Lifestyle Duana Names: Rules! Made to be Broken? Hi Duana, I am expecting my second child in March and we are waiting to find out the sex. We are happy with a slew of girl names *(Margaret, Josephine, Penelope) but we are stuck on a boy’s name. WE want a name that “fits” with our first son’ By Duana • Mar 13, 2017 04:30 pm
Relationship Assumption JLO & ARod: the minibreak Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez spent the weekend in the Bahamas. I’m supposed to tell you that it was “romantic” minibreak. But I refuse. Because, right now, I don’t feel like I’ll ever be onside with this couple, even though, on paper, it seems to make so By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 04:22 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Movie stars and stars in movies – Emma Watson, Scarjo, & KStew The big movie coming out at the end of this week is Beauty And The Beast. Emma Watson has been carrying much of the publicity responsibilities ahead of the release. Duana wrote last week about her Vanity Fair spread and how some people criticised her for one of the poses By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 04:00 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Pelvic healing time Hi Hayley! I just had my second baby two months ago and it was a bit of a rough delivery. My little one came out at lightning speed-less than two hours flat from start to finish, kind of like the extreme sports version of labor- and though I did By Hayley • Mar 13, 2017 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kong: Skull Island – great monsters, unintentional comedy Kong: Skull Island opened this weekend with $61 million, which is a respectable spring opener, but well short of Godzilla’s $93 million haul in 2014. Kong is a prequel to Godzilla, and the second entry into Warner Brothers’ budding monster-centric cinematic universe, so slightly deflated numbers aren’t By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 01:32 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Zoe’s Kids’ Choice floral I like this dress more the more I look at it. Mostly I love the cap sleeve… that looks like it’s a bunch of leaves on each side? Pretty right? That said… not sure if it’s “Kids’ Choice”? By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 12:38 pm
BFFs No Frauds in Paris Nicki Minaj finally responded to Remy Ma’s shETHER at the end of last week with a track called No Frauds and two other new songs with Drake and Lil Wayne. As I wrote last week in my post about Nicki’s “answer”, No Frauds really isn’t a diss By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 12:14 pm
TV Updates Tatiana Maslany goes 3 for 3 And barefoot, as she makes history at the Canadian Screen Awards, winning three different CSAs, one for Best Actress – Film for The Other Half, acting in Orphan Black (her fourth statue in a row for the role), and another for producing the show. Orphan Black was named Best TV Drama. By Joanna • Mar 13, 2017 11:31 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Catherine’s CSA gingham My favourite dress at the Canadian Screen Awards last night. Do you hate it? Specifically do you hate the red gingham collar and cuffs? Because I LOVE THEM. And the reason it’s not infantile or childish is because of the cut of the dress and how it shapes her By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Atomic Blonde at SXSW The first trailer for Charlize Theron’s Atomic Blonde was released last week ahead of it the film’s premiere at SXSW this weekend. And, so far, the response has been generally positive, especially about Charlize’s performance. According to Consequence of Sound, she “is going down as this decade’ By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Baby Driver After Edgar Wright dropped out of Ant-Man, he went to work on an original script he’d written called Baby Driver, which is not a helpful title. Is it about a baby who drives? A driver of babies? A person named “Baby Driver”? Turns out that last one was By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 10:09 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina’s weekend in London Angelina Jolie and all six kids were photographed at LAX on Saturday heading to London. Where I grew up, in Toronto, the unofficial term for this time of year is “March break”. Some schools call it “winter break”. And of course in the US I’ve heard “spring break”. But By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman don’t fail us now I’m trying so hard to keep my expectations tempered because the DC movies are really good at trailers and really bad at everything else, but goddamn these Wonder Woman trailers are SO good. The latest is the “Origins” trailer, introducing us to Diana’s childhood and training on Themyscira. By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 09:27 am
Maple Leaf Intro for March 13, 2017 Dear Gossips, No award show is perfect. And no cultural community is perfect. But there was a lot to celebrate at last night’s Canadian Screen Awards. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee won the CSA for Best Actor Comedy Series for his work in Kim’s Convenience, Canada’s first sitcom By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 08:45 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Nerd Seeks Same Hi Duana! I’ve always been a name nerd as well, it’s so nice to read about a kindred spirit! Like you, I loved reading baby name books when I was younger. Kathleen sounds like a common name but I was always the only one and there were NEVER By Duana • Mar 10, 2017 04:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anna Kendrick in Table 19 The first thing you need to know is that despite the way its trailer makes it look, Table 19 is not a romantic comedy. The second thing you need to know is that it has an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I AM HERE TO DEFEND IT. Table 19 By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 04:06 pm
