Zoe Kazan Will Zoe Kazan acknowledge her family’s legacy? Back in 2022, it was announced that Zoe Kazan would make a new series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, a text most famously adapted by Zoe’s grandfather, Elia Kazan. At the time, I said it would take “a couple of years” to see the project, but By Sarah • May 14, 2026 12:20 pm
Wagner Moura A Kristen Stewart movie made just for me The Cannes Film Festival is officially underway, which means a ton of movies, fashion, and news is coming as Cannes includes a film market where movies get sold and deals get made. One such deal is a new film from Panos Cosmatos, the director of Mandy, called Flesh of the By Sarah • May 13, 2026 12:47 pm
Jennifer Garner Five Star Weekend trailer I enjoy Jen Garner as a celebrity, I think she’s figured out her public persona and her niche—dorky mom who happens to be famous—and I find her genuinely wholesome and fun, and I am always thinking less of Ben Affleck for fumbling her. Oh, Ben Affleck made By Sarah • May 12, 2026 12:30 pm
Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal came through for Todd Haynes Remember last year when Joaquin Phoenix quit a new Todd Haynes film, a period piece queer romance, and screwed over the project and everyone associated with it when they were on the precipice of filming? You know I have not forgotten! Well, here is some good news for Todd Haynes By Sarah • May 12, 2026 10:33 am
What Else Let’s see who showed up to support the ballet During awards season all the dance and opera girlies got mad at Timothee Chalamet for basically calling ballet and opera dying arts (statistics show he’s not entirely wrong, they’re definitely financially challenged on an institutional level). Well, everyone who got mad at Timmy for saying ballet is not By Sarah • May 08, 2026 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crime-solving sheep in The Sheep Detectives Advancements in animation and technology means that we can now make photorealistic, hybrid live-action and animated movies about animals going on adventures entirely guilt free. Generations of us were scarred for life by learning of the fates of animals in such films as Free Willy, Homeward Bound, and Heaven’s By Sarah • May 08, 2026 03:13 pm
TV Updates Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain’s divorce drama Ben Stiller is in New York filming a new Apple TV+ series, The Off Weeks, with Jessica Chastain and Arian Moayed, which is how I learned that he is not expected to direct episodes of Severance for season three. Instead, Kogonada will take over directing duties. Low key incredible? Ben By Sarah • May 08, 2026 12:58 pm
Lucy Liu Superfake Lucy Liu I always love checking in with Lucy Liu, it warms my Millennial heart to see an Angel thriving. Lucy is in New York, filming a new series called Superfakes. It’s billed as a mystery-thriller and it’s about a working-class mom who sells counterfeits for cash and who gets By Sarah • May 08, 2026 11:28 am
Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal is warming up Well, I guess here is one middle-aged heartthrob, though I don’t think we really talk about Pedro Pascal in those terms, but he is fifty-one now. He has that certain timelessness that comes almost exclusively for men who don’t get famous until their thirties. Like Mark Ruffalo has By Sarah • May 08, 2026 10:10 am
Brendan Fraser Intro for May 8, 2026 Dear Gossips, One of the most heart-warming elements of pop culture over the last few years is all the comebacks we’ve gotten to see, including Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser, both of whom capped off their returns to Hollywood with Oscar wins. Brendan Fraser has been keeping busy By Sarah • May 08, 2026 09:22 am
Dominic Sessa Dominic Sessa returns as young “Tony” Bourdain You know what is so weird is that on Monday night during the Met Gala, I randomly wondered what Dominic Sessa, breakout star of The Holdovers, is up to, and then boom, a trailer for Tony, starring Dominic Sessa, dropped. Tony is a biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain, set By Sarah • May 07, 2026 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The iPhone Face Odyssey Tom Holland and Zendaya are going to have SUCH a huge summer because they are in the two movies expected to be among the biggest, if not THE biggest, movies of the season. Of course, there is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but there is also The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s By Sarah • May 06, 2026 11:07 am
Met Gala 2026 Sabrina Carpenter: Met Gala Best Dressed (Sarah) This year my whelms were very undered by the Met Gala, but at least when Sabrina Carpenter stepped onto the carpet I gasped out loud with delight, as I often do when Miss Carpenter takes the stage. She’s cheeky, she’s funny, I love the bops, I love the By Sarah • May 05, 2026 02:58 pm
Met Gala 2026 Art Girlies at the Met The Met Gala happens inside a museum, which makes it 1) a great cover for a heist, as depicted in the documentary film Ocean’s 8, and 2) a place of preservation. Museums preserve everything from centuries of colonialism to a cool rock a guy named Doug found once on By Sarah • May 05, 2026 09:17 am
Met Gala 2026 The Hudson and Connor Go Outside Show The Met Gala was last night, and the vibes were kinda weird which might have been the Bezos of it all, OR all that wine I drank. I have been living through a torment nexus calendar catastrophe, a convergence of Too Many Responsibilities, but last night I got to sit By Sarah • May 05, 2026 07:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Runway crew reunites in The Devil Wears Prada 2 Since its 2006 debut, The Devil Wears Prada has become one of the most beloved “chick flicks” of the 2000s, a feel-good film about confidence and work that features a cluster of all-time great performances from Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt—who had her breakout role in this film—Stanley Tucci, By Sarah • May 01, 2026 02:32 pm
