TV Updates Revisiting Freaknik The coolest person I’ve ever known was my childhood babysitter, Karla. She was a high school student, then a college student, she drove a Mustang and her boyfriend was a lifeguard at the pool, the good pool with the jumbo Fun Dips at the snack shack—Fun Dip is By Sarah • Mar 01, 2024 03:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler’s movie star test Dune: Part Two opens today, and no doubt intending to capitalize on a big box office weekend and Austin Butler’s sure-to-be-talked-about explosive performance therein, Focus Features dropped a new trailer for The Bikeriders, starring Butler, Tom Hardy, and Jodie Comer. I continue to be very invested in this film, By Sarah • Mar 01, 2024 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Youths in Dune: Part Two When Dune came out in 2021, I concluded my review of that mixed-bag film by saying that “We can only hope that Part Two will stand better on its own than Part One does.” Well, Dune: Part Two is here and while it does work better on its own as By Sarah • Mar 01, 2024 11:47 am
Style JLaw’s matron scarf Jennifer Lawrence is still in Paris following the Dior runway show. She was at dinner last night and was photographed wearing a scarf tied around her head like my grandmothers used to do. I don’t know what this look is called. Matron scarf? I definitely associate it with women By Sarah • Mar 01, 2024 09:58 am
Intro for March 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s Friday funday and I cannot get enough of the Willy Wonka Experience, an event held in Glasgow, Scotland billed as a “celebration of chocolate in all its delightful forms” that left in kids in tears (so, like actual Willy Wonka…?) and was cancelled mid-go. The event, By Sarah • Mar 01, 2024 09:13 am
TV Updates Only Murders is committed to the bit Only Murders in the Building has always had a good cast, from central trio Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez to the bevy of classic New York actors like Nathan Lane who make up the residents of the Arconia. Season two kept the story firmly focused on the Arconia By Sarah • Feb 28, 2024 12:34 pm
Style Massive Fashion Weekend (awards edition) This interminable awards season is almost over, with a triple-header of awards shows occurring over the weekend consisting of the SAG Awards (winners here), the Film Independent Spirit Awards (winners here), and the Producers Guild Awards (winners here). Between these three events, people were BUSY, and some had to choose By Sarah • Feb 26, 2024 11:08 am
What Else What Else? Amanda Seyfried is in Berlin sporting the wet look. I am of the thoroughly correct and unassailable opinion that Zendaya is the only person who has ever actually pulled off the wet look. Everyone else just looks like they need a shower. (Go Fug Yourself) King Charles has a handsome By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise and Alejandro Iñárritu are teaming up Once upon a time, Tom Cruise worked with auteur filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, and Michael Mann, pretty regularly, but somewhere in the 2000s he shifted his focus to action blockbusters, and it’s been a long time since he’s made a film that has By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 11:14 am
BFFs Meryl and Marty friend-date When Meryl Streep’s six-year separation was outed via DeuxMoi last year, Maria wondered who we should Gossip Genie a single Meryl Streep with, and said, “What if paps caught her canoodling with her co-star Martin Short?!” A couple months after that, Meryl and Marty looked super cozy together at By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 09:48 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, One thing that came up a lot during the height of pandemic lockdowns, movie-wise, was the theater-going experience and saving it from utter destruction in the face of convenient at-home streaming, especially in a pandemic environment. Four years removed from the strictest lockdowns, theatergoing is climbing its way By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 09:05 am
Emma Stone Stone & Lanthimos I keep saying to Lainey that this awards season feels one million years long, but this awards season feels one million years long. The whole schedule is thrown off because some stuff, like the Emmys, shifted their traditional date due to the strikes last year (Dune: Part Two’s press By Sarah • Feb 22, 2024 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya’s next movie Zendaya’s big year is going from strength to strength on this insane Dune: Part Two press tour, but let’s not forget there’s ANOTHER Zendaya press tour in just two months. This is the definition of “step on our necks and don’t let up”. Challengers opens April By Sarah • Feb 22, 2024 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Borderlands our new Fifth Element? The quest to permanently dispel the video game curse—and maybe overtake the superhero movie as the dominant popcorn entertainment genre—continues with Borderlands, Eli Roth’s take on the popular game series that debuted in 2009. The first trailer dropped and it’s sort of a wild mess, but By Sarah • Feb 21, 2024 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Madame Web What is Madame Web? Well, in many ways, it’s a movie, but it’s also now a massive box office bomb that has once again cut off Sony’s plans for a Spider-Verse spinoff franchise at the knees. Why does Sony keep doing this to themselves? Deep-seated masochism? I’ By Sarah • Feb 21, 2024 12:09 pm
Ryan Gosling Dressed Up Dudes at the BAFTAs Dudes showed up to the BAFTAs dressed up, and I bring this up for two reasons. One, I thought of a good joke, see if you can spot it. Two, I want to talk about the shift in men’s red carpet fashion and workshop a name for the new By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 12:26 pm
