Style Ingenues grown up The Variety Power of Women event happened last night, honouring Jamie Lee Curtis, Wanda Sykes, Aly Raisman, Nicole Scherzinger, Kate Hudson, and Sydney Sweeney. What stood out to me was the group shot – and specifically the way they’ve been positioned. Sydney in the middle, and Kate on one end. By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 03:22 pm
Music Take Me Away: The Music of Freaky and Freakier Friday Many millennials are rejoicing today as Freakier Friday has officially hit theatres and unlike most legacy sequels in recent years, this one doesn’t disappoint on multiple levels, from the storyline, the character arcs and most important of all… the music. When Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis’s 2003 By MC • Aug 08, 2025 01:54 pm
Lindsay Lohan Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freakier Friday How much nostalgia is too much nostalgia? Answers will vary, but the limit is probably somewhere around “four-way body swap”. Twenty-two years after Freaky Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back for Freakier Friday, featuring another round of mother-daughter mystic tomfoolery, only this time they’re joined by By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic and Freaky There was a Fantastic Four and Freakier Friday crossover this weekend in LA, a fun co-marketing strategy for both movies and it makes sense on multiple levels. First, it’s all the “Fs” – Fast & Furious no longer dominates this letter as F4 and Freakier Friday are here to take By Lainey • Jul 21, 2025 11:09 am
TV Updates Intro for May 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, We are exactly five weeks away from the release of The Bear season four. To kick off the countdown, they dropped the first trailer yesterday and there are some choices made here – the biggest one being that Jamie Lee Curtis is shown in the preview. Not that it By Lainey • May 21, 2025 09:22 am
Ella Purnell Intro for May 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, Television upfronts are happening in New York, which is when networks show their wares to advertisers to set ad rates for the upcoming season. For a while there, upfronts seemed to be increasingly irrelevant during the streaming takeover, when subscriptions made ads moot, but now almost every streamer By Sarah • May 13, 2025 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon concluded yesterday—at least, the studio presentation bit did—by bringing out the big guns. Literally Tom Cruise, who might as well be christened Mr. CinemaCon at this point, turned up for Paramount’s presentation, as did Edgar Wright and the stars of his new adaptation of By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 09:25 am
Theatre Nerd The Stars come out for Othello The new staging of Othello, the first on Broadway since 1982, set a box office record for a play in previews. They’re coming for Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Shakespeare, probably in that order. Some tickets are going for as much as US$920 – which shouldn’t be a By Lainey • Mar 24, 2025 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pam and Jamie Lee: Showgirls in New York Following her appearance as a nominee at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Pamela Anderson received a big boost to her Oscar campaign when the Screen Actors Guild announced their nominations earlier this week. She’s in as a Best Actress nominee for her performance in The Last Showgirl which By Lainey • Jan 09, 2025 01:32 pm
Oscars 2024 Why can’t actresses be friends? Speaking of the five-presenter format and when it works, here is an example of when it DOESN’T work—the actresses. The matchups were much more awkward, the intros, more stilted, and even when real-life friendship does exist, they didn’t take advantage of it. Let’s start with the By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Borderlands our new Fifth Element? The quest to permanently dispel the video game curse—and maybe overtake the superhero movie as the dominant popcorn entertainment genre—continues with Borderlands, Eli Roth’s take on the popular game series that debuted in 2009. The first trailer dropped and it’s sort of a wild mess, but By Sarah • Feb 21, 2024 02:15 pm
Outfit of the Week Let Angela Bassett feel her feelings It wasn’t exactly surprising, given how momentum shifted after Jamie Lee Curtis won the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress, but still, there was a sting in her winning the Oscar over Angela Bassett. And Bassett felt it, you could tell. As Curtis’s name was read, Bassett didn’ By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 07:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Best Picture frontrunner is… After the SAG Awards last night, Everything Everywhere All At Once is officially the Best Picture frontrunner. Sure, Top Gun: Maverick won the stunt ensemble award, but EEAAO won four awards, taking three of the four individual acting awards for motion pictures, including Ke Huy Quan for Outstanding Performance by By Sarah • Feb 27, 2023 10:05 am
Award Season Campaigning Campaigning for Grownups The Oscar nominations have been announced. So Oscar campaigning is now in its most intense stretch, especially with so many tight races across the board, including Best Picture. One of the big campaign stops that brought out several contenders this weekend was the AARP Movies for Grownup Awards. AARP used By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The SAG Awards look like an Oscar preview We are in the thick of awards season, coming off the mid-week Golden Globes and diving right into the SAG Awards nominations, which were announced yesterday morning, and voting for Oscar nominations starts tomorrow. The importance of the SAG Awards during awards season is debatable—some people will insist they’ By Sarah • Jan 12, 2023 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews So Many Supporting Actresses As mentioned earlier in the post about the competitive race for Best Actress Oscar, at this stage in the race, this might be one of the tightest Best Supporting Actress Oscar seasons we’ve had in a long time. For starters, if there’s a frontrunner, I don’t see By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 02:45 pm
