Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: There’s Something in the Barn Fantastic Fest is a film festival focused on genre films, hosted annually at Austin’s famed Alamo Drafthouse theater (and was founded by the same people behind the Drafthouse). While everyone else is focused on prestige and awards come autumn, Fantastic Fest brings audiences horror, mystery, cult and the occult, By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 03:00 pm
TV Updates Strike cleanup As we wait for the WGA to ratify their tentative new mutual bargaining agreement, here are some housekeeping notes as the writers’ strike winds down. First, while scripted shows, and films, will be slower to come back, with production delays likely to continue for at least another month as the By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 01:49 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 26, 2023 Kristen Stewart produced and is narrating a queer ghost hunters show called Living for the Dead. What an excellent title. The only downside (for Canadians) is that it is on Hulu so we have to wait for a streamer to pick it up. In the reality TV ecosystem, heartbreak can By Maria • Sep 26, 2023 01:11 pm
Bad Style Anya in Paris Paris fashion week is happening, and the Dior show is today. Here is Dior brand ambassador Anya Taylor-Joy getting ready, photographed yesterday leaving Dior HQ after, supposedly, a fitting before their show. To date, Anya and Dior have been a very successful partnership, with some unforgettable style moments featuring the By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 12:17 pm
TV Updates Selena update Selena Gomez is still in Paris, still hanging out with Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz-Beckham. I am fascinated by what they talk about. They are obviously close friends, this is an inner circle we are witnessing, but like…what do they talk about? To be quite frank, I had no opinion By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 11:03 am
Media Manipulation Travis gets the Taylor Bump There’s no overstating how big the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce situationship is right now. Taylor is Taylor so anything related to Taylor automatically generates big headlines. And Travis is a two-time Super Bowl champion widely expected to one day be in the Hall of Fame – in America that By Lainey • Sep 26, 2023 10:15 am
TV Updates Your latest JAW thirst trap It seems like every week there’s a new Jeremy Allen White thirst trap. It so seems like it, I actually checked our archives and the photo agencies’ archives, and while JAW gets photographed a lot in the post-Bear world, the blatant thirst traps are more of a weekly, maybe By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 09:26 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, An interesting interview popped up in Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter this week (elsewhere in Puck, Belloni name-checked writers who spoke out unabashedly during the strike, questioning if this will make them un-hire-able going forward. Do not consider this an endorsement of Puck, I just like this one By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 09:01 am
What Else What Else? I just posted about Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny at Gucci in the previous post and here we are focusing on the new era of Gucci, the post Alessandro Michele era. The dominance of Gucci over the last decade is largely because of Michele’s influence which is why there’ By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 25, 2023 Just a couple of theatre kids doing theatre kid stuff. Jessica Chastain and Jeremy Strong have been friends for years and she was one of the first to defend him when The New Yorker article came out. As we know, Jeremy didn’t need that much defending. The work speaks By Maria • Sep 25, 2023 03:10 pm
Models Kendall and Benito take Milan There are some people online who are calling them “Kenito”. I will try my hardest not to do this…but I can’t deny, it’s kinda catchy. So here are Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny at the Gucci show in Milan this weekend. It’s their front row fashion By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 02:40 pm
Books Kerry Washington shares her abortion story Kerry Washington is currently promoting her memoir, Thicker Than Water, which came out today. Excerpts and other details have been making headlines over the last few days but I want to talk about her abortion story. Of the decision to include this in the book, Kerry tells PEOPLE: "I By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 01:12 pm
BFFs Selena throuples in Paris Selena Gomez is in Paris with Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham. They’ve spent many holidays together, they’ve been on many trips together, they’ve joked about their throuple thing for a while now. And they’ve all been posting from their time in Paris over the last few By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 12:38 pm
Hook Ups Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: The Rom-Com of 2023 No but seriously… is this scripted?! Wait, stop. Stop before you answer. Because I’ve decided I don’t give a sh-t if it is. Taylor Swift is giving us very good, no-regret gossip. If you want to complain about this you have not come to the right place; no By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 10:29 am
Top Reads Half the strike is over After five days of negotiations, following 146 days of striking, the WGA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative deal for a new three-year mutual bargaining agreement between screenwriters and the studios. The deal is still “subject to drafting final contract language”, per a statement WGA leadership sent to their By Sarah • Sep 25, 2023 09:34 am
Music Intro for September 25, 2023 Dear Gossips, This has been the month of the fashion weeks from New York to London to Milan this past weekend and Paris Fashion Week kicks off today. As usual, the Versace presentation attracted a lot of big names on Friday night and not just the Hollywood names. Donatella posted By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 09:06 am
