Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth rides regular Chris Hemsworth was photographed snowboarding in St Moritz earlier this week and since I watched so much snowboarding last month during the Olympics, my first thought was that it looks like he rides regular. Generally, at least in my experience, more people ride regular than goofy because more people are By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 02:37 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Olivia Rodrigo’s Backpack and Seatbelt Olivia Rodrigo was presented with the Billboard Woman of the Year award earlier this week. Her debut album, SOUR, has been a smash with multiple hits. She’s nominated for a number of Grammys so while it’s still early in her career, literally the beginning of her career, she By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith in After Yang Kogonada follows his feature film debut, Columbus, with the sci-fi drama After Yang, a quiet, reflective work about family, humanity, and loss. Set in a future where technology has become so seamless it’s virtually invisible, people can buy “technosapiens”, a class of semi-organic robots engineered to perform specific tasks. By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 01:14 pm
Oscars 2022 Presented by Lady Gaga Lady Gaga was not nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Patrizia Reggiani which some consider to be a snub. However she will still be at the Oscars as her name was announced with the first round of presenters yesterday. Along with Kevin Costner, Zoë Kravitz, Rosie Perez, Chris By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s semi-weekly appearance Chris Pine! Once again! So soon! I feel like we don’t see or hear from Pine for long stretches, and then suddenly he’s unavoidable. For instance, showing off his salt-and-pepper wolfman look just a couple weeks ago, and just this week, news that he and Annabelle Wallis have By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 11:14 am
Top Reads Chris and Ana Back Together Chris Evans and Ana de Armas were photographed the other day on the Atlanta set of Ghosted, which is described as a Romancing the Stone-style action adventure romance. I love it when I see Romancing the Stone used as a reference to describe a project – there aren’t enough of By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 10:14 am
TV Updates Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is at the center of The Dropout, a dramatization of the story of Holmes’s rise and fall as the CEO of Theranos, a one-time tech darling claiming to revolutionize the blood testing industry. There are already documentaries, podcasts, and long-form journalism covering every angle By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 09:27 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 4, 2022 Dear Gossips, Ahead of International Women’s Day next week, TIME has released its Women of the Year 2022 package featuring 12 “extraordinary leaders [who] are working toward a more equal world”. Among them is Zahra Joya, who started a news agency, Rukshana Media, in Afghanistan less than two years By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 08:58 am
What Else What Else? The New York Times mixed up Venus and Serena Williams which is a HUGE gaffe for the US’s paper of record concerning two of the US’s most famous athletes of the last twenty years. As if you needed any more proof that editors are important and newspapers have By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 04:05 pm
TV Updates Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi in Our Flag Means Death Our Flag Means Death, loosely based on the life of Stede Bonnet, the unlikeliest pirate in history, is not quite what you think it is. Created by David Jenkins and produced by Jenkins Taika Waititi—who also directs the pilot episode—Flag is one part workplace comedy, one part fish-out-of-water By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 03:46 pm
TV Updates The Girl From Plainville skirts a tricky edge Netflix was the first streaming platform to catch the true crime wave in a big way with Making A Murderer, and while docu-series have been their particular forte, but Hulu is rapidly carving a niche for dramatic serializations of true crime stories, starting with The Act and carrying on with By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 02:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 3, 2022 Shonda Rhimes gave Architectural Digest a tour of her sumptuous New York apartment. It’s luxurious and ornate, nothing like the structured minimalism that is so prevalent in celebrity décor right now. In the story by Emil Wilbekin, there’s a lot of detail on influences from Bridgerton to Mike By Maria • Mar 03, 2022 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Evan Rachel Wood as the unauthorized Madonna In keeping with today’s Madonna theme, here is a first look at Evan Rachel Wood in character as Madonna in the Weird Al biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe. She looks GREAT. I wonder if Wood has also auditioned for Madonna? Or is she disqualified by virtue of playing an unauthorized By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Madonna is choosing her Madonna Today in Hot Casting Rumors, THE role to get for white actresses under thirty is Madonna, in the biopic of Madonna being written and directed by Madonna. First reported by Jeff Sneider in The Ankler newsletter, Madonna is currently auditioning potential Madonnas that include Florence Pugh, Julia Garner, the newly By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Two tickets for Bullet Train, please Last week, we saw a faux-mercial themed teaser for Brad Pitt’s summer action movie, Bullet Train. Now, we have a full trailer, and yes, I will take two tickets, please. Bullet Train comes from director David Leitch, who is touted here as the director of Deadpool 2, but is By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 11:52 am
Weddings Sydney Sweeney is engaged Sydney Sweeney has had a big year. The White Lotus was one of the surprise television hits of 2021 and, of course, Euphoria has been the dominant television series of 2022 so far. She was hilarious and terrifying as Olivia in The White Lotus and terrifying and pathetic as Cassie By Lainey • Mar 03, 2022 10:45 am
