Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, My favorite time of year is the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's. My birthday falls during that time. I think this is why I have a strange relationship with chronology. Because my birthday exists in the never-ending hallway of time, I have no sense By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:09 am
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
Emmy Awards 2025 Emmys Fashion: Naked and Champagne Honestly? I was hoping the fashion we would see at the Emmys would be better than it was. Maybe it’s that we’re coming off two major film festivals in Venice and TIFF and also it’s New York Fashion Week and the celebrities who have been all over By Lainey • Sep 15, 2025 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett’s victory wig As Sarah wrote the other day, with the huge box office success of Jurassic World Rebirth, Scarlett Johansson is now the highest-grossing actor in Hollywood and her worldwide total is now getting closer and closer to $15 billion, which would be a new record. So these are triumphant times for By Lainey • Jul 10, 2025 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dumb humans in Jurassic World Rebirth Thirty-two years and now seven movies should be enough to finally say it: Jurassic Park does not support franchising. Every sequel to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic, Jurassic Park, is varying degrees of bad or dumb or bad AND dumb. It’s a massively successful franchise, though, with deep nostalgia By Sarah • Jul 03, 2025 02:28 pm
Gorgessity Jurassic New York The Jurassic World Rebirth press tour has been a consistently good style showing for Scarlett Johansson, who has worn her “favorite silhouette” and, more importantly, sported loose, soft waves rather than super tight, slicked-back hairdos. Well, two steps forward, one step back, because at the New York premiere of Rebirth, By Sarah • Jun 24, 2025 10:11 am
Style Scarjo’s Favourite Silhouette Sarah posted yesterday about Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey’s “slutty little sunglasses” at the Jurassic World Rebirth premiere in London and from there they were off to Germany which is where we find Mahershala Ali in a great looking brown suit and Jonathan in another pair of horny shades By Lainey • Jun 19, 2025 10:25 am
Style Jonathan Bailey’s slutty little sunglasses I keep writing out the name of the new Jurassic Park sequel as “Jurassic Rebirth”, but it’s Jurassic World Rebirth but maybe they should drop the metaphorical “the” and just have called it Jurassic Rebirth. It’s cleaner. Anyway, the world premiere of Jurassic WORLD Rebirth was in London By Sarah • Jun 18, 2025 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic Rebirth, 28 Years Later It’s summer movie season which means practically every week brings new blockbuster releases, especially this year, as summer 2025 is overcrowded. Someone is going to lose in this overstuffed environment, who’s it going to be? The casts of Jurassic World Rebirth and 28 Years Later hope it won’ By Sarah • Jun 17, 2025 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo and Adam Driver reunite In 2022 James Gray—an American filmmaker who plays better in Europe than he does at home, even though he has made some banger films like Little Odessa, We Own the Night, and Ad Astra—made a coming-of-age drama inspired by his own childhood called Armageddon Time. It stars Anne By Sarah • Jun 11, 2025 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo and BenDeTo Wes Anderson’s new film, The Phoenician Scheme, opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, before expanding next week. The film premiered at Cannes, and there was another premiere last night in New York. I found myself scanning the photos because Scarlett Johansson turned up to the NYC By Sarah • May 29, 2025 11:33 am
Cannes 2025 Summer of Scarlett It’s a busy week for Scarlett Johansson. Fresh off hosting the final episode of Saturday Night Live’s 50th season—and maybe her husband’s last season?—she popped up in Cannes for the premiere of her feature directorial debut, Eleanor the Great. The film stars June Squibb and By Sarah • May 21, 2025 10:32 am
Top Reads Intro for May 16, 2025 Dear Gossips, Scarlett Johansson covers the new issue of Vanity Fair. The timing works for several projects. She’ll be in Cannes next week for her feature directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb. Jurassic World Rebirth opens on July 2, expected to be an Independence Day blockbuster. And By Lainey • May 16, 2025 09:32 am
TV Updates Scarjo and Walton: The Closers I was just saying in the last post of the day yesterday that Saturday Night Live had yet to announce its final two guest hosts for season 50 and then they posted it… Walton Goggins, what did I tell you. It was two weeks ago today when I wrote that By Lainey • Apr 25, 2025 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: Cannes in a new way? The Cannes Film Festival will announce its upcoming lineup on Thursday and there’s been speculation for weeks over which films might be featured. Cannes is always a spectacle, it’s never low on hype, but given what happened last year on the Croisette, the anticipation for 2025 is even By Lainey • Apr 07, 2025 04:06 pm
Oscars 2025 Chic, Smooth, and Soft – Velvet Is the Chill Carpet Choice Velvet trending on the carpet isn’t new, per se – it’s a great fabric that’s both reliable and forgiving. So it makes sense that it’s popular – what’s fun is thinking about the Venn diagram of the women who chose it. Isabella Rosselini is the easiest to By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 12:40 pm