Rihanna Rihanna: ending summer in London Rihanna was home in Barbados at the beginning of the month for the Crop Over Festival. Since then, she’s been pretty quiet. No new photos of herself on Instagram in over 3 weeks. A couple of weeks ago she was spotted in London, leaving Chiltern with her boyfriend Hassan By Lainey • Aug 31, 2017 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Guillermo, Sally, and Octavia in Venice Ethan Hawke, subject of an earlier post today, starred in a film that was released earlier this year called Maudie. We posted an exclusive first look at Maudie a few months ago. You can also read Joanna’s review here. When Jacek first saw the preview, based on just a By Lainey • Aug 31, 2017 12:38 pm
Dumbass Mean Girls is getting an unwanted remake Today in Did You Even Read That Book news, filmmaking duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directors behind What Maisie Knew and The Deep End, have closed a deal to write and direct an adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies but with a TWIST!, and the By Sarah • Aug 31, 2017 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke & Amanda Seyfried start festival season Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried are at the Venice Film Festival supporting Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. The film will also be coming to Toronto for TIFF next week. First Reformed is about a priest, a “whisky priest” played by Ethan, tormented by past mistakes and struggling with his faith. By Lainey • Aug 31, 2017 11:27 am
TV Updates Bughead’s Jen Lindley That headline might mean nothing to you. If you’re young enough to know what ‘Bughead’ is, you’re probably too young to remember Jen Lindley and if you’re old enough to remember Jen, you’re probably wondering what the f-ck a Bughead is. Let me explain. Riverdale’s By Kathleen • Aug 31, 2017 10:55 am
Royals Intro for August 31, 2017 Dear Gossips, Today is the 20th anniversary of the Princess Diana’s death. All summer there have been Diana retrospectives, newly recycled Diana stories, photo albums, and documentaries. Diana, 7 Days aired in the UK on the BBC earlier this week. Diana, 7 Days will be broadcast here in Canada By Lainey • Aug 31, 2017 10:07 am
What Else What Else? This is how an award becomes meaningless. Like, maybe in another decade, MAYBE, calling Kendall Jenner an “icon” might be true. But during this particular decade? That started when she was 11 years old? Here’s the thing – I’ll always be able to remember certain images of Naomi Campbell, By Lainey • Aug 30, 2017 04:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: …Which is Fine, I Guess Hi Duana, I’m so happy to be writing to you! It’s taken us awhile to get here and I’ve been reading your column and book for a while, hoping to write someday with a name question of our own. We are due this fall, and we found By Duana • Aug 30, 2017 04:27 pm
Amazingness Gossip Girl for black kids Gossip Girl is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Vanity Fair honoured the milestone with a retrospective feature that everyone is talking about today, mainly for the behind-the-scenes dirt and a weird AF anecdote about how Blake Lively would send Leonardo DiCaprio photos of dolls when they were dating. Wait, what? I By Kathleen • Aug 30, 2017 04:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Winona & Keanu at a (movie) wedding Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves, despite rumours, have never actually dated. But I feel like we all really, really, really wanted them to date. Timing though. When they worked together on Bram Stoker’s Dracula she was in love with and engaged to Johnny Depp. I’m sure you remember By Lainey • Aug 30, 2017 03:31 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 30, 2017 There’s Girl Sh-t and Sibling Sh-t and Boy Sh-t, but Philanthropy Sh-t? This might be a new one. Kevin Hart has issued a challenge to celebrities to donate to Houston. He challenged Beyonce and Jay-Z, Chris Rock, The Rock, Steve Harvey, Jerry Seinfeld, and Justin Timberlake in the first By Maria • Aug 30, 2017 02:35 pm
Amazingness Nic & Crispin I have to show you these photos, my favourite photos of the day – at least so far. Because they’re batsh-t. Nicolas Cage went out for dinner last night with Crispin Glover. That’s it. Right?!? Batsh-t. But there’s more. Here’s how these shots are captioned by the By Lainey • Aug 30, 2017 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Back To School Home Again Reese Witherspoon was at the premiere of Home Again last night in LA. The movie opens on September 8 which is not as sh-tty as opening on Labour Day weekend but it’s not usually a weekend that gives us a lot to be excited about. And perhaps not usually By Lainey • Aug 30, 2017 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Downsizing is about shrink rays?! Alexander Payne is an Oscar regular. He’s one of those filmmakers who gets instant consideration, thanks to films like About Schmidt, The Descendants, and Nebraska. (His best movie is still Election.) And he’s back in contention this year with Downsizing, starring Matt Damon—also Oscar-friendly—Kristen Wiig, and By Sarah • Aug 30, 2017 11:28 am
Royals William, Harry, and Kate remember Princess Diana Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. Today Princes William and Harry along with Princess Kate visited The White Garden at Kensington Palace today in her honour. Representatives from the charities and patronages associated with Diana were also invited. Kensington Palace posted several updates on Twitter By Lainey • Aug 30, 2017 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF 2017's Most Anticipated Photo: The Oscar Trinity (Brie, Emma, JLaw) Will Take Toronto In less than two weeks, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence and Brie Larson will all be in Toronto to premiere their new films at TIFF... within 24 hours of each other. They’ve all won Best Actress Oscars and they happen to be close friends who namecheck each other in interviews By Joanna • Aug 30, 2017 10:11 am
