Top Reads At long last, an Oscar for stunts A year after announcing the addition of a new Oscar category to honor casting directors, the Academy has announced they are, finally, adding a category to recognize stunts. The category will officially recognize “stunt design” at the 100th Academy Awards to be held in 2028, honoring the films of 2027. By Sarah • Apr 11, 2025 09:53 am
Walton Goggins Intro for April 11, 2025 Dear Gossips, HBO is going back to back with The White Lotus season three and The Last of Us season two on Sunday nights, and by the time it’s all done it’ll be 15 straight weeks of watercooler domination. The reviews for The Last of Us season two, By Lainey • Apr 11, 2025 09:16 am
What Else Bella Hadid in The Beauty Bella Hadid was photographed in Paris today filming scenes for Ryan Murphy’s The Beauty. As you can see, she is heavily made up, in a two-piece jumpsuit, riding a bike, and the scene involves some kind of accident. The Beauty has been in production for weeks now, with series By Lainey • Apr 10, 2025 04:10 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, April 10, 2025 Happy Hacks Day to all who celebrate. Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz-Beckham celebrated their anniversary online with zero likes from their family, which tracks with what TMZ reported about Brooklyn and Romeo not speaking. This family loves a party and loves to celebrate so the lack of acknowledgement, especially around the By Maria • Apr 10, 2025 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hang with your buds in Sacramento Two old friends, one introverted and nervous, the other dynamic and domineering, go on a trip together, confronting the deteriorating state of their relationship and the state of their respective lives as they creep toward middle age. No, it’s not A Real Pain, it’s Sacramento, Michael Angarano’s By Sarah • Apr 10, 2025 01:59 pm
Top Reads Walton Goggins, the celebrity In my post about Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood yesterday, I mentioned – or proxy-bragged – that Sarah’s been all about Walton Goggins forever on this site. I’m talking over a decade, almost 15 years, and I mention this because I wonder if she could have predicted, when she By Lainey • Apr 10, 2025 12:49 pm
As Seen on Social Media As Seen On Social Media: Busy’s bustier, A Cate Blanchett mystery Busy Philipps keeps getting better. I’ve always really liked her style (and judging from my inbox, so do a lot of you) and I don’t just mean red carpet; her day-to-day looks are so assured and cool. It’s very Gen X vintage, a bit experimental and individualistic. By Maria • Apr 10, 2025 12:33 pm
BFFs Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence: Festivals later, maybe I’ve been talking about the Cannes Film Festival this week and today the almost-complete lineup was announced. As previously noted, this year seemed particularly competitive, with Cannes coming off the success of 2024 (it’s always bragging rights when the Palme d’Or winner goes on to win the By Lainey • Apr 10, 2025 11:09 am
TV Updates Is this Alexander Skarsgård’s next big thing? Alexander Skarsgård is one of those actors who is, by any metric, having a great career—he’s been on numerous great TV shows, he’s won a bunch of awards, he’s a fun cameo in a bunch of other great TV shows, he’s been in more great By Sarah • Apr 10, 2025 10:21 am
TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, Netflix is working on a series adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Deadline reported last fall that the scripts were written (by Dolly Alderton) but noted that the project had not yet been greenlit at the time and “may not make it to screen”. Seems like it’s heading By Lainey • Apr 10, 2025 09:36 am
Relationship Assumption Post Malone’s Hard Launch Post Malone has been papped every day for days now while in Paris. There are some people who are photographed often, they’re fixtures at the photo agency websites. Postie doesn’t show up that often – this is why it’s notable that he’s all over the contact sheets. By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 04:04 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, April 9, 2025 There were some pictures of Channing Tatum taking his new girlfriend to The Row and the online consensus in my corner of the world is “don’t introduce a man to anything,” implying that Zoë Kravitz turned him onto The Row and now he is taking his new girlfriend there. By Maria • Apr 09, 2025 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Director with a Manbun Sorry, about to be a sh-t disturber here but I can’t help myself… Bradley Cooper is currently directing Will Arnett in Is This Thing On? Bradley will also have a role in the film, co-written by Will, about a man, presumably a podcaster, who’s figuring out his life By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 02:38 pm
TV Updates Jon Hamm and Tina Fey: One Good Joke Jon Hamm looked great last night at the premiere of Jonathan Tropper’s Your Friends & Neighbours, premiering on Apple TV+ on Friday. It’s about a successful hedge fund manager who gets fired and ends up stealing from people in his neighbourhood. Amanda Peet plays his wife and his By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 01:13 pm
TV Updates The Pitt is hell itself There are several contemporary television shows running in the “is this really hell” stakes, from Severance (is Lumon hell?), to Doctor Odyssey (is the Odyssey ferrying the dead to the afterlife?), to The White Lotus (is the White Lotus where the rich go to have their hearts weighed against feather, By Sarah • Apr 09, 2025 11:50 am
Drama The Endless White Lotus Drama Season three of The White Lotus concluded on Sunday and we are still talking about it – not what actually happened on the show but what’s been going on behind the scenes, who’s mad at whom, who might not be friends anymore – it’s the reality show behind the By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 10:43 am
