Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 11, 2024 Katy Perry is performing at the VMAs with butterflies which could be theatrical, maybe? They look like CGI to me but she physically recoils so I don’t know what’s going on. But why show us beforehand? She’s already in a very long promo cycle, a little surprise By Maria • Sep 11, 2024 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan made his name directing horror films and television series like Oculus, Hush, Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, and The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Besides being one of the best genre directors working today, he’s the preeminent cinematic By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 02:11 pm
As Seen on Social Media As Seen On Social Media: The Blake Lively effect and Liam Gallagher, fall influencer? Day-to-day Blake We’ve talked and talked about Blake Lively and the “what does it all mean” It Ends With Us drama and one thing that probably didn’t get the attention she was hoping for was her very considered wardrobe for the press tour. It was so… floral …but By Maria • Sep 11, 2024 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Beat writers are notoriously difficult to adapt into cinema, probably something to do with the intense interiority of their narratives (some might even say, solipsistic). Luca Guadagnino, though, manages to turn William S. Burroughs’ early, semi-autobiographical novel Queer into an interesting piece of cinema unto itself, though this is a By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 12:02 pm
Cheating Loins He’s got another confession to make If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you know I’ve been banging on about Dave Grohl for years. Well, I’m trading my laminated Foo Fighter card for a piping hot cup of “you f-cked up good, Dave Grohl!” Just like when the Oasis news dropped, By Maria • Sep 11, 2024 11:35 am
BFFs The Most Powerful Childless Cat Lady in the World Pretty much immediately after the US presidential debate last night between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Taylor Swift finally entered the chat. She made it clear who she’s voting for, and it’s who most of her fans believed she would vote for given her previous positions By Lainey • Sep 11, 2024 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Apprentice commits to the bit Well, here it is, the first trailer for The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s film about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn and their f-cked up history, and the early years in which Cohn mentored Trump into the, er, man we know today. You know what? It doesn’t look bad. Looks By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 09:47 am
Shout-Outs September 11, 2024 – Shout-Outs Rainbow Community Places is having a fundraiser comedy benefit in Toronto on Sunday, September 29th and we’re hoping you can join! The evening is hosted by renowned comedian/actor/writer Martha Chaves (Just for Laughs, We're Funny That Way, CBC) and will feature an amazing lineup of By Lainey • Sep 11, 2024 09:27 am
Kamala Harris Intro for September 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, For decades, maybe longer, American politics has been described as theatre. It is still theatre, but by half. Theatrical performers are trained artists and there was a trained professional on stage last night at the presidential debate, but on the other side of the stage, it was less By Lainey • Sep 11, 2024 09:15 am
What Else What Else? Lindsay Lohan stepped out in New York for a fashion week event and in a Sliding Doors universe, she would have at this point in her life been one to watch for her style, whatever the occasion. I know there are people out there who are still obsessed with her, By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 04:13 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 10, 2024 Yesterday Lainey posted about JLo at TIFF and the “bad picker” comment she made to Bobby Cannavale. As Lainey said, no lip reading is required here and it’s very clear (and JLo would know this, as cameras were all up in their faces). I made the mistake of reading By Maria • Sep 10, 2024 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Angelina Jolie’s Without Blood Angelina Jolie is something of a frustrating filmmaker. She has no lack of technical skill, her eye is good, and she has a deft touch with actors, but her films never seem to add up to much. That is especially prevalent in her latest film, Without Blood, an adaptation of By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 02:32 pm
Media Manipulation Blake Lively’s Feelings It Ends With Us opened in theatres a month ago yesterday and has gone on to become Blake Lively’s highest grossing movie. That’s typically an achievement to be celebrated but there really hasn’t been all that much celebration, at least not publicly. Because of the scandal that By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Destin Daniel Cretton is taking over Spider-Man When TIFF is happening, I don’t like to think about anything else which, naturally, means Marvel is up to some nonsense. Whenever you least want to work, you can count on Disney and/or Marvel to force you to work. (I’m glad they seemed to have broken their By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 12:26 pm
Style This is Brad Kelce Brad Pitt is in New York, ahead of the Apple TV+ release of Wolfs, his new film with George Clooney that received aggressively medium reviews coming out of Venice. That premiere is happening soon and these days, since he and Ines de Ramon have hard launched their relationship, she is By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Sometimes in my reviews I will cheekily dub a character “Lady Mom”, such as in my review of Unstoppable, in which Jennifer Lopez stars as a stereotypically underwritten mother character. “Lady Mom” is a derogatory shorthand for characters definable only by being female and mothers, with no real individual narrative By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 10:16 am
