Style Flo P at Harris Reed London fashion week has begun, and yesterday Florence Pugh opened Harris Reed’s runway show with a monologue commanding the audience to “be vulnerable”, “be chaotic”, and “always, always be yourself” while wearing a partially sheer gown with giant shoulders and eyelashes. Flo is a friend and muse of Harris By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 10:07 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, Big news in Bond yesterday as it was announced that Amazon MGM has taken over creative control of the 007 franchise. This comes a couple months after The Wall Street Journal ran an article about how Bond is “trapped in an ugly stalemate” between producers Barbara Broccoli and By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 09:18 am
TV Updates Checking in at The White Lotus Spoilers for episode 301 Since 2021 The White Lotus has become one of the jewels in HBO’s post-Game of Thrones crown. Created by Mike White, who also writes and directs all episodes, The White Lotus explores the world of luxury tourism, examining the impact of wealth, class, and race By Sarah • Feb 19, 2025 01:47 pm
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs had pope fever The BAFTAs were on Sunday, and because of the topsy-turvy awards season we’re having, they happened while both SAG voting AND Oscar voting is underway. The Brits came down with a case of pope fever, with Conclave taking home four trophies, including Best Film and Outstanding British Film. However, By Sarah • Feb 18, 2025 09:50 am
TV Updates Happy Valentine’s Day, Love Lady Whistledown Monday is Family Day in Canada so the site will be dark. We'll be back to normal programming on Tuesday. See you then! Bridgerton season four isn’t expected until next year, but the Bridgerton PR team at Netflix never miss a chance to celebrate with Lady Whistledown. By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy in The Gorge In the grand tradition of Road House, The Gorge is a film that is smart about the way in which it is dumb. Directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Zach Dean, the premise is very silly: two snipers are recruited to man watchtowers on either side of a gorge By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 01:37 pm
Style Monica & Mikey before the sprint The BAFTAs are this weekend, the SAG Awards are next weekend, and the Oscars are the weekend after that. Thanks to wildfire-induced delays, awards season is an all-out sprint to the finish. To that end, everyone is outside, including nominees Mikey Madison and Monica Barbaro. Both are first-time nominees, though By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World After a decade playing a sidekick in the MCU, Anthony Mackie and his character, Sam Wilson, have stepped into the central role of Captain America, picking up the mantle after Chris Evans exited the franchise, taking Steve Rogers with him. Following his stint on TV in The Falcon and the By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, Happy Valentine’s Day to all who celebrate, or, as I like to call it, “Congratulations on not murdering your partner for another year!”. But we’re not here to talk about made-up holidays, we’re here to talk about The Accountant and its upcoming sequel, The Accountant By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson have Friendship I am so mad at myself for missing Friendship at TIFF last fall, but it didn’t fit into my schedule. I have never quite forgiven myself for that, though, not least because the film went on to be named second runner-up for TIFF’s Midnight Madness People’s Choice By Sarah • Feb 12, 2025 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My next prediction is that Danny Ramirez will be A Big Deal Captain America: Brave New World opens on Friday. I’ll have a full review after I think on it a little more, but in short: Danny Ramirez is the only reason to watch it, and he’s not in it nearly enough to justify it. Ramirez was at the premiere, By Sarah • Feb 12, 2025 11:22 am
TV Updates The White Lotus in bloom The White Lotus blooms again this Sunday, and the premiere was last night in Los Angeles. Given the show’s stature three seasons in, and its powerhouse cast, the premiere was a star-studded affair. Returning White Lotus star Natasha Rothwell was there in a beaded gown giving Art Deco vibes, By Sarah • Feb 11, 2025 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guilds are speaking Because of the Los Angeles wildfires, the awards season calendar is all screwed up. Hardly the most important thing, but a reality nonetheless. That means award shows are piling up on top of each other, and that the next three weeks are a sprint to the end of the trophy By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Super Bowl trailers: the other ones The blockbusters have had their say, now let’s look at the other movie trailers Hollywood elected to show off on game day. It’s mostly family-friendly stuff, plus trailers for a couple of movies I’m surprised studios are willing to spend this big on (in-game ads ran about By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Super Bowl brought blockbuster trailers In advance of the Super Bowl, studios released two of the biggest and most anticipated trailers, those for The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Jurassic World Rebirth. But game day still held plenty of new trailers, but before the game even started, two of Hollywood’s biggest stars anchored pre-game By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 10:26 am
What Else The Cruise-Pitt Bowl Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt both have big movies coming out this year. Cruise has maybe his last Mission: Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, due in May, and Pitt has racecar vroom movie F1 in June. Big stars, big movies—big stakes. Neither of these films is cheap. F1 is By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 04:06 pm
