TV Updates Gen Z P&P Is Here We just got done fighting about Wuthering Heights and now it’s time to fight about Pride and Prejudice as Dolly Alderton’s adaptation for Netflix has a first-look teaser to be picked apart and judged. Are you ready to rumble!!! The teaser is just that, a very brief cinematic By Sarah • Feb 24, 2026 12:02 pm
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs bring surprises and controversy I bet the Brits would love a day off from controversy, but that is not in god’s plan, apparently. The BAFTAs delivered controversy last night in two different ways. First, let’s talk about the lead acting categories, the site of a major upset (if you don’t pay By Sarah • Feb 23, 2026 11:29 am
Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler are it With the BAFTAs last night, we are now entering the meat of awards season. The Oscars are T-minus three weeks away, and we’re finally hearing from people who will get to vote for the Academy Awards. The BAFTAs and the Academy share membership overlap, so the BAFTAs, while a By Sarah • Feb 23, 2026 10:30 am
What Else Channing & Chan So, I know I was like, it’s too early to talk about Oscars for this year until we get through last year—Emily, the site manager, has already emailed me once about the language confusion of the award season time-warp and I wonder if she will again—but another By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 04:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Toy Story 5 is going to make us contemplate aging Last year was dogsh-t at the box office, but one of the bright spots was Zootopia 2, Disney’s in-house authorized furry fanfic, which became Hollywood’s biggest animated film of all time—a necessary distinction as Ne Zha 2 is still reigning biggest animated film, period. Even when the By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 02:41 pm
Aaron Johnson Olympic Aaron Taylor-Johnson The Olympics wrap up this weekend. Every Olympic cycle I pick one sport to follow all the way through, and this year, inspired by Heated Rivalry, it was women’s hockey. Sorry to the men, but I cannot support the NHL, and though I am intrigued by this possibly being By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 11:03 am
Amanda Seyfried Amanda Seyfried’s terrific tresses The Testament of Ann Lee continues rolling out overseas, with the latest stop being the Berlinale for the film’s screening at the Berlin International Film Festival. Amanda Seyfried, who is still working hard for this film even though it’s “over” in the US with no Oscar nominations, turned By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 10:21 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 20, 2026 Dear Gossips, I have been sick this week with some kind of stomach bug which is probably just my skeleton trying to escape its flesh prison, but that just means I had more time for the Olympics—yay Team USA women’s hockey! But also yay Team Canada! I wish By Sarah • Feb 20, 2026 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Mandalorian and Grogu puts spectacle before character Rather than debut a new trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, Disney/Lucasfilm’s great hope for summer 2026, during the Super Bowl, Disney opted to do a riff on Budweiser commercials, which did not move the needle at all. Now, though, they have dropped the official trailer, giving us By Sarah • Feb 18, 2026 10:05 am
What Else Michelle Yeoh got a friend-shaped trophy Programming note: We will be dark on Monday in observance of Family Day. We’ll be back on Tuesday, February 17, with our regularly scheduled gossip. The Berlin International Film Festival is happening, and Michelle Yeoh was honored with an honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement. The statue is very By Sarah • Feb 13, 2026 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sam Rockwell in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Among the many ways to classify films, they can be sorted into two groups: films in which Sam Rockwell dances, and films in which Sam Rockwell does not dance. Note that a film in which Sam Rockwell dances does not actually have to contain Sam Rockwell dancing, it can just By Sarah • Feb 13, 2026 03:23 pm
TV Updates Nicolas Cage in (live) action as Spider-Noir As questions about the future of superhero franchises continue to permeate the pop culture consciousness, one franchise that just keeps trucking is the Spider-Verse, the vividly animated films featuring Shameik Moore as the voice of Miles Morales, an alternate universe Spider-Man. The first film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, won an By Sarah • Feb 13, 2026 01:54 pm
Style Celebrities in and out of coats New York Fashion Week is happening now, because “fashion week” is really a jet-setting month, and last night was the 45th anniversary Michael Kors show. It was held at Lincoln Center in New York and brought out a lot of celebrities. Given that it’s a fall/winter show, Kors By Sarah • Feb 13, 2026 10:32 am
Zayn Malik Intro for February 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, Happy Friday the 13th to all who celebrate! It’s been a f-cker of a week so let’s indulge in some frivolity! Zayn Malik went on Call Her Daddy and said he doesn’t “know if he was ever IN love with” Gigi Hadid (emphasis mine), the By Sarah • Feb 13, 2026 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Yearning and gloop in “Wuthering Heights” Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” (“based” on the “novel” by “Emily Brontë”) is not a faithful adaptation of that novel; it’s full of deliberately anachronistic choices, and it has a very specific style palette that you will either love or hate. These are just facts. At a By Sarah • Feb 12, 2026 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Super Bowl Trailers: Earth Edition We’ve looked at the space-set Super Bowl trailers, now here are the ones set on Earth. Let’s start with Scream 7, which brings Neve Campbell back to the franchise. I just don’t know how seriously I’m supposed to take Ghostface after all these years. I know By Sarah • Feb 09, 2026 12:07 pm
