Movie Reviews and Previews Julia Garner in Weapons In 2022 Zach Cregger, alum of the comedy troupe The Whitest Kid U’Know, wrote and directed Barbarian, a horror film with a Big Twist that became a sleeper hit and set the bar for Cregger as not just a comedy guy, but a genre director Of Note. Now he’ By Sarah • Aug 11, 2025 10:28 am
Music Intro for August 11, 2025 Dear Gossips, New week, new check-in on the question I’ve been asking rhetorically for almost two months now: has Kpop Demon Hunters peaked yet? The answer is no, not even close. The movie Netflix’s biggest animated original film of all time. The soundtrack is holding at #2 on By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 09:21 am
What Else Conan O’Brien goes For as famous as he is, and as easily spotted, Conan O’Brien doesn’t get papped much. But he was photographed at LAX today, the photos are labelled in part, “Conan O’Brien channels Indiana Jones” because of the leather jacket/hat combo. I am confused about the weather By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 04:04 pm
TV Updates Wednesday gets a deeper mystery and a bigger cast After an almost three-year hiatus, Wednesday is back with the further adventures of Wednesday Addams at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters Nevermore Academy. The first season has plenty of style and Jenna Ortega’s outstanding performance as Wednesday, but, well, it never really beats the allegations of creative disharmony By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 03:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 8, 2025 Gina Carano and Disney have settled the lawsuit, funded by Elon Musk, over her firing from The Mandalorian. I’m sure Sarah has insights into the impact but it reminded me of the last time I was at Disneyland and a guy was wearing a shirt that said, “Gina Carano By Maria • Aug 08, 2025 02:33 pm
Music Take Me Away: The Music of Freaky and Freakier Friday Many millennials are rejoicing today as Freakier Friday has officially hit theatres and unlike most legacy sequels in recent years, this one doesn’t disappoint on multiple levels, from the storyline, the character arcs and most important of all… the music. When Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis’s 2003 By MC • Aug 08, 2025 01:54 pm
Lindsay Lohan Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freakier Friday How much nostalgia is too much nostalgia? Answers will vary, but the limit is probably somewhere around “four-way body swap”. Twenty-two years after Freaky Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back for Freakier Friday, featuring another round of mother-daughter mystic tomfoolery, only this time they’re joined by By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 12:33 pm
Break Ups Jacob Elordi is single, just in time There’s been some speculation the last few weeks about the status of Jacob Elordi’s relationship with Olivia Jade Giannulli, who’ve been together, on and off, since 2021. Then yesterday, PEOPLE with the exclusive that they recently broke up which isn’t all that surprising. She’s 25, By Lainey • Aug 08, 2025 11:30 am
Quiveration Austin and Bad Bunny but no Zoë August is a little bit of a movie doldrums as studios tend to put out anything they think won’t stand up to the expectations of either peak summer movie season or fall awards season, but one movie I am really looking forward to this month is Caught Stealing. It’ By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 10:25 am
Shout-Outs August 8, 2025 - Shout-Outs In Chinese culture, today is the luckiest day of the year – the 8th day of the 8th month – so with all that luck in mind, I’m sending it to you, Andrew, as you prepare for the fifth time (!) to #RideForSickKids. You show up for the hospital year after year By Lainey • Aug 08, 2025 09:45 am
TV Updates Intro for August 8, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Office is one of the most popular TV shows of the millennium so far, a monster hit when it was originally airing in the 2000s and early 2010s, and perennially popular on streaming ever since it ended in 2013. But it is, of course, a spin-off, an By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 09:24 am
What Else Nicola is “hiding” These shots of Nicola Peltz-Beckham hiding her face from the paps made me laugh because… well… since when? A few days ago, we were all treated to the news that she and Brooklyn had renewed their vows, after three long ass years of marriage, when PEOPLE reported “exclusively” on the By Lainey • Aug 07, 2025 04:06 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 7, 2025 “Where’d she go?” This entire exchange. My beautiful Succession babies! They are all really thriving, which maybe comes down to the casting of actors who do theatre and TV/film. Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Brian Cox, Matthew Macfadyen, J. Smith-Cameron and Arian Moayed all consistently work in By Maria • Aug 07, 2025 03:36 pm
Style Katie, Joshua, Constance, and peplum The pap shots almost every day from the set of Katie Holmes’s Happy Hours, in which she’s directing and co-starring with Joshua Jackson, make it seem like this film is entirely exteriors. Here are some more pictures of Katie and Josh in a scene with Constance Wu the By Lainey • Aug 07, 2025 02:07 pm
BFFs Jen and Jim keep doubling Jennifer Aniston’s relationship with Jim Curtis, the hypnotist, has been public for almost a month now, after they were seen on holiday in Mallorca with Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka. This week they’ve been in New York, and when I say “they”, I mean all of them – Jen, By Lainey • Aug 07, 2025 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Trolling the NFL with horror It’s sort of wild that Jordan Peele has only directed three feature films, because he so quickly and completely set a benchmark for horror cinema, popularizing the concept of the “social thriller” with Get Out, loading his horror movies with imagery and metaphors for Black American life. Horror movies By Sarah • Aug 07, 2025 10:18 am
