Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2026 Dear Gossips, From Anne Hathaway to Zendaya and Florence Pugh to Robert Pattinson, there are several actors this year with multiple high-profile prestige and/or blockbuster films that have already been released or have yet to be released. Add Penelope Cruz to that list. La Bola Negra, directed by By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 09:49 am
Chris Rock Chris Rock is no longer hosting As Sarah wrote earlier today, Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything, the documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, bulldozed its way into the festival conversation by surprise, taking the wind a bit out of Venice and claiming the spotlight for Telluride. Award season is taking shape now after By Lainey • Sep 08, 2026 03:37 pm
Nathan Fielder The documentarians are coming for the billionaires A conspiracy theory I have is that social media started driving billionaires insane, and the pandemic finished the job. Social media allowed the proletariat to talk directly at the richest people in the world, and where they expected to be met with ass kissing similar to that which they receive By Sarah • Sep 08, 2026 10:36 am
Jack OConnell Jack O’Connell feels like “the bollocks” Now that the Venice Film Festival is underway, we are allowed to fully speculate on the award season race since so many of the expected Oscar contenders will be screened in Venice this week and next week Telluride and Toronto. One of those films on the list is Danny Boyle’ By Lainey • Sep 03, 2026 02:46 pm
Mark Ruffalo Being Heumann will kick off TIFF The Venice Film Festival has begun, and next week, TIFF begins. We’re in the fall festival crunch, with Venice, Telluride, and TIFF running concurrently (Telluride is this weekend). The opening night film of TIFF is Being Heumann, Siân Heder’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning film, CODA. Being By Sarah • Sep 03, 2026 10:47 am
What Else Saoirse and Jack: Never mind about Bond! Every two weeks there’s a fresh rumour about who will be the next Bond. But it’s not really all that fresh because every “new” story about the new Bond always recycles the same names that have been speculated about for months. One of those names is Jack Lowden By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 04:03 pm
Sydney Sweeney Sydney Sweeney: Back in Venice I’m not necessarily talking about Sydney Sweeney being back in Venice for the film festival, it’s Venice in general, for other reasons, including Scooter Braun. Because last year she was in Venice for the Bezos wedding and Scooter was there too and that is presumably when their relationship By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 02:47 pm
Sandra Bullock Sally and Gillian’s Custom Witchwear The Owens girls were in LA last night for the Hollywood premiere of Practical Magic 2. I’m just focusing here on Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, they are two major stars of this movie and in the industry overall, and what’s sending me today are the comments on By Lainey • Sep 01, 2026 12:55 pm
Anne Hathaway Anne Hathaway is stuck with Tom Cruise’s Mello Yello movie In the immediate wake of the monster success of Top Gun: Maverick, people began imagining other Tom Cruise legacy sequels that could be made, and because nostalgia is a helluva drug, the NASCAR romantic drama Days of Thunder topped the list. Well, because we live in the worst timeline, it’ By Sarah • Aug 31, 2026 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cristin Milioti in Buddy The backlash to the children’s program Barney & Friends is so historically severe it has its own Wikipedia entry. It’s mostly humorous, though rooted in real irritation at Barney’s annoying voice, the show’s saccharine, corny tone, and the horror older kids feel for anything meant for By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Behold be-bald Sebastian Stan Earlier this year, Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu’s English-language debut, Fjord, picked up the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It is Mungiu’s second Palme, following his 2007 film, 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), an absolutely harrowing film about young By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 12:19 pm
Austin Butler The Austin Butler Gun Show continues Sun’s out, guns out as Austin Butler continues his sleeveless parade in Los Angeles, showing off his biceps as he prepares for Joseph Kosinski’s take on Miami Vice. We’re just watching Austin get his pump on because so little else is happening in the dog days of By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Practical Magic 2 but no Lee Pace Following the London premiere of Practical Magic 2, there was a photocall. Stockard Channing, making her first appearances in two years, opted for green and a rad chain necklace: As Lainey said, the joy of this film is getting three generations of Owens women at once, and they all showed By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 28, 2026 Dear Gossips, Almost two years ago, we learned that David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery intended to shelve Coyote vs. Acme, a live action/animation hybrid film about Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation, for a tax write off. Unlike the previous times this happened, people got spooked and By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 08:57 am
Dianne Wiest Practical Magic Nostalgia Let me make it about myself for a moment – what’s new – because I am stressing about Practical Magic 2. The movie comes out September 11… which is the first weekend of TIFF… so I’m working non-stop. There is no way I can go see it when it By Lainey • Aug 27, 2026 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 25, 2026 Dear Gossips, No list of rom-coms from the last 25 years would be complete without How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days. It’s a classic, complete with several classic rom-com elements: it’s a workplace story, there’s a bet on the line, a fake relationship, By Lainey • Aug 25, 2026 09:07 am
