Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston appears (bonus Mark Hamill) I think the last time we wrote about Tom Hiddleston on the site was my review of The Life of Chuck, the Stephen King adaptation from Mike Flanagan in which Hiddleston stars. I might be wrong, I frequently am, but it is consistent with covering Hiddleston less than we did By Sarah • Jun 03, 2025 09:52 am
TV Updates Netflix advertises blockbuster TV I went off on Netflix’s movie business, and here is where I go off on their TV business. Creatively, I think they’re better at producing good TV, because they aren’t fundamentally degrading the industry on that side of the fence. On the movie side, they’re actively By Sarah • Jun 02, 2025 12:22 pm
Ben Affleck Netflix advertises the movies it doesn’t support Netflix’s annual fan event, Tudum, occurred over the weekend. It’s their effort to create an in-house marketing machine/hype event a la Disney’s D23, and it’s sort of working. Certainly, there were people who showed up in person and shrieked at celebrities standing on a stage. By Sarah • Jun 02, 2025 11:20 am
What Else “It’s chaos, be kind” It’s Big Slick weekend in Kansas City, which means a cadre of celebrities who call Kansas City, or more generously Kansas and Missouri, home turn up for a weekend of sports and goofiness to benefit Children’s Mercy Hospital in KC. It started as a poker tournament back when By Sarah • May 30, 2025 04:26 pm
Music Taylor’s Masters Taylor Swift just dropped a gossip bomb—she has bought back her masters. In a letter published on her website, she states she was able to buy back her masters, along with the rights to her music videos, concert films, album art, unreleased songs, “the memories, the magic, the madness” By Sarah • May 30, 2025 01:06 pm
TV Updates The Pitt moves Earlier this week Lainey was writing about the Emmys and mentioned that drama categories “loo[k] like it’ll come down to Severance vs The White Lotus although The Last of Us and The Pitt could be a factor”. Well guess what? The Pitt is moving up. With two weeks By Sarah • May 30, 2025 10:07 am
Sydney Sweeney Intro for May 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, Yesterday I mentioned Sydney Sweeney in context to Scarlett Johansson and Hollywood/everyone else’s long tradition of being completely unhinged about hot blondes—which literally goes back to silent cinema and Jean Harlow—which in turn set off a conversation on The Squawk about Sydney Sweeney selling By Sarah • May 30, 2025 09:05 am
TV Updates Please explain And Just Like That… Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That… is still somehow going. Who watches this? Seriously, I’m curious. If you watch And Just Like That…, I’d love to hear from you. Why? What’s the appeal? I get the appeal of Sex and the City, it fed By Sarah • May 29, 2025 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charming Angel Keanu Early last year, we saw photos of Keanu Reeves on set with Seth Rogen for Aziz Ansari’s new film, which is now called Good Fortune. The teaser dropped yesterday, the film stars Keanu as a guardian angel seeking more responsibility and so he sets out to save a lost By Sarah • May 29, 2025 03:02 pm
TV Updates Alexander Skarsgård in Murderbot Apple TV+ has carved out a niche for itself as the home of high-concept sci-fi series such as For All Mankind, Foundation, and Silo. The latest entry into this super specific niche is Murderbot, a series adaption of Martha Wells’ popular book series, The Murderbot Diaries. Coming from sibling creators By Sarah • May 29, 2025 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo and BenDeTo Wes Anderson’s new film, The Phoenician Scheme, opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, before expanding next week. The film premiered at Cannes, and there was another premiere last night in New York. I found myself scanning the photos because Scarlett Johansson turned up to the NYC By Sarah • May 29, 2025 11:33 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 29, 2025 Dear Gossips, Summer is here, school is (almost?) out, it is time for silliness and tomfoolery, but NO, we have to have a Serious Discussion about Serious Things because people refuse to take the need for intimacy coordinators seriously. The latest: a stunt performer, Devyn LaBella, is suing Kevin Costner, By Sarah • May 29, 2025 08:56 am
Business of Hollywood Stitch ate the box office (Ethan Hunt helped) Following Sinners’ super-powered spring box office (now at $339 million), the 2025 Memorial Day weekend box office ushers in summer with a record-breaking $322 million four-day holiday haul, beating the previous record set on Memorial Day weekend in 2014, when Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III, and Star By Sarah • May 26, 2025 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Millennial nostalgia in Lilo & Stitch In 2002, the Hawaiian-set animated adventure Lilo & Stitch proved a surprise hit for Disney. Just past the peak of the Disney Renaissance that drove animated films in the Nineties, including such films as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch came at By Sarah • May 23, 2025 12:43 pm
Cannes 2025 A smattering of Cannes fashion The Cannes Film Festival ends this weekend, which means it’s time for that annual end-of-Cannes event, the amFAR Gala. As we’ve mentioned several times over the last couple weeks, the fest’s new dress code rules, targeting “naked and voluminous” dresses, has maybe contributed to a rather boring By Sarah • May 23, 2025 11:38 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 23, 2025 Dear Gossips, For a while now, the already fractious relationship between movie studios and film critics has been worsening as studios lean harder and harder on influencers to promote their movies. It’s one thing when they’re using influencers to fill a marketing void left by the devaluing of By Sarah • May 23, 2025 09:53 am
