Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa, Ruth, and Rebecca: Passing Fashion As Sarah wrote last month, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut, Passing, could be one of the “outsider interrupters” of this award season. It’s a Netflix title, it will be released on October 29, and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of momentum it can generate in By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Please just stop with the musicals Please…please I am begging you…no more musicals…no more. The Greatest Showman, The Prom, Dear Evan Hansen, CATS… I don’t think I can take anymore. Are all these musicals punishment for liking La La Land? I take it back! I hate La La Land! I will do By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 01:55 pm
TV Updates Squid Game Has Taken Over TikTok My title kind of speaks for itself, but I mean, who's surprised? Squid Game is the talk of the town. Lainey has been writing about the series’ huge debut on Netflix, and more specifically, how Netflix’s investment in South Korean programming over the last several years that By Anastasia • Oct 05, 2021 01:00 pm
TV Updates Where be the dragons? The Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, is due next year, and we now have a teaser by which to judge it. Yep, that’s Westeros all right! There’s the Red Keep, and the Iron Throne, though it has been reimagined for an era centuries before By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 11:45 am
Top Reads Here Comes Adele The buzz – more like a roar, given who we’re talking about – started a few days ago when “30” started showing up on landmarks around the world: Billboards presumed to be teasing Adele's comeback have been displayed in various locations and landmarks around the world, including the Colosseum By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Reese and Ashton in a rom-com It was probably only a matter of time. Reese Witherspoon is a familiar face in a rom-com. It’s been a while, but it’s still familiar. And Ashton Kutcher too. I can’t say I’m a fan of Ashton Kutcher like as a celebrity. But… I did enjoy By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 10:32 am
Business of Hollywood The IATSE Strike: What to know Over the weekend, IATSE, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees, voted by an overwhelming 98% majority to authorize a strike, which will shut down virtually all film and television production across the US (and it could affect some Canadian productions, which often have a portion of American crew, especially By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 09:45 am
Music Intro for October 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, Billboard yesterday confirmed the inevitable: .@Coldplay and @BTS_Twt rocket onto the Billboard #Hot100 at No. 1 with #MyUniverse. 💯 https://t.co/mEXavQW7eL — billboard (@billboard) October 5, 2021 It was inevitable because of BTS and their ARMY, currently the most powerful fandom in pop culture. BTS’s collaboration By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 08:58 am
What Else What Else? I love this suit on Helen Mirren. It looks perfect on her. The tailoring is so good. The Fug Girls are taking issue with the makeup. Like, from afar, it’s bold, it’s dramatic. The closeup shots though… I don’t know that I mind as much as Fug. By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 04:10 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 4, 2021 Note: At the time of writing, Instagram is down so this will be an all-Twitter edition of celebrity social media, led by Kiernan Shipka. instagram down — Kiernan Shipka (@kiernanshipka) October 4, 2021 Last week, a reader wrote in to correct my take on Princess Mako, who is set to wed By Maria • Oct 04, 2021 02:51 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfits of the Weekend: Jodie, Charlize, Gabrielle, and Jamie at the polo As we have seen over the last six to eight weeks or so, celebrities are back on red carpets and other events, getting dressed up and showing out again. So we’re getting a lot of fashion coming at us, so much good fashion that Friday seems like too far By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey’s Black Girl Magic Disney World’s 50th Anniversary event took place on Friday, and it brought us a HEAVENLY performance by our next Ariel, Halle Bailey. Watching this performance made the little Black girl in me glow like she never got to when she was younger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXctZ7RRpWA By Anastasia • Oct 04, 2021 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and a Taste of Award Season Bennifer? George Clooney’s adaptation of JR Moehringer’s memoir, The Tender Bar, doesn’t open in select theatres until December 17. But we are officially in award season now, and with schedules the way they are, they’re out on the circuit early, with two screenings in LA this weekend, By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 12:12 pm
Business of Hollywood Tom Cruise: Helicopter Life Forever There were reports recently that Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell, who are still working on Mission: Impossible 7, which may as well be called Mission: Impossible Never-ending, considering how long they’ve been in production for this movie, broke up – even though it’s never been confirmed that they were By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 11:19 am
BFFs Amy and Jennifer March for Women’s Rights “Simply put: we are witnessing the most dire threat to abortion access in our lifetime” – the Women’s March website. Given what happened in Texas recently, this is not an exaggeration. And it’s why tens of thousands of people protested at over 600 demonstrations across the United States this By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 09:29 am
TV Updates Intro for October 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, A week ago in this space I wrote about Squid Game and how it was the #1 show in the world on Netflix, including in North America, even though it wasn’t being talked about, at the time, in North America like a #1 show. In the days By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 08:58 am
