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
Movie Reviews and Previews Clooney and Sandler do awards season The Venice Film Festival starts in a couple weeks, which officially kicks off the 2025 awards season (threat). One film premiering at that fest—and then playing again at the New York Film Festival in October—is Jay Kelly, a new film from Noah Baumbach, starring George Clooney and Adam By Sarah • Aug 06, 2025 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Katie and Joshua are for the cameras Summer is a season of celebrity romance, and this summer is no different, from random pairings to fun, flirty connections to whatever Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas are doing. One summer romance that is for the cameras only, though, is the reunion of Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson. They By Sarah • Aug 05, 2025 04:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike + Denzel, together again Spike Lee and Denzel Washington enjoy one of the richest collaborations in American cinema. Together they have made a masterpiece (Malcolm X), a couple very good films (Mo’ Better Blues, He Got Game), and one good film that is VERY fun, Inside Man (which I love). Inside Man came out By Sarah • Aug 05, 2025 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson in The Naked Gun We live in an age in which parody is almost impossible, between the absurdity of real life and the complete deconstruction of any and everything offered by the internet, in every possible media format. Indeed, spoofs have not done well, cinematically, since the Scary Movie franchise died off in the By Sarah • Aug 05, 2025 01:19 pm
Sydney Sweeney Intro for August 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, Lainey and I have been in disagreement over Sydney Sweeney since she emerged as an It Girl a couple years ago. Lainey has never seen it, I have always defended her as a good actress, most notably in dramas (Euphoria and Reality are where I always point). Lainey By Sarah • Aug 05, 2025 09:10 am
Style Julia Garner’s dots Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, August for Canada’s Civic Holiday. We will be back with our regular gossip programming on Tuesday, August 5. Fresh off The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Julia Garner is promoting a new movie, Zach Cregger’s Weapons. This is follow-up to Barbarian, By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The other other movie shooting in New York New York City never lacks film sets, not even in the blazing, humid heat of summer. I feel like 90% of acting is just pretending like you’re not face-meltingly hot or freezing cold. Anyway, the production everyone is talking about is The Devil Wears Prada 2, with a constant By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 01:25 pm
TV Updates Jenna Ortega’s Doom Tour The first part of the second season of Wednesday premieres next week, and as such, Jenna Ortega is on the “Doom Tour” promoting the show around the world. Cute branding! Seriously, I was mixed on season one, but I do like how everyone leans into Wednesday Addams’ Goth girl roots By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 1, 2025 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Mikey Madison potentially starring in Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network, and why she is such a good choice to play Frances Haugen, the data scientist who exposed Facebook’s internal mess to the SEC and The Wall Street Journal. Jeremy Allen By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 09:28 am
TV Updates Meet the new Bennet sisters Production has begun on a new six-episode Netflix adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The new series is written by Dolly Alderton, the creator of Everything I Know About Love, and directed by the excellently named Euros Lyn, an award-winning director who has worked on everything from Dr. Who (David Tennant By Sarah • Jul 30, 2025 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Name that Avatar character There is nothing I dread more than a press release for a movie too big to ignore that I just do not give a sh-t about landing in my inbox. Anyway, the trailer for Avatar: Fire & Ash, the third in James Cameron’s technology test franchise, dropped yesterday. A By Sarah • Jul 29, 2025 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Comic-Con wrapped up Comic-Con carried on through the weekend, a little bit of a muted year—it didn’t feel like I had to stay glued to my inbox for announcements and trailers this time around—but there were still some big highlights. One of which is: Sydney Chandler showed up for Alien: By Sarah • Jul 28, 2025 01:03 pm
