Alexander Skarsgard Alexander Skarsgård is the OTHER wicker man Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård are two actors I enjoy immensely, so I am delighted that they’re co-starring in a twisted romantic comedy/fantasy film, Wicker. It premiered at Sundance earlier this year and is due in theaters in October, a sort of spooky season rom-com about By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 02:48 pm
Monica Barbaro Monica B in NYC But wait! Ladies going outside is a coast-to-coast phenomenon! While Kristen Stewart and Dakota Johnson were holding it down in LA, Monica Barbaro is in New York City, undoubtedly getting ready for the One Night Only (aka “the Purge sex movie”) press run. Honestly, a woman in a By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 01:07 pm
Tom Holland Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Brand New Day Even as Marvel has struggled with the unwieldy MCU post Avengers: Endgame, one remaining bright spot are the Spider-Man films fronted by Tom Holland. In 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home saddled Peter Parker with almost unbearable circumstances, to sacrifice not his life but his heart, by allowing the By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 10:49 am
Kristen Stewart Ladies in LA Kristen Stewart will be hitting the press circuit soon for her new film, The Wrong Girls, a stoner comedy written and directed by her wife, Dylan Meyer. But first: coffee. Here she is in Los Angeles on a coffee run. Her hair lately is bringing me back to the days By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 09:55 am
Katie Holmes Intro for July 31, 2026 Dear Gossips, The Shards, a Ryan Murphy-produced adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel of the same name, is coming to the FX/Hulu/Disney+ conglomerate next week. Lainey wrote about it here, it’s notable in part because the series stars Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, the children By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 09:02 am
Michael B Jordan Michael B. Jordan’s sexy Thomas Crown Affair Michael B. Jordan is the reigning Best Actor, but he is not taking any time off from straight f-cking excellence as he is back in the director’s chair for The Thomas Crown Affair, his update of Norman Jewison’s classic heist thriller-romance. The original 1968 film starred By Sarah • Jul 29, 2026 11:07 am
Business of Hollywood The Paramount-WBD merger is on hold A couple of weeks ago I checked in on the state of the fakakta Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, which has been snarled up in court as multiple state attorneys general have filed anti-trust suits against Paramount. At that time, I said, “We’ll see how that shakes out, By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 02:07 pm
Hudson Williams Get spooky and horny with Yaga Sure enough, as Comic-Con got going over the weekend, new footage being released died instantly, with one notable exception. Crave and AMC+ released the teaser for Yaga, the upcoming mystery/thriller series starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo (Letterkenny’s one and only Rosie, a great gal) By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 11:48 am
David Jonsson Marvel bounces back with good news Marvel’s Hall H presentation happened Saturday night, and though Kevin Feige was focused on the future of the MCU, it felt like a blast from the past, with stunts and a huge assemblage of famous people to promote upcoming films. Kayleigh Donaldson called it a “recession indicator” in the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 10:19 am
What Else Comic Con picks up steam It’s Comic Con Friday, so things in San Diego are picking up steam. Tonight: Spaceballs. Right now: Coyote vs Acme. As a lifelong Looney Tunes fan, I am just so, so happy this movie was saved from David Zaslav’s weird anti-toon agenda, and that it is being By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 04:18 pm
Courtney Stodden’s Next Act(ivist) In 2011, Courtney Stodden rocketed to tabloid infamy as the child bride of actor (“actor”) Doug Hutchinson, best known for playing stretchy serial killer Tooms in the first season of The X-Files. 2011 doesn’t seem like THAT long ago, and when we talk about pop culture history, we By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Comic Con Clayface surprise with bonus vampires In my Comic Con preview, I mentioned that DC Studios is not doing a big Hall H presentation, but they still snuck in a San Diego surprise on day one of Comic Con. Tom Rhys Harries, the star of Clayface, dropped into the “DC’s Jim Lee and Friends” panel By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 11:49 am
Dua Lipa Dua back at work A month after marrying Callum Turner in Italy, Dua Lipa is back at work. She’s been in and out of Electric Lady Studios in New York, including yesterday, popping up in a polka dot dress and tall boots. I presume she’s working on new music, two years after By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 10:21 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 24, 2026 Dear Gossips, As we sprint toward August for no reason that makes sense except somehow it must be the sun’s fault, lineups for the fall film festivals are being unveiled. Venice’s lineup is out, and similar to Cannes earlier this year, it has almost no films from Hollywood By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2026: Dorkrooms Comic-Con begins today. I knew it was coming but at the same time, it took me a little bit by surprise, in part because it seems like July has just flown by, but also because the run up to Comic-Con feels…muted, compared to what it was a By Sarah • Jul 23, 2026 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Contemplate mortality with Avengers: Doomsday Luke Winkie wrote an article last month for Slate about aged Beach Boy Mike Love performing with, essentially, a new band also called the Beach Boys and doing it at the age of 85. You can, and should, read it here, and let the specter of an octogenarian singing teenaged By Sarah • Jul 21, 2026 10:22 am
