Movie Reviews and Previews Aubrey Plaza in Ingrid Goes West Ingrid Goes West is equal parts scathing social satire, horror movie, and character portrait. It’s self-aware enough to include a Single White Female joke, but it’s not the kind of jokey movie that winks at itself. Aubrey Plaza caps her stellar year with her best performance yet, turning By Sarah • Aug 24, 2017 03:23 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 24, 2017 Let’s start this off right: Jane Fonda has joined Instagram and posted a photo from the Book Club set with Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton about four lifelong friends who read the Fifty Shades series. We have Mary to thank for Jane’s social media – she posted By Maria • Aug 24, 2017 02:59 pm
Music Taylor Swift: approaching Snake hour As promised yesterday, Taylor Swift will be releasing the first single off her new album, Reputation, some time tonight. As I noted yesterday, I’m thinking it’ll be late. Late enough that it could technically be considered Friday. Not only to get the jump on the weekend and, possibly By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 02:09 pm
Music Katy Perry’s air ball Katy Perry dropped the official video for Swish Swish this morning. In about 12 hours, Taylor Swift ushers in a new era. As much as I would like to, I can’t pretend that I don’t care about Taylor’s Reputation. Even if the cover art made me roll By Kathleen • Aug 24, 2017 01:34 pm
Media Manipulation Gwyneth’s distracting ring A couple of days ago, Robert Downey Jr posted a photo with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jon Favreau on Instagram, confirming that both would be back for Avengers: Infinity War. I posted new photos of all of them on set yesterday, along with Mark Ruffalo. Also yesterday? Goop was making headlines By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 12:31 pm
Maple Leaf Celine shines bright like a diamond Celine Dion was in Montreal yesterday for her bag launch. And, well, where Celine goes, the feelings go. So it was a spectacle. Not only because she’s Celine Dion, after all, but also because, of course, Celine is from Montreal. Well, technically she was born in Charlemagne, but that’ By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Speaking of maybe-not Batman… Here’s Ben Affleck on Tuesday leaving his hotel in New York with Lindsay Shookus and then at the airport, presumably heading back to LA after spending the weekend with her. As Sarah just wrote in the previous post, it’s looking more and more like Ben will no longer By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is HAPPENING with DC Films? Wonder Woman is the biggest movie of the summer, breaking all kinds of records, and successfully lighting a path for DC Films after Zack Snyder’s grimdark vision didn’t pan out. Wonder Woman should be the future of DC Films, but while yes, a sequel is in the works, By Sarah • Aug 24, 2017 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 24, 2017 Dear Gossips, Back in March I read a book and even though we weren’t even at quarter of the way through 2017, I called it the Book of the Year. That would be Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give, which made it to the top of the NY By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 09:30 am
What Else What Else Should Gwyneth Paltrow be friends with this woman? It’s a similar life philosophy. At least initially. GP, however, doesn’t apologise or backtrack. She instead tells her critics to bring their “A game”. So, maybe, at first G was like, oh, this is friend potential. And then after? After By Lainey • Aug 23, 2017 05:14 pm
Music Taylor’s Reputation Earlier today, Taylor released a third snake video across her socials. Then, a couple of hours later, the announcement that the new single will be out tomorrow night – which goes along with earlier theories that the song would drop on Friday, because if it happens around midnight, she gets to By Lainey • Aug 23, 2017 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: You Do You (or rather, her) Dear Duana, I'm due in the last week of August with my first, and I'm not quite sure what to do about girl names! The baby's last name will be double-barrelled. We have one name for a boy - Daniel, after my grandfather. All By Duana • Aug 23, 2017 03:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gwyneth Paltrow is an Avenger again Relax, nerds. I know she’s not an actual Avenger. But she wasn’t in Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Or Avenger 2.5, aka Captain America: Civil War. She’s mentioned before that she didn’t know whether or not she’d play Pepper Potts again. But then she showed By Lainey • Aug 23, 2017 03:45 pm
Equality Issues Amy Schumer asks for more In a depressing and thorough review of the state of equal pay in the film and television industry, Variety includes an anecdote that Amy Schumer, after seeing the headline-making deals that comedians Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle got from Netflix, went to the streaming company and asked for increased compensation By Sarah • Aug 23, 2017 02:18 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 23, 2017 The Wades post a lot of amazing photos together, particularly when they vacation. Do you think they travel with a personal photographer, Beyoncé style? Us. A post shared by Gabrielle Union-Wade (@gabunion) onAug 22, 2017 at 7:55pm PDT Have you seen all the headlines that Matt LeBlanc was offered By Maria • Aug 23, 2017 01:26 pm
Bad Style Vin Diesel’s #3 pants I posted earlier about Mark Wahlberg topping the Forbes list of highest paid actors. Did you know that Adam Sandler came in at #4? Because of his Netflix deal? Adam Sandler makes gold from sh-t .It’s true alchemy. Ahead of Adam Sander is Vin Diesel who’s ranked at By Lainey • Aug 23, 2017 12:13 pm
