Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart’s voice Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, opens in limited theaters this weekend before expanding nationally in January. The film’s distributor, indie outfit The Forge, is also mounting a little-engine-that-could awards campaign for the film and Stewart. Serving both the film’s release and the trophy By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 12:56 pm
Quiveration Jonathan Bailey’s victory lap Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli has a documentary about his life coming out called Brunello, Il Visionario Garbato (you can see the trailer in Italian here), and I bring this up solely because Jonathan Bailey showed up to the premiere looking like this: This makes me wish we could go By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 11:21 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for December 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, I was all set to write about a specific piece of Warner Bros. Discovery merger nonsense, but then the news broke—Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery. The two companies will enter into exclusive talks to close the deal. What the timeline of that looks By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë in Paris with some guy Lainey has been giving Zoë Saldaña her flowers recently for pioneering high fashion on press tours. She’s currently on the Avatar: Fire & Ash press tour, which stopped in Paris today. Following a strong start at the LA premiere earlier this week, Zoë showed up in futuristic leather in By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Adam Sandler in Jay Kelly You know the Bill Nighy plot in Love Actually in which famous but aging rockstar Billy Mack eventually confesses his love for his manager, Joe, after realizing that the beleaguered yet loyal Joe is his closest friend and is, in fact, the love of his life? Noah Baumbach’s new By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 03:27 pm
Style The most powerful women (minus Gwyneth) The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the 100 most powerful women in entertainment is out now. Lainey will have more on THR cover star Gwyneth Paltrow in a bit, but the gala was yesterday and a bunch of people showed up for it. It’s always interesting to compare who’ By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, My favorite time of year is the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's. My birthday falls during that time. I think this is why I have a strange relationship with chronology. Because my birthday exists in the never-ending hallway of time, I have no sense By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:09 am
Style Amanda + Sydney, round 2 Last night, Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney stepped out together for the premiere of The Housemaid, today, they’re making press rounds together, stopping by The Today Show. Once again, I do not hate Sydney’s outfit, a belted black dress, though I assume she’s cold. I think being By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 04:04 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things Season 5. Vol. 1: Same old bloat Stranger Things, Netflix’s first blockbuster TV show, returned for its final season last week, nine years after the series premiered in 2016. The first four (of eight) episodes dropped simultaneously as “volume 1”, depicting events set in 1987, nearly four years to the day since the events of the By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 12:15 pm
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
