Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Riz Ahmed in Hamlet Hamlet is Hamlet is Hamlet, there’s only so much you can do with Hamlet, it’s been done so many times by so many people in so many mediums over the literal centuries since Shakespeare’s play debuted. The latest update comes from director Aneil Karia and stars Riz By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 01:42 pm
TV Updates Charlie Hunnam really did it Last year we saw Charlie Hunnam in character as serial killer (and grave robber, etc) Ed Gein for the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s incredibly popular true crime anthology series, Monster. Season one dealt with Jeffrey Dahmer and won many awards for star Evan Peters. Season two dealt with By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 12:07 pm
Style Fun guys at Venice We’re approaching the tail end of the Venice Film Festival, which wraps up this weekend, but first there was a premiere for Julian Schnabel’s new film, In the Hand of Dante, which stars Oscar Isaac and Jason Momoa, as well as Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Louis By Sarah • Sep 04, 2025 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wuthering Heights is for the sickos Somehow, we’re only four months away from the year two thousand and twenty-six. Scientists can probably explain, but I am sure that it is, ultimately, the sun’s fault. But that does mean that 2026 movies are on the horizon, including Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, about which there By Sarah • Sep 04, 2025 09:45 am
Style Colman Domingo and bonus Danny Ramirez This is the overlap week, the meat of the fall festival season, with Telluride ending on Monday, TIFF kicking off Thursday night, and Venice happening throughout the week, too. I know people who are hop-scotching through all three fests, which sounds nightmarish to me. The scheduling alone! I can barely By Sarah • Sep 03, 2025 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul and Josh’s other movie Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor will both be in Toronto this weekend, Paul for Hamnet and Josh for Wake Up Dead Man. But first, they have to mark their other movie, the one they made together, The History of Sound. It premiered at Cannes earlier this year and is By Sarah • Sep 03, 2025 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz in Caught Stealing Darren Aronofsky is not a filmmaker often given to making crowd-pleasing films—just the opposite, in fact—but a rare commercial spirit has seized him, and the result is Caught Stealing, a 90s nostalgic run-and-gun crime thriller featuring a cast of colorful characters. Writer Charlie Huston adapts from his own By Sarah • Aug 28, 2025 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet The Shakespeares Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Director with 2020’s Nomadland. Her work up to that point was deeply sensitive, humanist, and realist. Then she made Eternals for Marvel which, while very ambitious especially for that risk-adverse studio, didn’t really By Sarah • Aug 28, 2025 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in The Roses Warren Adler’s divorce-themed novel, The War of the Roses, was published in 1981, born of the era in which the introduction of no-fault divorce led to a huge spike in divorces. In 1989, Danny DeVito—an underappreciated director of comedy—adapted Adler’s novel into the similarly titled The By Sarah • Aug 27, 2025 02:55 pm
BFFs Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett’s Oscar comedy gamble As mentioned, the fall festivals are coming—Venice starts this week—and that means the 2025 trophy season is now open. Frankenstein had its moment, and now we have a glossy Vanity Fair profile of Bradley Cooper’s latest film, Is This Thing On?, about a man who finds success By Sarah • Aug 26, 2025 11:44 am
Jock Smut Serena Williams talks weight loss and stigma The US Open starts on Sunday, and tennis GOAT Serena Williams is making headlines, but not for her sport. She told PEOPLE magazine that she used a GLP-1 drug to lose 31 pounds, and she is teaming up with telehealth company Ro to promote the weight loss drugs. I’ve By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Day-Lewis returns Daniel Day-Lewis “retired” from acting in 2017 following his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. I put “retired” in quotes because I never believed he would stay retired—it wasn’t the first time, and it probably won’t be the last time DDL walks away from acting By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 03:16 pm
Quiveration Austin + Zoë: Hot in Paris A late summer treat is the Caught Stealing press tour, which is mostly just Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz going around the world, being incredibly hot. Hot in Puerto Rico, hot in New York, hot in London—basically the only person capable of pulling focus from Austin and Zoë is By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Venice Film Festival begins next week, followed by the Telluride Film Festival over the US Labor Day weekend, and then TIFF launches on September 4. We’re on the cusp of the fall festival season, which means the 2025 awards season is about to begin. To that By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 09:18 am
TV Updates My spiney alien queen in Alien: Earth What makes us human? Is it our organic bodies, failing all around us; is it our memories, the building blocks of identity; or is it our heart, that intangible, metaphysical je ne sai quoi that allows us to love, to grieve, to fear, to hope? The greatest science fiction asks By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 12:09 pm
Jock Smut Glen Powell and Eli Manning try to conquer TV As I mentioned the other day, Glen Powell is returning to TV for the first time since starring in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens in the mid-2010s. Starting September 30, he will star in Chad Powers, a football comedy on Hulu based on a character created by Eli Manning. To By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 10:26 am
