Movie Reviews and Previews Bright: The Return Netflix has established itself as a player in the television world, but despite big spending at film festivals, they have yet to prove themselves in the world of film. Or, rather, they only just did, as Bright becomes their biggest film hit, comparable to a blockbuster in the “real” world By Sarah • Jan 03, 2018 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The pre-Globe colours Saoirse Ronan wore clashing red and pink Gucci to the Palm Springs Film Festival Awards Gala last night to receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award. I like the colour-clashing. I hate the material. It really doesn’t photograph well. It photographs really cheap. OK but, seriously, how cute are these By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 12:15 pm
TV Updates Daenerys Stormborn arrives for the Golden Globe week Game Of Thrones is up against The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, and This Is Us for Best Television Drama at the Golden Globes this week. The category looked almost the same last year with one exception – Westworld was in there instead of The Handmaid’s Tale. And By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mary J Blige’s new year “breakthrough” The Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala happened last night. This is always an important stop on the award season circuit since so many Oscar voters show up at the event. Which is why so many Oscar hopefuls show up at the event. The voting period for Oscar nominations By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 10:18 am
Emily Blunt Emily Blunt gives us “bum-pinching” Emily Blunt is on the cover of the new Vanity Fair, which is a little odd, though, because she’s not really promoting anything. She’s voicing a character in Sherlock Gnomes—Lainey, I REFUSE to watch this—but that’s not out until March, and it’s not mentioned By Sarah • Jan 03, 2018 09:43 am
TV Updates Intro for January 3, 2018 Dear Gossips, I’m so excited for tonight. Tonight is the series premiere of grown-ish, which is the spin-off of black-ish, a show I love SO MUCH, starring Yara Shahidi as Zoe Johnson who goes off to university. And, of course, many people, including creator Kenya Barris, are comparing it By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 09:17 am
What Else What Else? Carrie Underwood broke her wrist after falling at home in November. And it turns out that she also needed almost 50 stitches in her face. Which is why she’s prepping her fans that she might look different the next time they see her. The other day I bailed on By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 03:02 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Laura Dern, teen secrets, and Blue Ivy Carter It’s the first episode of Show Your Work of 2018! We begin by identifying a vortex in my pop culture experience. What happened was that a few days ago, our friend Dean sent over the link to an episode of the Worst Ever podcast featuring guest Staci Keanan. I By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 02:33 pm
Music #BEYchella Cowboy Timberlake is trying to make his album release the music event we’re supposed to be waiting for. Truth: the music event everyone is waiting for is Coachella. Or, more accurately, #BEYchella. A post shared by Beylite (@beylite) on Jan 2, 2018 at 6:18am PST By the time By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 12:59 pm
Relationship Assumption JRod is not engaged … yet It’s a new year. And while people have been waiting for it, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are not engaged. They did, however, work out together on New Year’s Eve. And had to each post about it on Instagram. A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Jan By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 12:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 2, 2018 How could New Year’s Eve be complete without a Happy New Year greeting from Choupette? For those of you who live in Paris and can afford to sleep 8 hours a night, Choupette has shared her 2018 resolutions. She wants to take up boxing and walk the runway. Wait. By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 12:03 pm
Sarah Silverman Sarah Silverman Is Probably Better Than Me Happy New Year! You guys, I’m loving the optimism I’m seeing online. Obviously Time’s Up has been a real jolt of positivity, but even the New Year memes are all about how things have got to look up this year. I’m into it. In fact, I’ By Duana • Jan 02, 2018 11:50 am
Music Wild West Timberlake Kathleen wrote about the Justin Timberlake Man Of The Woods rumours a couple of weeks ago. Today he confirmed that his new album will be called Man Of The Woods, to be released on February 2, and the first single is expected to drop this Friday. This is all happening By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 11:27 am
BFFs New Year Girl Sh-t Girl Sh-t is the Best Sh-t. So is this a promising beginning to 2018? Every day I get emails from people shouting at me for a variety of reasons: I love Beyoncé too much, I don’t hate Beyoncé enough, I don’t hate Angelina Jolie enough, I don’t By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 11:14 am
Amazingness Mimi’s NYE tea Mimi returned to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on Sunday night. And … well…as she would say, it was a moment. Not just because she actually performed this time instead of tottering around the stage bitching about everything but because while she did hit most of her By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 10:34 am
BFFs So…will Louis CK be back soon? Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special premiered on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. He’s making headlines now because of the way he addressed the Hollywood sexual harassment situation and, specifically, his bit about his friend Louis CK. Entertainment Weekly has a good summary of his comments which you By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 10:10 am
