Tom Cruise Tom Cruise & Co. in the UK The press tour for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One kicked off earlier this week with the world premiere in Rome. Yesterday, the crew was in London for the UK premiere. This is the second summer Tom Cruise has rocked that tousled hair on a press tour, and this is By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 09:49 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 23, 2023 Dear Gossips, Behold! More Warner Bros. Discovery f-ckery is afoot! I don’t even know where to start, this week has been an avalanche of sh-t news from Warners, which is starting to look like the Hollywood equivalent of a fire sale under David Zaslav. The latest round of layoffs By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 09:07 am
TV Updates Zahn McClarnon is back Zahn McClarnon’s leading man moment was long overdue by the time Dark Winds premiered on AMC in 2022. Now, he’s back with the second season of Dark Winds, a neo-noir Western set in the Navajo Nation during the height of the American Indian Movement in the 1970s. Based By Sarah • Jun 21, 2023 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Tennis Idol Ever since The Idol debuted on HBO, everyone is like, Is it good, is it bad, is The Weeknd’s acting bad on purpose or just bad, is this show as edgy as it wants to be or is it just sleazy? (No, yes, just bad, no, yes but not By Sarah • Jun 21, 2023 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews At least Aaron Taylor-Johnson looks hot On the heels of The Flash flopping, let’s take a look at another superhero movie due out this year. Kraven the Hunter stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson and is part of Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters (SUMC, great acronym, definitely stick with that, no regrets!). Kraven is part of the By Sarah • Jun 20, 2023 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbie’s Open Door I love Architectural Digest’s Open Door video series, taking us inside celebrity homes—usually, every now and then they just go to a landmark residence regardless of ownership—and showing us what kind of taste our favorite celebrities have. I have a whole playlist of Open Doors, with standout By Sarah • Jun 19, 2023 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flash’s slow start I really thought, despite Ezra Miller’s many problems and an equal number of delays with the release date, that The Flash would make money. Barry Allen is a very popular comic book character with a high degree of audience recognition, thanks in no small part to the long-running CW By Sarah • Jun 19, 2023 11:00 am
What Else What Else? Rosie O’Donnell is still kind of mad about that time Ellen DeGeneres pretended not to know her. (DListed) Sasha Colby made history as the first trans woman and Native Hawaiian to win Drag Race. (Popsugar) Julia Fox said crab but make it fashion! (Go Fug Yourself) I was going By Sarah • Jun 16, 2023 04:02 pm
TV Updates The vampires are back One of the best shows on TV right now that gets a medium amount of attention is What We Do in the Shadows. It’s not like people don’t talk about it, but it’s never THE show everyone loses their mind over. Like, I’m expecting The Bear’ By Sarah • Jun 16, 2023 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller and Michael Keaton in The Flash After years of false starts, delays, a global pandemic, and an (alleged) international crime spree, The Flash is finally here, and it is…just fine. Not the best superhero movie, not the worst superhero movie. Measuring by the rather abysmal track record of DC superhero movies, The Flash is actually By Sarah • Jun 16, 2023 12:14 pm
Faux Gossip Today in Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence is on the promo trail for No Hard Feelings, her upcoming raunchy sex comedy. She’s been working great looks all week, and yesterday in Berlin was no different. I am digging this black coat dress with boxy shoulders—it’s a good take on the Eighties strong By Sarah • Jun 16, 2023 10:05 am
TV Updates Intro for June 16, 2023 Dear Gossips, Veteran television critic and entertainment journalist Maureen Ryan published a show biz book this month, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood. It is at once an intimate portrait of the power discrepancies, discrimination, abuse, and toxicity behind the scenes of some of By Sarah • Jun 16, 2023 08:54 am
Douchebags Tenoch Huerta responded Over the weekend, Tenoch Huerta was accused of sexual assault by musician María Elena Ríos. You can read about that here. On Monday, Huerta posted a response on Instagram and also sent it to Variety. In his statement, Huerta says, “About a year ago, I dated Elena for several months. By Sarah • Jun 14, 2023 02:37 pm
TV Updates Oh yeah! Secret Invasion! I 100% forgot that Marvel’s Secret Invasion debuts on Disney+ this month. Literally, completely forgot, until photos from the premiere in Los Angeles yesterday popped up. So, just to remind everyone, Secret Invasion drops on June 21, and includes six episodes. They’re promising this a sort-of return to By Sarah • Jun 14, 2023 12:49 pm
Top Reads The HFPA is dead Over the last couple years, we have been on a journey with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes. To recap: in February 2021, the Los Angeles Times ran an expose just days before the Golden Globes exposing the HFPA for shady ethical practices and for having zero By Sarah • Jun 13, 2023 10:41 am
Douchebags Tenoch Huerta: Another (alleged) bad man In a depressingly routine development, Tenoch Huerta has been accused of sexual assault. On Saturday morning, María Elena Ríos, a musician and activist, tweeted in response to Poder Prieto, an artists’ collective which includes Huerta, that “they protect the violator and sexual PREDATOR @TenochHuerta” (translation mine, emphasis hers). Though she By Sarah • Jun 12, 2023 12:21 pm