TV Updates Stephen Colbert: “The gloves are off” Late last week we learned that despite being the top-rated late-night show in its time slot, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will come to an end in May 2026. Despite CBS calling this a “purely financial decision”, the timing made it pretty impossible to ignore that CBS By Sarah • Jul 22, 2025 10:19 am
Quiveration Jon Bernthal’s slutty little hoodie Jon Bernthal is having a busy year. He had The Accountant 2 out earlier this year, he filmed Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, plus The Bear season four recently premiered, and he just earned his third Emmy nomination as a guest actor for The Bear—he won last year. It By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 04:11 pm
TV Updates Trailer haul Earlier this year we got our first look at Tron: Ares, the third entry into the Tron franchise which began in 1982 with one of the first CG-heavy movies made. Now, we have a new trailer, featuring the first piece of original music from Nine Inch Nails for the By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 02:10 pm
TV Updates Eric Bana in Untamed The woods are vast, dark and deep, and the legends and lore about the things that haunt wild spaces span centuries, languages, and cultures. One of humanity’s most primordial fears is the dark of the forest, is it any wonder we tell stories about the myriad things that go By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 01:10 pm
Style Emmy nominees at Thom Browne Designer Thom Browne, maker of the skirts all the coolest men wear on red carpets, opened two boutiques in New York this week, and he drew a particularly noteworthy crowd full of recent Emmy nominees. Walton Goggins, Tramell Tillman, and Cristin Milioti were all just nominated for Emmys, and they By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 11:03 am
TV Updates Intro for July 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, I was all prepared to write about tickets for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey going on sale an entire year early—and selling out instantly—but then news broke that CBS is cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The show will run for one final season and By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia, Gwyneth, and a long-awaited gossip matchup Now that we are halfway through summer, with the fall film festivals just a few weeks away, it’s time to start looking ahead to awards season. What? No! Surely, it’s too soon! Alas, time is a relentless drummer. To that end, the trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s After By Sarah • Jul 17, 2025 02:05 pm
TV Updates The Acting Olyphants Timothy Olyphant is Schrödinger’s celebrity. He works a lot, but we rarely see him. He’s in the fame sweet spot: recognizable but not hounded. But he walked outside in New York City, a place where celebrities are frequently photographed, and so he got photographed. Today Schrödinger’s celebrity By Sarah • Jul 17, 2025 11:24 am
Quiveration Dreamy Colin Farrell on set Newly minted Emmy nominee Colin Farrell is already back at work. No, not on The Batman 2 (consider this a semi-unrelated plea to let Robert Pattinson’s Batman and David Corenswet’s Superman coexist, PLEASE let us have this), but on the second season of Sugar, his sci-fi By Sarah • Jul 16, 2025 09:51 am
TV Updates The Emmy nominations are only sort of embarrassing The Emmy nominations are here, and while we’re STILL pretending like The Bear is a comedy—a crime, at this point—newcomer series Nobody Wants This and The Studio were also nominated, which I know Lainey is happy about, and the final season of What We Do in the By Sarah • Jul 15, 2025 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman soared over the box office Two weeks ago, I wrote about the “paycheck hypothesis”, which I made up, theorizing that generally, people will only pay to go see one movie per a given two-week paycheck period. Because Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman were opening in the same paycheck period, and Rebirth overperformed its expectations, By Sarah • Jul 14, 2025 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Finally, hope for Superman Spoilers ahead… Superman is one of comic books’ greatest squares, just a big ol’ dork, a good guy who does good. But in an attempt to make Superman—a flying alien with laser eyes and ice breath—more realistic, he was turned into a brooding grouch for a decade. Everyone By Sarah • Jul 11, 2025 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dino crush box office Following the record-breaking box office over Memorial Day weekend, July 4th delivered, too, with one of the biggest holiday box office weekends ever. Jurassic World Rebirth opened with $147 million over the five-day frame (Wednesday-Sunday), and $91.5 million for the traditional three-day weekend frame. Globally, By Sarah • Jul 07, 2025 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron in The Old Guard 2 Five years after The Old Guard became a hit on Netflix, its sequel finally arrives, titled simply The Old Guard 2. The film picks up six months after The Old Guard left off and doesn’t waste time recapping the previous film (though there is a handy explainer available). In By Sarah • Jul 04, 2025 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dumb humans in Jurassic World Rebirth Thirty-two years and now seven movies should be enough to finally say it: Jurassic Park does not support franchising. Every sequel to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic, Jurassic Park, is varying degrees of bad or dumb or bad AND dumb. It’s a massively successful franchise, though, with deep By Sarah • Jul 03, 2025 02:28 pm
Business of Hollywood The HFPA is back In news that really shouldn’t be surprising at this point, the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the beleaguered group behind the Golden Globes, have voted to reconstitute and seize control of…themselves. In 2021, the HFPA came under fire following a Los Angeles Times expose that revealed By Sarah • Jul 03, 2025 12:32 pm
