TV Updates Fallout’s sci-fi escape hatch I really enjoyed the first season of Fallout, Prime Video’s adaptation of the popular video game series. In fact, I like it so much, I will go out on a limb and say that Walton Goggins should have gotten an Emmy nomination for Fallout, not The White Lotus. His By Sarah • Aug 20, 2025 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell on the prowl Not really, I just liked the rhyme. Glen Powell is very busy, having finally launched into the stratosphere following the double whammy of Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You. Some of us—me—were predicting his big fame in the latter half of the 2010s, off the backs of By Sarah • Aug 19, 2025 10:19 am
Style Ali Wong’s superior sun protection Everyone’s Favorite Couple Update: Bill Hader and Ali Wong are still together. They were photographed at a farmer’s market in Los Angeles today, looking cute and fun and PROTECTED FROM THE SUN! There has been a conversation recently about sunscreen on The Squawk, inspired in part by the By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 04:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Women, grief, and horses in East of Wall There is an inherent skepticism when an outsider tells a particular community’s story, that they will in some fundamental way misrepresent or misunderstand the world they’re depicting, or worse, commit an act of socio-emotional tourism—poverty p-rn is among the worst of these. Take billionaire Nicola Peltz-Beckham’s By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 03:28 pm
Style Prada 2 Bingo Speaking of The Devil Wears Prada 2, filming continues apace in New York. Yesterday, three of the “Prada four” were on set: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt. Andy Sachs is sporting cerulean on her scarf, and this time out, Emily Charlton is rocking platinum blonde hair, not her By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 11:59 am
Style Lucy Liu’s double sheer Did you know that Lucy Liu is going to be in The Devil Wears Prada 2? Somehow, I missed this announcement (also, the presence of Justin Theroux and BJ Novak ensures Prada’s legacy of f-ckboys remains intact). I was checking on Lucy because she’s at the 78th Locarno By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 10:36 am
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2025 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift has given us a great gossip week—one reason I believe she is a great gossip herself is because she knows so well how to stoke gossip cycles—but let’s not lose sight of the other gossip happening right now: Marc Maron versus every right-wing By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy Ping Pong in a Safdie Crash Out (Sports) Drama Since the Safdie Brothers broke up as co-directors, Josh Safdie has kept a comparatively low profile. Where Benny Safdie has acted consistently in projects like Licorice Pizza, Oppenheimer, and the upcoming The Odyssey, as well as co-creating and starring in The Curse, Josh Safdie has done a little voice work, By Sarah • Aug 13, 2025 02:03 pm
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant’s chaotic streak continues Alien: Earth premiered last night—will I review it? Who can ever be sure!—which means Timothy Olyphant is back on TV screens once again. And yes, even with his character’s strong look—neon white hair and bleached brows, very Nineties Euro raver—he is still Very Handsome. My By Sarah • Aug 13, 2025 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia Garner in Weapons In 2022 Zach Cregger, alum of the comedy troupe The Whitest Kid U’Know, wrote and directed Barbarian, a horror film with a Big Twist that became a sleeper hit and set the bar for Cregger as not just a comedy guy, but a genre director Of Note. Now he’ By Sarah • Aug 11, 2025 10:28 am
What Else Conan O’Brien goes For as famous as he is, and as easily spotted, Conan O’Brien doesn’t get papped much. But he was photographed at LAX today, the photos are labelled in part, “Conan O’Brien channels Indiana Jones” because of the leather jacket/hat combo. I am confused about the weather By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 04:04 pm
TV Updates Wednesday gets a deeper mystery and a bigger cast After an almost three-year hiatus, Wednesday is back with the further adventures of Wednesday Addams at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters Nevermore Academy. The first season has plenty of style and Jenna Ortega’s outstanding performance as Wednesday, but, well, it never really beats the allegations of creative disharmony By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 03:41 pm
Lindsay Lohan Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freakier Friday How much nostalgia is too much nostalgia? Answers will vary, but the limit is probably somewhere around “four-way body swap”. Twenty-two years after Freaky Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back for Freakier Friday, featuring another round of mother-daughter mystic tomfoolery, only this time they’re joined by By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 12:33 pm
Quiveration Austin and Bad Bunny but no Zoë August is a little bit of a movie doldrums as studios tend to put out anything they think won’t stand up to the expectations of either peak summer movie season or fall awards season, but one movie I am really looking forward to this month is Caught Stealing. It’ By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 10:25 am
TV Updates Intro for August 8, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Office is one of the most popular TV shows of the millennium so far, a monster hit when it was originally airing in the 2000s and early 2010s, and perennially popular on streaming ever since it ended in 2013. But it is, of course, a spin-off, an By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Trolling the NFL with horror It’s sort of wild that Jordan Peele has only directed three feature films, because he so quickly and completely set a benchmark for horror cinema, popularizing the concept of the “social thriller” with Get Out, loading his horror movies with imagery and metaphors for Black American life. Horror movies By Sarah • Aug 07, 2025 10:18 am
