BFFs Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett’s Oscar comedy gamble As mentioned, the fall festivals are coming—Venice starts this week—and that means the 2025 trophy season is now open. Frankenstein had its moment, and now we have a glossy Vanity Fair profile of Bradley Cooper’s latest film, Is This Thing On?, about a man who finds success By Sarah • Aug 26, 2025 11:44 am
Sports Serena Williams talks weight loss and stigma The US Open starts on Sunday, and tennis GOAT Serena Williams is making headlines, but not for her sport. She told PEOPLE magazine that she used a GLP-1 drug to lose 31 pounds, and she is teaming up with telehealth company Ro to promote the weight loss drugs. I’ve By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Day-Lewis returns Daniel Day-Lewis “retired” from acting in 2017 following his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. I put “retired” in quotes because I never believed he would stay retired—it wasn’t the first time, and it probably won’t be the last time DDL walks away from acting By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 03:16 pm
Quiveration Austin + Zoë: Hot in Paris A late summer treat is the Caught Stealing press tour, which is mostly just Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz going around the world, being incredibly hot. Hot in Puerto Rico, hot in New York, hot in London—basically the only person capable of pulling focus from Austin and Zoë is By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Venice Film Festival begins next week, followed by the Telluride Film Festival over the US Labor Day weekend, and then TIFF launches on September 4. We’re on the cusp of the fall festival season, which means the 2025 awards season is about to begin. To that By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 09:18 am
TV Updates My spiney alien queen in Alien: Earth What makes us human? Is it our organic bodies, failing all around us; is it our memories, the building blocks of identity; or is it our heart, that intangible, metaphysical je ne sai quoi that allows us to love, to grieve, to fear, to hope? The greatest science fiction asks By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 12:09 pm
Sports Glen Powell and Eli Manning try to conquer TV As I mentioned the other day, Glen Powell is returning to TV for the first time since starring in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens in the mid-2010s. Starting September 30, he will star in Chad Powers, a football comedy on Hulu based on a character created by Eli Manning. To By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 10:26 am
TV Updates Fallout’s sci-fi escape hatch I really enjoyed the first season of Fallout, Prime Video’s adaptation of the popular video game series. In fact, I like it so much, I will go out on a limb and say that Walton Goggins should have gotten an Emmy nomination for Fallout, not The White Lotus. His By Sarah • Aug 20, 2025 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell on the prowl Not really, I just liked the rhyme. Glen Powell is very busy, having finally launched into the stratosphere following the double whammy of Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You. Some of us—me—were predicting his big fame in the latter half of the 2010s, off the backs of By Sarah • Aug 19, 2025 10:19 am
Style Ali Wong’s superior sun protection Everyone’s Favorite Couple Update: Bill Hader and Ali Wong are still together. They were photographed at a farmer’s market in Los Angeles today, looking cute and fun and PROTECTED FROM THE SUN! There has been a conversation recently about sunscreen on The Squawk, inspired in part by the By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 04:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Women, grief, and horses in East of Wall There is an inherent skepticism when an outsider tells a particular community’s story, that they will in some fundamental way misrepresent or misunderstand the world they’re depicting, or worse, commit an act of socio-emotional tourism—poverty p-rn is among the worst of these. Take billionaire Nicola Peltz-Beckham’s By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 03:28 pm
Style Prada 2 Bingo Speaking of The Devil Wears Prada 2, filming continues apace in New York. Yesterday, three of the “Prada four” were on set: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt. Andy Sachs is sporting cerulean on her scarf, and this time out, Emily Charlton is rocking platinum blonde hair, not her By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 11:59 am
Style Lucy Liu’s double sheer Did you know that Lucy Liu is going to be in The Devil Wears Prada 2? Somehow, I missed this announcement (also, the presence of Justin Theroux and BJ Novak ensures Prada’s legacy of f-ckboys remains intact). I was checking on Lucy because she’s at the 78th Locarno By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 10:36 am
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2025 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift has given us a great gossip week—one reason I believe she is a great gossip herself is because she knows so well how to stoke gossip cycles—but let’s not lose sight of the other gossip happening right now: Marc Maron versus every right-wing By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy Ping Pong in a Safdie Crash Out (Sports) Drama Since the Safdie Brothers broke up as co-directors, Josh Safdie has kept a comparatively low profile. Where Benny Safdie has acted consistently in projects like Licorice Pizza, Oppenheimer, and the upcoming The Odyssey, as well as co-creating and starring in The Curse, Josh Safdie has done a little voice work, By Sarah • Aug 13, 2025 02:03 pm
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant’s chaotic streak continues Alien: Earth premiered last night—will I review it? Who can ever be sure!—which means Timothy Olyphant is back on TV screens once again. And yes, even with his character’s strong look—neon white hair and bleached brows, very Nineties Euro raver—he is still Very Handsome. My By Sarah • Aug 13, 2025 10:55 am
