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
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
