Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, Chloe Zhao was out for the second night in a row on Monday. She was at the Governors Awards on Sunday along with almost every other Oscar contender this season and last night attended the ELLE Women in Hollywood event. Chloe won Best Director in 2021, she is By Lainey • Nov 18, 2025 09:51 am
What Else Simu’s new collaboration Simu Liu has been promoting the new animated film, In Your Dreams, directed by Alex Woo, that was released last week on Netflix. It’s about two kids who are coping with their parents’ breakup, going into their dreams to find someone to grant their wish for their parents to By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 04:18 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 17, 2025 Tom Cruise is making the rounds for his dance moves but the Daily Mail is trying to kick up Tom and Sydney Sweeney by implying he was “chatting her up.” If they did chat, it’s because Tom is on the pulse with movies. He lives and breathes it, so By Maria • Nov 17, 2025 03:39 pm
Leonardo DiCaprio All the Actors… but one It is very funny to me that for all the campaigning we’ve seen, and for all the debate that happened last year when Timothée Chalamet won the SAG Award and declared that he was aspiring to greatness, that he’s actually the one who’s been skipping so many, By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 03:05 pm
Style All the Best Actresses As noted, if there is a so-called must-attend event on the award circuit, it’s Governors Awards. This is the Oscar Academy’s event to hand out honorary Oscars, so many voters are in the room, there is no campaign strategist who wouldn’t be encouraging a contender to be By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 12:59 pm
Gwyneth Paltrow The supporting actresses turned up So far, 2025 has been an okay year in film. There has been a lot of okay-to-good stuff, a few very good things, and maybe a couple great things (Hamnet, and One Battle After Another). But in the midst of it happening, 2025 doesn’t feel like a great year By Sarah • Nov 17, 2025 11:38 am
Tom Cruise The Honorary Oscar Dance Party This year’s Governors Awards celebrated the careers and contributions of Dolly Parton, Debbie Allen, Wynn Thomas, and Tom Cruise who are now honorary Oscar winners. It was confirmed well in advance that Dolly would not make it so here’s the Governors class photo of 2025: Wynn’s award By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 10:45 am
Business of Hollywood Glen Powell’s mixed bag weekend It was a big weekend for Glen Powell, with The Running Man opening on Friday, and hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday, but the weekend ended up a mixed bag. The Running Man hit a wall with audiences, opening in second place against magician heist movie Now You See Me: By Sarah • Nov 17, 2025 09:57 am
Shout-Outs Shout-Outs for November 17, 2025 Heather! Happy Belated Birthday! And lucky 13 to our annual tradition. I’m sorry I was delayed on this but that only means we’re extending the celebration time for YOU. Meg says you’re a fall/winter lover and, girl, same. It’s cozy season, this is our time. By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 09:53 am
Style Intro for November 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Oscar Governors Awards happened last night and as mentioned several times last week in anticipation of the event, the gala celebrates the honorary Oscar recipients of the year (Dolly Parton, Debbie Allen, Wynn Thomas, and Tom Cruise are the class of 2025) but is also a major By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 09:31 am
TV Updates Walton Goggins is back as The Ghoul I cannot believe it, but amidst the year-end Oscar push, the onslaught of Stranger Things’ final season, and Death By Lightning and The Chair Company—the only television I want to talk about right now—Fallout is coming back for a second season on December 17. December! 17! That is By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell in The Running Man Stephen King released The Running Man in 1982 (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman), a dystopic novel set in 2025. Now, in actual 2025, Edgar Wright brings a new adaptation of The Running Man to the big screen. Starring Glen Powell as beleaguered working-class hero Ben Richards, The Running Man is By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 03:12 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 14, 2025 Jessica Biel has a wine called Prophets & Poets? I really dislike this name, it sounds like the title of a book you’d get on Kindle for free. The second season of The White Lotus feels like a million years ago (but it was only 2022!) and there’s By Maria • Nov 14, 2025 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Do not tell me Wuthering Heights is a great love story Because the sun is our most relentless enemy, we are now two months closer to 2026, which means we are two months closer to the Valentine’s Day release of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”, which means it’s time for a new trailer. The new trailer also features new By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 12:32 pm
Style Elle Fanning: Campaign Outfits of the Week As mentioned at the start of the week, Elle Fanning is on a roll. And it hasn’t just been this week – but this week was big, with Predator: Badlands topping the box office and Sentimental Value doing really well in limited release as an Oscar contender. Joachim Trier’s By Lainey • Nov 14, 2025 11:53 am
Style GQ’s Men of the “Year” Another week closer to the end of the year—I am TELLING you, it’s the SUN’S FAULT—another “of the year” red carpet. This time, it’s GQ’s Men of the Year (men of the “year”, I dispute this passage of time), which also includes some women. By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 10:16 am
