Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, We’re just about a week away from the start of the Venice Film Festival and then Telluride and TIFF right after, so trailers and other promotional materials for projects that will be premiering and, perhaps, kicking off their Oscar campaigns are now being released. That includes Edward By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell on the prowl Not really, I just liked the rhyme. Glen Powell is very busy, having finally launched into the stratosphere following the double whammy of Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You. Some of us—me—were predicting his big fame in the latter half of the 2010s, off the backs of By Sarah • Aug 19, 2025 10:19 am
Style Meryl in the red dress, again Production on The Devil Wears Prada 2 continued this weekend in New York City with Meryl Streep seen once again in the red dress she made headlines in a couple of weeks ago. They were shooting a scene at the American Museum of Natural History that was clearly meant to By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Women, grief, and horses in East of Wall There is an inherent skepticism when an outsider tells a particular community’s story, that they will in some fundamental way misrepresent or misunderstand the world they’re depicting, or worse, commit an act of socio-emotional tourism—poverty p-rn is among the worst of these. Take billionaire Nicola Peltz-Beckham’s By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 03:28 pm
Style Prada 2 Bingo Speaking of The Devil Wears Prada 2, filming continues apace in New York. Yesterday, three of the “Prada four” were on set: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt. Andy Sachs is sporting cerulean on her scarf, and this time out, Emily Charlton is rocking platinum blonde hair, not her By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 11:59 am
Style Lucy Liu’s double sheer Did you know that Lucy Liu is going to be in The Devil Wears Prada 2? Somehow, I missed this announcement (also, the presence of Justin Theroux and BJ Novak ensures Prada’s legacy of f-ckboys remains intact). I was checking on Lucy because she’s at the 78th Locarno By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 10:36 am
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2025 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift has given us a great gossip week—one reason I believe she is a great gossip herself is because she knows so well how to stoke gossip cycles—but let’s not lose sight of the other gossip happening right now: Marc Maron versus every right-wing By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Carolyn’s Carpenter Jeans Sarah Pidgeon was photographed in New York yesterday as production continues on Ryan Murphy’s American Love Story. Sarah looks so pretty with her hair pulled back like this and her face made up to look like she’s barely wearing any. Though her hair is more honey blonde than By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio’s spirit age As noted in the open about Emma Stone’s Vogue cover profile and also a couple of weeks ago in my essay about the 20th anniversary of Jennifer Aniston’s Vanity Fair cover story in September 2005 and how we will never see an interview like that again, the cultural By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, A few weeks ago I speculated about who would cover the September 2025 issue of American Vogue. September in magazine publishing is the all-important issue, usually the biggest issue, though obviously not as big as before when you’d go to the newsstand and it would feel almost By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 09:35 am
TV Updates Jack goes for groceries Jack Lowden was seen in London shopping at Sainsbury’s with his reusable grocery bag. This man looks… tired. And it could be for a couple of reasons. First, as Sarah wrote in her post from a couple of weeks ago, production has started on Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice, By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy Ping Pong in a Safdie Crash Out (Sports) Drama Since the Safdie Brothers broke up as co-directors, Josh Safdie has kept a comparatively low profile. Where Benny Safdie has acted consistently in projects like Licorice Pizza, Oppenheimer, and the upcoming The Odyssey, as well as co-creating and starring in The Curse, Josh Safdie has done a little voice work, By Sarah • Aug 13, 2025 02:03 pm
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant’s chaotic streak continues Alien: Earth premiered last night—will I review it? Who can ever be sure!—which means Timothy Olyphant is back on TV screens once again. And yes, even with his character’s strong look—neon white hair and bleached brows, very Nineties Euro raver—he is still Very Handsome. My By Sarah • Aug 13, 2025 10:55 am
Quiveration Zoë and Austin: Sexy, incoming Zoë Kravitz and Austin Butler were both seen in New York yesterday, separately, ahead of the release of Caught Stealing on August 29. I don’t know what kind of impact it will have on the box office considering that’s Labour Day weekend, traditionally not exactly a promising time By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 03:16 pm
Music Intro for August 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, Started the day yesterday talking about “Golden”, from the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack and whether or not it could reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ended the day with the confirmation: “Golden” has indeed topped the chart, adding to the movie’s ever-growing list of surprise achievements. By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 09:45 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rocky’s plus one Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright, opens in theatres this Friday before streaming on Apple TV+. The cast is doing some press right now ahead of the theatrical release and there will also be a red carpet premiere in New York. This, presumably, is By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 04:09 pm
