Movie Reviews and Previews Spinal Tap Reunited This Is Spinal Tap is a landmark comedy, not only popularizing numerous stars—Christopher Guest, Harry Sheaerer, Michael McKean, and director Rob Reiner—but cementing the “mockumentary” as a staple of cinematic comedy. Though it was hailed as one of the best films of 1984 when it came out (Rogert By Sarah • Sep 16, 2025 02:40 pm
Style Sarah’s Emmys Best Dressed: Jeff Hiller (with bonus handsome men) When comedian Jeff Hiller won his first Emmy for his role as Joel on the HBO series Somebody Somewhere, I cheered for a gem of a performance from a gem of a show winning against more brand-name competition—he beat out Ike Barinholtz, Colman Domingo, Bowen Yang, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Michael By Sarah • Sep 15, 2025 12:21 pm
Emmy Awards 2025 Ladies in red While things didn’t exactly work out for Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti capped off her run for The Penguin with an Emmy win. She showed up in a STUNNING red gown by Danielle Frankel: I sort of wish she’d worn red lipstick, too, but maybe that would be a By Sarah • Sep 15, 2025 10:14 am
Emmy Awards 2025 Late Night resistance It was really no surprise after it was announced earlier this summer that Late Night with Stephen Colbert will end in spring 2026, that Stephen Colbert would then win the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series. When the show, which includes his name, was announced as a nominee, there was a By Sarah • Sep 15, 2025 08:48 am
TV Updates The Pitt’s Big Night I have to be honest, at the beginning of the year, when The Pitt was first airing on HBO, I didn’t think it would be an Emmy darling. I thought the procedural format would work against it, but in the ensuing months, as the show’s popularity grew through By Sarah • Sep 15, 2025 07:36 am
Emmy Awards 2025 Intro for September 15, 2025 Dear Gossips, The 77th Emmys came and went last night, and I think we can all agree that comedian Nate Bargatze did not do a great job as a host. It wasn’t “Jo Koy bad”, he never fully lost the audience, nor did he ever blame the audience for By Sarah • Sep 15, 2025 06:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Leo Woodall in Tuner There is nothing more fun at a film festival than the feeling of discovery, of seeing something new, or something that makes you see in a new way. Tuner, a heist flick with a musical bent, was just such a discovery as it features a standout performance from Leo Woodall. By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Paul Dano and Jude Law in The Wizard of the Kremlin They say the truth can be stranger than fiction, but sometimes the truth is so twisted that only fiction can cut through to something real. Such is the case with The Wizard of the Kremlin, a fictionalization of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in post-Soviet Russia. Directed by Olivier By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 01:14 pm
Style Colin and Margot and different weather The press tour for Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey continues, this time stopping in London. Colin Farrell showed up looking like a private eye in a trench coat, fitting right in with the premiere’s umbrella theme. Margot Robbie showed up in a backless, sheer, sparkly dress by By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 11:45 am
Relationship Assumption Harry & Zoë: Travel test There is a new item of discovery in the ongoing litmus test of Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz’s situationship-maybe-actual-relationship. He’s met her dad, but as Lainey pointed out, Harry Styles and Lenny Kravitz are in the same business, that might not be such a big deal when they By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 09:39 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, Walter Benjamin was a cultural critic, essayist, and philosopher who published “The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age of Reproduction” in 1935. Benjamin believed that increasingly easy means of reproduction devalued the “aura” of original works of art, that a print of a painting could “travel” to By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet In her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagines a sister of William Shakespeare called Judith, every bit as creative and talented as her brother, to illustrate how gender historically limited opportunities for women. Denied education and opportunity, the imaginary Judith dies in obscurity and is By Sarah • Sep 11, 2025 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Tessa Thompson in Hedda Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler invents a character, the eponymous Hedda Gabler, who is considered one of the greatest female dramatic roles ever written. Hedda is a tragic and doomed figure, often compared to Hamlet. Nia DaCosta, adapting Ibsen herself for a new cinematic iteration dubbed simply Hedda, discards Ibsen’ By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Give The Rip a chance Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back, baby, once again collaborating on a film. Only this one, they did not write nor is Affleck directing, it comes from filmmaker Joe Carnahan, who specializes in well executed schlock like Narc, The Grey, and Copshop. His latest film, reuniting Affleck and Damon, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most enduring works of English literature, often considered one of the first, if not the first, science fiction novels, as well as an early flagship in horror literature. It has been adapted and reimagined countless times over the centuries, the latest iteration By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Brendan Fraser in Rental Family There is a phenomenon that occurs when an actor wins an Oscar that they often go forth and almost immediately appear in a better film, giving a better performance. Recent examples include Emma Stone winning an Oscar for La La Land only to appear in The Favourite, a better movie By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 02:46 pm
