Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Venice Film Festival begins next week, followed by the Telluride Film Festival over the US Labor Day weekend, and then TIFF launches on September 4. We’re on the cusp of the fall festival season, which means the 2025 awards season is about to begin. To that By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 09:18 am
TV Updates Intro for August 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, Emmys voting is now underway and will continue until next Wednesday 27 August. As I mentioned earlier this week, this is a competitive year across pretty much all the major categories, including Outstanding Drama Series. In its freshman year, The Pitt has come out to challenge high-profile favourites By Lainey • Aug 21, 2025 09:18 am
Style This is for the Comedy and a Fall Trench Coat As mentioned in my previous post about the Emmys, since voting begins today, most of the shows in contention were out on the campaign trail this weekend. We’ve talked briefly about the dramas category, now it’s comedy’s turn and the show with the most comedy nominations and By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 01:49 pm
TV Updates This is for The Pitts Emmys voting officially begins today so there were wall-to-wall Emmys events over the weekend as everyone’s trying to get into position for the next week or so before people gear way down before Labour Day. Just a heads up that we’ll be gearing down too – we’re all By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Allen White poses hard Jeremy Allen White was in New York yesterday for a photo shoot and it definitely wasn’t low-key. They had him blocked off by metal barricades in the middle of Times Square, presumably posing for a magazine ahead of the release of Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere which opens on By Lainey • Aug 05, 2025 10:07 am
Music Intro for July 29, 2025 Dear Gossips, Sorry to keep repeating myself but we are in week six of Kpop Demon Hunters and it still has not peaked. In its fifth week of release last week it set an all-time high viewing record as people are either watching for the first time or the 50th By Lainey • Jul 29, 2025 09:46 am
TV Updates Diego Luna is at Home Hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! As I’ve said before, I am a big fan of Diego Luna. But in my house, no one loves Diego Luna more than my husband. Even though the show has been over for weeks, my man lives in the Andor subreddit, so that’s how I learned that Cassian By Violeta • Jun 25, 2025 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lopez’s Oscar campaign begins Since its premiere at Sundance, Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman has been set up as an awards contender for 2025. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh, it’s a new adaptation of the musical by Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, which is itself an By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 04:08 pm
TV Updates Walton and Aimee Lou, in their own words Since the end of The White Lotus’s third season, and the subsequent Great Unfollowing between co-stars Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood, the internet has been wondering if the pair, who play doomed lovers Rick and Chelsea, had a falling out in real life. Social media lit up, Jason By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 12:28 pm
TV Updates Kate campaigns We used to talk about Kate Hudson a lot in the early days of this site. She was an award show regular, a red carpet regular. And it’s not that she doesn’t show up at events anymore, but it has been a while since she’s been a By Lainey • Jun 03, 2025 11:46 am
TV Updates Nobody Wants This: Campaign and Promo As we’ve been saying for the past week or so, this is Emmys season and we are in a final push for nominations as the nomination voting period closes next week on June 12. This weekend Netflix hosted a campaign event for their breakout hit Nobody Wants This with By Lainey • Jun 02, 2025 01:50 pm
TV Updates The Pitt moves Earlier this week Lainey was writing about the Emmys and mentioned that drama categories “loo[k] like it’ll come down to Severance vs The White Lotus although The Last of Us and The Pitt could be a factor”. Well guess what? The Pitt is moving up. With two weeks By Sarah • May 30, 2025 10:07 am
TV Updates Intro for May 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, On Monday in this space, I posted about the Emmys and how even though it was Memorial Day, Hollywood would be busy this week and next before nominations voting for the Emmys begins on June 12. Like clockwork, here are Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper, Ashley Walters, and Erin By Lainey • May 28, 2025 09:22 am
TV Updates Walton Goggins: Beef and Bulge I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Walton Goggins, the Celebrity - he’s been a working and successful actor for decades, but this year he became a Celebrity because of The White Lotus season three. And up to this point he kinda seems to be enjoying it in By Lainey • Apr 24, 2025 11:49 am
Award Season Campaigning The Nominees Dinner The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – aka the Oscar Academy – typically hosts an Oscar Nominees Luncheon every year to celebrate everyone a few weeks before the big night. This is where they also remind potential winners about keeping their speeches tight and right and gently ask them not By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 12:30 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Youngest and the Youngest: We Have a Race! Coming into the SAG Awards, we thought that the most competitive acting race left would be Best Actress, between Demi Moore and Mikey Madison. We’ll get to that in another post, but we’re focusing on the lead actors here because Adrien Brody has won almost everything. Still, remember, By Lainey • Feb 24, 2025 10:16 am
