Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Four gets the job done Much like Superman before it, The Fantastic Four: First Steps had a fantastic opening weekend, clocking $118 million—which will probably revise upwards, just like Superman, when the actual tally is released later today. The international haul came in at $100 million, giving First Steps a $218 million launching pad. By Sarah • Jul 28, 2025 10:14 am
What Else Comic Con gets off to a slow start Comic Con is this weekend. It’s expected to be a relatively quiet year as a number of studios are sitting this one out, including Marvel and DC. But Twisted Metal, a video-game based series I don’t think anyone watches, had its panel already, bringing out Anthony Mackie, Stephanie By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spinal Tap is back The year of comedy sequels continues with the one I am personally the most nervous about. The trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues dropped yesterday, and it’s pretty good. I got one solid laugh out of it, at the end with the “thinking outside the literal box” By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 11:30 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 25, 2025 Dear Gossips, Well, that didn’t take long. Just eight days after announcingThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end next May, and less than a month after CBS paid $16 million to Donald Trump to end a specious lawsuit over an interview with then-candidate Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes, By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 09:22 am
Style Katie Holmes at work Right after I said that Katie Holmes gets more coverage (by paparazzi) than the state of her career really warrants in a mailbag, she announced she is directing and co-starring in a new romantic comedy-drama with Joshua Jackson. Okay then, game on! Here is Katie on set today in New By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 04:13 pm
TV Updates Paul Kelly is nailing it As you know by now, Ryan Murphy is my nemesis. I rarely make it all the way through his series, some, usually the true crime ones, I can’t even watch at all. But I was a kid in the Nineties, images of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy are seared into my By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vanessa Kirby and some guys in The Fantastic Four: First Steps From its first seconds, when a delightfully retro title card appears on screen, The Fantastic Four: First Steps isn’t like other Marvels movies—it’s cool! But it actually IS cool, every frame of First Steps is packed with eye-popping artistic design, the score is immediately recognizable, from the By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Prada 2 crew back at it Days after seeing Anne Hathaway on the set of The Devil Wears Prada 2, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci have also been spotted as well. What do we call Miranda Priestly’s haircut? It’s not a c-nty bob, but like…a bitchy pixie? Don’t worry, Annie was there, By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 10:36 am
TV Updates Intro for July 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, The fallout from the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continues, this time, in the form of some cold hard reporting. From the jump, executives at CBS have insisted this decision was “purely financial”, even though it looks at least in part political. But here are By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 09:11 am
Gorgessity Pamela and Liam living it up in London There are a number of comedy sequels this year, including Happy Gilmore 2, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, and The Naked Gun. We are varying degrees of nervous for all these films, as the originals are all beloved comedy classics, and comedy sequels are hard to get right. So By Sarah • Jul 23, 2025 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone get out of Vanessa Kirby’s way It has long been a truism of superhero movies that every iteration of the live-action Fantastic Four has sucked. Well, guess what? It’s true no more! The Fantastic Four: First Steps, stupid title aside, is F-CKING GREAT. I’ll have a full review later this week, but for the By Sarah • Jul 22, 2025 01:17 pm
TV Updates Stephen Colbert: “The gloves are off” Late last week we learned that despite being the top-rated late-night show in its time slot, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will come to an end in May 2026. Despite CBS calling this a “purely financial decision”, the timing made it pretty impossible to ignore that CBS just paid By Sarah • Jul 22, 2025 10:19 am
Quiveration Jon Bernthal’s slutty little hoodie Jon Bernthal is having a busy year. He had The Accountant 2 out earlier this year, he filmed Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, plus The Bear season four recently premiered, and he just earned his third Emmy nomination as a guest actor for The Bear—he won last year. It By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 04:11 pm
TV Updates Trailer haul Earlier this year we got our first look at Tron: Ares, the third entry into the Tron franchise which began in 1982 with one of the first CG-heavy movies made. Now, we have a new trailer, featuring the first piece of original music from Nine Inch Nails for the movie, By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 02:10 pm
TV Updates Eric Bana in Untamed The woods are vast, dark and deep, and the legends and lore about the things that haunt wild spaces span centuries, languages, and cultures. One of humanity’s most primordial fears is the dark of the forest, is it any wonder we tell stories about the myriad things that go By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 01:10 pm
Style Emmy nominees at Thom Browne Designer Thom Browne, maker of the skirts all the coolest men wear on red carpets, opened two boutiques in New York this week, and he drew a particularly noteworthy crowd full of recent Emmy nominees. Walton Goggins, Tramell Tillman, and Cristin Milioti were all just nominated for Emmys, and they By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 11:03 am
