Movie Reviews and Previews What are we in for with Mother Mary As we are approaching the end of 2025, it is time to turn our eyes toward 2026, a new time over a new horizon pressing ever toward us (I blame the sun). One of my topmost anticipated films of 2026 is Mother Mary, David Lowery’s new film starring Anne By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 11:34 am
Style Sydney and Amanda glam it up Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney hit the red carpet last night for the premiere of The Housemaid, a new film from director Paul Feig. It’s described as a psychological thriller (and is based on a book by Freida McFadden), but the trailer gives me A Simple Favor vibes, and By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 10:37 am
Timothee Chalamet Intro for December 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, This week, the Wall Street Journal published a profile of Simone Cromer, the 59-year-old woman behind the Club Chalamet social media stan account. If you are a healthy person with boundaries, you may not be aware of Club Chalamet, but if you are medium-to-terminally online, you’ve probably By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 09:16 am
Award Season Campaigning The Gotham Awards set the tone The 35th Gotham Awards took place last night in New York. The Gothams are interesting, partly because they’re so early, they get to set the mood for the rest of awards season, but also partly because the voting body is split into two parts: nominating committees made up of By Sarah • Dec 02, 2025 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig but mostly Josh O’Connor in Wake Up Dead Man In Knives Out, writer/director Rian Johnson introduced us to Benoit Blanc, a dapper, slightly eccentric, Southern-fried detective who can solve any crime, no matter how complicated it may seem, with a perfect cozy mystery setting: an autumnal New England estate. In Glass Onion, he shipped Benoit Blanc to a By Sarah • Nov 28, 2025 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, and Callum Turner in Eternity Watch out, bitches, I’m in my Scrooge era, here to take a wrecking ball to David Freyne’s lifeless afterlife rom-com—that is short on both rom and com—Eternity. Directed by Freyne and co-written by Freyne and Pat Cunnane, Eternity is about the afterlife of three entwined souls. By Sarah • Nov 26, 2025 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Train Dreams: In praise of a life lived small In Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella of the same name, the scope is wide, but the focus is small. The film, adapted by Bentley and Greg Kwedar and narrated by Will Patton—who has such a perfect voice to narrate a neo-Western, he By Sarah • Nov 25, 2025 02:45 pm
What Else Remembering Chadwick We’ll never stop missing Chadwick Boseman. It’s been five years, and his death still feels like a fresh loss. Lainey and I were texting about this last night, how it doesn’t feel like it’s been five years already, how we still miss him. How Sinners feels By Sarah • Nov 21, 2025 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charli XCX’s Moment Charli XCX had a big (brat) summer last year, and this year she’s been getting into acting with three films, Erupcja, Sacrifice, and 100 Nights of Hero. Next year, she’s getting into filmmaking with The Moment, a mockumentary about a pop star on her first headlining tour, inspired By Sarah • Nov 21, 2025 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan is just like us Speaking of fun, how about a good, old-fashioned gas pumping montage? In the grand tradition of millennial supermarket tabloids filling space, here are photos of Sebastian Stan getting gas in Los Angeles. Stars, they’re just like us! Following his Oscar nomination and Thunderbolts* earlier this year, Stan has been By Sarah • Nov 21, 2025 10:40 am
Amazingness Intro for November 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, On Monday, Lainey wrote about Timothee Chalamet skipping the Governors Awards so that he could stunt on Insta for Marty Supreme. I didn’t think I could enjoy Timmy Ping Pong any more than I already was, but then…well…he started fruitionizing. That wild discussion about a By Sarah • Nov 21, 2025 08:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked: For Good The (unnecessary) part two of Wicked is here, officially titled Wicked: For Good, implying an end to my long personal nightmare of watching this interminable musical. As in part one, For Good is directed by Jon M. Chu, written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, and is adapted from the By Sarah • Nov 20, 2025 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is here Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, debuted at Cannes earlier this year and is now making its way into theaters during the year-end Oscar rush. On the one hand, I’m glad her film is getting this kind of prestige push, on the other hand, December By Sarah • Nov 18, 2025 01:28 pm
Gwyneth Paltrow The supporting actresses turned up So far, 2025 has been an okay year in film. There has been a lot of okay-to-good stuff, a few very good things, and maybe a couple great things (Hamnet, and One Battle After Another). But in the midst of it happening, 2025 doesn’t feel like a great year By Sarah • Nov 17, 2025 11:38 am
Business of Hollywood Glen Powell’s mixed bag weekend It was a big weekend for Glen Powell, with The Running Man opening on Friday, and hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday, but the weekend ended up a mixed bag. The Running Man hit a wall with audiences, opening in second place against magician heist movie Now You See Me: By Sarah • Nov 17, 2025 09:57 am
TV Updates Walton Goggins is back as The Ghoul I cannot believe it, but amidst the year-end Oscar push, the onslaught of Stranger Things’ final season, and Death By Lightning and The Chair Company—the only television I want to talk about right now—Fallout is coming back for a second season on December 17. December! 17! That is By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 04:00 pm
