Dear Gossips,
SPOILERS AHEAD There have been several series this year that have stuck their landings Read Full Intro
What Else?
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As mentioned, it’s Victoria Day in Canada today, a holiday. So we’re cutting out early as I have to catch a flight home to Toronto. We’ll be back on regular schedule tomorrow. But first… We’ve posted three article about Game of Thrones and we haven’t given enough love to Ghost. Full Story
House Cambridge in the garden
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In support of the RHS Back to Nature Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, Princess Kate released several photos and a video of her family yesterday, which also happened to be the one year anniversary of House Sussex Full Story
House Sussex: The First Year
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Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. As I predicted a couple of months ago, they released never-before-seen photos from the event Full Story
Game of Thrones Winning Odds: Let’s talk about the winner
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SPOILERS Before the final season of Game of Thrones started, I handicapped the odds of the remaining major players winning the Iron Throne. When I ran down the odds for House Stark, I gave them the best odds of winning, but I disqualified Bran because his whole Three-Eyed Raven deal seemed to knock him out of serious contention. Full Story
Game of Thrones: The Saga of House Stark
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GET OUT OF HERE! THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS We’ll argue about this ending forever, but after the last three weeks, as Game of Thrones descended in a seeming death spiral, it’s a relief that the finale episode works as well as it does—and it DOES work. If you view “A Song of Ice and Fire” as the saga of House Stark, as the story of its fall and improbable rise, Game of Thrones almost sticks the landing. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
John Wick: Chapter 3 opens this weekend. The reviews have been really good – read Sarah’s review here – and it’s projected to bring in around $50 million to win the box office ahead of Avengers: Endgame. Read Full Intro
What Else?
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PROGRAMMING NOTE – PLEASE READ: Monday is Victoria Day in Canada which means it’s a long weekend. We will, however, be posting Game of Thrones content since it’s the big series finale which will break all kinds of viewing records, I’m sure, and break all kinds of bitching and complaining records too. Full Story
Chris Rock is rebooting Saw
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This is the second weirdest headline of the week. It turns out that Chris Rock—yes, comedian and filmmaker Chris Rock—is a fan of the Saw horror franchise, you know, the torture porn movies with the serial killer who sets elaborate Rube Goldberg traps for his victims. Rock is such a big fan, in fact, that he pitched Lionsgate on a reimagining/spin-off of Saw, which is now being turned into a new movie due in 2020. Full Story
Outfit of the Week: Elle Fanning
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As Sarah predicted in her Cannes preview earlier this week, one of the highlights of the festival would be Elle Fanning’s fashion. She was right – but not for her opening night dress which, you’d THINK, would have been the statement but I was kind of underwhelmed: Full Story
Budget John Wick
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Keanu Reeves is hailed for launching an original action franchise, and rightly so, because in the age of Big IP, that is nearly impossible. But he is not the only actor to front an original action franchise—Gerard Butler has his own original action franchise in the “Fallen” series. You know the ones, where he is the super double extra special very best Secret Service agent that has ever lived. Full Story
