Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, There are a handful of directors who are events unto themselves. Christopher Nolan, for example, is enough to sell a movie. All you need to see is his name in the credits and people are out here buying tickets a year in advance for hundreds of dollars. And By Lainey • Sep 09, 2025 09:47 am
Gorgessity Tessa Thompson was first In one of his VMAs wrap-up posts today, MC posted about how many people showed up in red at the VMAs. That was on Sunday but on Saturday, Tessa Thompson set the red standard, in my opinion anyway. Tessa is at TIFF to promote Nia DaCosta’s Hedda – the world By Lainey • Sep 08, 2025 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 8, 2025 Rita Ora and Taika Waititi are reportedly working on a musical about Fyre Festival. This could legitimately be great with the right sense of humour, look how well the documentary was received. PEOPLE ran an update on Dave Grohl and Jordyn Blum, with sources saying they are “very happy” and By Maria • Sep 08, 2025 03:16 pm
Style A Very “Red” VMA Carpet The VMAs are the one award show where dressing campy and out of the box is not only the norm, it is very much encouraged. This year’s red carpet saw tons of looks but there was one colour that stood out simply due to the sheer volume of guests By MC • Sep 08, 2025 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Angelina Jolie in Couture Alice Winocour is an idiosyncratic filmmaker who has yet to work in the same genre twice. Her latest film, Couture, is an anthological drama set during Paris Fashion Week following several different women through their journeys during couture’s most important week. Written and directed by Winocour, Couture is also By Sarah • Sep 08, 2025 12:53 pm
Music Lady Gaga’s New York Minute Smack in the middle of her sold out world tour, Lady Gaga made a stop at last night’s VMAs to collect an award, and remind us all that she is still that bitch. It’s been a huge year for her after the release of her platinum-selling album Mayhem By MC • Sep 08, 2025 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Sydney Sweeney in Christy TW for domestic violence Christy Salters, known for much of her career by her married name, Christy Martin, put women’s boxing on the map, and was the first “lady fighter” to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated and compete in a Pay-Per-View match. She was a champion and a By Sarah • Sep 08, 2025 11:45 am
Music Sabrina, Tate and MTV’s New Showgirls Similar to last year’s ceremony and almost every other award show in recent times, the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards were carried by the women. From gymnastic splits to dancing with the queens, all the ladies who hit the stage at last night’s show each brought their own By MC • Sep 08, 2025 10:54 am
BFFs Mariah + Ariana: A VMA Story After 35 years in the music industry, Mariah Carey has finally won a VMA. Actually, she won two in what one could only assume is MTV’s way of apologizing for playing in her face for decades. The elusive butterfly took home VMAs for Best R&B Video for By MC • Sep 08, 2025 09:37 am
TV Updates Intro for September 8, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Creative Arts Emmys happened over a busy weekend in film, television, and music with the MTV VMAs last night, the Venice Film Festival wrapping up, the first few days of TIFF, and so much more. The Emmys are now six days away so much of the focus By Lainey • Sep 08, 2025 08:51 am
What Else Pamela Anderson gives a speech! Pamela Anderson was in Deauville today to receive the Talent Award from the festival and she gave one of the best acceptance speeches of at least the last decade, at any event. Please, if you have five minutes, watch it for yourself because she is brilliant. And she made a By Lainey • Sep 05, 2025 04:50 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 5, 2025 The Stella McCartney fall collection is called “Laptop to LapDance” with a campaign starring Eva Mendes. The show notes explained that it aimed to “explore the duality of the modern working woman—balancing structure with seduction” and the presentation was set in an office with computers and poles. It’s By Maria • Sep 05, 2025 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Riz Ahmed in Hamlet Hamlet is Hamlet is Hamlet, there’s only so much you can do with Hamlet, it’s been done so many times by so many people in so many mediums over the literal centuries since Shakespeare’s play debuted. The latest update comes from director Aneil Karia and stars Riz By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 01:42 pm
Music Mariah’s Greatest VMA Moments, Ranked The 2025 recipient of the Video Vanguard Award at the MTV VMAs this weekend will be the one and only Mariah Carey. The award has been a part of VMA history since it was first awarded to The Beatles, Richard Lester, and David Bowie during the first telecast in 1984 By MC • Sep 05, 2025 12:46 pm
TV Updates Charlie Hunnam really did it Last year we saw Charlie Hunnam in character as serial killer (and grave robber, etc) Ed Gein for the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s incredibly popular true crime anthology series, Monster. Season one dealt with Jeffrey Dahmer and won many awards for star Evan Peters. Season two dealt with By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney changes the subject One of the highlights on the TIFF calendar today is David Michôd’s Christy, a biopic of boxer Christy Martin with Sydney Sweeney in the role. Ahead of the world premiere this afternoon, it was announced yesterday that the film will be released November 7, which means the distributor has By Lainey • Sep 05, 2025 11:32 am
