Movie Reviews and Previews More Marvel news (ft. the X-Men) Two weeks after their star-studded presentation at Comic Con, Marvel doubled down at Disney’s in-house fan convention, D23, continuing to tease Avengers: Doomsday, introducing VisionQuest, and announcing the first round of new, MCU-branded X-Men casting. Let’s start with Doomsday. They dropped a “special look” By Sarah • Aug 17, 2026 10:53 am
What Else Hot Lantern men Yesterday Lainey mentioned that the five-minute preview of Lanterns was working for her, in no small part because it is extremely well cast. Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre are both HOT, and they have GREAT chemistry as, essentially, a wildcard space cap duo. The premiere for Lanterns was last By Sarah • Aug 14, 2026 04:19 pm
TV Updates Are you watching The Shards? I guess today’s inadvertent theme is “outside”, because Kaia Gerber is also outside, though on the west coast. Here she is sporting athleisure in LA (photos attached below as well as photos of Kaia with Lewis Pullman in LA yesterday). Why did I have to live in LA during By Sarah • Aug 14, 2026 02:44 pm
Julia Roberts Julia Roberts’ quiet year It was a busy celebrity day in NYC, as Julia Roberts joined Kristen Stewart outside. She’s not promoting anything, though, she’s just Being Famous Outside. It’s been a quiet year for Julia, with no new projects, but she has a new film with Sam Esmail coming in By Sarah • Aug 14, 2026 10:56 am
Kristen Stewart KStew’s stoner last stand Kristen Stewart has been busy the last couple weeks promoting her new film, The Wrong Girls. But the film hits theaters today, so here she is in New York, outside one last time for the film. As Lainey said, the film is a celebration of friendship but also grown ass By Sarah • Aug 14, 2026 09:56 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 14, 2026 Dear Gossips, After several straight years of mostly bad box office news, this year is mostly good box office news. A welcome change! 2026 continues on pace to be the biggest box office year since 2019, most recently bolstered by the twin billion-dollar successes of The Odyssey and Spider- By Sarah • Aug 14, 2026 09:08 am
Ben Affleck Netflix loves Ben Affleck It feels like Ben Affleck has been really busy as a director, but Air, the last film he directed, came out in 2023. How has it already been three years since the time Ben Affleck made a biopic for a shoe? In other areas, he has stayed busy, acting in By Sarah • Aug 13, 2026 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Verity a secret comedy? We are two-thirds of the way through Anne Hathaway’s Big Year. Her penultimate film of 2026, The End of Oak Street, opens this Friday, and in October comes her final film, Verity, Michael Showalter’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name. A new trailer By Sarah • Aug 12, 2026 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo’s comedy crime wig We are weeks away from the Venice Film Festival kicking off fall festival season, and one of the big question marks this year is “is it finally James Gray’s time?”. James Gray, an American filmmaker who is more appreciated in Europe than he is at home (two Cesar nominations By Sarah • Aug 11, 2026 12:17 pm
What Else Ted Lasso with bonus Heated Rivalry news Ted Lasso returned this week. I’m waiting for the finale before reviewing, because while the first season of Ted Lasso is nearly perfect, the third season proved you have to wait to see how it all ends before rendering final judgment. The third season of Ted Lasso, at the By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 04:06 pm
Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson’s generational run continues In May we saw the teaser for Primetime, the film in which Robert Pattinson stars as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen. Now, as the film readies for a Venice launch, we have a full trailer, and holy HELL, RPattz is on a crazy run right now. Every performance By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 03:04 pm
Callum Turner Sexual Fascism in One Night Only Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise is a romantic staple of cinema, in which a couple meets and falls in love over the course of one night of long, meandering conversation. Will Gluck’s One Night Only is like if Before Sunrise happened in a fascist hell in which bodily autonomy By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 11:05 am
Bradley Cooper BCoop and Gigi in Paris (still) Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid continue in Paris, amidst speculation that they got secret married. Secret marriage: it’s 2026’s hottest trend. Is it a secret if your family and friends are there, or did you just not issue a press release? And/or stage your wedding in one By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 09:55 am
Intro for August 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, Here’s a blast from the past, Nikki Finke resurfaced this week. Not literally, as she passed away in 2022, but the specter of her long-rumored fictionalized telling of Hollywood tales has emerged from the shadows and is being shopped for publication by her estate. It’s By Sarah • Aug 07, 2026 09:16 am
Connor Storrie Connor Storrie’s before/after Production on Heated Rivalry season two is underway (and Jacob Tierney is already pleading with fans to just be f-cking normal about it), but before we get to the second season—expected next spring—we have to do the befores and afters. You know, the stuff made before that By Sarah • Aug 06, 2026 11:19 am
What Else Tessa Thompson, relaxing alone Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, August 3, for Canada’s Civic Holiday. Have a great long weekend, gossipers! We are steaming right into August and the last days of summer because the sun is an asshole that never slows down, but for now, it is still Celebrity By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 04:03 pm
