Movie Reviews and Previews The Jack Reacher promotional strategy Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher sequel opens next week. Which isn’t too far away. And I feel like it’s been pretty quiet, as Tom Cruise promotional tours go. Normally, when Tom Cruise is promoting a movie, you can’t avoid him jumping out of airplanes and hitting 8 By Lainey • Oct 12, 2016 10:07 am
Intro for October 12, 2016 Dear Gossips, There’s been outrage the last few days after it was revealed on the blog Angry Asian Man that Disney was initially working off a script for the live action Mulan that featured a white man from Europe travelling to China and developing an Asian fetish which sets By Lainey • Oct 12, 2016 09:30 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, October 11, 2016 Sarah Michelle Gellar wishes Michelle Trachtenberg a Happy Birthday, but what interested me here is her take on makeup, because I agree with it. As I get older, I wear less and less. #happybirthday @michelletrachtenberg It's obvious to all of us, that you have found the "key& By Maria • Oct 11, 2016 01:35 pm
Maple Leaf The love cycle of Rihanna & Drake After Drake put up an “I LOVE RIHANNA” sign on his face at the VMAs, they were together for a few weeks before she had to get back to work. She was in Paris to show her Fenty X Puma collection. Then she went to New York to take care By Lainey • Oct 11, 2016 01:15 pm
TV Updates Kathleen & Duana watch Insecure Kathleen and I have been talking about Insecure and Issa Rae since way before it had a name. We were both fans of Awkward Black Girl and despaired at the false starts of getting this woman on our TV screens. So anticipation was high, and like nerds, we pressed play By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 12:42 pm
Ben Affleck "Matt and Ben" and John and Emily: Inside the Good Will Hunting live read and what it could mean for Manchester by the Sea John Krasinski had a "viral moment" last week on Good Morning America when, as he was talking about his upcoming Good Will Hunting live read, Ben Affleck surprised him with a leering grin and wave. So, imagine the audience's surprise when the real Ben and Matt By Joanna • Oct 11, 2016 12:08 pm
Music Formation ends in love and Serena Beyoncé’s Formation tour ended on Friday in New Jersey. On Thursday, I wrote that if you had tickets I hate you and I’m jealous. Because on her final night, she performed 6 Inch for the first time …. #Beyonce performed #6Inch last night while hanging upside down #FORMATIONWorldTour #NewJersey By Lainey • Oct 11, 2016 11:34 am
TV Updates Factual Evidence to support Crucible Cast Party (I don’t remember the Sprite. What am I forgetting?) The most recent episode of SNL was always going to be a stacked deck for musical theatre, song-and-Broadway nerds. Elsewhere you can see host Lin-Manuel Miranda do his ‘I hope I nail SNL hosting’ rap to the tune of My By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 11:08 am
BFFs Gwyneth at the market Gwyneth Paltrow covers the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. But this shot on the cover? It has nothing to do with the photos in the magazine. In the magazine she’s at the supermarket, shopping in several different black outfits and bodysuits. She looks amazing. She looks ridiculous. I By Lainey • Oct 11, 2016 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation At this point there is no separating art from artist in the case of Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation, his debut feature film as a writer and director. He also stars in the movie and produced it, so this is unquestionably his movie. The Birth of a By Sarah • Oct 11, 2016 10:18 am
Ava DuVernay Intro for October 11, 2016 Dear Gossips, “It’s just words.” Is it ever “just” words? What can be achieved by words? What is the damage that can be done by “just” words? I read an interview the other day, before “it’s just words” became an excuse, at The Atlantic with director Ava DuVernay. By Lainey • Oct 11, 2016 09:49 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Where Am I In The Mix? Hi Duana! I LOVE your column and your name nerd advice (and your name, to be honest). I also loved your book – how we feel about our names is such a study in human hope and behaviour, I can hardly believe that we went this long without the name nerd By Duana • Oct 07, 2016 04:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train Did you like Gone Girl? Didn’t you think Amazing Amy was just THE WORST, but also kind of cool? Do you like mysteries but not like, actually hard to solve or uncomfortable ones, but where the people you want to have done it, did it, and you don’t By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 04:29 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Finds: Florence Vegan Leather Moto Jacket Gonna cut right to the chase because a) there’s a long weekend to get to and b) I just finished a detox and I’m about to eat my keyboard. I think we can all agree that there’s nothing better than a leather moto jacket, right? Unlessssssssssss it’ By Sasha • Oct 07, 2016 04:09 pm
Sean Penn Sean Penn & Leila George Yesterday new photos of Sean Penn kissing Leila George on holiday in Hawaii were released. The photos were taken on October 1. Click here to see them. He is all up in her face. Then, last night, Sean and Leila stepped out together in LA for “An Evening With Sean By Lainey • Oct 07, 2016 03:55 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Explosive training The beauty of explosive training is that you don’t need a gym to do it and I feel like most training scenes from boxing movies usually take place outside, in the cold. Am I right? All you need to do is find a park that has some stairs you By Hayley • Oct 07, 2016 03:29 pm
