Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, You know what happened this week that might not be making mainstream headlines in the west? Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has overtaken Superman, with $617 million worldwide at the box office. The anime movie opened at #1 in North America two weeks ago with a record-setting $70 million, By Lainey • Oct 03, 2025 09:09 am
Style Who scares Julia? Julia Roberts on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is the first thing I watched this morning because I am a dinosaur who will always f-ck with legacy media: a proper movie star on a late night talk show for three segments? I’M IN. But also, Julia is never By Lainey • Oct 02, 2025 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has spent the last 25 years trying to become one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, and in this, he succeeded. But it has been a long time—since 2016’s Central Intelligence or 2013’s Pain & Gain, depending on your taste—since By Sarah • Oct 02, 2025 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boss’s Big Night Between A Complete Unknown last year and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere this year, it’s a great time for rock’n’roll dads at the movies. The four upcoming Beatles movies might be overkill, though. The dads can’t rock out too hard or they’ll spontaneously combust. Anyway, By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Thomas Anderon’s One Battle After Another Throughout his career, Paul Thomas Anderson has examined the American mythos from every angle, picking apart the American dream and all the various ways it can and will fail. His examinations are not really critiques, though, as much as they are clockworks depicting specific times and places in the “American By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 01:34 pm
Style Too much fashion Paris Fashion Week begins today, so you know what that means—all the famous people are in Paris. Emma Stone, Walton Goggins, Pharrell, and Ana de Armas were in Paris over the weekend for pre-game activities, including a dinner hosted by Louis Vuitton. Paris Fashion Week actually overlaps with the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Strong is the new Zuckerberg It was just confirmed today that Jeremy Strong will take over the role of “Mark Zuckerberg” in Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network. Sorkin will direct this time around, too, and the film will also star Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, and Bill Burr. The film has already By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews June Squibb in Eleanor the Great One must think, at times, of Dear Evan Hansen. It is an unfortunate reality that once seen, that the second-most cursed movie musical can never be forgotten. (The most cursed movie musical is, of course, Cats.) What has lately brought Dear Evan Hansen to mind is Eleanor the Great, Scarlett By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 26, 2025 Dear Gossips, There’s a lot going on, it’s been a big week what with Jimmy Kimmel’s return to television—and the ongoing blackout from Disney’s largest ABC station affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair Media—and it’s not like I’m ignoring that stuff. For instance, I By Sarah • Sep 26, 2025 09:10 am
Gorgessity Greta Lee: Get ready for more c-nting During the press tour and award season run for Past Lives a year and a half ago, Greta Lee became an internet favourite. Specifically a queer internet favourite. They bestowed on her the C-nt Crown, basically the highest compliment. I’m sure you remember the tweets, but just in case, By Lainey • Sep 25, 2025 12:12 pm
Style The Gucci Tiger Gucci kicked off Milan Fashion Week and its new brand direction under Demna last night with a short film screening instead of a runway to showcase his first collection for the house. Demna, of course, is coming from Balenciaga where he was for a decade, and credited with huge growth By Lainey • Sep 24, 2025 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bride! and her hot dead boyfriend Jessie Buckley is about to have a huge six months, with Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet sure to propel her to the top of the Best Actress race, and just as the Oscars will be peaking in 2026, Buckley will be in theaters with another movie, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! By Sarah • Sep 24, 2025 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews BTS for No Other Choice Park Chan Wook’s No Other Choice is one of the most acclaimed films of 2025, with rave reviews coming out of Venice and TIFF, which is where I saw it, and I can’t say enough about this film. If the Oscars were up to me, it would be By Lainey • Sep 23, 2025 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlie Sheen’s way back Aka Charlie Sheen, the two-part documentary about the life and times of Charlie Sheen, made its debut on Netflix earlier this month. Despite knowing how wild Charlie’s reputation has been throughout his career, some of the stories and anecdotes he shared still came as a shock as he reflected By Stephanie • Sep 23, 2025 01:56 pm
Amazingness Social Media Leo Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another opens this coming Friday and the hype is on full blast. My job is to study hype and, sometimes, see through the hype. But even I’m f-cking jacked for this movie. You know what really sold me? It was my husband By Lainey • Sep 22, 2025 12:37 pm
Music Intro for September 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift announced last week that she will be releasing her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, with a movie premiere. The Official Release Party of a Showgirl will play in theatres for one weekend, October 3-5, coinciding with the album drop, and already presales have reached By Lainey • Sep 22, 2025 10:10 am
