Relationship Assumption Shawn Mendes and Hailey Baldwin are “friends” According to Shawn Mendes. When Shawn and Hailey Baldwin made their red-carpet debut at the Met Gala, I wrote that the move seemed strategic, considering he’s got an album to promote. Not to quote myself but that’s exactly what I’m going to do: The album drops on By Kathleen • May 17, 2018 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Whitney The documentary Whitney about Whitney Houston’s life and legacy premiered at Cannes last night. It’s the second high-profile doc on Whitney Houston released in a year. I saw the first one, Whitney: Can I Be Me, at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto and I was left disappointed By Kathleen • May 17, 2018 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lucy + Taye It’s the romantic comedy pairing I didn’t know I needed. Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu play love interests in the upcoming Netflix rom-com Set It Up and as soon as I saw them on screen together I was like YES, PLEASE WHY DID THIS TAKE SO LONG GOOD By Kathleen • May 16, 2018 02:44 pm
Ben Affleck Lindsay Shookus gets profiled Lindsay Shookus is famous by association. She’s fame-adjacent. I don’t think that’s up for debate. A new feature on Lindsay in ELLE opens with the following line… Lindsay Shookus isn’t famous. Or is she? … and continues with an anecdote about diners at 30 Rockefeller Plaza trying By Kathleen • May 16, 2018 02:10 pm
Cannes 2018 Adam Driver: let’s fight I just wrote about the potential importance of BlacKkKlansman. Adam Driver is in Cannes in support of Spike Lee’s film. I want to establish that I know the serious subject matter of BlacKkKlansman and that I respect it before I go low classy and turn this into a conversation By Kathleen • May 16, 2018 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman at Cannes Spike Lee was back at Cannes for the first time since 1991 for Jungle Fever. For his return, Spike premiered his latest joint BlacKkKlansman. The film was received with a 10-minute standing ovation. Critics are calling it Spike’s best film in years. There is even talk that BlacKkKlansman will By Kathleen • May 16, 2018 11:14 am
TV Updates This Is Upfronts Have you missed these titles? After NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation yesterday, the push to the fall premiere of Season 3 of This Is Us has officially started. We have a whole summer to prepare for ALL THE FEELINGS. I almost forgot about the feelings. By now, you know I love By Kathleen • May 15, 2018 02:12 pm
Quiveration MBJ at Cannes Yesterday, after I wrote about Chadwick Boseman’s commencement address at Howard, a few of you pointed out that the soap opera gig that Chadwick was fired from ended up going to Michael Bae Jordan. The character’s name was Reggie. Of course, I knew that my bae was on By Kathleen • May 15, 2018 12:06 pm
Break Ups Jenna is still Channing’s “baby” Channing Tatum wished Jenna Dewan a happy Mother’s Day on Instagram like this: A post shared by 👑 king channing tatum 👑 (@channingtatumking) on May 13, 2018 at 7:44pm PDT “Jenna, happy Mother’s Day, baby. Momma, happy Mother’s Day. Hope you’re enjoying this beautiful sunset. Love you By Kathleen • May 15, 2018 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick’s salute Chadwick Boseman gave the commencement address at Howard University over the weekend. Chadwick said many wonderfully uplifting words that I’ll come back to but first, let’s talk about his final two words. Chadwick Boseman chose to end the address at his alma mater with “Howard Forever” while giving By Kathleen • May 14, 2018 11:24 am
Weddings Rihanna is not going to the royal wedding Of course, she isn't. Rihanna and Prince Harry met in Barbados in 2016. For World AIDs Day, they got tested together and attended a celebration for the 50th Anniversary of Barbados's Independence. That's it. As far as we know, that was Rihanna and Harry& By Kathleen • May 14, 2018 10:30 am
Celine Dion Big Tip Lainey pranked me this morning. I would probably be mad at her if it wasn’t the funniest thing to happen to me all day – f-ck that, all week. Lainey sent me a SoundCloud link to a song by an artist named Big Tip and asked for my gut reaction. By Kathleen • May 10, 2018 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan’s diary Remember when Jared Leto sent his castmates a dead pig because he’s, like, so method and Viola Davis almost pepper sprayed his ass? Or when Charlie Hunnam ghosted his girlfriend for months to ‘get into character’? Turns out, these self-indulgent Very Serious Actors could have just kept a diary By Kathleen • May 10, 2018 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s “Us” Last night at around 8pm Eastern Standard Time, Jordan Peele revealed the poster for his new film. pic.twitter.com/6j43s9YC8e— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) May 9, 2018 The tagline says, “A new nightmare from the mind of Academy Award Winner Jordan Peele.” It took all of my strength to get By Kathleen • May 09, 2018 12:42 pm
Met Gala 2018 Black Excellence at the Met Gala after party “I’m rooting for everybody black.” Issa Rae said this at the 2017 Emmy Awards and it’s a sentiment that holds up for me at every awards show, and in life in general, but especially at the Met Gala, I was rooting for everybody black. For those of you By Kathleen • May 09, 2018 11:49 am
Met Gala 2018 Chadwick Boseman: Kathleen's 2018 Met's Best Dressed I refuse to pretend to have any chill about Chadwick Boseman’s Met Gala look. I was out at dinner with friends when I saw the first photos of Chadwick arriving on the Met steps and I rudely interrupted my friend’s story with, “HOLY F-CKING SH-T CHADWICK.” I then By Kathleen • May 08, 2018 12:04 pm
