TV Updates The Emmy nominations are only sort of embarrassing The Emmy nominations are here, and while we’re STILL pretending like The Bear is a comedy—a crime, at this point—newcomer series Nobody Wants This and The Studio were also nominated, which I know Lainey is happy about, and the final season of What We Do in the By Sarah • Jul 15, 2025 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman soared over the box office Two weeks ago, I wrote about the “paycheck hypothesis”, which I made up, theorizing that generally, people will only pay to go see one movie per a given two-week paycheck period. Because Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman were opening in the same paycheck period, and Rebirth overperformed its expectations, I By Sarah • Jul 14, 2025 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Finally, hope for Superman Spoilers ahead… Superman is one of comic books’ greatest squares, just a big ol’ dork, a good guy who does good. But in an attempt to make Superman—a flying alien with laser eyes and ice breath—more realistic, he was turned into a brooding grouch for a decade. Everyone By Sarah • Jul 11, 2025 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dino crush box office Following the record-breaking box office over Memorial Day weekend, July 4th delivered, too, with one of the biggest holiday box office weekends ever. Jurassic World Rebirth opened with $147 million over the five-day frame (Wednesday-Sunday), and $91.5 million for the traditional three-day weekend frame. Globally, however, it ate up By Sarah • Jul 07, 2025 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron in The Old Guard 2 Five years after The Old Guard became a hit on Netflix, its sequel finally arrives, titled simply The Old Guard 2. The film picks up six months after The Old Guard left off and doesn’t waste time recapping the previous film (though there is a handy explainer available). In By Sarah • Jul 04, 2025 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dumb humans in Jurassic World Rebirth Thirty-two years and now seven movies should be enough to finally say it: Jurassic Park does not support franchising. Every sequel to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic, Jurassic Park, is varying degrees of bad or dumb or bad AND dumb. It’s a massively successful franchise, though, with deep nostalgia By Sarah • Jul 03, 2025 02:28 pm
Business of Hollywood The HFPA is back In news that really shouldn’t be surprising at this point, the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the beleaguered group behind the Golden Globes, have voted to reconstitute and seize control of…themselves. In 2021, the HFPA came under fire following a Los Angeles Times expose that revealed By Sarah • Jul 03, 2025 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell is The Running Man Finally, a trailer for a good-looking movie we don’t have to wait a million years for. The trailer for Edgar Wright’s new adaptation of The Running Man is here and I am super into it, with one reservation. Glen Powell stars in the new version, which has Wright By Sarah • Jul 02, 2025 10:38 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna’s late night Programming note: We will be dark tomorrow, Tuesday July 1, in observance of Canada Day. We’ll be back on Wednesday, July 2. Paris fashion week wrapped up over the weekend, and Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were out with their family, having dinner and then hitting up a club, By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 04:13 pm
Charlize Theron Charlize’s block party Speaking of the Bezos-Sanchez wedding, Charlize Theron had some words to say about it over the weekend. While hosting her fifth annual Block Party for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project—which supports youth in South Africa—Theron said, “I think we might be the only people who did not By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 03:18 pm
Gorgessity Glamour at Versailles Now here is some actual glamour. The Jacquemus fall/winter show was held at Versailles over the weekend. It’s hilarious to me that the site of the one of the world’s most famous revolutions, in which the peasants literally carted the royal family out of their palace and By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 12:07 pm
Weddings Leaving Venice The Bezos-Sanchez wedding has ended, and thus, the exodus commenced. The celebrities and Jeff Bezos’s fellow billionaires have fled Venice, like criminals fleeing the scene of a crime. No one looked funnier making his exit than Leonardo DiCaprio. There was truly no one who wanted to be photographed less By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, Brad Pitt scored a victory over the weekend—no, none of his kids talked to him—as F1 opened with $144 million globally, the biggest global launch of Pitt’s career to date. It’s also Apple’s first box office win (they backed the film, with Warner By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 09:04 am
Style Rihanna turned up on time for Dior It’s Paris Men’s Fashion Week, or Men’s Parish Fashion Week, or Paris Fashion Week: Man Edition, however it’s called. The Dior show was today. Pharrell turned up, as did Robert Pattinson, Daniel Craig, and Rihanna. Rihanna is the headline, Rihanna is always the headline, but I By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt in F1 F1 is Brad Pitt’s latest star vehicle and Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to Top Gun: Maverick, a film that married technical wizardry with high emotional stakes, making for one of the most genuinely thrilling and effective blockbusters in recent memory. Clearly, the intent was to do the same using By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bewitching Emma Stone Yorgos Lanthimos and Ari Aster are filmmakers who love to make movies that challenge audiences, and what else do they have in common? Emma Stone. This year, she’s starring in new films from both Lanthimos and Aster. First up it’s Ari Aster’s Eddington, which had a premiere By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 10:25 am
