Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Banshees of Inisherin After bringing his tales of violence, vengeance, and the difficulty—if not outright impossibility—of forgiveness to America in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland with The Banshees of Inisherin. Set in 1920s Ireland on a remote island isolated from the civil war unfolding on the By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 03:32 pm
BFFs Jane Fonda's fight(s) It’s a busy time for Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Their latest collaboration on the big screen, a film called Moving On, made its world premiere at TIFF. So far, it’s getting great reviews – and that should come as no surprise. Tomlin and Fonda are the duo of By Stephanie • Sep 14, 2022 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Women Talking Content warning for sexual assault. Sarah Polley writes and directs this adaption of Miriam Toews’ novel, Women Talking. It’s a gutting drama in which a group of women must decide between two drastic courses of action. As Mennonites, they are at the mercy of the men in their community, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 01:44 pm
Media Manipulation Are Gigi and Leo a thing? Are Gigi Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio really a thing? I posted about the new rumours yesterday and PEOPLE’s story about them “getting to know each other” and the update today is that there are now photos of them talking closely at a party – Daily Mail has the exclusive. So By Lainey • Sep 14, 2022 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Babylon says not so fast Lest the fall festival triad of Venice, Telluride, and TIFF convince you that awards season is all but set in stone, the trailer for Babylon dropped yesterday, introducing one of the later-season players and, potentially, a major contender. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, Babylon has an A++ list cast, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 11:42 am
Royals The King’s Pen A few days ago, during the proclamation signing, King Charles went viral when he appeared to dismissively order staffers to clear the desk for him and then grimaced at someone because the pen tray was in his way. "The servant must clear my desk for me. I can' By Lainey • Sep 14, 2022 09:49 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Intro for September 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in the open about the Emmys I wrote that I’ll be interested in what the ratings are because I wasn’t convinced that people cared, and the timing wasn’t great with so much sh-t going on even before the Queen died and the 24-hour non-stop By Lainey • Sep 14, 2022 09:08 am
What Else What Else? In yesterday’s open, I wrote about royal media coverage and how some British royal reporters are getting it so wrong and so often that their fallacies are informing public opinion about Meghan Markle – which is a total betrayal of journalistic standards. Angela Levin is one of those people…and By Lainey • Sep 13, 2022 03:00 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 13, 2022 Burning Man is not as celeb-heavy as Coachella but this year, a few made their way to the desert including Kaia Gerber and Cindy Crawford. Could you do Burning Man, or any festival, with your mom? Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are still together despite rumbles of a split By Maria • Sep 13, 2022 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Fabelmans The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical account of filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s childhood, marking the first time Spielberg is credited for a screenplay since 2001’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Playwright Tony Kushner returns after adapting West Side Story for Spielberg last year to co-write the script, and Spielberg continues his By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Since he’s a parody songwriter, a parody biopic suits Weird Al Yankovic perfectly. Though it inevitably draws comparisons to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story more accurately does for music biopics what Zoolander did for the fashion industry. A zany, silly, deeply funny lampooning By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 12:52 pm
BFFs Does Gigi know Leo? Even before it was officially confirmed that Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone had broken up just a couple of months after her 25th birthday, there were whispers online about him and Gigi Hadid. As mentioned yesterday, New York Fashion Week is happening right now and, well, where else would Leo By Lainey • Sep 13, 2022 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Whale Content warning for eating disorders, fatphobia, self-harm, and emotional/verbal abuse. If you ever need proof that film festival audiences can be completely bonkers, look no further than Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, a film that received a 97-year ovation at its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, and By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 11:35 am
Top Reads Best Dressed: Quinta Brunson and Abbott Elementary I’ve decided that the best thing about Sheryl Lee Ralph’s win last night is that it was all the things. It was unexpected – in a stacked category, she was not favoured to win, particularly, though I don’t think there’s anyone out there who doesn’t love By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 10:30 am
Emmy Awards 2022 The Year of Squid Game In 2021, the Emmys took place on September 19, just two days after Squid Game premiered on Netflix. Everyone was oblivious then, no one had any idea that Squid Game would go on to become the most-watched series in Netflix history and come to the Emmys a year later and By Lainey • Sep 13, 2022 10:04 am
Emmy Awards 2022 The White (And Red, And Green, And Magenta) Lotuses… I need to start this post with an apology to Mare Winningham and Kaitlyn Dever, both of whom were in Dopesick, but who must have known, when they saw the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, that there was absolutely no chance they were getting By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 09:37 am
