TV Updates Intro for December 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, It was Duana who got me into Cheer, not surprisingly. This is a series that checks all her boxes – student-athlete-entertainers at a small college, a demanding, work-obsessed coach, and a production team that knew exactly how to tell the story. Cheer is Show Your Work all around, we By Lainey • Dec 29, 2021 09:16 am
What Else What Else Internet Boyfriend Benedict Cumberbatch is using his Power of the Dog awards campaign to talk about toxic masculinity, calling “not all men” a “childish defensive position”. A white guy said something reasonable about gender politics? Prepare for the internet meltdown in three…two…one… (Celebitchy) Madonna is upset with Tory By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 03:55 pm
TV Updates Wheel of Time never quite turns After the three-episode premiere of Wheel of Time, I was looking for some immediate issues to get resolved over the rest of the first season. Guess what? They don’t get resolved! Wheel of Time instead turns into a frustrating series that is intermittently compelling, but much of the time By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 02:38 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 28, 2021 Maria’s on holiday for the next couple of weeks so you’re stuck with me for Celebrity Social Media – which means get ready for a lot of BTS content. But we’ll start with Bennifer. There was no Bennifer update for Christmas weekend. No pap shots, nothing on social By Lainey • Dec 28, 2021 01:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s Test With Spider-Man: No Way Home riding high at the box office—it’s the only billion-dollar film of 2020 AND 2021—Tom Holland now faces the hurdle that has been difficult for other Marvel actors to clear: proving his box office mettle outside the MCU. Uncharted opens in February, which By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top Ten Films of 2021 After last year, 2021 feels like a more normal year in film. Just a reminder that for 2020, we adjusted to the extended Oscar eligibility calendar, so there are some films from early in the year that are on the 2020 list, like Barb and Star. So, if you’re By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bat and The Cat A new trailer for The Batman dropped yesterday, this time heavily featuring Zoe Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. While fully acknowledging that Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance as Catwoman in Batman Returns is immortal, I like the vibe of Kravitz’s Catwoman. I especially like her and Batman pushing each other’ By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 10:27 am
James Franco James Franco is “blind about power dynamics” On December 22, SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Podcast aired an exclusive hour-long interview with James Franco. It was just before the holidays, as everyone was wrapping up ahead of the Christmas break, and here’s James Franco explaining himself, with all kinds of rationalisations ranging from sex addiction to By Lainey • Dec 28, 2021 10:02 am
Top Reads Meghan Markle’s Christmas Victory At the beginning of December, an appeal court in England upheld a previous court’s decision in Meghan Markle’s lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday. Which means that TWO courts found in her favour that the Mail had violated her privacy and breached copyright. As part of the judgment, By Lainey • Dec 28, 2021 09:26 am
Intro for December 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, As we float through the liminal space of the last week of the year, there is something to keep in mind about 2022—it’s the year the Paramount consent decrees dies in the US. At 12:01 AM on January 1, 2022, movie distributors will be able By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 09:09 am
What Else What Else? Just another reminder – we’re dark tomorrow and Monday and will return on Tuesday, December 28. Wishing you and all our gossip partners a wonderful holiday weekend! Anya Taylor-Joy served up some outstanding fashion moments in 2021 and the Fug Girls are looking back at the highlights. Most if not By Lainey • Dec 23, 2021 02:34 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 23, 2021 Is TV enough neutral ground to get you through the holidays with people you don’t necessarily want to spend a lot of time chatting with? If things get dicey, just talk about something easy like Ted Lasso and avoid the big stuff (money, religion, politics) long enough to escape By Maria • Dec 23, 2021 02:11 pm
Mariah Carey Outfit of the Week: Mimi’s Christmas Puffer and Boots How could we go on Christmas break for a few days without a mention of our Christmas Angel, Mariah Carey? Mimi, as she does, is in Aspen for Christmas. And, as always at Christmas, there’s a lot for Mimi to celebrate – including her one billion streams: That’s a By Lainey • Dec 23, 2021 01:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Matrix Resurrections: a radical reclamation of mythology Twenty-two years after its debut, The Matrix is a landmark technical achievement in cinema memorable for its mind-bending use of philosophy, but it’s also remembered for its less than acclaimed sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and for how its “red pill” terminology has been coopted by By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 01:23 pm
Kim Kardashian Pete Davidson and the Kardashian Christmas Eve Party After spending last weekend in New York, when Saturday Night Live had to pivot after a COVID outbreak, Pete Davidson headed back to Los Angeles with Kim Kardashian where he’s been for the last few days, photographed several times driving around town in her Rolls Royce. He went jewellery By Lainey • Dec 23, 2021 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange meet in the multiverse The post-credit scene on Spider-Man: No Way Home is a teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has now been released online. It’s fine. It doesn’t feel especially like a Sam Raimi movie, but it does feel like a teaser for a movie that is By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 12:02 pm
