Style The most powerful women (minus Gwyneth) The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the 100 most powerful women in entertainment is out now. Lainey will have more on THR cover star Gwyneth Paltrow in a bit, but the gala was yesterday and a bunch of people showed up for it. It’s always interesting to compare who’ By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:58 am
Gorgessity Best Actresses Wickedly Quiet The Academy Museum Gala happened over the weekend. This is a major event on the awards circuit calendar because it’s literally the Oscar Academy fundraising for their museum and so a huge draw for those in contention to get in front of voters and campaign. And it’s especially By Lainey • Oct 20, 2025 03:00 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 25, 2025 Regina Hall is so freaking charming. She appeared on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast (their booking producer does a great job) and was asked about working with Leonardo DiCaprio. Her timing is excellent with this joke. Even caught Amy by surprise. Leonardo DiCaprio is being so amenable on this By Maria • Sep 25, 2025 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, There are a handful of directors who are events unto themselves. Christopher Nolan, for example, is enough to sell a movie. All you need to see is his name in the credits and people are out here buying tickets a year in advance for hundreds of dollars. And By Lainey • Sep 09, 2025 09:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I’ll be there for Teyana The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was released last week and Sarah wrote in that post I just linked to that Leo is “one of our great actors” with “a range big enough that everyone has their favorite Leo”. I don’ By Lainey • Apr 02, 2025 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Unhinged Leo There was a moment in the 2010s when Leonardo DiCaprio’s career was consumed by “when will he win his Oscar” talk, and winning for 2015’s The Revenant felt like releasing a pressure valve and we could go back to just enjoying his performances. I hate the phrase “one By Sarah • Mar 28, 2025 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo and Regina at work Filming for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is underway in Los Angeles, and this week Leonardo DiCaprio was seen on set rocking a man bun and regrettable facial hair. The film is referred to as “BC Project” and the plot is unknown, but from the facial hair, man bun, By Sarah • Feb 02, 2024 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews PTA’s big budget gamble Paul Thomas Anderson is at that level of filmmaker where people are curious whenever he makes a movie, but his box office never really reflects that, mainly because he makes movies that do not deliver an experience the audience expects. PTA is now back at work, expected to start shooting By Sarah • Jan 11, 2024 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Adult Twins Adamma and Adanne Ebo satirize Black megachurch Evangelical culture in their new film, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Adamma makes her feature debut as writer and director, while Adanne produces, and the result is a film which is both less outright funny and more interestingly humanist than By Sarah • Sep 02, 2022 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Honk for the Jesus Four Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. opens in theatres and premieres on Peacock next week. The story behind it is amazing. The movie started out as a short film, director Adamma Ebo’s thesis project at UCLA, which then attracted attention from Issa Rae, who promoted it on her channels. By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Honk for Regina Hall At Sundance earlier this year, one of the stand-out films was Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul., a mockumentary satire of megachurches and commodified religion. It stars Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown as the power couple at the head of a Southern Baptist megachurch that closes in the wake By Sarah • Jul 08, 2022 03:02 pm
Oscars 2022 The Chaoscars When I dubbed the 2022 Oscars the “Chaoscars”, I didn’t mean it like this! And look, we’ll talk about the biggest story of the night in its own post, but for now, let’s start with everything else and how this was a truly terrible Oscars from start By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 05:45 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, It is finally Oscar weekend… and it will be a Beyoncé weekend. The Academy confirmed earlier this week that Beyoncé will be performing her Oscar-nominated song “Be Alive” from King Richard at the Oscars on Sunday. As previously mentioned there are rumours that she’ll be coming to By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 09:07 am
Top Reads The Oscars have three lady hosts Last week, it was announced that the Oscars would return to using hosts this year, with three people intended to emcee the show throughout the night. Yesterday, the three hosts were Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes. It’s the first time in 35 years the Oscars have had By Sarah • Feb 15, 2022 11:07 am
TV Updates Nicole Kidman’s cult from hell Nicole Kidman is really flourishing in the current television landscape. She’s been in great films over the last decade, stuff like Paddington, The Beguiled, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Destroyer, the upcoming The Northman. But she’s also had a slew of killer television work, from Top of the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2021 03:19 pm
Business of Hollywood Talk more about money! Award season roundtables are a cottage industry now, and with Emmy nominations looming, The Hollywood Reporter is back on their bullsh-t with a comedy ladies’ roundtable of hopeful nominees. The group includes Jane Fonda, Regina Hall, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alex Borstein, Tiffany Haddish, Maya Rudolph, and Natasha Lyonne. It’s a By Sarah • May 30, 2019 03:38 pm
