TV Updates Kogonada and Justin Chon team up for Pachinko Kogonada’s sophomore feature film, After Yang, isn’t the only project he has coming up. He is also, along with Justin Chon—Twilight supporting actor turned filmmaker—adapting Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel, Pachinko, into a lavish limited series for Apple TV+. Together, Kogonada and Chon are By Sarah • Feb 24, 2022 10:37 am
Gorgessity Zoë wears the Bat Signal The Batman press tour is underway and the first red carpet was the UK premiere last night in London. Reviews are embargoed but early reaction I’ve seen has been quite positive so far. Well it better be, LOL. The movie is five minutes shy of three hours and if By Lainey • Feb 24, 2022 10:01 am
TV Updates Intro for February 24, 2022 Dear Gossips, The first trailer for Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls was released week. Now she’s on the cover of Variety for a great interview with Ramin Setoodeh to promote her show and her growing empire. Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, premiering on Prime on By Lainey • Feb 24, 2022 08:56 am
What Else What Else Rita Moreno covers Town & Country and the photos are STUPENDOUS. She’s photographed by Ruven Afanador, but these photos wouldn’t be amiss in an Avedon portfolio. Great, classic glamor photography. (Go Fug Yourself) Rosie O’Donnell apologized on TikTok for assuming that Priyanka Chopra’s dad is wellness By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the ice skating apocalypse A film left out of Netflix’s sizzle reel for 2022 is the Swedish thriller Black Crab starring Noomi Rapace. The trailer dropped yesterday, and I cannot fathom why they left this one out, it looks AWESOME. A post-apocalyptic action-thriller centered on an ICE SKATING MISSION? Are you By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alden Ehrenreich comes back Alden Ehrenreich exploded overnight in 2016, selected by the Coen Brothers to anchor the ensemble in Hail, Caesar!, and then named the new-young Han Solo, to headline a Star Wars spin-off centered on that beloved character. But then that all went to sh-t, and Ehrenreich, who has By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 02:40 pm
TV Updates Bill Nighy is the new Bowie If you’re making a new adaptation of a film that stars David Bowie, who do you get to replace David Bowie? When illness kept Bowie out of Twin Peaks: The Return, David Lynch replaced him with a talking teapot, because, well, why not. It’s David Lynch, Twin Peaks, By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 02:17 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 23, 2022 This is an interesting tidbit: Dua Lipa has fired her management team and according to some reports, her dad is taking over. Dua is a massive pop star in the middle of a tour and this is a huge change as her team has been with her from before she By Maria • Feb 23, 2022 01:52 pm
Top Reads Las Vegas is about to get Bangtan-ed BTS lit up social media yesterday with a big announcement – they’ve scheduled four shows in Las Vegas in April: BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE - LAS VEGAS 공연 개최#PTD_ON_STAGE_LV #PermissiontoDance #BTS #방탄소년단 pic.twitter.com/t38IjGOf3o — BIGHIT MUSIC (@BIGHIT_MUSIC) February 22, 2022 The timing By Lainey • Feb 23, 2022 12:32 pm
Business of Hollywood Aziz Ansari, moving on and moving up Four years after having a #MeToo scandal of his own, Aziz Ansari is doing just fine. He has continued touring as a top-selling stand-up comedian, and he has a new stand-up special on Netflix, Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian, his second post-scandal, plus he dropped a new By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews DanRad with the accordian The Weird Al Yankovic biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe is underway, and after set photos leaked over the weekend, the production has released the first official image of DanRad done up like Weird Al. He is unsettlingly convincing. “Wearing the Hawaiian shirt is a huge responsibility that I don’t take By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:36 am
Hair Andrew Garfield out and about Can I just say that I am very much enjoying Andrew Garfield this awards season? It’s his second time around as a Best Actor nominee (following his 2017 nomination for Hacksaw Ridge), and he seems to understand he’s not a frontrunner, so all the pressure is off and By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:00 am
Royals Harry and Meghan Go For Dinner Prince Harry took his cousin, Princess Eugenie, to his first Super Bowl a couple of weeks ago. Before they were seen there, no one had any idea that Eugenie, her husband Jack Brooksbank, and very likely their baby August were in California. And for several days after that there were By Lainey • Feb 23, 2022 10:23 am
Royals Kate and Mary Go For Lunch On her second and final day in Denmark, Kate Cambridge visited Forest Kindergarten and spent time outside with educators and children, learning about the development impact on students when they can learn outside of conventional classroom settings. She’s making headlines today for again talking about how “broody” she is. By Lainey • Feb 23, 2022 09:40 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for February 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Just in case you thought the Academy was done making stupid decisions in re: the Oscars, gird your loins because they are not. The latest bad idea is a rehash of something they’ve tried in various configurations in recent years, which is cutting certain awards from the By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 08:52 am
What Else What Else? Billie Eilish has many talents. One of them seems to be that she knows what’s happening in a crowd when she’s performing – and it is a skill, because while I don’t perform on stage at concerts in front of thousands of people, I have been on a By Lainey • Feb 22, 2022 04:09 pm
