Movie Reviews and Previews Another award season entrant There are TOO MANY MOVIES. TIFF keeps adding to their lineup—now mulleted medieval Chris Pine is opening the fest—and trailers keep dropping and it’s TOO MUCH. I’m dreading making my schedule because it will be impossible to see everything I want. Last year felt thin, but By Sarah • Aug 15, 2018 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asian Moms If you weren’t already going into Crazy Rich Asians obsessed with Michelle Yeoh, you will definitely be leaving the movie obsessed with Michelle Yeoh. She is a legend. And for many, many years, she was one of the few, if not only, Asian women repping the side internationally. I By Lainey • Aug 15, 2018 11:24 am
Sports Serena x Virgil Serena Williams will be wearing designs by Virgil Abloh for Nike at the US Open this month. Serena lost in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters yesterday but she seems to be improving with every match going into the US Open and she’s going to look like a By Kathleen • Aug 15, 2018 11:00 am
Douchebags The Beckham Vogue issue Back in June, when Victoria and David Beckham were forced to deny, via their publicist, that a divorce was imminent, there were rumours that they’d arranged to do a Vogue cover story and, at the time, many took that to mean that they were only staying together for the By Lainey • Aug 15, 2018 10:09 am
Drama Messy Nicki Yesterday, I wrote about Nicki Minaj’s album Queen. I mentioned that the rollout has been messy. Part of that mess included Nicki’s Twitter habits. Nicki’s sloppy social media tendencies continued yesterday when she came for her ex Safaree Samuels in a series of tweets that are so By Kathleen • Aug 15, 2018 09:45 am
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2018 Dear Gossips, Last week the initial projections for the Crazy Rich Asians opening box office had it between $18-20 million. I said I thought we could do better. Yesterday afternoon, the number moved up to $26 million. Now we’re hearing it could be $30 million, which would make By Lainey • Aug 15, 2018 09:06 am
What Else What Else? I do not remember the original at all. In fact, I just watched it and… nothing. What the f-ck was I doing in 1994? Oh. Right. I was in university, not watching TV and gambling all night instead. This must be why? Or is it because I don’t By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 05:38 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Rut & Reformer Hi Hayley! Looking to get some guidance from you as you’ve mentioned your love for the Pilates reformer. I’ve historically done majority HIIT and circuit type workouts but have hit a bit of rut. I’m less interested in losing weight and more interested in toning and lengthening By Hayley • Aug 14, 2018 05:09 pm
Douchebags Marky Mark vs the Asians As I noted this morning in the open, they were projecting a five-day total of $20 million, on the high side, for Crazy Rich Asians. That number has now been adjusted. According to Variety, it’s now climbed to $26 million and its fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes has By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 04:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians review As the first predominately Asian film Hollywood has produced since The Joy Luck Club twenty-five years ago, Crazy Rich Asians has many eyes on it for many reasons, and it has the unenviable task of being everything to everybody. Adapted by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim from Kevin Kwan’ By Sarah • Aug 14, 2018 04:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who cares what men want What Women Want is a Mel Gibson movie that hasn’t aged well, like most Mel Gibson movies. So for the inevitable remake—because anything that was even remotely successful 15+ years ago is getting remade—it has been gender-swapped to star a woman who hears men’s thoughts By Sarah • Aug 14, 2018 03:07 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 14, 2018 Christy Turlington is covering Vogue Paris, Vogue Polska and InStyle, but she says it’s not a comeback. (She also did Vogue Japan earlier this year.) I recently read a story in Fashionista that analyzed data around celebrity brand partnerships, measuring risk and consumer approval. I was surprised that Christy By Maria • Aug 14, 2018 01:22 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Mandy in blue leather The idea of this is better than the execution. There’s maybe too much going on? I like the sleeves. A lot. But the sleeves are not getting their moment because of everything that’s happening across the chest. All that ruching and the knot off to the side and By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 12:57 pm
Maple Leaf Justin & Hailey’s engagement tour Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin have been engaged for …what?... just over a month now? It happened in the Bahamas. Then they went back to New York. They’ve also been to Miami. And LA. And back to New York. And somewhere else I can’t remember. This past weekend By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 12:10 pm
Gross Ryan Reynolds plays Drinko It took me 20 minutes to psych myself up to watch Ryan Reynolds on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. It took me that long because the Huffpo headline about Ryan’s appearance reads “Try Not To Puke Watching Ryan Reynolds Drink A Truly Disgusting Cocktail". Ryan was promoting By Kathleen • Aug 14, 2018 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Mulan Disney released the first photo of Crystal Liu Yifei as Mulan yesterday to mark the beginning of production on the live-action film, directed by Niki Caro, to be released March 2020. The timing works too because, of course, we’ve been talking about Crazy Rich Asians, and Asian representation, By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 10:06 am
