Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart’s voice Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, opens in limited theaters this weekend before expanding nationally in January. The film’s distributor, indie outfit The Forge, is also mounting a little-engine-that-could awards campaign for the film and Stewart. Serving both the film’s release and the trophy By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 12:56 pm
Quiveration Jonathan Bailey’s victory lap Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli has a documentary about his life coming out called Brunello, Il Visionario Garbato (you can see the trailer in Italian here), and I bring this up solely because Jonathan Bailey showed up to the premiere looking like this: This makes me wish we could go By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joey and Pacey: Almost a holiday rom-com Katie Holmes is directing herself and Joshua Jackson in a film called Happy Hours. Apparently, the hope is that it’s a trilogy…which sounds about right this time of year. The holidays are coming up, rom-coms are especially popular during the holidays, rom-coms that take place during the holidays By Lainey • Dec 05, 2025 10:19 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for December 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, I was all set to write about a specific piece of Warner Bros. Discovery merger nonsense, but then the news broke—Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery. The two companies will enter into exclusive talks to close the deal. What the timeline of that looks By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë in Paris with some guy Lainey has been giving Zoë Saldaña her flowers recently for pioneering high fashion on press tours. She’s currently on the Avatar: Fire & Ash press tour, which stopped in Paris today. Following a strong start at the LA premiere earlier this week, Zoë showed up in futuristic leather in By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Adam Sandler in Jay Kelly You know the Bill Nighy plot in Love Actually in which famous but aging rockstar Billy Mack eventually confesses his love for his manager, Joe, after realizing that the beleaguered yet loyal Joe is his closest friend and is, in fact, the love of his life? Noah Baumbach’s new By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 03:27 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 4, 2025 What does your algorithm say about you? Busy Philipp’s is grief and face lifts. I get the plastic surgery doctors as well and I don’t know why, I don’t like them! I would never get a facelift from a doctor who needs to get clients by talk By Maria • Dec 04, 2025 02:30 pm
TV Updates Diddy’s reckoning Almost immediately after a new three-part Netflix documentary was released came the cease and desist from the man at the centre of it all. Sean Combs: The Reckoning became available for streaming on Tuesday, and Diddy and his team wasted no time slamming the production. Reps for Diddy say the By Stephanie • Dec 04, 2025 01:29 pm
Style As Seen On Social Media: Chloe Grace Moretz (again!), SJP’s book look Chloe Grace Moretz’s fashion run Lainey was just talking about Chloe Grace Moretz, who has been killing it on the fashion front and is about to launch a very interesting makeup line with Rina Sawayama. I was asked about the jacket she’s wearing in the photo below and By Maria • Dec 04, 2025 12:01 pm
BFFs Gwyneth aims to please Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment issue as this year’s recipient of the publication’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. GP was also at a morning event yesterday celebrating the women who’ve been recognised by the trade. By Lainey • Dec 04, 2025 11:09 am
Style The most powerful women (minus Gwyneth) The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the 100 most powerful women in entertainment is out now. Lainey will have more on THR cover star Gwyneth Paltrow in a bit, but the gala was yesterday and a bunch of people showed up for it. It’s always interesting to compare who’ By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, My favorite time of year is the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's. My birthday falls during that time. I think this is why I have a strange relationship with chronology. Because my birthday exists in the never-ending hallway of time, I have no sense By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:09 am
Style Amanda + Sydney, round 2 Last night, Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney stepped out together for the premiere of The Housemaid, today, they’re making press rounds together, stopping by The Today Show. Once again, I do not hate Sydney’s outfit, a belted black dress, though I assume she’s cold. I think being By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 04:04 pm
Break Ups Kandi Burruss faces the motherhood double standard in divorce Just days after announcing her decision to divorce her husband Todd Tucker, former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss is finding herself in an increasingly tense divorce. On November 21, she announced the split in a statement to PEOPLE, saying: “After deep thought and a lot of prayer, I’ By Stephanie • Dec 03, 2025 03:06 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 3, 2025 Colman Domingo is asking the men to clock in. He cannot do it alone! But he does. This man’s laugh is Julia Roberts-level infectious. (Thanks for sending, Angela!) Some people wait for Mimi to declare Christmas season is open but for me, it’s the Tom Cruise coconut cake. By Maria • Dec 03, 2025 01:43 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things Season 5. Vol. 1: Same old bloat Stranger Things, Netflix’s first blockbuster TV show, returned for its final season last week, nine years after the series premiered in 2016. The first four (of eight) episodes dropped simultaneously as “volume 1”, depicting events set in 1987, nearly four years to the day since the events of the By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 12:15 pm
