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
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper joins the Ocean-verse Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, October 13, in observance of Canadian Thanksgiving. That Ocean’s 11 prequel starring Margot Robbie proceeds apace. The latest news is that Bradley Cooper is joining the Ocean-verse, which means Ryan Gosling is not, so this is no longer a Barbie reunion. By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lopez and Tonatiuh in Kiss of the Spider-Woman As a person who does not like musicals yet ends up watching them—at least in cinematic form—far more frequently than I might wish, my one hope each time the theater lights go down is that the musical at least feature some good choreography. Because while I don’t By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Frankencrew Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein rolls into select theaters next week—seriously, see this on a big screen if you can—and Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, and Jacob Elordi, the Frankencrew, if you will, celebrated with dinner in Paris last night. Frankenstein has me tentatively boarding the Jacob Elordi train, By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Allen White’s perfect blowout Jeremy Allen White is in Rome today promoting Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, opening in two weeks. It’ll be interesting to see how the Oscar Best Actor race changes once the film comes out. Because in the months leading up to release, he’s been considered one of the By Lainey • Oct 10, 2025 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy Ping-Pong and his ping pong army To begin the week, Marty Supreme premiered the New York Film Festival to rave reviews, rocketing Timothee Chalamet, thoroughly in his Timmy Ping-Pong era, to the top of the Best Actor race. Here’s Timmy Ping-Pong going to a sneak peek screening of Marty Supreme last night, surrounded by his By Sarah • Oct 10, 2025 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Lee (and Jared Leto) in Tron: Ares Tron is a film and a franchise that has always looked far into the future while aging into its themes and ideas. Tron introduced groundbreaking visual effects to cinema in 1982, and Tron: Legacy repped the biggest and best effects of 2010; both films imagined a future with virtual reality By Sarah • Oct 09, 2025 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everybody likes John Candy In the 80s and 90s, a time when comedies ruled the box office and produced mega-Movie Stars like Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy, John Candy became one of the most beloved figures in Hollywood. Even a kid growing up in America’s “flyover country” understood that John Candy was A By Sarah • Oct 09, 2025 12:08 pm
Music Intro for October 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, The current #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 is “Golden” from Kpop Demon Hunters, topping the chart for the 8th time. This will change next week because Taylor Swift will likely occupy the first 12 spots on the chart with the release of The Life of a By Lainey • Oct 09, 2025 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ayo Edebiri: more than the favourite It’s been a lot of American Vogue today, I know. But that’s because the magazine has done a great job choosing the three cover stars of the November issue to promote Vogue World Hollywood coming up in the next few weeks. Ayo Edebiri, brand new Chanel ambassador, is By Lainey • Oct 08, 2025 04:44 pm