Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Adam Sandler in Jay Kelly You know the Bill Nighy plot in Love Actually in which famous but aging rockstar Billy Mack eventually confesses his love for his manager, Joe, after realizing that the beleaguered yet loyal Joe is his closest friend and is, in fact, the love of his life? Noah Baumbach’s new By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, My favorite time of year is the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's. My birthday falls during that time. I think this is why I have a strange relationship with chronology. Because my birthday exists in the never-ending hallway of time, I have no sense By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:09 am
Style Amanda + Sydney, round 2 Last night, Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney stepped out together for the premiere of The Housemaid, today, they’re making press rounds together, stopping by The Today Show. Once again, I do not hate Sydney’s outfit, a belted black dress, though I assume she’s cold. I think being By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What are we in for with Mother Mary As we are approaching the end of 2025, it is time to turn our eyes toward 2026, a new time over a new horizon pressing ever toward us (I blame the sun). One of my topmost anticipated films of 2026 is Mother Mary, David Lowery’s new film starring Anne By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 11:34 am
Style Sydney and Amanda glam it up Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney hit the red carpet last night for the premiere of The Housemaid, a new film from director Paul Feig. It’s described as a psychological thriller (and is based on a book by Freida McFadden), but the trailer gives me A Simple Favor vibes, and By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 10:37 am
Style Zoë Saldaña: A one-side party Last week at The Squawk, I posted a piece about press tour wardrobes, how they’ve evolved from the 90s and 2000s to now, as entire lookbooks are built around the release of a single movie. The main point of the article, though, is that Zoë Saldaña doesn’t get By Lainey • Dec 02, 2025 04:41 pm
Music Miley is engaged Miley Cyrus is on the Avatar: Fire and Ash soundtrack. The new song is called “Dream As One” and she’s been hyping it for a while. It’s a power ballad, kinda feels retro, the way movie power ballads sounded in the 80s… although now that I’ve listened By Lainey • Dec 02, 2025 12:06 pm
Style Chloë Grace Moretz: Holidays, makeup, and jeans So many celebrities have launched or are launching their own beauty brands and by now, I know, it’s almost at the point of oversaturation, or maybe it’s already oversaturated. Here’s why Chloë Grace Moretz’s might be an outlier in the celebrity beauty game: she and Rina By Lainey • Dec 01, 2025 04:48 pm
Style One Battle to the Gothams As I just mentioned in the Three Beatles post today, the Gotham Awards are happening tonight in New York where One Battle After Another has the most nominations. I still don’t understand how a studio movie with a reported $200 million budget is playing in this sandbox but we By Lainey • Dec 01, 2025 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Three out of four Beatles Three out of the four actors who’ve been cast to play the Beatles in Sam Mendes's upcoming quad-biopic were at the British Independent Film awards last night in London. If you missed it, Sam is directing four separate films, each focusing on an individual Beatle; the plan By Lainey • Dec 01, 2025 02:03 pm
BFFs Timmy and Kylie’s friends with benefits We live in a time where celebrity couples need to hump each other in a public space for social media to believe they’re still together. But if they hump each other on social media, people will be in the comments calling it PR. No one can ever be convinced By Lainey • Dec 01, 2025 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 1, 2025 Dear Gossips, Over the last few months, everyone’s been leaving room in the Best Animated Feature category in the Oscar race for Zootopia 2 and the movie just got a massive boost at the box office with a huge Thanksgiving open - $156 million domestic and $400 million overseas By Lainey • Dec 01, 2025 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig but mostly Josh O’Connor in Wake Up Dead Man In Knives Out, writer/director Rian Johnson introduced us to Benoit Blanc, a dapper, slightly eccentric, Southern-fried detective who can solve any crime, no matter how complicated it may seem, with a perfect cozy mystery setting: an autumnal New England estate. In Glass Onion, he shipped Benoit Blanc to a By Sarah • Nov 28, 2025 12:13 pm
Amazingness Ari and Jonny make pizza Of all the places where I would have expected to see the cast of Wicked promote Wicked: For Good, it would never have been NYT Cooking, but here we are, an almost 20-minute video of Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey making pizzas in the NYT kitchen. The entire cast is By Lainey • Nov 26, 2025 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Three Muses Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu was a bit of a box office surprise last Christmas. This is a film in the horror/thriller genre, not usually what holiday audiences are looking for. But it exceeded expectations and then went on to receive four Oscar nominations. Robert has his own fanbase – those By Lainey • Nov 26, 2025 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, and Callum Turner in Eternity Watch out, bitches, I’m in my Scrooge era, here to take a wrecking ball to David Freyne’s lifeless afterlife rom-com—that is short on both rom and com—Eternity. Directed by Freyne and co-written by Freyne and Pat Cunnane, Eternity is about the afterlife of three entwined souls. By Sarah • Nov 26, 2025 11:35 am
