Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, It’s Friday, and it has been a f-cking WEEK. So we’re going to kick the weekend off right… with Keke Palmer! Actually not just Keke but Keke, SZA, and Issa Rae because they’ve spent the last few days working hard promoting their movie, One of By Lainey • Jan 17, 2025 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keke, SZA, and Issa’s one big day (movie) Yesterday, Sony Pictures dropped the trailer for a new movie called One of Them Days, produced by Issa Rae and starring SZA and Keke Palmer. And if the two-and-a-half-minute preview didn’t have you as excited as it had me, perhaps the monumentality of this film is lost on you By Stephanie • Oct 25, 2024 12:08 pm
Top Reads Issa finally speaks The internet is divided after recent remarks from Issa Rae have once again brought the feud between her and Amanda Seales back into the spotlight. While Amanda has spoken out about the issues between them over the years, Issa has remained fairly tight-lipped about not only what went down, but By Stephanie • Sep 26, 2024 12:56 pm
Oscars 2024 Far, Far Away From A Barbie World By now, the sting of the snub is gone away – nobody, not one person or hopeful 8 year old child, believed the throwaway ‘Best Picture’ nomination for Barbie was going to be anything more than a cute clip montage. The acting nods – I don’t agree with it, but there’ By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 12:56 pm
Business of Hollywood The echoing frustrations of Taraji, Keke and Issa In a recent conversation with Teen Vogue, superstar Keke Palmer opened up about her possible retirement from Hollywood, saying it’s likely to happen sooner rather than later. “I don’t know. I think the timer has started,” she said. “I think it’s because I just haven’t felt By Stephanie • Feb 01, 2024 01:49 pm
Gorgessity Emmys So Extra When I said that the fashion on the television side at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night seemed subdued and we’d likely see them release what they’d been holding back at the Emmys, I meant Hannah Waddingham. Hannah brought the EXTRA that was missing – the extra glamour By Lainey • Jan 16, 2024 09:10 am
Golden Globes 2024 Barbenheimer Showdown at the Globes Barbenheimer emerged because Barbie and Oppenheimer had the same release date of July 21, 2023. There was an attempt by some media outlets to frame this as a showdown, but the culture collectively rose up, rejected the competition narrative, and turned Barbenheimer into a phenomenon that benefitted both films. However, By Sarah • Jan 08, 2024 09:55 am
Gorgessity Michaela, Marisa, and Issa: Weekend Fashion Highlights We haven’t seen too much of Michaela Coel this year so the sight of her on a red carpet is always welcome. Especially when the fit is this good. I LOVE the asymmetry of her look with the different lengths and the different materials – like if you see her By Lainey • Oct 16, 2023 01:46 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Barbie’s Last Carpet The European premiere of Barbie happened last night in London followed by a photo call at the London Eye – and this just may be one of the last promotional events we’ll be seeing in a while, because SAG-AFTRA is about to vote on a strike and that’s looking By Lainey • Jul 13, 2023 10:24 am
Style Kenadians and More Barbies in the Spotlight Of course it wasn’t just Margot Robbie holding it down for Barbie at the Hollywood premiere last night. Margot and director Greta Gerwig were joined by other Barbies and some Kens and as you would expect, there was a lot of pink. America Ferrera went for a lighter pink By Lainey • Jul 10, 2023 11:25 am
Style The Barbie hit parade continues The Barbie press stop in Sydney, Australia continues, and let’s enjoy it because depending on how things go down today, in the last hours of SAG-AFTRA negotiations, this might be it for the summer’s—maybe the year’s—most fun movie press tour. Following the fan event, at By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 11:19 am
Style Intro for June 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, As we wait to see if the actors go on strike—as I am writing this, the final hours of negotiations are ticking down—the Barbie press tour continues. Margot Robbie is in Australia with Greta Gerwig, Issa Rae, and America Ferrera. We’ve already seen Robbie’s By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-Men Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to the 2018 Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, opens this Friday. I’ll have a full review then, but…yeah. This is it, y’all. I said it after Into the Spider-Verse, and I’ll say it again—animation is where superheroes By Sarah • May 31, 2023 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbies, Kens, and Humans Barbie, the movie, is coming for our Tuesday. Warner Bros just dropped over a dozen character posters for their expected summer blockbuster and it’s perhaps our best indication of what the story might be…sort of. Margot Robbie is Barbie. “Barbie is everything” is how her poster is described. By Lainey • Apr 04, 2023 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-People are back Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is arguably the best superhero movie ever made (cases can be made for Superman, 1978, Batman, 1989, and Black Panther). Not only is it eye-wateringly beautiful animation, but it captures the essence of both Miles Morales as a singular character and Spider-Man as an archetype. And By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 12:44 pm
TV Updates Shonda Rhimes paved the way Shonda Rhimes was the most recent guest on the 9 to 5ish with the Skimm podcast. She gave listeners some insight into some of the struggles she faced getting Grey's Anatomy off the ground, like the unanimous doubt from executives that the show would find an audience. " By Stephanie • Oct 26, 2022 11:48 am