By Sarah • Sep 19, 2025 03:27 pm
Gorgessity Tessa Thompson’s pocket shoes Tessa Thompson has been outside this week, including yesterday which involved multiple wardrobe changes. First, she was seen heading into her hotel in a pair of sleek trousers, and then at night she was seen stepping out with her boyfriend, Brandon Green (son of British almost-billionaire Sir Philip Green, and By Sarah • Sep 19, 2025 12:25 pm
