Movie Reviews and Previews Name that Avatar character There is nothing I dread more than a press release for a movie too big to ignore that I just do not give a sh-t about landing in my inbox. Anyway, the trailer for Avatar: Fire & Ash, the third in James Cameron’s technology test franchise, dropped yesterday. A By Sarah • Jul 29, 2025 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pam & Liam: Yes, we are shipping! Sarah covered the premiere of The Naked Gun last week and asked whether or not we are shipping Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson and also whether or not we should be shipping them. Probably not… but I am anyway because they are so f-cking cute together and we need more By Lainey • Jul 29, 2025 10:37 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Sofia Carson goes to Oxford I know I am not alone when I say this but you don’t have to admit it: I have watched all of Sofia Carson’s movies on Netflix. My algorithm just serves them up to me and it’s like I am helpless to resist. This started with Feel By Lainey • Jul 28, 2025 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Comic-Con wrapped up Comic-Con carried on through the weekend, a little bit of a muted year—it didn’t feel like I had to stay glued to my inbox for announcements and trailers this time around—but there were still some big highlights. One of which is: Sydney Chandler showed up for Alien: By Sarah • Jul 28, 2025 01:03 pm
Photo Assumption Katie & Josh: Weekend Body Language Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson continued to film Happy Hours in New York this weekend and it’s been happy hour for us Xennials who’ve been waiting 25 years for this to happen but not really believing that it could happen. Even though it’s not really happening, at By Lainey • Jul 28, 2025 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Four gets the job done Much like Superman before it, The Fantastic Four: First Steps had a fantastic opening weekend, clocking $118 million—which will probably revise upwards, just like Superman, when the actual tally is released later today. The international haul came in at $100 million, giving First Steps a $218 million launching pad. By Sarah • Jul 28, 2025 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spinal Tap is back The year of comedy sequels continues with the one I am personally the most nervous about. The trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues dropped yesterday, and it’s pretty good. I got one solid laugh out of it, at the end with the “thinking outside the literal box” By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 11:30 am
Style Katie Holmes at work Right after I said that Katie Holmes gets more coverage (by paparazzi) than the state of her career really warrants in a mailbag, she announced she is directing and co-starring in a new romantic comedy-drama with Joshua Jackson. Okay then, game on! Here is Katie on set today in New By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vanessa Kirby and some guys in The Fantastic Four: First Steps From its first seconds, when a delightfully retro title card appears on screen, The Fantastic Four: First Steps isn’t like other Marvels movies—it’s cool! But it actually IS cool, every frame of First Steps is packed with eye-popping artistic design, the score is immediately recognizable, from the By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Prada 2 crew back at it Days after seeing Anne Hathaway on the set of The Devil Wears Prada 2, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci have also been spotted as well. What do we call Miranda Priestly’s haircut? It’s not a c-nty bob, but like…a bitchy pixie? Don’t worry, Annie was there, By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews KPop Demon Hunters keeps soaring KPop Demon Hunters was released on Netflix over a month ago but as I have said many times over the last few weeks, the movie and the soundtrack have not peaked. The initial enthusiasm came from its targeted audience but the audience for the movie has expanded well beyond K-pop By Lainey • Jul 23, 2025 04:12 pm
Quiveration Lohan Barbie The Freakier Friday premiere happened in Hollywood last night – and it’s a big pop culture deal because of the success of the first movie, a surprise hit in 2003, igniting Lindsay Lohan’s celebrity momentum. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Mean Girls would follow the next year, By Lainey • Jul 23, 2025 11:40 am
Gorgessity Pamela and Liam living it up in London There are a number of comedy sequels this year, including Happy Gilmore 2, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, and The Naked Gun. We are varying degrees of nervous for all these films, as the originals are all beloved comedy classics, and comedy sequels are hard to get right. So By Sarah • Jul 23, 2025 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy and Benito Happy Gilmore 2 premiered in New York last night, probably the only movie premiere where Adam Sandler’s standard uniform fits the vibe because, of course, he’s always wearing something that looks like it came out of Happy’s closet. The original is a classic, a project that contributed By Lainey • Jul 22, 2025 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone get out of Vanessa Kirby’s way It has long been a truism of superhero movies that every iteration of the live-action Fantastic Four has sucked. Well, guess what? It’s true no more! The Fantastic Four: First Steps, stupid title aside, is F-CKING GREAT. I’ll have a full review later this week, but for the By Sarah • Jul 22, 2025 01:17 pm
