Movie Reviews and Previews Spike + Denzel, together again Spike Lee and Denzel Washington enjoy one of the richest collaborations in American cinema. Together they have made a masterpiece (Malcolm X), a couple very good films (Mo’ Better Blues, He Got Game), and one good film that is VERY fun, Inside Man (which I love). Inside Man came out By Sarah • Aug 05, 2025 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson in The Naked Gun We live in an age in which parody is almost impossible, between the absurdity of real life and the complete deconstruction of any and everything offered by the internet, in every possible media format. Indeed, spoofs have not done well, cinematically, since the Scary Movie franchise died off in the By Sarah • Aug 05, 2025 01:19 pm
Sydney Sweeney Intro for August 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, Lainey and I have been in disagreement over Sydney Sweeney since she emerged as an It Girl a couple years ago. Lainey has never seen it, I have always defended her as a good actress, most notably in dramas (Euphoria and Reality are where I always point). Lainey By Sarah • Aug 05, 2025 09:10 am
Style Julia Garner’s dots Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, August for Canada’s Civic Holiday. We will be back with our regular gossip programming on Tuesday, August 5. Fresh off The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Julia Garner is promoting a new movie, Zach Cregger’s Weapons. This is follow-up to Barbarian, By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The other other movie shooting in New York New York City never lacks film sets, not even in the blazing, humid heat of summer. I feel like 90% of acting is just pretending like you’re not face-meltingly hot or freezing cold. Anyway, the production everyone is talking about is The Devil Wears Prada 2, with a constant By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 01:25 pm
TV Updates Jenna Ortega’s Doom Tour The first part of the second season of Wednesday premieres next week, and as such, Jenna Ortega is on the “Doom Tour” promoting the show around the world. Cute branding! Seriously, I was mixed on season one, but I do like how everyone leans into Wednesday Addams’ Goth girl roots By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 1, 2025 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Mikey Madison potentially starring in Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network, and why she is such a good choice to play Frances Haugen, the data scientist who exposed Facebook’s internal mess to the SEC and The Wall Street Journal. Jeremy Allen By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 09:28 am
TV Updates Meet the new Bennet sisters Production has begun on a new six-episode Netflix adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The new series is written by Dolly Alderton, the creator of Everything I Know About Love, and directed by the excellently named Euros Lyn, an award-winning director who has worked on everything from Dr. Who (David Tennant By Sarah • Jul 30, 2025 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Name that Avatar character There is nothing I dread more than a press release for a movie too big to ignore that I just do not give a sh-t about landing in my inbox. Anyway, the trailer for Avatar: Fire & Ash, the third in James Cameron’s technology test franchise, dropped yesterday. A By Sarah • Jul 29, 2025 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Comic-Con wrapped up Comic-Con carried on through the weekend, a little bit of a muted year—it didn’t feel like I had to stay glued to my inbox for announcements and trailers this time around—but there were still some big highlights. One of which is: Sydney Chandler showed up for Alien: By Sarah • Jul 28, 2025 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Four gets the job done Much like Superman before it, The Fantastic Four: First Steps had a fantastic opening weekend, clocking $118 million—which will probably revise upwards, just like Superman, when the actual tally is released later today. The international haul came in at $100 million, giving First Steps a $218 million launching pad. By Sarah • Jul 28, 2025 10:14 am
What Else Comic Con gets off to a slow start Comic Con is this weekend. It’s expected to be a relatively quiet year as a number of studios are sitting this one out, including Marvel and DC. But Twisted Metal, a video-game based series I don’t think anyone watches, had its panel already, bringing out Anthony Mackie, Stephanie By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spinal Tap is back The year of comedy sequels continues with the one I am personally the most nervous about. The trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues dropped yesterday, and it’s pretty good. I got one solid laugh out of it, at the end with the “thinking outside the literal box” By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 11:30 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 25, 2025 Dear Gossips, Well, that didn’t take long. Just eight days after announcingThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end next May, and less than a month after CBS paid $16 million to Donald Trump to end a specious lawsuit over an interview with then-candidate Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes, By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 09:22 am
Style Katie Holmes at work Right after I said that Katie Holmes gets more coverage (by paparazzi) than the state of her career really warrants in a mailbag, she announced she is directing and co-starring in a new romantic comedy-drama with Joshua Jackson. Okay then, game on! Here is Katie on set today in New By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 04:13 pm
TV Updates Paul Kelly is nailing it As you know by now, Ryan Murphy is my nemesis. I rarely make it all the way through his series, some, usually the true crime ones, I can’t even watch at all. But I was a kid in the Nineties, images of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy are seared into my By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 02:34 pm
