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
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hugh and Kate hype train gets going Song Sung Blue, directed by Craig Brewer and starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute band, opens in theatres Christmas Day, the kind of tear-jerker, crowd-pleaser that’s perfect for that time of year. The film premiered at AFI Fest last night, finally. And I By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 02:52 pm
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
