Vogue, Bond, Hinge, Must-Watch TV & TikToks
Vol. 2 Issue 26 – 28th June 2025
Talk of the town
Anna Wintour has stepped down as Vogue’s Editor-In-Chief after 37 years! But if you thought this was retirement for the head honcho, then you are wrong. Wintour remains the Chief Content Officer for the Conde Nast group at large, along with the being the Editorial Director for Vogue globally. This move is just her passing the reigns for Vogue US. One step at a time.
Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Blade Runner 2049) is set to direct the next James Bond movie for Amazon MGM Studio, who had recently purchased the Bond IP. While Villeneuve is someone very familiar with successfully rejuvenating iconic stories of the past for new audiences, personally, I’m on the fence about this decision of an auteur handling a mainstream blockbuster franchise.
In a historic upset, the self-proclaimed “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare”, Zohran Mamdani has been elected the new mayor of New York City. Amongst many other accolades, the first mayor to have met his wife on the dating app, Hinge.
Jeff Bezos got married to Lauren Sánchez in Venice. The Kardashians, Kushners, Trumps, Leo DiCaprio and Oprah made the guest list. But the main takeaways? The local Venetians were NOT happy, the wedding was preceded by a foam party (I thought univeristy freshmen left that in 2017?), and a Vogue cover for the bride (a day after Ms Wintour stepped down, looks like someone didn’t want to be associated with that).
Sabrina Carpenter, after facing backlash over her new album cover, has released an alternate cover for her upcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, which is “approved by God” lmao.
Coming soonish
Two of a kind: The Social Network Part 2, and a sequel to the Lilo and Stitch live action is in the works.
A new Sense and Sensibility movie starring Daisy Edgar-Jones is being developed.
Trailer for the upcoming comedy, Splitsville, starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona is here. The film follows a man who when his wife asks for a divorce, runs to his friends for support, only to learn that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage.
The trailer for the 4th Naked Gun film, a crime-spoof comedy franchise, starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson is here.
The trailer for Project Hail Mary comes out on Monday. Starring Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller, follows a teacher who wakes up & soon remembers he was sent 12 light-years away from Earth to save humanity after the Sun began to erode.
Celebs
Taylor Swift gave a surprise impromptu performance of Shake It Off at the Tight End University concert for the first time after the purchase of her masters.
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have broken up and ended their engagement.
Pedro Pascal covers the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
The very heterosexual and married Scarlett Johansson keeps kissing her very gay co-star Jonathan Bailey on the press tour of Jurassic World: Rebirth…
Blackpink have teased a new tour, Miley Cyrus has also announced her Every Miley You’ve Ever Loved tour (everyone wants to do their own Eras Tour it seems).
The Glastonbury music festival is back! Lewis Capaldi returned to stage after he couldn’t complete his set the last time around because of his tourettes syndrome, Olivia Rodrigo and Ed Sheeran performed The A Team together, Gracie Abrams teased a new song, and The 1975’s Matty Healy was his chaotic self as usual for the band’s headlining set.
Elon Musk has banned the use of hashtags on Twitter/X.
Trending now
The Stanley tumblr is so 2024, if you want to be ahead of the hydration curve look no further than the LinLin Kettle. A water bottle/tumblr by the Chinese brand Chako Lab, is slowly gaining popularity for its quirky design and pastel colours.
Singer/randomly-spawned-possibly-an-industry-plant-backflipper Benson Boone’s new song Mystical Magical is going viral for the lyric “moonbeam icecream”, for the way he sings it (🎶MoOnBeAm IcEcReAm🎶) and because what does it even mean???
Short form videos you can recreate this weekend:
“You better pay attention/compliment them”
PinkPantheress’ “Hi, my name is Pink and it’s really nice to meet you”
Which song would your wedding party make their entrance to? Here is some inspo for you.
A lesser known stop motion animation show on Nickelodeon, The Tiny Chef was recently canceled. Their channel decided to announce this news by making a clip where said Tiny Chef gets a phone call with the news canonically. Soon after, the endearing clip naturally touched people’s hearts as they rallied for the show to not be taken off air.
Binge brief
New season of The Bear (Disney +)
Ironheart, Marvel Television’s latest show focusing on Riri Williams, the character introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. (Disney +)
We Were Liars, based on the bestselling novel, is a psychological thriller masked under teenage friendships and affluent summers. (Prime Video)
Trainwreck: Poop Cruise - An engine fire leaves 4,000 passengers stranded at sea without power and plumbing in this wild documentary about the infamous "poop cruise" of 2013. (Netflix)
Dept. Q - A British crime thriller about a disgraced former detective who is assigned a cold case. (Netflix)
The Survivors - A drama miniseries about a low-key seaside town haunted by its past, faced with yet another death years later. Full of twists, turns and red herrings. (Netflix)
Murderbot - A science-fiction action-comedy, where a security robot (played by Alexander Skarsgård) gains free will. (Apple TV+)
