TV Updates Revisiting Swoki Photos of Tom Hiddleston filming a second season of The Night Manager in London with Indira Varma popped up on Friday, and it immediately sent me down a nostalgic gossip rabbit hole. Remember Swoki? The short, cursed relationship between Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift in the summer of 2016, before By Sarah • Jun 24, 2024 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy in The Bikeriders Jeff Nichols has always centered his films on ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances, and in The Bikeriders he finds his most typically Hollywood subject yet—a biker gang in 1960s Chicago. Inspired by photographer Danny Lyon’s eponymous photo collection, The Bikeriders follows the rise of the Vandals MC By Sarah • Jun 21, 2024 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin and Todd before Folie à Deux I keep forgetting, partly because time has no meaning and partly because of dread, but Joker: Folie à Deux is coming out this October. Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Phillips were seen having dinner in LA this week, while a new trailer for the film debuted at CineEurope, the European By Sarah • Jun 21, 2024 10:31 am
TV Updates Maybe this will get you to watch Apple TV+ The general feeling in re: various streaming platforms and their relative popularity is that no one watches Apple TV+, with the exception of Ted Lasso, which was a genuine hit (especially season one). But outside of Ted Lasso, Apple TV+ isn’t really breaking through, which is a shame, because By Sarah • Jun 20, 2024 02:11 pm
Style Elizabeth Olsen has entered the chat Through the early part of summer, we tracked Dakota Johnson on the set of Celine Song’s Materialists, because her wardrobe was made up of enviable, wearable basics and everyone was into it. Now, Elizabeth Olsen is filming in Vancouver, showing up in her own enviable and wearable basic, a By Sarah • Jun 20, 2024 11:03 am
What Else What Else? Ralph Lauren is dressing Team USA in denim and a wool blazer that looks very prep school-inspired to me. I actually really like the blazer, 10/10, would buy. The white denim jacket is less my bag, but it does look appropriately sporty. Ralph Lauren, as they say, understood the By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone went outside Following her stint on the Cannes jury last month, Lily Gladstone has gone outside again, this time to attend a screening of Fancy Dance in New York. Alongside Lily was her young co-star, Isabel DeRoy-Olson, director Erica Tremblay, and co-stars Ryan Begay. The film premiered at Sundance last year, and By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 02:11 pm
Style Ranking the fits of Bridgerton season three Bridgerton is now streaming its third season in its entirety, and with showrunner Jess Brownell saying they’re on a “two-year pace” for season four (let her cook), we now have plenty of time to debate things like “Michaela Stirling good actually”, whether or not Benedict is boring (he is, By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 01:21 pm
BFFs Cher and Sharon pulled up for Austin Speaking of Icons! Cher showed up at the Los Angeles premiere of The Bikeriders, with her boyfriend AE Edwards. Sharon Stone also pulled up. TWO Icons! I would love to know how their attendance came to be, especially since Norman Reedus specifically name-checked Cher as the celebrity he wanted to By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 12:06 pm
Maple Leaf Celine strong Celine Dion attended a screening of her new documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, yesterday in New York. She was accompanied by her eldest son, René-Charles Angélil, and others in attendance included director Irene Taylor, Laverne Cox, and Candace Bushnell. But let’s be real, wherever Celine Dion goes, Celine Dion By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, The summer box office see-saw continues to do its thing, going from the lowest low of the dismal Memorial Day weekend, now to the highest high of Inside Out 2 opening with $154 million domestic ($295 million globally). It’s a “return to form” for Pixar, but only By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 09:29 am
Equality Issues Introducing Michaela Stirling Spoilers Now that all of Bridgerton season three is available to watch, it’s time to discuss The Big Twist that comes at the end of episode eight. No, not the thing with Penelope. The other Big Twist, the one in which John Stirling’s cousin is finally introduced. In By Sarah • Jun 17, 2024 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Big Emotions in Inside Out 2 Pixar’s Inside Out imagines a world in which our minds are command centers manned by emotions, working a sprawling control panel to help us be our best selves. It’s one of Pixar’s most creative, memorable films, filled with funny visual gags and devastatingly sad moments sure to By Sarah • Jun 14, 2024 03:10 pm
Style Tom Hardy turned up As previously noted, Tom Hardy has not been participating in the advanced press for The Bikeriders, which opens next week. Well, no more! Tom Hardy was present and accounted for at a gala screening in London (the film previously premiered in the UK during last year’s BFI London Film By Sarah • Jun 13, 2024 01:48 pm
Business of Hollywood Sony is the first studio to buy theaters In 2020, the US Supreme Court ended the “Paramount decree”, which kept movie studios from owning movie theaters, a piece of 1930s anti-trust legislation created in a time when most movie theaters had just one screen and studios self-dealing their own films to their own theaters could block competitors from By Sarah • Jun 13, 2024 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More midnight margaritas! Today in Well No, We Don’t NEED It But Let Us Have It Anyway news, Warner Brothers Pictures announced that Practical Magic 2 is officially in development, 26 years after Practical Magic introduced the witchy Owens family and midnight margaritas to the masses. “In development” means early stages, but By Sarah • Jun 12, 2024 10:52 am
