TV Updates Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae in The Acolyte I have long held that the Jedi are a bunch of killjoy nerds and the galaxy far, far away is better off without them, and finally, a piece of Star Wars media agrees with me. The Acolyte, a new series set in the Star Wars universe, takes place a century By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 11:59 am
TV Updates Amandla Stenberg’s Star Wars fit The Acolyte premieres next week, the latest entry into New New Star Wars which looks back to a time before Skywalkers. It looks promising, and I can’t wait to see if creator and showrunner Leslye Headland found a story path for Star Wars free of Skywalkers and original trilogy By Sarah • May 29, 2024 01:21 pm
TV Updates The Acolyte Don’t Say “Skywalker” Challenge May 4th, also known as Star Wars Day because “may the fourth be with you” and all that, fell over the weekend, and I totally blanked on it. Star Wars as a narrative universe has so consistently failed to do anything interesting since its reemergence under Disney that I have By Sarah • May 08, 2024 09:24 am
Gorgessity Fo Shiz and Lori Harvey There was a Chanel fine jewellery party last night in New York that brought out a lot of celebrities, including Lori Harvey – so this one is for Jacek who has barely slept since Monday because we’re still struggling after our dog Barney’s surgery. You don’t need all By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 03:00 pm
Style Celebrities at Chanel It wasn’t just Leonardo DiCaprio’s model ex-girlfriends and girlfriends at Chanel today, although that may be a matter of time. Chanel is always one of the highlights of Paris Fashion Week which means the stars show up. And the biggest star, if you’re taking fan reaction into By Lainey • Oct 03, 2023 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dear Evan Hansen polarises TIFF 2021 It makes perfect sense why Dear Evan Hansen was selected to open the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, on paper. It is the big-screen adaptation of the massively popular Tony-winning musical of the same name, and is a super emotional crowd-pleaser. Plus, with the star power of Amy Adams, Julianne By Joanna • Sep 10, 2021 11:27 am
Oscars 2019 Amandla Stenberg: Oscar Best Dressed (Kathleen) The Oscars took my advice on one of my past pet peeves of the show. There weren’t endless montages featuring movies that the show didn’t recognize. It’s annoying when the Academy snubs great films for ones like Green Book but then will cycle through the good ones By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 02:52 pm
Style Don’t forget about Amandla Amandla Stenberg presented an award to Taylor Swift at the American Music Awards. I’m happy she was there for a couple of reasons. One, I LOVE her outfit. She’s wearing a Ralph Lauren blazer and karla x Levi’s jeans that I need in my life. The high By Kathleen • Oct 10, 2018 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 5, 2018 Dear Gossips, Most of the conversation around the box office this weekend is about Venom and A Star is Born and whether or not, together, they can set an October record. There’s another film opening this weekend though, in limited release, that’s actually coming in with a fresher By Lainey • Oct 05, 2018 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Hate U Give A few years ago, book-to-screen YA adaptations meant sci-fi worlds of vampires or dystopian futures. Their heroines were named Bella or Katniss or Tris and even though their stories were unique in their own ways, a few things were constant. Love was as integral to these teen girls as forces By Kathleen • Sep 11, 2018 09:58 am
Storm Reid Black Girls Rock One of the most underrated red carpets of the year is the BET Black Girls Rock! red carpet. Every year, I forget it’s happening and every year, it delivers some of my favourite looks. This year’s honourees included Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Lena Waithe, Amandla Stenberg, #MeToo By Kathleen • Aug 28, 2018 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amandla Stenberg deserves better The Darkest Minds is a YA adaptation that arrives years after the YA dystopian boom has faded, adapted from a novel by Alexandra Bracken and I am not sure how she is not being sued into oblivion by Marvel for this blatant X-Men knock-off. The Darkest Minds starts with a By Sarah • Aug 10, 2018 11:30 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Amandla Stenberg's Outfits of the Week As promised in the previous post, I’m highlighting today the work of stylist Jason Bolden. Here’s a fun question: if you could be styled by either Jason or Law Roach, who would you choose? Jason, in addition to all his other clients, works with Amandla Stenberg who is By Lainey • Jul 27, 2018 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Monday cry The first trailer for The Hate U Give dropped during the BET Awards last night. If you’ve been reading this site, you know how I feel about Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. You know how Lainey feels about it. We’ve haven’t been subtle about By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amandla’s revolution In February, when the Parkland students were first mobilizing in their fight for gun control, a bunch of pieces like this one for Mashable titled “Of course the 'Hunger Games' generation knows how to use the media in the fight against guns,” were popping up. The point was By Kathleen • Mar 29, 2018 04:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 24, 2017 Dear Gossips, Back in March I read a book and even though we weren’t even at quarter of the way through 2017, I called it the Book of the Year. That would be Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give, which made it to the top of the NY By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 09:30 am
