Movie Reviews and Previews Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich in Opus Celebrity culture and the cult-like adoration mega-stars engender are ripe targets for satire, and in Opus, his feature directorial debut, filmmaker Mark Anthony Green takes aim, only to miss the mark. Starring Ayo Edebiri as Ariel Ecton, a music journalist struggling to get out from under the toxic influence of By Sarah • Mar 13, 2025 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sadie Sink joins Spider-Man Imagining Tom Holland’s work schedule this year gives me hives, that boy is busy. He hasn’t released anything since 2023’s The Crowded Room, but next year he’s got Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, filming now, and Spider-Man 4, which is expected to film later this year. By Sarah • Mar 13, 2025 12:12 pm
Style Stars in NYC A couple weeks ago, Lainey wrote about Anne Hathaway filming Verity, the newest Colleen Hoover adaptation being thrust upon us, noting how “glamorous and elegant” Annie looks in character. Well, Dakota Johnson was seen filming a scene for Verity, and she looks distinctly less glamorous and elegant, mainly because of By Sarah • Mar 13, 2025 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, This sequel goes to eleven!!! This Is Spinal Tap is one of my favorite films of all time, a comedy from 1984 that is as funny today as it was forty-one years ago. Like Airplane!, it’s a film that makes me laugh every time I watch it, By Sarah • Mar 13, 2025 09:00 am
Music The Stars at Saint Laurent As mentioned in today’s site open, Saint Laurent closed Paris Fashion Week last night and Zoë Kravitz, one of the house’s ambassadors, hosted the after-party. According to the paps, Austin Butler’s attendance created a huge buzz for fans who crowded around him for photos and autographs outside. By Lainey • Mar 12, 2025 02:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan and Taylor Russell?!?! If the Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre hard launch last week wasn’t enough of a fantasy come true, here comes another… possibly. Michael B Jordan’s The Thomas Crowne Affair update has been in development for a while. He will direct and star in the project and ever since By Lainey • Mar 12, 2025 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey: Comeback at SXSW Matthew McConaughey is a local legend in Austin, so it was only fitting to launch his new film The Rivals of Amziah King - his first screen role in nearly six years - at SXSW, as a hometown hero. It was such a proud moment that his eldest son Levi, By Joanna • Mar 11, 2025 12:54 pm
TV Updates Intro for March 11, 2025 Dear Gossips, Sydney Sweeney is at Paris Fashion Week since she’s one of Miu Miu’s ambassadors. She arrived at the show in a fit that is super Miu Miu coded – leather jacket and short loose pleated skirt, socks, and pumps. Reminds me that we didn’t talk much By Lainey • Mar 11, 2025 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson (and Robert Pattinson) in Mickey 17 Six years after winning multiple Oscars for Parasite, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is back with Mickey 17, a return to science fiction for Bong, though with a dash of Parasite’s class-consciousness. Written and directed by Bong (adapting from Edward Ashton’s novel, Mickey7), Mickey 17 is set in By Sarah • Mar 10, 2025 03:04 pm
BFFs Ben Affleck at SXSW: Matt Damon, Dancing, and Tom Cruise Inside the world premiere of The Accountant 2. What do Ben Affleck and Tom Cruise have in common? Commitment to the bit, and apparently, their love of challenging stunt work. Ben Affleck claims he spent “months and months” perfecting how to line dance for The Accountant 2, before joking “Tom By Joanna • Mar 10, 2025 02:33 pm
Style Anna, Blake, and a Very Bad Dress Of all the premieres at SXSW this weekend, Another Simple Favor was the main event. Would it have been if not for all the drama with Blake Lively and her legal mess with Justin Baldoni? Of course not. But this is our current timeline and so it was inevitable that By Lainey • Mar 10, 2025 12:44 pm
Style Nicole Kidman: SXStepford SXSW was a big draw this weekend for celebrities who weren’t at Paris Fashion Week with so many premieres featuring big name talent, including Nicole Kidman who remains on a f-cking tear with all her work – and it’s work that has, primarily, supported female directors. This time it’ By Lainey • Mar 10, 2025 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Bett Rickards in Queen of the Ring Sports dramas, like romantic comedies, are a genre of film hidebound by narrative tropes and genre conventions. There isn’t much you can do within the bounds of the genre before the film stops being of the genre, so the best way to ensure a fresh approach is to find By Sarah • Mar 07, 2025 02:44 pm
TV Updates Paris people The Oscars may be over, but Paris fashion week is still going strong. Fresh off her cheeky appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Zoë Kravitz is now in Paris, hitting up the Costes party with her DC sister in villainy, Cristin Milioti. They have now rocketed to the top By Sarah • Mar 07, 2025 10:14 am
Gorgessity Intro for March 6, 2025 Dear Gossips, Sorry to whine at you to start the day but I promise you there’s a point at the end of this – because it’s been a long week, I’m going on ten straight days of work, with three back-to-back 18 hour days and two all-nighters so By Lainey • Mar 06, 2025 09:37 am
Music Doja Cat and Joseph: From LA to Paris I appreciate that Doja Cat walked her first Oscars red carpet in cat print even though her second dress of the night, for the Vanity Fair party, was probably more formal…but also, maybe, a little more naked, LOL. It’s Balmain, and it’s the one she chose as By Lainey • Mar 05, 2025 03:31 pm
