Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Riz Ahmed in Hamlet Hamlet is Hamlet is Hamlet, there’s only so much you can do with Hamlet, it’s been done so many times by so many people in so many mediums over the literal centuries since Shakespeare’s play debuted. The latest update comes from director Aneil Karia and stars Riz By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joe Alwyn does a talk show Adrien Brody was in London yesterday for the premiere of The Brutalist along with director Brady Corbet, co-writer Mona Fastvold, and co-stars Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. Meanwhile Joe Alwyn, who’s also a member of the cast, and is from London, was in New York and made an appearance By Lainey • Jan 16, 2025 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adrien Brody in The Brutalist Having previously tackled the formative years of a fascist leader (The Childhood of a Leader) and America’s insatiable appetite for celebrity (Vox Lux), filmmaker Brady Corbet turns his attention to the immigrant experience in America in The Brutalist. Directed by Corbet and co-written by him and Mona Fastvold, The By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yorgos & Emma, again Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone only just wrapped up their Oscar run for Poor Things, but they’re back already with Kinds of Kindness, their fourth collaboration, and the first one with a contemporary setting. This is not, however, Lanthimos’s first contemporary-set film, some of his most f-cked up By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 11:42 am
Jock Smut TNT: Media Day and Other Distractions It’s Super Bowl week aka Swift Bowl week, which means that for the players involved, part of their work this week was off the field, for media day. I’m starting here with Travis Kelce for a couple of reasons. First, he is such a natural with the media By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 01:36 pm
Gorgessity The Men of the Year stepped out It’s the year of Taylor’s Eras, Beyoncé’s Renaissance, and Barbie, so yeah, let’s talk about the men of the year. The GQ Men of the Year, that is. Jacob Elordi is one of the cover features for MOTY, we’ve already heard from him, deep in By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor at the Movies Taylor Swift was photographed in New York yesterday at Electric Lady Studios. She is currently enjoying a ten-week break, sort of, as The Eras Tour will resume in Brazil in November. Sort of because there are two major releases coming up for Taylor before she gets back on stage. Her By Lainey • Sep 06, 2023 10:00 am
Break Ups Taylor and Ice Spice’s “Karma” As reported, Taylor Swift released a new version of her Midnights album last Friday, with new tracks and a remix of “Karma” featuring Ice Spice. I wouldn’t say it’s the most exciting Taylor Swift collaboration and I wouldn’t say that this feature is a creative stretch for By Lainey • May 29, 2023 10:57 am
Hook Ups Taylor, Joe, Camila, and Shawn: Exes and Un-Exes Taylor Swift has been home-basing in New York these days with her tour stops in the eastern part of the US the last few weeks. She was seen at Electric Lady Studios again the other day, not with Matty Healy this time but he is definitely still in the picture, By Lainey • May 24, 2023 02:01 pm
Break Ups Taylor Swift: Business and Personal As I’ve often said, Taylor Swift’s business acumen has always been more interesting to me than her Easter eggs. She is a great songwriter, but she’s also a great businesswoman. And she’s making headlines this week for a great business decision. As we’ve heard, many By Lainey • Apr 20, 2023 01:01 pm
Break Ups Taylor Swift’s Easter Breakup To be clear, Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn didn’t break up on Easter weekend but we found out about it on Easter weekend, and the finding out part of it all is part of the story. This is the artist known for her Easter eggs, leaving clues for her By Lainey • Apr 10, 2023 11:29 am
TV Updates Joe Alwyn’s Next Level Conversations With Friends, the series based on Sally Rooney’s first book, will be released on May 15. Promotion for the show is now picking up. It’s been almost exactly two years since the Normal People came out, like just a few weeks into the pandemic in the west, By Lainey • Apr 20, 2022 12:47 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for May 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, If not for the pandemic, tonight would be one of the biggest pop culture nights of the year, the Met Gala. The photos and videos and gossip that come out of the Met Gala can sustain us for months. The Met Gala is where Taylor Swift and Tom By Lainey • May 04, 2020 09:03 am
Douchebags Tipsy Taylor and Joe in London You wouldn’t think the NME Awards would be an awards show where Taylor Swift would show up but since she spends so much time in London now, she made a surprise appearance last night to receive the Best Solo Act award and Joe Alwyn was with her. The NME By Lainey • Feb 13, 2020 11:36 am
Gossip Nostalgia Taylor, Joe, and Amy at the Globes So I’m going to be annoying right now and tell you that I called this: on Friday’s episode of etalk, I did a Gossip Nostalgia segment on the Golden Globes and my final Globes gossip memory was when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, while hosting the show, made By Lainey • Jan 06, 2020 10:03 am
Music Taylor’s first 30 red carpet Premiere of Cats last night in New York. Reactions are still coming in and Sarah’s seeing it on Wednesday so we’ll have her review posted later this week. This will be her first Cats experience – she’s never seen the musical. I’m more excited about her review By Lainey • Dec 17, 2019 10:06 am
