Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning As the potentially final film in Tom Cruise’s long run as super spy Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning has the unenviable task of giving Ethan an appropriate send-off, just in case it IS the last time Cruise plays this character, and wrapping up the story begun in By Sarah • May 22, 2025 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz are on FIRE He’s so omnipresent since breaking out with Elvis in 2022 that it feels like Austin Butler has been in a bunch of stuff, but he’s only been in two movies since, The Bikeriders and Dune: Part Two, and one mini-series no one watched, Masters of the Air. His By Sarah • May 22, 2025 09:52 am
Cannes 2025 Summer of Scarlett It’s a busy week for Scarlett Johansson. Fresh off hosting the final episode of Saturday Night Live’s 50th season—and maybe her husband’s last season?—she popped up in Cannes for the premiere of her feature directorial debut, Eleanor the Great. The film stars June Squibb and By Sarah • May 21, 2025 10:32 am
Cannes 2025 Alexander Skarsgård’s Cannes weekend Alexander Skarsgård is very busy. Murderbot premiered on Apple TV+ on Friday—eventually I will have a review!—and on the same weekend, he turned up at Cannes for the premiere of his new film, Pillion, co-starring Harry Melling (probably still best known as Dudley Dursley, but this guy has By Sarah • May 20, 2025 03:45 pm
Cannes 2025 Mia Threapleton’s Cannes moment Cannes is in full swing, but it seems like it’s an unusually muted year, at least on the business side of things. Beyond the festival, Cannes is also a film market, but like Sundance earlier this year, blockbuster deals are not really happening—a recession indicator. Everyone is nervous By Sarah • May 20, 2025 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ironheart needs a cooler suit After meeting Riri Williams in 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, her own Disney+ series, Ironheart, is finally coming out this summer. Riri, played by the insanely charming Dominique Thorne, is a super-genius MIT student, just like Tony Stark once upon a time. In Wakanda Forever, we see her build By Sarah • May 16, 2025 12:28 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton continues to tease us Like death, Bridgerton season 4 creeps ever closer. Yesterday during their upfront presentation, Netflix dropped a new sneak peek of the fourth season of the hugely popular show, teasing us with the moment Benedict Bridgerton sees Sophie—updated for the show from “Beckett” to “Baek”—or as he knows her By Sarah • May 15, 2025 10:18 am
What Else Lois Lane to the rescue The official trailer for Superman is here and yeah, okay, I’m in. You know what won me over? Not Superman and not Krypto the super-dog, it’s Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. It’s Lois grilling Clark Kent as Superman, a little flirty energy to start, but once she By Sarah • May 14, 2025 04:34 pm
Glenn Close Ryan Murphy continues to torment me Oh, Ryan Murphy, I will always get sucked into your latest torment. The newest show from the House of Murphy is All’s Fair, a legal drama set in a high-powered divorce practice owned by women, starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts (who will also star in American Love Story for By Sarah • May 14, 2025 03:18 pm
TV Updates In Andor, the cost of freedom is everything Spoilers for Andor Captain America once said that the cost of freedom is high, but in Andor, a world without superheroes, where there are no magic space wizards coming to save the galaxy—as far as anyone knows—the cost of freedom isn’t just high, it’s everything. Everything By Sarah • May 14, 2025 12:17 pm
Cannes 2025 Cannes begins The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival is underway, and already, we’ve seen fallout from the new dress code banning “nudity and voluminous outfits” on the Croisette. During yesterday’s jury press conference, Halle Berry said she had to change her dress, from designer Guarav Gupta, because it had a By Sarah • May 14, 2025 11:24 am
Timothy Olyphant Intro for May 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, The TV upfronts continue, and yesterday, Disney pulled out all the stops, bringing a hit parade of celebrities to promote their shows across ABC, Hulu, and Disney+. This includes the Only Murders golden trio of Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez; Daredevil’s Charlie Cox, accompanied by By Sarah • May 14, 2025 09:44 am
TV Updates Zendaya (is still) at work Zendaya is in the midst of a busy year. She has nothing slated to be released in 2025, but she’s working non-stop, which means 2026 will be busy, too, as she has to do press for everything she’s making this year (same goes for Tom Holland). Here she By Sarah • May 13, 2025 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How do you feel about F1? Summer movie season is in swing, and normally by May I have a pretty good feeling about how the summer will go, but this year? F-ck if I know. There’s so much nerviness about the economy, it’s hard to tell how big the summer audiences will be. Sinners By Sarah • May 13, 2025 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tramell Tillman with bonus Tom Cruise The Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning—this title should have reconsidered the “the”—press tour is underway, with the latest stop in London, where Tom Cruise was honored with the BFI Fellowship. The first award was given to French director Marcel Carné in 1983, and it is given to individuals By Sarah • May 13, 2025 10:37 am
Ella Purnell Intro for May 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, Television upfronts are happening in New York, which is when networks show their wares to advertisers to set ad rates for the upcoming season. For a while there, upfronts seemed to be increasingly irrelevant during the streaming takeover, when subscriptions made ads moot, but now almost every streamer By Sarah • May 13, 2025 08:59 am
