Award Season Campaigning The Critics Choice Awards set the tone Welcome back from the liminal space, everything is a nightmare, let’s talk about awards shows! The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards were held last night in Los Angeles, the first heavyweight awards show on the trophy trail. The big winners were Sinners and One Battle After Another, with The By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 10:22 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 5, 2026 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! This is our first official gossip post of 2026 but you may have noticed… we did what celebrities do during the break: we tweaked our face. And some other backend body parts. The swelling has mostly gone down, we think, but there may be some By Lainey • Jan 05, 2026 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Adam Sandler in Jay Kelly You know the Bill Nighy plot in Love Actually in which famous but aging rockstar Billy Mack eventually confesses his love for his manager, Joe, after realizing that the beleaguered yet loyal Joe is his closest friend and is, in fact, the love of his life? Noah Baumbach’s new By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 03:27 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Gotham Awards set the tone The 35th Gotham Awards took place last night in New York. The Gothams are interesting, partly because they’re so early, they get to set the mood for the rest of awards season, but also partly because the voting body is split into two parts: nominating committees made up of By Sarah • Dec 02, 2025 10:21 am
Leonardo DiCaprio All the Actors… but one It is very funny to me that for all the campaigning we’ve seen, and for all the debate that happened last year when Timothée Chalamet won the SAG Award and declared that he was aspiring to greatness, that he’s actually the one who’s been skipping so many, By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 03:05 pm
Style Adam Sandler dressed up If anyone can get Adam Sandler to dress like an adult on a red carpet, it’s George Clooney. The Jay Kelly press tour continues apace, stopping in Los Angeles and AFI Fest, where Adam Sandler donned a suit. It probably helps that this is not a black-tie affair, neither By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 10:29 am
Style Julia in Venice! There’s an exclamation point in the title here because I’m old and I still get excited about Julia Roberts. Julia is one of the many stars arriving in Venice today for the start of the Venice Film Festival. She is there for the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’ By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Clooney and Sandler do awards season The Venice Film Festival starts in a couple weeks, which officially kicks off the 2025 awards season (threat). One film premiering at that fest—and then playing again at the New York Film Festival in October—is Jay Kelly, a new film from Noah Baumbach, starring George Clooney and Adam By Sarah • Aug 06, 2025 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy and Benito Happy Gilmore 2 premiered in New York last night, probably the only movie premiere where Adam Sandler’s standard uniform fits the vibe because, of course, he’s always wearing something that looks like it came out of Happy’s closet. The original is a classic, a project that contributed By Lainey • Jul 22, 2025 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Ballerina The box office is dog sh-t right now, and five years post-COVID (the start of it, I know it’s still around, a part of life now), movie-going still hasn’t recovered. Live sporting and music events are booming, Broadway is 95% back to pre-pandemic business, but movies are still By Sarah • Mar 20, 2025 01:06 pm
Oscars 2025 Intro for March 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Oscars are usually good for a surprise, and the 97th Academy Awards gave us a big Anora surprise, but more on that later. First, let’s talk about the show itself, and the host, Conan O’Brien. This was Conan’s first time hosting the Oscars but By Sarah • Mar 03, 2025 06:09 am
BFFs Timmy and the Sandman play ball Adam Sandler and Timothée Chalamet have known each other for over a decade. They were both in Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children that was released in 2014. I only remember this because the film premiered at TIFF and Jason’s previous films, Up in the Air, and of By Lainey • Jul 21, 2023 10:10 am
Top Reads Drew Barrymore’s Jennifer Aniston Hot Flash Drew Barrymore had Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler on her show the other day and what we have here is kind of like a movie throuple, or at least a potential one, because like Jen, Drew has also made several movies with Adam: The Wedding Singer, Fifty First Dates, and By Lainey • Mar 29, 2023 02:16 pm
Dumbass Jennifer Aniston: Sh-t and Gold Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler have kicked off the press tour for Murder Mystery 2 which starts streaming on Netflix on March 31. If I saw the first one, I can’t remember it, but a lot of people must have if Netflix threw money at them to make a By Lainey • Mar 17, 2023 10:05 am
Award Season Campaigning Sandler and Fraser on Actors on Actors Yesterday, we talked about Ke Huy Quan’s comeback this year, so now let’s talk about the other comeback in the room, Brendan Fraser. He appeared on Variety’s “Actors on Actors” with Adam Sandler, an old pal from the 1990s, when they made the comedy classic Airheads together. By Sarah • Dec 08, 2022 02:18 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Jennifer Aniston’s birthday return Jennifer Aniston has been in Hawaii for about a month or so working on Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler. She was photographed boarding a private jet so it looks like they’ve wrapped on that location but I have read that the film will involve other locations (like Paris) By Lainey • Feb 10, 2022 11:11 am
