Music Taylor Swift in February People lost their minds last night because Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik released a song. Kathleen made me laugh earlier when I texted her to tell her that I had to admit that I liked it. She wrote back that “Omg I tried so hard to hate it. I can’ By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain is Miss Sloane Miss Sloane has one of the best trailers of the year, and it also features one of the most interesting performances of 2016. Jessica Chastain’s portrayal of the film’s title character singlehandedly elevates Miss Sloane from a Confirmation-esque TV movie about a woman with a cause, to By Joanna • Dec 09, 2016 03:33 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Finds: The EMPWR Coat I wish it didn’t take the holidays to motivate us all to be better human beings, but it’s better than nothing. So while we are all snuggled up in our cozy PJs, eating an endless supply of food from our fridge, and doing something as inane as mulling By Sasha • Dec 09, 2016 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Go into the matrix to find the apple Sarah emailed me the new trailer for Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed this morning. “Jesus Christ, does anyone understand this premise? I play these games and I'm kinda WTF-ing it.” I don’t play these games and now, having seen this trailer, I think Assassin’s By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in Allied Marion Cotillard went into promotion on Assassin’s Creed right after Allied. Allied has not performed well at the box office. There’s nothing particularly wrong with Allied. From a craft standpoint, it’s well made. Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard don’t deliver the performances of their lives, but By Sarah • Dec 09, 2016 02:03 pm
Maple Leaf Drake in December Drake is supposed to release a new album, More Life, this month. There was never an officially announced release date. But there aren't that many more release dates left, really. You don't want to do it too close to Christmas. You don't want to By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 01:01 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Natalie’s wrinkled holiday dress This is a festive dress. I understand why someone would want to wear it this time of year. And I think the hairstyle choice for it is perfect. The dress itself, however, is kind of a disappointment, mostly because of the material. I like the billowy design, I like the By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 12:07 pm
BFFs All roads lead to Wendi Deng Leonardo DiCaprio met with Donald and Ivanka Trump this week to discuss green jobs. But why, seriously, when Donald and Ivanka wanted to talk about the environment, did they call in Leo? The meeting may have been facilitated by former Vice President Al Gore, but it could also be the By Maria • Dec 09, 2016 11:44 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Pilates moves If you didn’t know this about me already, I am IN LOVE with my Pilates practice. Although I will never look like a graceful dancer, the movements of Pilates have been so great for all of my sports and it keeps my body pretty pain free. I understand that By Hayley • Dec 09, 2016 11:19 am
Photo Assumption Photo Assumption: Cate and Andrew in New York Back in October, Andrew Upton was pictured in Sydney with his arm around actress Harriet Dyer. The Daily Mail published the photos and while there was nothing obviously incriminating about them, as I posted at the time, that body language made me uncomfortable. As I also wrote, however, Cate and By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Friendly Baby Spider-Man Among superhero movies, Spider-Man has produced among the best (Spider-Man 2) and worst (Spider-Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man 2) examples of the genre. So the three-boot of the franchise, Spider-Man: Homecoming, has to at the very least not suck like the Amazing movies, and at By Sarah • Dec 09, 2016 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma & Ryan’s weekend Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling were immortalised together in Hollywood the other day. When I posted about this yesterday, I wondered whether or not that was premature – and most of you agreed. Now though, is it up to them to live up to it or us to ask them to By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 10:07 am
Intro for December 9, 2016 Dear Gossips, At least once a week, for the last two months, I’ve been getting emails from Norwegian gossips about Skam. Skam is the teen TV series watched by 20% of the Norwegian population. That’s more than just teens. Norwegian teens are obsessed with Skam, obviously, but so By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 09:16 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: One Plus One Equals Three? Hello Duana, When we were first talking about having kids I was so excited to pick names! I thought it would be the best part about being pregnant, but it’s turned out to be hard and exhausting in reality. My husband and I are expecting our second baby [in By Duana • Dec 08, 2016 04:48 pm
TV Updates “That Chubby Communist Girl”, or “White Day Is Every Day” I was dismissive about NBC doing Hairspray: Live, and I was wrong. As a musical nerd (see: virtually every post I’ve ever written on this site) I’m usually sort of dismissive of the more popular musicals. The ones people cite as ‘the only musical I’ve ever seen’ By Duana • Dec 08, 2016 04:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, December 8, 2016 Yesterday I wrote about Cruz Beckham, and shortly after David posted a video of Cruz hearing his song on the radio for the first time. I have no comment on the song – it’s a child singing, what is there to say? I’m much more interested in the fact By Maria • Dec 08, 2016 03:55 pm
