Style Natalie Portman: Good Sex and a Khaki Dress Natalie Portman is currently in New York, seen on the set of Lena Dunham’s Good Sex. There was a bidding war over the film a few months ago with Netflix coming out on top in a $55 million deal for Lena to write and direct and Natalie to star By Lainey • Jul 03, 2025 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, I posted about Kpop Demon Hunters before its premiere on Netflix and whether it was made just for me. Turns out… not just for me, but for so many of us who are all about K-pop and Korean dramas. And this is not a minority. Kpop Demon Hunters By Lainey • Jul 03, 2025 10:17 am
Quiveration A Blonde Villain I have always had a thing for Nicholas Hoult. Like when he and Jennifer Lawrence started dating, that made all the sense to me why she, Hollywood’s It Girl at the time, would have been attracted to him. He’s gorgeous, offbeat and quirky, talented, checks all the boxes. By Lainey • Jul 02, 2025 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell is The Running Man Finally, a trailer for a good-looking movie we don’t have to wait a million years for. The trailer for Edgar Wright’s new adaptation of The Running Man is here and I am super into it, with one reservation. Glen Powell stars in the new version, which has Wright By Sarah • Jul 02, 2025 10:38 am
TV Updates Jon Bernthal: Best of The Bear I’m only four episodes into the new season of The Bear, which dropped last week, which means I can’t speak to how it plays overall and whether or not the show corrects from the stumbles of season three but after watching the opening scene of season four, what By Lainey • Jun 30, 2025 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, Brad Pitt scored a victory over the weekend—no, none of his kids talked to him—as F1 opened with $144 million globally, the biggest global launch of Pitt’s career to date. It’s also Apple’s first box office win (they backed the film, with Warner By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt in F1 F1 is Brad Pitt’s latest star vehicle and Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to Top Gun: Maverick, a film that married technical wizardry with high emotional stakes, making for one of the most genuinely thrilling and effective blockbusters in recent memory. Clearly, the intent was to do the same using By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bewitching Emma Stone Yorgos Lanthimos and Ari Aster are filmmakers who love to make movies that challenge audiences, and what else do they have in common? Emma Stone. This year, she’s starring in new films from both Lanthimos and Aster. First up it’s Ari Aster’s Eddington, which had a premiere By Sarah • Jun 27, 2025 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions for M3GAN 2.0 What is M3GAN 2.0? M3GAN 2.0 is a sequel to the 2023 surprise horror-comedy hit, M3GAN. Director Gerard Johnstone returns, this time penning the script himself (from a story by him and original M3GAN screenwriter Akela Cooper). Allison Williams is back as tech genius but people-clueless Gemma, and By Sarah • Jun 26, 2025 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu won’t be going A palate cleanser after the unsavoury spectacle of the last post and a celebrity in Italy that we can feel better about.. Keanu Reeves and his partner Alexandra Grant were in Italy last weekend for the Motorcycling Grand Prix. He’s a motorcycle enthusiast, has been riding for decades, not By Lainey • Jun 26, 2025 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Denis Villeneuve ushers in the new Bond Four months after Amazon MGM bought out the Broccoli family, long the cinematic stewards of James Bond, Denis Villeneuve has been announced as the latest director to take on Bond. He will usher in the Amazon era of Bond, whenever he’s done with Dune, that is. Villeneuve is only By Sarah • Jun 26, 2025 10:16 am
Style Charlize is back Charlize Theron is promoting The Old Guard 2 which releases on Netflix next week on July 2. She’s been making the rounds in New York the last couple of days, doing the talk show circuit, which means a variety of looks, and it’s been a minute since we’ By Lainey • Jun 24, 2025 12:58 pm
BFFs This is not Beyoncé and Taylor It’s been entertaining watching Brad Pitt on this press tour for his new movie, trying so hard, all this effort – because the image he’s crafted over these last three decades is the opposite of try. Brad Pitt’s whole brand is effortless cool, I wrote a whole essay By Lainey • Jun 24, 2025 11:57 am
Gorgessity Jurassic New York The Jurassic World Rebirth press tour has been a consistently good style showing for Scarlett Johansson, who has worn her “favorite silhouette” and, more importantly, sported loose, soft waves rather than super tight, slicked-back hairdos. Well, two steps forward, one step back, because at the New York premiere of Rebirth, By Sarah • Jun 24, 2025 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jon Bernthal joins Spider-Man(!) Spider-Man 4, officially titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day, starts production later this summer, which means the cast is rounding out, and easily the biggest—and most surprising—piece of casting news is that Jon Bernthal is joining the film as the vigilante Frank Castle, aka the Punisher. There was a By Sarah • Jun 23, 2025 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman Begins Summer movie season continues apace, which means the press tour for Superman has officially kicked off ahead of its July 11 release. David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and James Gunn were in Manila for a fan event yesterday. Can’t help but think they chose Manila for the event because of By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 10:17 am
