Movie Reviews and Previews Jack Reynor in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Mummies are one of cinema’s most enduring monsters, from Karl Freund’s 1932 classic starring Boris Karloff, to the 1999 bisexual masterpiece starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, to, er, Tom Cruise’s failed blockbuster experiment in 2017. Now, though, mummies are coming back not through Universal and their By Sarah • Apr 16, 2026 02:58 pm
Carey Mulligan Carey Mulligan wore all the orange Beef’s second season debuts today on Netflix. It is my weekend watch, for sure. There was a screening last night in New York, and everyone wore grey except Carey Mulligan, who showed up in traffic cone orange velvet. I don’t think I like it but it’s SO By Sarah • Apr 16, 2026 01:34 pm
Anne Hathaway Anne Hathaway does Fran Fine Anne Hathaway is currently promoting two movies, The Devil Wears Prada 2—which press tour feels interminable, it has always been, it will always be—and Mother Mary. Both films are about fashion, and for both films, Annie is pulling out all the sartorial stops. Yesterday, Annie stopped by The By Sarah • Apr 16, 2026 10:50 am
Ryan Gosling The Movie Stars are still at it (CinemaCon) We’ve already covered the drama at CinemaCon, now let’s get back to our regularly scheduled Movie Stars. As Lainey said, CinemaCon is a celebration of movie stars and star power, and to that end, Ryan Gosling appeared to celebrate the success of Project Hail Mary and literally give By Sarah • Apr 16, 2026 10:08 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for April 16, 2026 Dear Gossips, As Lainey mentioned, CinemaCon, the annual showing of wares for the theatrical distribution industry, is happening this week in Las Vegas. While CinemaCon is mainly about movies and Movie Stars, we can usually count on it for a little drama, like the time Olivia Wilde got served legal By Sarah • Apr 16, 2026 09:03 am
What Else Teyana Taylor after Oscar It’s amazing how fast we move on from the Oscars. I know, I know, the pace of everything is insanely fast, but awards season eats up SO MUCH mental space and then it’s over and poof. It’s like it never happened. It’s like Christmas like that. By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John C. Reilly in Heads or Tails? Italian cinema has a long love affair with the American west, most notably producing the mid-20th century genre of “Spaghetti western”, Italian-made tales of the American west dominated by Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, which imagine the American west as a place of violence, revenge, possibility, and manifest By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 03:03 pm
Noah Wyle Noah Wyle’s Star Moment Just one more episode of The Pitt’s sophomore season to go. Next week is the finale. We are deep in the trenches now, and this year the big catastrophe at PTMC is just stress. Classic toxic workplace stress. In The Squawk chat, Betts put it really well, that the By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 12:44 pm
Cameron Diaz Cameron Diaz and Stephen Merchant’s rom-com delight Good news, rom-com heads! Not only is You, Me & Tuscany in theaters this weekend, but Cameron Diaz is currently filming an upcoming rom-com in New York. The film, which is currently untitled, stars Diaz and Stephen Merchant, who is also directing, and is co-produced by Seth By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 11:55 am
Lorne Michaels Everyone turned up for Lorne except Paul McCartney The other day Lainey and I were texting about SNL and how incredible it is that, at 81, Lorne Michaels is still running that show and it remains a landmark piece of television. We were discussing the current season of SNL which features a number of new cast members. I By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 10:44 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for April 10, 2026 Dear Gossips, The Cannes Film Festival begins in just over a month, and the lineup was announced yesterday. Notably, there is only one American film in competition, Ira Sachs’ musical, The Man I Love, starring Rami Malek. There is a noticeable lack of US-produced studio films at Cannes, which By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 09:26 am
Olivia Wilde Olivia Wilde is back Olivia Wilde’s directing career, so far, is averaging .500. Booksmart: good. Don’t Worry Darling: bad. I don’t even mean all the behind-the-scenes drama on that one, I just mean Don’t Worry Darling does not function as a narrative. It’s like there are entire By Sarah • Apr 08, 2026 03:27 pm
TV Updates Byron Allen is taking over CBS late night In six weeks, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will come to an end, following the announcement last summer that CBS and its parent company Paramount, then amidst a contentious merger with David Ellison’s Skydance, was sh-tcanning the show for reasons entirely unrelated (“unrelated”) to host Stephen Colbert By Sarah • Apr 07, 2026 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson and Zendaya in The Drama This review contains major spoilers for ‘The Drama’. Sorry, there’s no way to review this film without getting into it. Spoiler culture is strangling good criticism, and ‘The Drama’ doesn’t even have a plot twist, the entire plot is predicated upon a secret, that is different from a By Sarah • Apr 06, 2026 12:52 pm
TV Updates The Pitt has a perception problem It’s my day to not give a sh-t about spoilers, so we’re talking about casting for The Pitt’s upcoming third season, which some people might consider a spoiler, so you have been warned! Late Thursday, after I wrapped the site going into a long holiday weekend, By Sarah • Apr 06, 2026 11:32 am
What Else Joshua Jackson’s cool dad vibes Programming Note: We will be dark on Friday, April 3, in observance of Good Friday. We’ll be back on Monday, April 6, with regularly scheduled gossip. Joshua Jackson is out and about today, looking like the cool dad at the country club. I don’t know about you, but By Sarah • Apr 02, 2026 04:26 pm
