Music Sabrina Carpenter is calling the shots Summer 2024 was the Summer of Sabrina Carpenter, as she ascended to pop diva status with Short ’n Sweet and its breakout single, “Espresso”. Now, she’s coming back with a new album, Man’s Best Friend, due in August, and has already dropped the lead single, the cheeky curse-that-man By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 12:40 pm
TV Updates Squid Game begins to end Between Stranger Things and Squid Game, it’s a big year for Netflix ending their biggest TV shows. Squid Game’s third and final season debuts on June 27, just two weeks away. The cast and series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk were in London yesterday to kick off the press tour. By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, Mel Brooks is 98 years old—he turns 99 in a couple weeks—and he still knows what the people want: to f-ck around in space. Yesterday, Brooks announced he’s making a sequel to Spaceballs. I told you we’d be back — Mel Brooks (@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social) By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 09:14 am
Top Reads IP monsters sue plagiarism machine Today in The Lawyers Are Being Fed news, Disney and NBCUniversal launched a joint lawsuit against Midjourney, a generative AI company that specializes in image and video slop. The suit comes from two of the most powerful holders of intellectual property in the entertainment industry and is in part being By Sarah • Jun 12, 2025 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo and Adam Driver reunite In 2022 James Gray—an American filmmaker who plays better in Europe than he does at home, even though he has made some banger films like Little Odessa, We Own the Night, and Ad Astra—made a coming-of-age drama inspired by his own childhood called Armageddon Time. It stars Anne By Sarah • Jun 11, 2025 11:43 am
Business of Hollywood David Zaslav admits defeat Last month during the television upfronts in New York, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that they’re changing the name of their streaming platform—again—reverting back to the “HBO Max” label they dropped two years ago in favor of the no-name recognition “Max”. Now, that renaming of inarguably WBD’s By Sarah • Jun 10, 2025 01:36 pm
Style Wrapping up with Sydney Sydney Sweeney has had a busy week promoting her new Apple TV+ film, Echo Valley. Here she is out and about in various outfits. Honestly, the wardrobe changes do me in just thinking about them. I know it’s strategized, and everything is already laid out, it’s not like By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas in Ballerina In 2014 John Wick opened to modest success but ultimately developed a blockbuster audience thanks to its combination of action, style, Keanu Reeves, and lore. The first movie is laughably simple—some young punks kill the puppy of a quiet widower, he goes on a rampage and doesn’t stop By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 11:59 am
Music Don’t forget about Miley Today is for the pop girlies, as both Sabrina Carpenter and Mariah Carey are releasing new songs—more on them later—but don’t forget about Miley Cyrus! She just released a new album, Something Beautiful, on May 30, with the visual album coming to movie theaters on June 12 By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 6, 2025 Dear Gossips, Dakota Johnson is still in New York promoting Materialists, but as part of the press push, she and Celine Song gave a joint interview to the Los Angeles Times which paints a portrait of two artists finding instant understanding and a desire to make a rom-com, but like, By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lopez’s Oscar campaign begins Since its premiere at Sundance, Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman has been set up as an awards contender for 2025. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh, it’s a new adaptation of the musical by Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, which is itself an By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked Round Two I was so enjoying our temporary Wicked-free peace, but alas, it is over already. The trailer for Wicked: For Good, the second part of the musical’s feature film adaptation, dropped yesterday. Based on the unrelenting Wicked publicity push last year, this marks the official beginning of the For Good By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 03:20 pm
TV Updates Walton and Aimee Lou, in their own words Since the end of The White Lotus’s third season, and the subsequent Great Unfollowing between co-stars Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood, the internet has been wondering if the pair, who play doomed lovers Rick and Chelsea, had a falling out in real life. Social media lit up, Jason By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 12:28 pm
Style What Sydney Sweeney is promoting Yesterday, Lainey wondered what Sydney Sweeney is in New York promoting, and the answer is Echo Valley, a new thriller from Apple TV+. That’s why she was on Good Morning America yesterday morning, alongside Julianne Moore. The film stars Sydney and Julianne as a mother-daughter pair engaged in a By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 11:16 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, Succession is a show about an aging CEO weeding out rivals, sycophants, and lieutenants to find his successor, all while maneuvering to stay in power. In their new cover feature, The Hollywood Reporter paints the current Hollywood executive class as Logan Roy, engaged in their own process of By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 09:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crying with Kogonada You know who I can count on to make me cry every time? Kogonada. He’s made two feature films, Columbus and After Yang, both of which are very particular visions and works of deep sensitivity. I had a very lovely healing cry at the end of Columbus, and something By Sarah • Jun 04, 2025 10:39 am
