Royals Tom hosts Will and Kate In London last night, the UK premiere of Top Gun: Marverick. And, naturally, because this is a Tom Cruise movie and Tom Cruise is always extra AF, they went full throttle with the presentation. Leicester Square was a spectacle, a huge maze of digital screens was set up outside the By Lainey • May 20, 2022 09:58 am
TV Updates Intro for May 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, It has been a long ass week, the state of the world is depressing, and the Top Gun: Maverick press tour has been disappointingly normal, so let’s start the day with something totally silly. A trailer dropped yesterday for This Is Going To Hurt, a series starring By Sarah • May 20, 2022 09:09 am
What Else What Else? Lainey’s off to the Top Gun premiere, so I’m here to close out the day. Let’s start with Berenice Bejo in Cannes. She’s best known in North America as the star of The Artist (remember The Artist?!), but she’s a big deal in France. She’ By Sarah • May 19, 2022 04:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 19, 2022 According to People magazine, Minka Kelly and Trevor Noah are done for good. They’ve been on and off for a while but a source told People, “She is very happy. She'd rather be single than waste her time with the wrong guy." That’s a very By Maria • May 19, 2022 03:11 pm
TV Updates David Oyelowo is (finally) giving Bass Reeves his due Yellowstone is a self-sustaining television universe at this point, with the main series starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Reilly; the prequel, 1883, starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill; another prequel coming with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren called 1932 (should be called Mosquito Coast 2: Yellowstone Mosquitos or something similar) By Sarah • May 19, 2022 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Billy Eichner’s Bros Rom-coms are in full blown revival mode, but unlike the rom-com trends of the past, queer people—and/or queer-coded people—are no longer relegated to the sidelines. The gay rom-com is here, from Fire Island, Joel Kim Booster's contemporary queer take on Pride & Prejudice, starring Booster By Sarah • May 19, 2022 01:53 pm
Quiveration Almost time for Harry’s House Harry Style’s new album, Harry’s House, drops tomorrow and is getting solid reviews, at least from outlets I’ve read (Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Times, NME, Entertainment Weekly). This is his third solo album and he’s talked about moving past the pressure points of expectation from By Lainey • May 19, 2022 01:05 pm
Amazingness Tom Cruise in Cannes: Fist-pumps, standing ovations, and chivalry Sarah posted photos from the Top Gun gala spectacle in Cannes yesterday along with details from his Q&A before the premiere at the palais. I’m here to follow up on a few more details now that the movie has screened for the festival audience – to a five By Lainey • May 19, 2022 11:50 am
Top Reads Doctor Taylor Swift Taylor Swift fans were disappointed last week when May 13 came and went and there was no surprise album drop. Instead Taylor saved her first public appearance of 2022 for Yankee Stadium, where she appeared yesterday to receive an honorary doctorate in fine arts from New York University and deliver By Lainey • May 19, 2022 10:34 am
Amazingness JLo: “But I’m also saying…does the camera got me?” YES. Or YASSSSSS, for added emphasis. This is what I’ve been waiting for – the trailer for Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime. The film will open the Tribeca Festival next month before it premieres on Netflix on June 14. At the end of the preview, JLo reads from her family By Lainey • May 19, 2022 09:53 am
Shout-Outs May 19, 2022 – Shout-Outs Ali! BORAHAE! I’m sorry I’ve been travelling so I’m a day late on this… HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I think you’re in England, which is where I am right now, so if it makes a difference, I’m sending you these belated wishes much closer to you than By Lainey • May 19, 2022 09:13 am
TV Updates Intro for May 19, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s Thursday, which means that I’ve gone almost a whole week without talking about Heartstopper, so let’s fix that. If you haven’t watched it yet, you’re missing out on the sweetest television show to premiere this year. Heartstopper was released on Netflix exactly By Lainey • May 19, 2022 09:04 am
What Else What Else? Julia Fox has reached the “grocery shopping in her underwear” phase of fame, so these fifteen minutes are almost up. (Go Fug Yourself) Famous COVID denier Eric Clapton caught COVID. No. You don’t say. Shocking. (DListed) ABC says they’re open to having Chris Rock host the 2023 Oscars. By Sarah • May 18, 2022 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Netflix drama! The first trailer for Chris Hemsworth’s new Netflix movie, Spiderhead, is here, and it looks like a trip. I’m not sure I’d be 100% on board except that Bad Times at the El Royale is one of my favorite contemporary films, and that has Hemsworth working in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Riley Keough made a Native movie and got a fancy explainer about it Riley Keough is making her directorial debut at Cannes, with a film she co-directed with her business partner, Gina Gammell. They’re premiering War Pony in the Un Certain Regard section of the film festival, a film they made about young men growing up on the Pine Ridge reservation in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gunapalooza It is here, it is now, it is nigh—the Top Gun: Maverick premiere is happening at Cannes. And, I am shocked and upset to report, as of this writing, there is no Lady Gaga. I repeat, there is NO Lady Gaga. And I was SO looking forward to her By Sarah • May 18, 2022 02:37 pm
