Movie Reviews and Previews Everybody likes John Candy In the 80s and 90s, a time when comedies ruled the box office and produced mega-Movie Stars like Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy, John Candy became one of the most beloved figures in Hollywood. Even a kid growing up in America’s “flyover country” understood that John Candy was A By Sarah • Oct 09, 2025 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLaw and RPattz melt down Lynne Ramsay hasn’t made a feature film since 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, but she is back this fall with Die My Love, a new emotional horror show starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. The trailer dropped yesterday, and it looks like a merry meltdown of a By Sarah • Oct 07, 2025 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Indy the dog in Good Boy What does a dog see? When your dog stares into a corner, or peers into the dark, still and silent but for a quivering nose, what does he see? What does a dog perceive? When we’re sad, when we’re hurting, what does a dog understand of our emotions, By Sarah • Oct 03, 2025 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has spent the last 25 years trying to become one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, and in this, he succeeded. But it has been a long time—since 2016’s Central Intelligence or 2013’s Pain & Gain, depending on your taste—since By Sarah • Oct 02, 2025 12:06 pm
Intro for September 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. As such, we will not have regular site postings. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is meant “to honour Survivors, their families, and communities, and ensure that public commemoration of the history and legacy of residential By Sarah • Sep 30, 2025 10:19 am
Theatre Nerd Godot’s Excellent Adventure Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Waiting for Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter opened on Broadway last night. Broadway openings always draw a crowd but because of Keanu and Winter, last night’s crowd was especially starry. Besides Keanu and Winter, the premiere drew out Ethan Hawke, Chris Pine, By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boss’s Big Night Between A Complete Unknown last year and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere this year, it’s a great time for rock’n’roll dads at the movies. The four upcoming Beatles movies might be overkill, though. The dads can’t rock out too hard or they’ll spontaneously combust. Anyway, By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Thomas Anderon’s One Battle After Another Throughout his career, Paul Thomas Anderson has examined the American mythos from every angle, picking apart the American dream and all the various ways it can and will fail. His examinations are not really critiques, though, as much as they are clockworks depicting specific times and places in the “American By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 01:34 pm
Style Too much fashion Paris Fashion Week begins today, so you know what that means—all the famous people are in Paris. Emma Stone, Walton Goggins, Pharrell, and Ana de Armas were in Paris over the weekend for pre-game activities, including a dinner hosted by Louis Vuitton. Paris Fashion Week actually overlaps with the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 11:54 am
Intro for September 29, 2025 Dear Gossips, Big news over the weekend, which is that Disney’s two largest ABC affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair Media, both gave up on their blackouts of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Just a stunning goose egg for both companies, as they tucked tail and slunk away from a free speech fight By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Strong is the new Zuckerberg It was just confirmed today that Jeremy Strong will take over the role of “Mark Zuckerberg” in Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network. Sorkin will direct this time around, too, and the film will also star Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, and Bill Burr. The film has already By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews June Squibb in Eleanor the Great One must think, at times, of Dear Evan Hansen. It is an unfortunate reality that once seen, that the second-most cursed movie musical can never be forgotten. (The most cursed movie musical is, of course, Cats.) What has lately brought Dear Evan Hansen to mind is Eleanor the Great, Scarlett By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 03:13 pm
TV Updates Everybody Wants This Spooky season is almost upon us, but just in case all things hallow’s eve isn’t your bag, don’t worry, Netflix has got you covered. In their quest to be the something for everyone, one-stop entertainment shop, they’re releasing the second season of the romantic comedy-drama Nobody By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 11:32 am
Style Shirtless Becks in Milan Milan Fashion Week is happening, and David Beckham is thirst-trapping from his hotel balcony. This is a man who knows what the people want, and what the people want is shirtless Becks. Or maybe Bond villain Becks? He turned up to the BOSS runway show looking like he has James By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 26, 2025 Dear Gossips, There’s a lot going on, it’s been a big week what with Jimmy Kimmel’s return to television—and the ongoing blackout from Disney’s largest ABC station affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair Media—and it’s not like I’m ignoring that stuff. For instance, I By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bride! and her hot dead boyfriend Jessie Buckley is about to have a huge six months, with Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet sure to propel her to the top of the Best Actress race, and just as the Oscars will be peaking in 2026, Buckley will be in theaters with another movie, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! By Sarah • Sep 24, 2025 11:14 am
