Business of Hollywood The Golden Globes are at it again Buckle up, babes, some new Golden Globes f-cksh-t just dropped! Because our time on this revolving rock is fleeting and precious, let’s keep the rundown of Golden Globes’ f-cksh-ttery to just this past calendar year: there were the “secret” pay-to-play parties; the attorney general of California is investigating the By Sarah • Oct 21, 2025 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JLaw’s fringe and “shocking” story Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love premiered at the BFI London Film Festival today. Robert Pattinson was a no-show, but Jennifer Lawrence turned up alongside Ramsay. Earlier, I commented on Kristen Stewart’s severe bangs, and here JLaw is rocking bangs of her own, though this is a softer, Seventies By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 04:03 pm
TV Updates Matthew Rhys + Claire Danes’ cry face I recently watched the three-part Brit Box mystery mini-series Towards Zero because it stars Matthew Rhys. As a boycotter of The Americans—I will never not blame it for stealing Justified’s thunder! I am a bitter Betty about it!—I’m not sure when Matthew Rhys became appointment viewing By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 03:19 pm
Style KStew’s bangs Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, continues trekking through film festivals on its way to an unspecified December release date. Last night was the UK premiere at the BFI London Festival. KStew showed up in a sporty Chanel number and rather severe bangs. How do we By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in Good Fortune Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut comes at an awkward time. Good Fortune, which Ansari also wrote, produced, and stars in, is a well-intentioned film about the meaning of life, a naked attempt at bringing Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life to late-stage capitalism. Ansari stars as Arj, By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 11:26 am
TV Updates Kim K’s premiere night That Ed Gein show on Netflix has barely cooled and the Ryan Murphy factory is already onto the next thing, All’s Fair, coming to Hulu/Disney+ next month and starring Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash, Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor, and Glenn Close. There’s a new featurette all By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, KPop Demon Hunters is an unstoppable force, topping charts and Netflix’s Top 10, featuring on SNL, and I suspect, dominating Halloween costumes in a couple weeks. Netflix has produced some big movies over the years, but nothing that has ever really felt like a cultural moment, but By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rachel McAdams’s primal scream Everyone loves Rachel McAdams, right? She’s one of the few who is and always has been universally beloved. She’s so loved, in fact, that many people requested I bring back the Career Prospectus series just for her, because, well, the love has never matched the career, at least By Sarah • Oct 15, 2025 10:27 am
Bridgerton Bridgerton drips and drabs Following a sneak-peek first look at Bridgerton season four, centered on second brother Benedict and his mysterious love, Sophie, Netflix continues their Bridgerton drips and drabs with a date announcement and new teaser for the fourth season. The pining! The yearning! The longing looks! Give it to me now! They By Sarah • Oct 14, 2025 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper joins the Ocean-verse Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, October 13, in observance of Canadian Thanksgiving. That Ocean’s 11 prequel starring Margot Robbie proceeds apace. The latest news is that Bradley Cooper is joining the Ocean-verse, which means Ryan Gosling is not, so this is no longer a Barbie reunion. By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lopez and Tonatiuh in Kiss of the Spider-Woman As a person who does not like musicals yet ends up watching them—at least in cinematic form—far more frequently than I might wish, my one hope each time the theater lights go down is that the musical at least feature some good choreography. Because while I don’t By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Frankencrew Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein rolls into select theaters next week—seriously, see this on a big screen if you can—and Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, and Jacob Elordi, the Frankencrew, if you will, celebrated with dinner in Paris last night. Frankenstein has me tentatively boarding the Jacob Elordi train, By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy Ping-Pong and his ping pong army To begin the week, Marty Supreme premiered the New York Film Festival to rave reviews, rocketing Timothee Chalamet, thoroughly in his Timmy Ping-Pong era, to the top of the Best Actor race. Here’s Timmy Ping-Pong going to a sneak peek screening of Marty Supreme last night, surrounded by his By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 10:19 am
Hilaria Baldwin Intro for October 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, Say what you will about Hilaria Baldwin, she is good for gossip. Case in point, this week she delivered some good old-fashioned low-stakes gossip after she was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars, which she calls “sabotage”. Escandalo! The story originated on British gossip columnist Rob Shuter’s By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Lee (and Jared Leto) in Tron: Ares Tron is a film and a franchise that has always looked far into the future while aging into its themes and ideas. Tron introduced groundbreaking visual effects to cinema in 1982, and Tron: Legacy repped the biggest and best effects of 2010; both films imagined a future with virtual reality By Sarah • Oct 09, 2025 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everybody likes John Candy In the 80s and 90s, a time when comedies ruled the box office and produced mega-Movie Stars like Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy, John Candy became one of the most beloved figures in Hollywood. Even a kid growing up in America’s “flyover country” understood that John Candy was A By Sarah • Oct 09, 2025 12:08 pm