Movie Reviews and Previews Meet The Shakespeares Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Director with 2020’s Nomadland. Her work up to that point was deeply sensitive, humanist, and realist. Then she made Eternals for Marvel which, while very ambitious especially for that risk-adverse studio, didn’t really By Sarah • Aug 28, 2025 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, It’s official: Kpop Demon Hunters is now Netflix’s most-watched film of all time pulling ahead of Red Notice, accomplishing in eight weeks what it took its predecessor 13 weeks to achieve. I said it before and I’ll say it again: this means the two top By Lainey • Aug 28, 2025 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in The Roses Warren Adler’s divorce-themed novel, The War of the Roses, was published in 1981, born of the era in which the introduction of no-fault divorce led to a huge spike in divorces. In 1989, Danny DeVito—an underappreciated director of comedy—adapted Adler’s novel into the similarly titled The By Sarah • Aug 27, 2025 02:55 pm
Style Julia in Venice! There’s an exclamation point in the title here because I’m old and I still get excited about Julia Roberts. Julia is one of the many stars arriving in Venice today for the start of the Venice Film Festival. She is there for the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’ By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 02:04 pm
Style Venice arrivals: George, Emma, Naomi, and Billy Arrivals are picking up in Venice now ahead of the festival’s opening night tomorrow. George and Amal Clooney were seen in Lake Como last night for dinner with some celebrity friends, including Shailene Woodley, before heading to the Lido today to promote Jay Kelly. With Noah Baumbach directing and By Lainey • Aug 26, 2025 12:54 pm
BFFs Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett’s Oscar comedy gamble As mentioned, the fall festivals are coming—Venice starts this week—and that means the 2025 trophy season is now open. Frankenstein had its moment, and now we have a glossy Vanity Fair profile of Bradley Cooper’s latest film, Is This Thing On?, about a man who finds success By Sarah • Aug 26, 2025 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 25, 2025 Dear Gossips, I sealed the Honmoon this weekend, along with thousands of other people in sold-out theatres across North America at the Kpop Demon Hunters singalong screenings. I knew I would have a good time, but I did not expect to laugh as hysterically as I did – out of pure By Lainey • Aug 25, 2025 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Day-Lewis returns Daniel Day-Lewis “retired” from acting in 2017 following his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. I put “retired” in quotes because I never believed he would stay retired—it wasn’t the first time, and it probably won’t be the last time DDL walks away from acting By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 03:16 pm
Quiveration Austin + Zoë: Hot in Paris A late summer treat is the Caught Stealing press tour, which is mostly just Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz going around the world, being incredibly hot. Hot in Puerto Rico, hot in New York, hot in London—basically the only person capable of pulling focus from Austin and Zoë is By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 10:32 am
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
Baby and Bump Obsession A Big Bold Beautiful Beginning… Without commas. Anyway, you aren’t here to talk about punctuation and clearly I’m the only one bothered by it so let’s focus instead on the kickoff of Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey press tour. He was at the photo call yesterday with his lead actors, By Lainey • Aug 21, 2025 11:16 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
Movie Reviews and Previews “Life moves pretty fast…” Some of you should be able to finish this sentence, or add another one to it: “If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Here are Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in Vancouver, working together for the first time since Ferris By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 04:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo’s new dance partner: Tonatiuh The first full trailer for Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman was released today ahead of the film’s theatrical release on October 10 which, of course, positions it as an award season hopeful. And that also means that Jennifer Lopez will be spending the fall campaigning. But By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Splitsville… on and offscreen Dakota Johnson and the cast and crew of Splitsville, which includes Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino, who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Kyle Marvin, and Nicholas Braun, were at the premiere and after-party last night in LA. The movie is about a man who finds out his wife By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 01:29 pm
Quiveration Austin, Zoë, and a Canadian Cat Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz were in matching black and white last night in London for the UK premiere of Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, opening on August 29. This casting combo is the selling feature, especially for the internet, which in some corners has been theorising that these two By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 11:52 am
