TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Julianne Moore shines in The Debut Jesse Eisenberg rose to fame playing awkward nerds, and now as a filmmaker he is giving a specific kind of nerd their due: theater nerds. His third feature film as a writer-director is The Debut, a comedy that borders on farce, set in the world of community theater. Eisenberg By Sarah • Sep 14, 2026 11:22 am
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Naomi Watts in The Housewife Back in 2016, Alyssa Hill’s post-Holocaust script, The Housewife, about the discovery and extradition of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan from America to West Germany for war crimes, landed on the Blacklist. Ten years later, it has finally been made into a feature film, with Canadian filmmaker Ben Shirinian (best By Sarah • Sep 11, 2026 02:37 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve in Fjord Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu collaborates with Romanian-born, American-raised actor Sebastian Stan for the first time in the film Fjord, which interrogates one experience of Romanian men living abroad in the generation following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, an experience of xenophobia and persecution that isn’t By Sarah • Sep 11, 2026 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Luca Guadagnino has entered the awards chat Just yesterday I mentioned Luca Gudagnino’s upcoming film Artificial, about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and lo, we have a teaser. This film is apparently critical of Altman, and coming from Guadagnino, a director who likes to push buttons, and writer Simon Rich, who finds the sublime in the ridiculous, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2026 10:26 am
Nathan Fielder The documentarians are coming for the billionaires A conspiracy theory I have is that social media started driving billionaires insane, and the pandemic finished the job. Social media allowed the proletariat to talk directly at the richest people in the world, and where they expected to be met with ass kissing similar to that which they receive By Sarah • Sep 08, 2026 10:36 am
Florence Pugh At least East of Eden looks gorgeous We’ve made much of Anne Hathaway’s Big Year, but Florence Pugh is also having a big year, appearing as Yelena Belova in Spider-Man: Brand New Day before she returns for Avengers: Doomsday, and just as Annie did double duty press this summer with The Odyssey and The By Sarah • Sep 03, 2026 01:28 pm
Mark Ruffalo Being Heumann will kick off TIFF The Venice Film Festival has begun, and next week, TIFF begins. We’re in the fall festival crunch, with Venice, Telluride, and TIFF running concurrently (Telluride is this weekend). The opening night film of TIFF is Being Heumann, Siân Heder’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning film, CODA. Being By Sarah • Sep 03, 2026 10:47 am
Anne Hathaway Anne Hathaway is stuck with Tom Cruise’s Mello Yello movie In the immediate wake of the monster success of Top Gun: Maverick, people began imagining other Tom Cruise legacy sequels that could be made, and because nostalgia is a helluva drug, the NASCAR romantic drama Days of Thunder topped the list. Well, because we live in the worst timeline, it’ By Sarah • Aug 31, 2026 11:52 am
What Else Salut, Celine! It’s Friday afternoon, so let’s soar into the weekend on the wings of a dove, and that dove is Celine Dion in Paris. Celine is in Paris preparing for a concert run from September 12 to October 17, and she touched down in France and immediately began sharing By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cristin Milioti in Buddy The backlash to the children’s program Barney & Friends is so historically severe it has its own Wikipedia entry. It’s mostly humorous, though rooted in real irritation at Barney’s annoying voice, the show’s saccharine, corny tone, and the horror older kids feel for anything meant for By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Behold be-bald Sebastian Stan Earlier this year, Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu’s English-language debut, Fjord, picked up the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It is Mungiu’s second Palme, following his 2007 film, 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), an absolutely harrowing film about young By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 12:19 pm
Austin Butler The Austin Butler Gun Show continues Sun’s out, guns out as Austin Butler continues his sleeveless parade in Los Angeles, showing off his biceps as he prepares for Joseph Kosinski’s take on Miami Vice. We’re just watching Austin get his pump on because so little else is happening in the dog days of By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Practical Magic 2 but no Lee Pace Following the London premiere of Practical Magic 2, there was a photocall. Stockard Channing, making her first appearances in two years, opted for green and a rad chain necklace: As Lainey said, the joy of this film is getting three generations of Owens women at once, and they all showed By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 28, 2026 Dear Gossips, Almost two years ago, we learned that David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery intended to shelve Coyote vs. Acme, a live action/animation hybrid film about Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation, for a tax write off. Unlike the previous times this happened, people got spooked and By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 08:57 am
What Else Bradley Cooper looking unfortunately hot in Monaco We talked about Lewis Hamilton and his tough loss at the Dutch Grand Prix earlier, now let’s turn our eyes to fake motorsports. Bradley Cooper is on set in Monaco, filming racing scenes for the Ocean’s 11 prequel. Remember, he plays Danny Ocean’s father, and the film By Sarah • Aug 24, 2026 04:00 pm
Paul Mescal Paul Mescal supports his sister (ft. Harris Dickinson) Paul Mescal took a break from filming Sam Mendes’ epic Beatles’ four-part film event to support his sister, singer-songwriter Nell Mescal, at All Points East in London over the weekend. He was there with his Beatles co-star Harris Dickinson. I have an instinct that releasing four biopics By Sarah • Aug 24, 2026 12:38 pm
