Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 15, 2023 In what has to be one of the dumbest controversies of the month, Millie Bobby Brown is being criticized for using a ghostwriter. UMMMMM. Please. Every single celebrity uses a ghostwriter for fiction and non-fiction, which is fine by me. Writing is a skill and writing a book is more By Maria • Sep 15, 2023 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Limbo First Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen has carved out a niche making neo-noir crime dramas about lonely men in lonely places, investigating lonely crimes. His latest, Limbo, is true to his thematic motif, centered on a lone detective sent to a remote Outback town, the titular Limbo, to investigate the cold-case By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 12:45 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Ciara's still laughing Ciara was recently interviewed by The Shade Room and during the interview, the host, Thembi Mawema, asked her about her coparenting relationship with rapper and ex, Future. Her response? A 15-second-long cackle. “What is co-parenting like for you guys?” she was asked, before erupting into the lengthy fit of laughter, By Stephanie • Sep 15, 2023 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Dumb Money Director Craig Gillespie has a thing for unlikely underdogs. Whether it’s Tonya Harding in I, Tonya or Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy, or even Cruella De Vil in Cruella, he makes movies about protagonists we might not otherwise think of as being an underdog. But in Dumb Money, By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman returns Aquaman was the surprise hit of the DCEU, the now-defunct iteration of the DC cinematic universe. It made more than any other DCEU film, pulling in over $1.1 billion in 2018. Now, finally, the sequel is coming, just in time to not matter anymore. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 11:02 am
Media Manipulation Pacifist Good Samaritan, a short film starring Jonathan Majors Jonathan Majors’s publicist and legal team probably don’t want me to be calling this video a short film. But life is art, and in our times we live our lives on screen. Sure, there’s a possibility that this was indeed an unscripted, totally spontaneous event but the By Lainey • Sep 15, 2023 10:30 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Outfits of the Week: Vogue World London 2023 The first Vogue World happened last September, during NY Fashion Week. It was a fashion show and a street fair and a celebration of culture. So many stars were there, including Serena Williams who opened the show. This is an Anna Wintour production and as the NYT described it, “staged By Lainey • Sep 15, 2023 10:03 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 15, 2023 Dear Gossips, The writers’ strike is entering its 20th week, and things are happening, none of it particularly good. Drew Barrymore is resuming her daytime talk show, with The Talk and The Jennifer Hudson Show following suit. Bill Maher is also resuming Real Time without writers. Bill Maher sucks so By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 08:54 am
What Else What Else? It is so great to see Tori Kelly back out, after her health crisis earlier this year, and now she’s on tour. She kicked off in Toronto just the other day. Tori’s hair here, as usual, is living and giving. And this outfit… she’s just convinced me By Lainey • Sep 14, 2023 04:19 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 14, 2023 If you are going to a garden party at a palace, this is exactly the right look. One thing that makes Sarah Jessica Parker so stylish is not necessarily the clothes – this is a perfectly serviceable green dress – but the way her clothes rise to the occasion, whether it’s By Maria • Sep 14, 2023 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Knox Goes Away Yet another actor-director at TIFF! That was big this year, gee, I wonder why? Michael Keaton directs his first feature since 2008’s The Merry Gentleman with Knox Goes Away, a thriller about a hit man battling dementia in a race to save his son. (It was interesting to see By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Holdovers It has been six years since Alexander Payne’s last film, Downsizing, and nineteen years since his previous collaboration with Paul Giamatti, Sideways. Now, Payne is back with The Holdovers, which once again sees Giamatti as his leading man. If Downsizing was a rare miss from Payne, The Holdovers is By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 02:18 pm
Steve Harvey Steve Harvey snapped back Steve Harvey has been coming to his wife’s defence recently because of rumours about her being the side chick in Steve’s previous marriage and her alleged infidelity. Toward the end of August, speculation on social media started swirling, alleging that Marjorie recently cheated on Steve with a staff By Stephanie • Sep 14, 2023 01:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: North Star Kristin Scott Thomas’s directorial debut, North Star, is inspired by her own experience losing her father and stepfather within a few years of each other when she was a little girl. Scott Thomas, who co-wrote the script with John Micklethwait, frames these losses as the core memories haunting Katherine By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 01:11 pm
Style Bad Bunny won’t clarify Bad Bunny covers the new issue of Vanity Fair which dropped on Tuesday right before the VMAs. It’s another quality profile by Michelle Ruiz who does a great job here as the piece both introduces Benito to those who may not be as familiar with his backstory and meteoric By Lainey • Sep 14, 2023 12:29 pm
Relationship Assumption Nelly and Ashanti: on again Nelly has confirmed that he and Ashanti are officially back together again. He was asked the question in an interview with Love and Hip Hop’s Rasheeda on her Philo TV show, Boss Moves: “Yeah, we’re cool again,” he said. “I think it surprised both of us, though. It By Stephanie • Sep 14, 2023 10:23 am
