Jennifer Lopez JLo … but not Sean Penn A couple of years ago, when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s marriage fell apart, even though he was the one who supposedly handled it like an asshole, and the media reporting it misogynistically, she was the one who was clowned on social media. TikTok was basically JLo hate central By Lainey • Jan 19, 2026 01:58 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Leo goes double viral Nikki Glaser’s monologue last night wasn’t the best Golden Globes host monologue we’ve ever seen but it was far from the worst. And, most memorably, she roasted two major movie stars and survived – with their blessing. One of them being Sean Penn. Like she actually told him By Lainey • Jan 12, 2026 07:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Thomas Anderon’s One Battle After Another Throughout his career, Paul Thomas Anderson has examined the American mythos from every angle, picking apart the American dream and all the various ways it can and will fail. His examinations are not really critiques, though, as much as they are clockworks depicting specific times and places in the “American By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 01:34 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 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 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 Bradley Cooper revisits A Star Is Born (kinda) After posting about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, Licorice Pizza¸ Southern California gossips wrote in to let us know that Licorice Pizza was a record store in the region during the 1970s and 1980s. Cool, it’s still word salad to the rest of the world. I don’t By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 01:54 pm
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston: Double Shades Are you counting down to the Friends reunion? It’s premiering tomorrow on HBO Max and Crave here in Canada and as we’ve seen, there’s been a lot of coverage with all six members of the cast doing interviews to promote the special. Screeners were sent to select By Lainey • May 26, 2021 02:58 pm
TV Updates Julia walks the dogs Julia Roberts was photographed out in LA yesterday walking her dogs. A lot of people have been talking about hair maintenance right now during the lockdown. Julia clearly has no issues with this, her hair looks amazing – and if you didn’t know that this was 2020, you’d believe By Lainey • Apr 23, 2020 09:46 am
Models Leo, Sean, and their bonafides on a boat Leonardo DiCaprio and his bonafide, Camila Morrone, have been on holiday on a yacht in Sardinia. I’m sure you’ve seen some of the photos from the last few days. Leo’s been locked in with Camila for about a year and a half now. She turned 22 back By Lainey • Aug 13, 2019 11:22 am
BFFs Chris Martin’s birthday guests Chris Martin’s birthday was on Saturday. There was a party and a lot of celebrities were at the party, including his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, who also wished him Happy Birthday on Instagram. Right after wishing her husband, Brad Falchuk, Happy Birthday the day before – his bday is on March By Lainey • Mar 04, 2019 11:46 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How Sean Penn is Like The Worst Kanye We’re back! Thanks for bearing with us during our unscheduled break due to various Crimes Of Winter. After a quick announcement about some big moves in my appearance (Megalyn Echikunwoke was the actress I couldn’t think of here, btw), we get to the truth – the balmy weather of By Duana • Feb 13, 2019 03:14 pm
BAFTAs 2019 Bradley’s two wins and first acceptance speech Bradley Cooper was honoured at the Palm Springs International Film Festival back in January and he gave an acceptance speech there but those awards are pre-determined. As we’ve seen, he hasn’t been up on stage very much this award season – until last night when he won two awards. By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 10:29 am
Award Season Campaigning A night for Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper was honoured last night at the American Cinematheque Award dinner. He couldn’t skip this one. As I’ve mentioned, Bradley’s maintained a pretty low public profile the last couple of months, since the release of A Star is Born, despite it being Oscar campaign season and By Lainey • Nov 30, 2018 11:22 am
Dumbass Intro for March 28, 2018 Dear Gossips, “There is pride to be had where the prejudicial is practiced with precision in the trenchant triage of tactile terminations.” Remind me, if I ever forget, to never alliterate again. That sentence, if you want to call it a sentence, is from Sean Penn’s new book Bob By Lainey • Mar 28, 2018 08:56 am
Douchebags Sean Penn does not collaborate Sean Penn is promoting his book, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. It’s a stupid-ass title. I can’t tell you if it’s a stupid-ass book but I don’t think it’s winning any awards and it’s because Sean Penn is a dick…but not, necessarily, By Lainey • Mar 27, 2018 04:43 pm
