Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon If “theater kid” was personified as a film, it would be Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, a very theatrical imagining of a real moment in time and the conversations that may have been had between people who definitely knew each other. It’s March 31, 1943, the opening night of By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Task without the accent Last year, we saw Chris Hemsworth (the largest man) on set with Halle Berry working on Crime 101, a heist thriller that also stars Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, and Nick Nolte. Well, now we have a trailer, and I am SUPER into it. Crime 101 is By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 01:55 pm
Style Adam Sandler dressed up If anyone can get Adam Sandler to dress like an adult on a red carpet, it’s George Clooney. The Jay Kelly press tour continues apace, stopping in Los Angeles and AFI Fest, where Adam Sandler donned a suit. It probably helps that this is not a black-tie affair, neither By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Scott Cooper made his feature film debut as a director with 2009’s country music-themed Crazy Heart, and since then he’s built a body of work that is united not by genre but by theme. Cooper addresses American masculinity in many forms and tropes, from Westerns to crime dramas By Sarah • Oct 23, 2025 01:30 pm
Music Intro for October 23, 2025 Dear Gossips, All 12 of Taylor Swift’s songs from The Life of a Showgirl charted in the top 12 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 in the first week of release, lead by “The Fate of Ophelia”. This is no surprise. However, in 13th position that week, right behind By Lainey • Oct 23, 2025 09:15 am
Style Emma and Jesse: Campaigns and conspiracies Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest, Bugonia, opens in limited release this weekend and wide the following. It’s Yorgos and it’s Emma which means that there’s some expectation that this film and its performances will contend for Oscars. But also, it’s Yorgos and it’s Emma which means By Lainey • Oct 22, 2025 02:54 pm
Music Dakota Johnson, Director I was mid on Materialists, but it had a moment over the summer, instigating conversations about money, class, romance, and Hollywood’s “broke man propaganda”. It also cracked $100 million at the box office, which as much as people say doesn’t matter, when film as an industry is struggling By Sarah • Oct 22, 2025 11:05 am
Style Tessa Thompson’s celebrity crush Just announced today – Tessa Thompson will receive the Spotlight Award at the Gotham Film Awards on December 1. Tessa is currently promoting her film Hedda, directed by Nia DaCosta (you can read Sarah’s review here) and is a contender in the Best Actress race, though still considered a long-ish By Lainey • Oct 21, 2025 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLaw’s fringe and “shocking” story Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love premiered at the BFI London Film Festival today. Robert Pattinson was a no-show, but Jennifer Lawrence turned up alongside Ramsay. Earlier, I commented on Kristen Stewart’s severe bangs, and here JLaw is rocking bangs of her own, though this is a softer, Seventies By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 04:03 pm
Style KStew’s bangs Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, continues trekking through film festivals on its way to an unspecified December release date. Last night was the UK premiere at the BFI London Festival. KStew showed up in a sporty Chanel number and rather severe bangs. How do we By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in Good Fortune Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut comes at an awkward time. Good Fortune, which Ansari also wrote, produced, and stars in, is a well-intentioned film about the meaning of life, a naked attempt at bringing Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life to late-stage capitalism. Ansari stars as Arj, By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, KPop Demon Hunters is an unstoppable force, topping charts and Netflix’s Top 10, featuring on SNL, and I suspect, dominating Halloween costumes in a couple weeks. Netflix has produced some big movies over the years, but nothing that has ever really felt like a cultural moment, but By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gwyneth sounds bothered Gwyneth Paltrow is the November 2025 British Vogue cover star. GP covers magazines all the time, this is not remarkable. What is remarkable is that this particular magazine cover at this time is for an acting project. The film is Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, and there will definitely be By Lainey • Oct 16, 2025 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rachel McAdams’s primal scream Everyone loves Rachel McAdams, right? She’s one of the few who is and always has been universally beloved. She’s so loved, in fact, that many people requested I bring back the Career Prospectus series just for her, because, well, the love has never matched the career, at least By Sarah • Oct 15, 2025 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper for the holidays Bradley Cooper’s new film, Is This Thing On?, starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern, premiered at the New York Film Festival the other day. The reviews I’ve seen have been largely positive which supports its December release. Is This Thing On? is coming out December 19, a time By Lainey • Oct 14, 2025 03:35 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for October 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, It was Thanksgiving here in Canada yesterday and over in New York, two Canadians were on the red carpet at the premiere of Good Fortune: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Oh. When I post about Keanu, I often say that we don’t see a lot of him, since By Lainey • Oct 14, 2025 09:32 am
