Tom Cruise Intro for June 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, With Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in theaters, Tom Cruise has gone to ground. Tom Cruise, despite being enormously famous, can completely disappear when he wants to. (Wither that erstwhile “romance” with Ana de Armas?) He is exhibit #1 when younger stars complain about being hounded by photographers— By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bruce Springsteen has to think about his whole life before he makes a new album A wish is a dream you speak aloud or whatever that saying is, and today the internet’s wish that Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen in a movie because they kinda-sorta look alike comes true as the trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere debuted this morning. It certainly By Sarah • Jun 18, 2025 12:11 pm
Style Jonathan Bailey’s slutty little sunglasses I keep writing out the name of the new Jurassic Park sequel as “Jurassic Rebirth”, but it’s Jurassic World Rebirth but maybe they should drop the metaphorical “the” and just have called it Jurassic Rebirth. It’s cleaner. Anyway, the world premiere of Jurassic WORLD Rebirth was in London By Sarah • Jun 18, 2025 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic Rebirth, 28 Years Later It’s summer movie season which means practically every week brings new blockbuster releases, especially this year, as summer 2025 is overcrowded. Someone is going to lose in this overstuffed environment, who’s it going to be? The casts of Jurassic World Rebirth and 28 Years Later hope it won’ By Sarah • Jun 17, 2025 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews How to Train Your Dragon soars (again) Live-action remakes of beloved animated films are a crapshoot that usually ends badly, but what happens when you 1) remake a movie that is already legitimately great, and 2) allow the original filmmaker to revisit their own work? It sounds like a recipe for disaster, right? Why remake something that By Sarah • Jun 16, 2025 10:35 am
TV Updates Activist Noah Wyle is back at it The Pitt season two is currently filming—July 4 chaos here we come!!—but producer-writer-star Noah Wyle took a break to go to Washington and urged Congress to act to better support healthcare workers in the US. He published an op-ed about it this week in USA Today. He’s By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Celine Song’s Materialists Celine Song follows up her Oscar-nominated debut feature film, Past Lives, with another meditative look at modern romance. This time it’s Materialists, which takes the trappings of a romantic comedy and gently drops them into something almost like reality, where, specifically, financial reality is a critical part of everyone’ By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 01:35 pm
Music Sabrina Carpenter is calling the shots Summer 2024 was the Summer of Sabrina Carpenter, as she ascended to pop diva status with Short ’n Sweet and its breakout single, “Espresso”. Now, she’s coming back with a new album, Man’s Best Friend, due in August, and has already dropped the lead single, the cheeky curse-that-man By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 12:40 pm
TV Updates Squid Game begins to end Between Stranger Things and Squid Game, it’s a big year for Netflix ending their biggest TV shows. Squid Game’s third and final season debuts on June 27, just two weeks away. The cast and series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk were in London yesterday to kick off the press tour. By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, Mel Brooks is 98 years old—he turns 99 in a couple weeks—and he still knows what the people want: to f-ck around in space. Yesterday, Brooks announced he’s making a sequel to Spaceballs. I told you we’d be back — Mel Brooks (@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social) By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 09:14 am
Top Reads IP monsters sue plagiarism machine Today in The Lawyers Are Being Fed news, Disney and NBCUniversal launched a joint lawsuit against Midjourney, a generative AI company that specializes in image and video slop. The suit comes from two of the most powerful holders of intellectual property in the entertainment industry and is in part being By Sarah • Jun 12, 2025 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo and Adam Driver reunite In 2022 James Gray—an American filmmaker who plays better in Europe than he does at home, even though he has made some banger films like Little Odessa, We Own the Night, and Ad Astra—made a coming-of-age drama inspired by his own childhood called Armageddon Time. It stars Anne By Sarah • Jun 11, 2025 11:43 am
Business of Hollywood David Zaslav admits defeat Last month during the television upfronts in New York, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that they’re changing the name of their streaming platform—again—reverting back to the “HBO Max” label they dropped two years ago in favor of the no-name recognition “Max”. Now, that renaming of inarguably WBD’s By Sarah • Jun 10, 2025 01:36 pm
Style Wrapping up with Sydney Sydney Sweeney has had a busy week promoting her new Apple TV+ film, Echo Valley. Here she is out and about in various outfits. Honestly, the wardrobe changes do me in just thinking about them. I know it’s strategized, and everything is already laid out, it’s not like By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas in Ballerina In 2014 John Wick opened to modest success but ultimately developed a blockbuster audience thanks to its combination of action, style, Keanu Reeves, and lore. The first movie is laughably simple—some young punks kill the puppy of a quiet widower, he goes on a rampage and doesn’t stop By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 11:59 am
Music Don’t forget about Miley Today is for the pop girlies, as both Sabrina Carpenter and Mariah Carey are releasing new songs—more on them later—but don’t forget about Miley Cyrus! She just released a new album, Something Beautiful, on May 30, with the visual album coming to movie theaters on June 12 By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 09:55 am
