Style Wicked Paris The Paris premiere of Wicked: For Good happened today—tonight, whatever—and, predictably, Ariana Grande turned up in black and pink. Also on hand in Paris were reigning Sexiest Man Alive, Jonathan Bailey, and Jeff Goldblum. So far, I have not had to explain to anyone why Jonathan Bailey is By Sarah • Nov 07, 2025 04:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Holiday trailer haul We’re approaching the end of the year, which means holiday movie season, and while Wicked: For Good and Avatar: Fire Nation & Ash are expected to dominate the box office, there is plenty of other stuff coming down the pike, too. To wit, The Testament of Ann Lee dropped By Sarah • Nov 07, 2025 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve’s feature film debut was in Joachim Trier’s 2011 film Oslo, August 31st, the second film in the filmmaker’s “Oslo” trilogy. Ten years later, the final film in Trier’s trilogy, The Worst Person in the World, gave Reinsve her international breakout role. Now, By Sarah • Nov 07, 2025 11:34 am
Style The (Top Gun and Mission Impossible) Running Man Tom Cruise did not attend the London premiere of The Running Man last night but it felt like he was there because I’m having a harder and harder time distinguishing him from Glen Powell right now. If we’re talking about the “running man”, there is no other movie By Lainey • Nov 06, 2025 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The standup in Is This Thing On? SUCKS Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett are working their way along the trophy trail ahead of their new film, Is This Thing On?, opening in December. Last night they were at a special screening in New York, alongside Andra Day, who also stars in the film. (Laura Dern was absent, but By Sarah • Nov 06, 2025 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meghan Sussex does a movie Now that it’s actually happening, this seemed inevitable, didn’t it? Meghan Sussex was seen yesterday on the set of Close Personal Friends. The film stars Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Henry Golding and Jack Quaid, about a couple on a trip to Santa Barbara and encounter a celebrity couple. By Lainey • Nov 06, 2025 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothée Chalamet is Timmy Supreme It made headlines during the Screen Actors Guild awards earlier this year and it’s mentioned in his new American Vogue cover story this year – what Timothée Chalamet said when he won: that he was “in pursuit of greatness”, that he was chasing Viola Davis, Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, as By Lainey • Nov 06, 2025 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in Die My Love Filmmaker Lynne Ramsey has a knack for extracting peerless performances from actors, from Samantha Morton and Kathleen McDermott in Morvern Callar, to Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin, to Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here. Her latest film, Die My Love, pairs her with an By Sarah • Nov 05, 2025 02:36 pm
Quiveration Other sexy men Now that we have ushered in a new era of Sexiest Man Alive—long may the Viscount reign!—let’s catch up with a couple other sexy men. Pedro Pascal is in Los Angeles, working on a new film with Andor’s Tony Gilroy, Behemoth!. It’s about a family By Sarah • Nov 04, 2025 11:28 am
Style Is Robert Pattinson sexy? PEOPLE Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 2025 will be announced on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tonight. I’ve been trying to predict the Sexiest Man Alive since the very early days of this site and my annual prediction post was just posted this morning at The Squawk. There By Lainey • Nov 03, 2025 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Englund’s spooky star It’s Halloween and in the spirit of Halloween, we’re going to celebrate a Halloween legend—Robert Englund, best known for playing Freddy Krueger. Robert Englund received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, which is fitting. I know these stars are purchased, but I genuinely don’ By Sarah • Oct 31, 2025 04:20 pm
TV Updates Stranger Scream Many people will tell you that spooky season ends today, but I am here to tell you that spooky season is always. There are more skeletons on earth than people, and inside each of us is a skeleton longing for freedom, plotting against the fleshy carapace that contains it. Spooky By Sarah • Oct 31, 2025 02:10 pm
Style Ingenues grown up The Variety Power of Women event happened last night, honouring Jamie Lee Curtis, Wanda Sykes, Aly Raisman, Nicole Scherzinger, Kate Hudson, and Sydney Sweeney. What stood out to me was the group shot – and specifically the way they’ve been positioned. Sydney in the middle, and Kate on one end. By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 03:22 pm
Style Jennifer Lawrence’s best profile Jennifer Lawrence is back in the Oscar mix this year after the world premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love in Cannes back in May, where she was praised for her performance as a new mother navigating rage and desire and boredom and Robert Pattinson. That was early in By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 01:27 pm
Style Ariana Grande: Pink is back There’s been an ongoing conversation over at our Substack, The Squawk, about how quiet Wicked: For Good has been, seemingly. At least in comparison to the overload of Wickeding last year. I wrote about this in our latest mailbag newsletter – that it’s been smart of the studio to By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 11:14 am
Maple Leaf Maitreyi gets a degree Shout out to our beloved Toronto girly Maitreyi Ramakrishnan who is having a time! And for you sticklers out there – yes, she’s from Mississauga… which is the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Maitreyi posted last week that she’d graduated from York University, majoring in Human Rights and Equity Studies. By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 04:07 pm
