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
Top Reads Jerrod went there I am not at all surprised Jerrod Carmichael turned out to be a good host for the Golden Globes, I have insisted all along he is too good for this show. What did surprise me is just how HARD he went at EVERYTHING. I expected his monologue to focus on By Sarah • Jan 11, 2023 09:03 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, Lainey wrote about Tom Cruise’s awards season campaign strategy, which so far amounts to “let the movie speak for itself”. Cruise himself has been scarce, but Top Gun: Maverick is coming back to theaters to remind the town how big this movie is, how By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spielberg and BCoop’s Fast & Furious Today in But Is It About Family News, Bradley Cooper will reportedly star in a Bullitt reboot(ish) to be directed by Steven Spielberg. Bullitt is the classic 1968 Steve McQueen film that features one of the greatest car chases in cinema history. In the film, McQueen stars as a By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Fabelmans The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical account of filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s childhood, marking the first time Spielberg is credited for a screenplay since 2001’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Playwright Tony Kushner returns after adapting West Side Story for Spielberg last year to co-write the script, and Spielberg continues his By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 01:34 pm
TV Updates Turns out, Spielberg is shilling for Apple After the Oscars, word got out that Steven Spielberg is agitating for a rule change that would effectively block Netflix from competing for Oscars as they don’t much believe in distributing their movies in theaters when the whole point of their company is to make movies available instantly at By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews DiCaprio & Spielberg reunite in some uncertain future Today in your dad’s favorite news, it’s been announced that Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg will reunite to make a biopic of Civil War general and US president Ulysses S. Grant. The movie is being adapted by David James Kelly from Ron Chernow’s biography, Grant. So you By Sarah • May 18, 2018 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spielberg + DC = False Advertising Yesterday afternoon a flashy headline blared across the internet: STEVEN SPIELBERG DIRECTING SUPERHERO MOVIE! Nerds everywhere sh*t their pants. The thing is, it’s a little misleading. Technically, yes, Spielberg is developing a movie based on a comic book for DC Films. But he’s not making a movie By Sarah • Apr 18, 2018 11:20 am
Tom Hanks Steven, Meryl, and Tom Meryl Streep is playing Katharine Graham, Tom Hanks is playing Ben Bradlee, Steven Spielberg is directing. The film is called The Papers, about the Washington Post taking on the White House over the publication of the Pentagon Papers, which preceded Watergate, which then resulted in Richard Nixon’s resigning as By Lainey • Jul 28, 2017 02:20 pm
Cannes 2013 Cannes 2013: Competition domination (Our Cannes coverage this year is sponsored by U by Kotex® and we want to send you and your best friend on a festival experience in Toronto with deluxe accommodations, spending money, and more. Click here for more information and to enter the contest!) Did you see The Hollywood Reporter’ By Sarah • May 14, 2013 11:31 am
Girly Throw Downs DDL vs Clint Eastwood and the “old white men” Daniel Day-Lewis was honoured the other night at BAFTA LA. Have you seen his acceptance speech? It was dedicated to Clint Eastwood’s Obama chair. The President had just won re-election the night before. Conservatives were in a tailspin. And here’s a British actor taking the piss out of By Lainey • Nov 09, 2012 12:20 pm
Media Manipulation The World’s Greatest Actor This is the cover of the new TIME. TIME also hosted the Lincoln screening and Q&A with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis, the World’s Greatest Actor, last night in New York. So in other words, everyone else, all the other 4 actors in the Best Actor Oscar By Lainey • Oct 26, 2012 12:51 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Does Gwyneth cook on holiday? Spielberg's yacht is huge. They must have a chef. Who cooks to Gwyneth's specifications? Gwyneth has been on holiday in Italy with her Uncle Morty, her brother, and her children. Chris Martin is performing on the festival circuit with Coldplay. The body, as you can see, By Lainey • Jul 11, 2011 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tintin the Monstrous Written bySarah If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen me talking about the 3D nightmare mo-cap monsters of The Adventures of Tintin, the adaptation of the mid-century Herge comics (does anyone even know who/what Tintin is these days, and do they really care if they do? By Lainey • May 18, 2011 04:31 am
Hook Ups Leo & Blake: photo assumption So she skipped hitting any carpets in exchange for an introduction to Steven Spielberg? Oh but Blake Lively will be busy here in Cannes. Ryan Gosling is here too. Right now though, it's about Leo. Earlier I noted there had yet to be any pictures of either, and By Lainey • May 17, 2011 08:59 am
Girlcrushes Weekend Winner It’s an easy prediction. Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut opens on Friday and, without significant competition, riding the wave of positive buzz, calling on the “Girl Power” collective, Whip It should win at the box office this weekend. I’ve not seen it yet. I did however note the By Lainey • Sep 30, 2009 03:47 am
