Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 8, 2025 Rita Ora and Taika Waititi are reportedly working on a musical about Fyre Festival. This could legitimately be great with the right sense of humour, look how well the documentary was received. PEOPLE ran an update on Dave Grohl and Jordyn Blum, with sources saying they are “very happy” and By Maria • Sep 08, 2025 03:16 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 20, 2025 Taika Waititi celebrated his 50th birthday this past weekend and he and Rita Ora celebrated it in Ibiza along with a list of celebrity friends that included Matt Damon, Kate Moss, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joel Edgerton, and cigarettes. We’ll come back to the cigarettes shortly. Instead of nicotine, let’ By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 03:32 pm
Jock Smut The chaotic pre-Olympics party I’m trying to remember if the Olympics have ever been such an A-list celebrity parade before, or if it’s happening this year because the Games are in Paris, a major world fashion and culture capital, which is drawing a contingent of celebrities who might otherwise not be at By Sarah • Jul 26, 2024 10:04 am
TV Updates The silly gay pirates sail once again Our Flag Means Death was the unexpected slow-burn sleeper hit of TV comedies in 2022, and now it is back with a second season that doubles down on all the things that garnered its passionately devoted fanbase—silly pirates, rom-coms, explorations of mental health, and unabashed queer love. Picking up By Sarah • Oct 11, 2023 04:03 pm
TV Updates The silly gay pirates are back! Our Flag Means Death is one of my favorite shows currently, the first season was practically perfect, a blend of humor, romance, and more melancholic themes that give the show a sense of pathos belying its quirky Kiwi humor. It returns for season two on October 5, and as dumb By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Next Goal Wins Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins is at once his most typically Hollywood movie, and yet still possessing the quirky humor we've come to expect from the Kiwi filmmaker. Telling the (mostly) true story of the 2011 American Samoa national soccer team, Next Goal Wins depicts coach By Sarah • Sep 11, 2023 01:54 pm
TV Updates Taika + Rita down under The last time we saw Taika Waititi and Rita Ora was at the Met Gala, but they are now back in Sydney, Australia, which is more or less their home base lately (Rita is a coach on The Voice Australia). Taika and Rita are not exactly a low-key couple—here By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 09:45 am
Met Gala 2023 Met Gala Power Couples When Diddy and Yung Miami walked onto the Met Gala carpet, most of us were confused because they definitely broke up, right? Yung Miami confirmed the split last month and said they’re friends, but she wouldn’t call what they were doing dating and then on the carpet Diddy By Cody • May 02, 2023 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Next Goal Wins looks charming* CinemaCon rolls on, and one of the (few) trailers released is for Next Goal Wins, Michael Fassbender’s return to acting since taking a break (technically a “retirement”, but come on, no one really believed he was never going to act again) following 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. It’s By Sarah • Apr 27, 2023 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Taika Star War? Though Andor popped last year and The Mandalorian remains popular on Disney+, cinematic Star Wars has been a bit of a shamble since the 2019 release of The Rise of Skywalker. Or, really, since the 2017 release of The Last Jedi. In 2015, everyone was on board with The Force By Sarah • Mar 08, 2023 03:06 pm
TV Updates [INT.] Chinatown Interior Chinatown, a National Book Award-winning novel by Charles Yu, is being adapted into a TV series. Lainey referenced it when Daniel Dae Kim toplined his first television series only after over thirty years in the business. That’s the basic gist of the book. Written in screenplay form, Interior By Sarah • Oct 14, 2022 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A little less love for Thor It should have been a relatively quiet weekend at the box office, with the only major new releases being a kids’ movie, Paws of Fury, and a female-driven literary adaptation, Where the Crawdads Sing. But a furious debate ignited online over whether or not Marvel is in trouble because Thor: By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor and Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder If you did not care for Taika Waititi’s colorful, comedic take on Thor in Thor: Ragnarok, you will not like his follow-up film, Thor: Love and Thunder. Waititi doubles down on the comedy—if not the color, using shadows and chiaroscuro to striking effect—and Chris Hemsworth revels in By Sarah • Jul 08, 2022 11:30 am
Amazingness Messrs. Evans and Waititi Lightyear disappointed, but you know what is never disappointing? Chris Evans + Taika Waititi. Evans voiced the “new” Buzz Lightyear in the film, and Taika one of the Space Rangers. Let’s take a moment before Elvis opens in a couple days and wipes Lightyear off the map to appreciate the By Sarah • Jun 22, 2022 12:01 pm
Style Intro for June 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Time 100 Gala happened last night in New York as Ariana DeBose continues her remarkable year. She is the reigning SAG, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe, and Oscar winner, basically running the table during award season. So of course she’s on the list of the 100 By Lainey • Jun 09, 2022 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jane Foster is stoked to be Thor It’s summer blockbuster season and it almost feels like normal, with a new Tom Cruise movie opening this week and a new trailer for the next Marvel thing, Thor: Love and Thunder, dropping last night. Still sort of heartbroken this movie isn’t called Th4r, but the new trailer By Sarah • May 24, 2022 11:15 am
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