Matt Damon Intro for July 21, 2026 Dear Gossips, A great movie doesn’t always deliver a great press tour. And a great press tour doesn’t necessarily mean the movie will be great. The Odyssey, however, hit it on both counts. The film, as we have seen, has been embraced by (most) critics and audiences after By Lainey • Jul 21, 2026 09:40 am
Beyoncé World Cup Couples and Capris Two of the biggest celebrity power couples were at the World Cup final yesterday. We should always start with Beyoncé, who actually allowed herself to be photographed while arriving with Jay-Z. We’ll come back to her outfit in a minute. They’ve been in New York for a By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 02:13 pm
Tom Holland The gentlemen of The Odyssey We’ve seen the women of The Odyssey show up and show out for their final premiere, now let’s turn our attention to the gentlemen, who certainly…showed up. Let’s start with Tom Holland, because he is always a ray of sunshine. He wore an all-black suit By Sarah • Jul 15, 2026 12:31 pm
Zendaya Coleman Zendaya is the Teacher’s Pet Do the kids still use this expression? If not, the teacher’s pet is the teacher’s favourite, a label assigned to one student by the other students who believe that the teacher’s pet can do no wrong in the teacher’s eyes. Back in my day, we’d By Lainey • Jul 13, 2026 12:20 pm
Matt Damon Matt Damon gets in Last night was Jimmy Kimmel’s last appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! before his summer, he’ll be backfilled by guest hosts until the fall. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens in theatres exactly a month from today and promo is picking up but since they won’t have the By Lainey • Jun 19, 2026 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The iPhone Face Odyssey Tom Holland and Zendaya are going to have SUCH a huge summer because they are in the two movies expected to be among the biggest, if not THE biggest, movies of the season. Of course, there is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but there is also The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’ By Sarah • May 06, 2026 11:07 am
What Else Ben and Matt make good Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reunited for a Netflix movie called The Rip. It’s pretty good! Just a solid action flick, the kind of movie that used to make a reliable $100 million in theaters but now goes straight to Netflix. I bring up The Rip because it was By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 04:06 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Ben and Matt are not the VIPs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, The Rip, premieres on Netflix on Friday and as Sarah wrote in her post about it recently, this looks like a solid crime drama, an action movie with a real plot starring big name movie stars that’s disappearing from theatres, which is By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 02:52 pm
Top Reads Ben and Matt in January A trailer for Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, premiering on Netflix next week, was released yesterday. The movie stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Steven Yeun, and Teyana Taylor and as Sarah noted back in September, it’s a cool looking action heist (this combination of talent generally can be counted By Lainey • Jan 06, 2026 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Give The Rip a chance Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back, baby, once again collaborating on a film. Only this one, they did not write nor is Affleck directing, it comes from filmmaker Joe Carnahan, who specializes in well executed schlock like Narc, The Grey, and Copshop. His latest film, reuniting Affleck and Damon, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 12:24 pm
Ben Affleck Netflix advertises the movies it doesn’t support Netflix’s annual fan event, Tudum, occurred over the weekend. It’s their effort to create an in-house marketing machine/hype event a la Disney’s D23, and it’s sort of working. Certainly, there were people who showed up in person and shrieked at celebrities standing on a By Sarah • Jun 02, 2025 11:20 am
BFFs Ben Affleck at SXSW: Matt Damon, Dancing, and Tom Cruise Inside the world premiere of The Accountant 2. What do Ben Affleck and Tom Cruise have in common? Commitment to the bit, and apparently, their love of challenging stunt work. Ben Affleck claims he spent “months and months” perfecting how to line dance for The Accountant 2, before joking “Tom By Joanna • Mar 10, 2025 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland: What “the lead” means Tom Holland was trending on socials yesterday after some accounts picked up a story about him being “the lead” in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, The Odyssey. The assumption was that he would be playing Odysseus, and from there the ensuing reaction ranged from complaining to confusion. Let’s back By Lainey • Jan 21, 2025 02:30 pm
BFFs Sexiest Men Alive: A Boston Summit What was I just saying in my post earlier today about John Krasinski being named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive? There is one city that has produced the most SMAs: Boston, Massachusetts. And right after his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to announce that he’s taken By Lainey • Nov 13, 2024 01:58 pm
Break Ups JLo comes back to Toronto The last time Jennifer Lopez was at TIFF it was for Hustlers and on the strength of the strong reaction to the film in Toronto, she was, for a time, in conversation during award season as she was nominated for a Golden Globe. So she has good memories here, and By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo: Not About The House Jennifer Lopez is expected in Toronto tonight for the world premiere of Unstoppable. Sarah’s review of this film is coming on Monday and even though JLo is involved, and we all know the noise that accompanies her, especially lately, we should definitely also be talking about Jharrel Jerome. He’ By Lainey • Sep 06, 2024 11:03 am
