Movie Reviews and Previews Katie & Josh: One of the Xennials Not sure about you but the group chat was popping off yesterday over Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson, Joey and Pacey, together again after all these years. Because while we do get the Dawson’s Creek reunions in one or two combinations here and there (most recently Josh was with By Lainey • Jul 22, 2025 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor out, Adria in Deadline broke the news a couple of days ago that Taylor Russell has exited the new version of The Thomas Crown Affair that Michael B Jordan is directing in London. If you recall, they were seen together back in March shortly after her casting was confirmed. At the time, it By Lainey • Jul 21, 2025 03:13 pm
Style Annie in cerulean and pinstripes I was just talking about 2000s nostalgia in the previous post about Lindsay Lohan and the imminent release of Freakier Friday and this is how Anne Hathaway is kicking off the week, first with a post on TikTok early this morning as she was getting ready to start her day. By Lainey • Jul 21, 2025 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic and Freaky There was a Fantastic Four and Freakier Friday crossover this weekend in LA, a fun co-marketing strategy for both movies and it makes sense on multiple levels. First, it’s all the “Fs” – Fast & Furious no longer dominates this letter as F4 and Freakier Friday are here to take By Lainey • Jul 21, 2025 11:09 am
Quiveration Jon Bernthal’s slutty little hoodie Jon Bernthal is having a busy year. He had The Accountant 2 out earlier this year, he filmed Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, plus The Bear season four recently premiered, and he just earned his third Emmy nomination as a guest actor for The Bear—he won last year. It By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 04:11 pm
TV Updates Trailer haul Earlier this year we got our first look at Tron: Ares, the third entry into the Tron franchise which began in 1982 with one of the first CG-heavy movies made. Now, we have a new trailer, featuring the first piece of original music from Nine Inch Nails for the movie, By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 02:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Drinks on Margot Margot Robbie was photographed in London this week with her husband Tom Ackerley having lunch with a group of friends at a restaurant called Bondi Green. She’s Australian, the restaurant is Aussie inspired, so I’m guessing this was some friendly (as in free) promo for the establishment. Apparently By Lainey • Jul 17, 2025 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia, Gwyneth, and a long-awaited gossip matchup Now that we are halfway through summer, with the fall film festivals just a few weeks away, it’s time to start looking ahead to awards season. What? No! Surely, it’s too soon! Alas, time is a relentless drummer. To that end, the trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s After By Sarah • Jul 17, 2025 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin’s return to The Late Show Most people who follow celebrities are aware that Joaquin Phoenix does not do conventional promotion (unless he’s campaigning for an Oscar – that award season was, by his standards, thirsty). He’s not on social media, he doesn’t participate in the usual press games, and it’s very rare By Lainey • Jul 16, 2025 04:32 pm
Quiveration Dreamy Colin Farrell on set Newly minted Emmy nominee Colin Farrell is already back at work. No, not on The Batman 2 (consider this a semi-unrelated plea to let Robert Pattinson’s Batman and David Corenswet’s Superman coexist, PLEASE let us have this), but on the second season of Sugar, his sci-fi detective show By Sarah • Jul 16, 2025 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I Know What You Did Last Summer… and Carolyn Bessette I Know What You Did Last Summer came out in 1997, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, and Ryan Phillippe, four major names in pop culture for Gen X and early Millennials. And it was a hit. So now there’s a 2025 version which brings By Lainey • Jul 15, 2025 11:31 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna’s Coordinated Carpet Rihanna was 100% the main event at the Smurfs premiere last night, as she always is, and she never needs help in that department but her co-stars made what would have already been a noteworthy appearance that much more notable because, of course, they were her sons, RZA and Riot, By Lainey • Jul 14, 2025 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman soared over the box office Two weeks ago, I wrote about the “paycheck hypothesis”, which I made up, theorizing that generally, people will only pay to go see one movie per a given two-week paycheck period. Because Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman were opening in the same paycheck period, and Rebirth overperformed its expectations, I By Sarah • Jul 14, 2025 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Finally, hope for Superman Spoilers ahead… Superman is one of comic books’ greatest squares, just a big ol’ dork, a good guy who does good. But in an attempt to make Superman—a flying alien with laser eyes and ice breath—more realistic, he was turned into a brooding grouch for a decade. Everyone By Sarah • Jul 11, 2025 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett’s victory wig As Sarah wrote the other day, with the huge box office success of Jurassic World Rebirth, Scarlett Johansson is now the highest-grossing actor in Hollywood and her worldwide total is now getting closer and closer to $15 billion, which would be a new record. So these are triumphant times for By Lainey • Jul 10, 2025 04:07 pm
Style Superman & Lois at the Empire State Building David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan are doing a final push for Superman in New York today, seen here at the Empire State Building. She looks cute in this red dress with the white collar. He, as usual, looks very tall – I mean they really nailed it on the physicality with By Lainey • Jul 09, 2025 04:18 pm
