Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, Brad Pitt scored a victory over the weekend—no, none of his kids talked to him—as F1 opened with $144 million globally, the biggest global launch of Pitt’s career to date. It’s also Apple’s first box office win (they backed the film, with Warner By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 09:04 am
Style Rihanna turned up on time for Dior It’s Paris Men’s Fashion Week, or Men’s Parish Fashion Week, or Paris Fashion Week: Man Edition, however it’s called. The Dior show was today. Pharrell turned up, as did Robert Pattinson, Daniel Craig, and Rihanna. Rihanna is the headline, Rihanna is always the headline, but I By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt in F1 F1 is Brad Pitt’s latest star vehicle and Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to Top Gun: Maverick, a film that married technical wizardry with high emotional stakes, making for one of the most genuinely thrilling and effective blockbusters in recent memory. Clearly, the intent was to do the same using By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bewitching Emma Stone Yorgos Lanthimos and Ari Aster are filmmakers who love to make movies that challenge audiences, and what else do they have in common? Emma Stone. This year, she’s starring in new films from both Lanthimos and Aster. First up it’s Ari Aster’s Eddington, which had a premiere By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 10:25 am
Weddings Intro for June 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Maria excoriated the Bezos-Sanchez wedding in Venice in the greatest piece of journalism of our time. She read Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and their tacky ass guests for filth, she exposed the shallow spectacle for what it is: A Divorced Man* Attempting To Recover, Yet Somehow By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions for M3GAN 2.0 What is M3GAN 2.0? M3GAN 2.0 is a sequel to the 2023 surprise horror-comedy hit, M3GAN. Director Gerard Johnstone returns, this time penning the script himself (from a story by him and original M3GAN screenwriter Akela Cooper). Allison Williams is back as tech genius but people-clueless Gemma, and By Sarah • Jun 26, 2025 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Denis Villeneuve ushers in the new Bond Four months after Amazon MGM bought out the Broccoli family, long the cinematic stewards of James Bond, Denis Villeneuve has been announced as the latest director to take on Bond. He will usher in the Amazon era of Bond, whenever he’s done with Dune, that is. Villeneuve is only By Sarah • Jun 26, 2025 10:16 am
TV Updates Dominique Thorne in Ironheart Three years after making her MCU debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dominique Thorne returns to the MCU as Riri Williams, a kid genius in the vein of Tony Stark, except for three critical differences: she’s young, Black, and broke. Catching up with Riri after her Wakandan adventure—but By Sarah • Jun 25, 2025 10:33 am
Gorgessity Jurassic New York The Jurassic World Rebirth press tour has been a consistently good style showing for Scarlett Johansson, who has worn her “favorite silhouette” and, more importantly, sported loose, soft waves rather than super tight, slicked-back hairdos. Well, two steps forward, one step back, because at the New York premiere of Rebirth, By Sarah • Jun 24, 2025 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jon Bernthal joins Spider-Man(!) Spider-Man 4, officially titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day, starts production later this summer, which means the cast is rounding out, and easily the biggest—and most surprising—piece of casting news is that Jon Bernthal is joining the film as the vigilante Frank Castle, aka the Punisher. There was a By Sarah • Jun 23, 2025 11:02 am
TV Updates Leslie and Sam are outside Emmy nominations are happening right now—they’ll be announced on July 15—and as such, Emmy hopefuls are very outside. Leslie Bibb starred in The White Lotus, though she isn’t garnering the kind of buzz Carrie Coon and Aimee Lou Wood are, but still, she’s part of By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 04:16 pm
Ralph Fiennes Of monsters and men in 28 Years Later In 2002, 28 Days Later jumpstarted the zombie craze of the 2000s, introducing the world to the concept of fast zombies, a more intense and immediate threat than the lumbering zombies of George Romero’s imagination. In this universe, penned by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle, zombies are By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman Begins Summer movie season continues apace, which means the press tour for Superman has officially kicked off ahead of its July 11 release. David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and James Gunn were in Manila for a fan event yesterday. Can’t help but think they chose Manila for the event because of By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 10:17 am
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
