Royals A Royal Haunting One of the most anticipated Midnight Madness world premieres at TIFF this year was Anna Biller’s The Face of Horror. Anna Biller’s The Love Witch, released a decade ago, is now a cult classic. She is a thrilling filmmaker, an auteur in every sense, with her own signature By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 04:13 pm
Michael B Jordan Michael B Jordan: Same quote, a different way Most of us probably agree that the September 2026 issue of American Vogue was a flop, right? The cover stars were Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere to promote The Shards – and this isn’t a personal criticism, not directed towards their performances, not a judgement about them as actors or By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 01:34 pm
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise: Greatest stunt choreo incoming As Sarah wrote in yesterday’s site open, Tom Cruise’s greatest role is that of “Tom Cruise”. She is right in saying that his GQ cover story, both in print and on video, is for all the gossip hounds. Pretty sure we’re all still screaming about it. Tom, By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 11:07 am
TV Updates Intro for September 17, 2026 Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, I posted in this space about The Early Spring, the Chinese drama available in international markets on Netflix that was blowing up around the world. After almost a month, The Early Spring remains at #2 on the Netflix non-English chart, where it By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 09:17 am
Emmy Awards 2026 Lainey's Best Dressed - Claire Danes as Juliet in 2026 My first view of Claire Danes on the Emmys red carpet last night was from the side. Kinda like this photo below, except she was moving, it wasn’t a still shot… and immediately, with the shape of that shoulder, which I didn’t know at the time was just By Lainey • Sep 15, 2026 01:30 pm
Emmy Awards 2026 Zendaya & Taylor & Two Toms If you’re new to this site, please know that we know that whenever Zendaya shows up anywhere, she will be best dressed. Which is why she’s no longer eligible – it’s just not fair to anybody else. She showed up at the Emmys last night in custom Prada By Lainey • Sep 15, 2026 10:19 am
Emmy Awards 2026 Flo and Julia: Two Madonnas Last night was the first time Florence Pugh has been to the Emmys. We have, of course, seen her on award show red carpets before, but always in a film capacity. And we will see her again on the red carpet in a film capacity before the end of the By Lainey • Sep 15, 2026 08:31 am
Emmy Awards 2026 Mariska Hargitay: Ten Dresses and All the Sincerity Mariska Hargitay won two Emmys last week for My Mom Jayne, the documentary about her mother, Jayne Mansfield, at the Creative Arts Emmys. Last night she hosted the Primetime Emmys on NBC, the network that’s been airing her show, Law & Order: SVU, for 27-soon-to-be-28 By Lainey • Sep 15, 2026 07:02 am
Top Reads Learning from Céline At some point on Friday or Saturday, during the chaos of TIFF and running from interview to interview and prepping in between, I saw an article pop up on my feed about Céline Dion, ahead of her first show in Paris…something something about how she would require a backing By Lainey • Sep 14, 2026 10:53 am
Sabrina Carpenter All the Jonathan Andersons It is officially fashion month in the industry. New York Fashion Week begins today, the fashion people head over to London next week, then Milan the week after, culminating in Paris at the end of the month, which is where Jonathan Anderson’s next collection for Dior spring/summer 2027 By Lainey • Sep 10, 2026 12:45 pm
What Else Maitreyi Ramakrishnan: The Best of Everything Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is in New York today making the talk show rounds to promote her new Netflix movie Best of the Best. It’s a dance movie… and right on time, because it’s been a while, we were overdue. This is Step Up and Pitch Perfect and Bring It By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 04:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Billionaires suck in bad sweaters Since “billionaires suck” is a theme at the movies, I guess it’s a theme on the site today too. Because it’s a theme in real life – all around us billionaires and their billionaire decisions have had an impact on our communities, how we live and how we work. By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2026 Dear Gossips, From Anne Hathaway to Zendaya and Florence Pugh to Robert Pattinson, there are several actors this year with multiple high-profile prestige and/or blockbuster films that have already been released or have yet to be released. Add Penelope Cruz to that list. La Bola Negra, directed by By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 09:49 am
What Else Céline’s team is working hard Before anyone gets mad and misconstrues my words, because reading comprehension is at an all-time low and nobody understands nuance (and the schools happen to be open today!), I’m not saying that Céline Dion’s team has anything to complain about. For them, no doubt, it’s wonderful By Lainey • Sep 08, 2026 04:47 pm
Chris Rock Chris Rock is no longer hosting As Sarah wrote earlier today, Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything, the documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, bulldozed its way into the festival conversation by surprise, taking the wind a bit out of Venice and claiming the spotlight for Telluride. Award season is taking shape now after By Lainey • Sep 08, 2026 03:37 pm
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift: Winning and Losing Taylor Swift has been under the radar since getting married but behind the scenes, we do know that she’s been campaigning. She attended at least one Emmys for your consideration event and at least one Grammys event for her The Eras Tour concert film and The Life of a By Lainey • Sep 08, 2026 11:56 am
