Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics’ Choice nominations: As expected, no Green Knight The Critics’ Choice Association just announced their film nominations, on the heels of the HFPA announcing the Golden Globes nominations earlier this morning. Full disclosure, I am a member of the CCA, so I get to nominate films, and while I didn’t expect all my nominations to line up By Sarah • Dec 13, 2021 02:21 pm
Keanu Reeves Keanu & Alex: Bill & Ted’s Double Date Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter gave Bill & Ted fans a little reunion this weekend – the two met up for dinner with their respective partners. Keanu was accompanied by artist Alexandra Grant, his long-time girlfriend and Alex was with his wife, Ramsay Ann Naito. They were out for pizza By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 01:29 pm
Jennifer Lopez Bennifer: A Pre-Holiday Red Carpet See?! Bennifer Weekend Updates! The trend continues! This weekend, they Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez walked a carpet – it was the premiere of The Tender Bar with JLo showing up to support Ben in one of the strongest performances of his career. And this relates to Sarah’s post on By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 12:53 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Golden Globe nominations The Golden Globe Awards will not be broadcast in January, because of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s past f-cksh-t. The organisation claims it has undergone sweeping changes but even getting to the point of agreeing to change seemed like such a challenge, right now there’s a By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 11:19 am
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds… and the City Over the last year or so we’ve been watching Ryan Reynolds killing it – not on camera, as an actor, but off-camera, as the head of perhaps one of the most innovative creative agencies in the industry, Maximum Effort. Just last week, I posted about Ryan and Maximum Effort By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 11:01 am
Lewis Hamilton Intro for December 13, 2021 Dear Gossips, I wasn’t joking on Friday in my post about Lewis Hamilton and the last race of the F1 season that if you were to script it, it would come down to the final lap. That’s exactly what happened at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, resulting in By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 10:20 am
What Else What Else Adele is going to make bank with her Vegas residency. I wonder which is more lucrative, a Vegas residency or a worldwide tour? The tour seems like it would have way more overhead, but the Vegas theaters are a lot smaller than the stadiums and arenas that make up touring By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Simon Rex (yes, that’s right) in Red Rocket Erstwhile MTV VJ and 2000s It Boy actor Simon Rex makes a, frankly, shocking comeback in Sean Baker’s latest slice of life realist drama, Red Rocket. Starring as Mikey, a washed-up porn star, Rex (who has his own history with the adult entertainment industry) gives the kind of By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 03:43 pm
TV Updates See the show that broke up Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Last week, Adam McKay blamed a casting decision for his new HBO series about the Lakers as the reason for his falling out with Will Ferrell. Now that series, titled Winning Time, has a trailer, and, well, John C. Reilly looks f-cking amazing in it as Dr. Jerry Buss, By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 03:06 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfits of the Week: Selma Blair and Ruth Negga Both outfits of this week happened at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event on Wednesday. Let’s start with Selma Blair who received the Equity in Entertainment award, presented to her by Michelle Pfeiffer. Have you seen Introducing, Selma Blair? You can stream it on discovery+ via Amazon By Lainey • Dec 10, 2021 02:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 10, 2021 The conversation around spoilers is always contentious, especially online. (My official stance is that I don’t care about spoilers and knowing plotlines or the ending head of time doesn’t diminish my enjoyment of a TV show or film. Sarah: HARD SAME.) There’s an And Just Like That… By Maria • Dec 10, 2021 02:03 pm
Style Lewis Hamilton and the Season Finale I’m in no rush for the weekend to go by any faster… but I am also very much looking forward to Sunday. It’s the season finale of Succession, and after what happened on the penultimate episode of this season, well, I think we all want to know how By Lainey • Dec 10, 2021 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel’s Chippendales movie is growing True crime is a vast genre, and every aficionado has their preferred corners of the true crime library. Mine is “cocaine-fueled mayhem of the Seventies and Eighties”, so the story of the Chippendales murder-for-hire plot is an old, well not favorite, because people died, but a much- By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fine, yes, I like West Side Story Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story, originally adapted to film in 1961 and now reimagined by Spielberg and Tony Kushner, is about as good as movie musicals get. It’s big, it’s melodramatic, the songs, penned by Steven Sondheim, fill the room with emotion, and Leonard Bernstein’ By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde can’t turn down a dare Olivia Wilde covers the January 2022 issue of Vogue, which surprised me because it seems like this is in service of the next project she’s promoting, her sophomore directorial effort, Don’t Worry Darling, as she appears in several of the photos alongside cinematographer Matthew Libatique – and the film By Lainey • Dec 10, 2021 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews At last, Halo A long time ago, in what feels by now like a previous life, I saw a movie adaptation of the popular Halo video game series implode in spectacular Hollywood fashion. It was a lesson in crash-and-burn Hollywood dealmaking, and I honestly thought Halo would never get made. The By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 10:18 am
