Movie Reviews and Previews Math-Man Returns While we wait for Bennifer’s big premiere in Venice, let’s kill time with some non-Bennifer related Ben Affleck news… One of my favorite dumb-fun movies in recent memory is The Accountant, aka Math-Man Begins, in which Ben Affleck plays a neurodiverse CPA with a secret By Sarah • Sep 10, 2021 10:47 am
John Krasinski Emily and John hold hands in New York As mentioned in today’s open, it is a busy week in celebrity. They’re all over the place – and it’s the usual suspects but also those who aren’t seen that often. Like Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, who spent most of the last year in England but By Lainey • Sep 10, 2021 10:27 am
Gorgessity Matt, Ben, and Jodie…Before Bennifer On Fridays, I generally like to wrap up the site by 1pm ET. Our site manager usually gets the last post in about an hour to 90 minutes after that. Today we may have to push that back. Because … Bennifer. The Last Duel world premiere is happening tonight in Venice, By Lainey • Sep 10, 2021 09:55 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 10, 2021 Dear Gossips, There is a LOT going on in pop culture right now. Venice has been a spectacle, TIFF kicked off yesterday, and a lot of action is happening in New York because of fashion week, the MTV VMAs on Sunday, and the Met Gala on Monday. It’s not By Lainey • Sep 10, 2021 09:08 am
What Else What Else? I’ve watched the first episode of Only Murders in the Building and I really enjoyed it. Sarah will have more on the series in the next couple of weeks and we haven’t talked much about it so I’m curious about her take. For me, as always and By Lainey • Sep 09, 2021 04:59 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 9, 2021 “Parasocial” is the word of the week on Twitter thanks to the John Mulaney and Olivia Munn pregnancy announcement (which Sarah wrote about here) but I want to talk about the phenomena of social media intimacy with a celebrity through Andy Cohen. AC is in a unique position because he By Maria • Sep 09, 2021 03:31 pm
TV Updates Phoebe Waller-Bridge dumps Mr. Smith Solo co-stars and founding members of a mutual admiration society Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover were supposed to reunite for a television remake of Mr. & Mrs. Smith which is, of course, a gossip hall of fame film as it brought us Brangelina. Glover had the idea of By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 02:04 pm
Style Kate and Katie and Black Cut-out Dresses Did you see Kate Hudson’s black dress in Venice the other day? She made a joke about it on Instagram. Here’s the dress: Here’s the joke: She looks great, and she’s wearing the sh-t out if it, but … I guess after all this conditioning… it By Lainey • Sep 09, 2021 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Plugged back into The Matrix Despite a summer box office surge—it’s still lower than usual, but people ARE going back to the movies—Warner Brothers is keeping with their “everything on HBO Max, too” plan, even for their biggest titles of the year, including The Matrix Resurrections. With the first trailer just released By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 12:39 pm
Amazingness Not a Bird, Not a Plane – It’s Tom Cruise! Method Man and Redman dropped this in 1995: “Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane How high? Recognise Johnny Blaze, ain’t a damn thing changed” Recognise Tom Cruise, ain’t a damn thing changed! This is Tom Cruise up in the sky, parachuting By Lainey • Sep 09, 2021 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Look Up and Jennifer Lawrence’s big news The never-ending deluge of trailers continues with Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, another Netflix movie we won’t remember in six months. This is the fancier version of Moonfall, about a comet headed for Earth and, I guess, the political maneuvering that goes on around an end- By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Moonfall: The dumbest movie of 2022 When Moonfall was first announced, I hoped that the movie about the moon crashing into Earth would be the dumbest movie of 2021. Thanks to COVID delays, though, it won’t be coming out until 2022, so now I hope it’s the dumbest movie of 2022. The teaser dropped By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 11:03 am
TV Updates Reese’s Morning Show Stripes Promotion for season two of The Morning Show is underway. Cast members were junketing yesterday and many if not most of the usual outlets were invited to participate in virtual interviews with Hasan Minhaj, who joins this season, and also Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, who were paired from separate By Lainey • Sep 09, 2021 10:35 am
Music Harry’s Love On TikTok Harry Styles’ Love On Tour kicked off last weekend and fans have been documenting their experiences in a way we haven’t seen before: TikTok. TikTok started to skyrocket the same time the world shut down, and it was a given because we were all quarantined with not much to By Anastasia • Sep 09, 2021 10:08 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer in Venice! It was quiet on the Bennifer front for the Labour Day long weekend. And now, perhaps, we know why. They were saving it up. This is fresh – Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have arrived in Venice! The Last Duel premiere is tomorrow, and for weeks now there’s been speculation By Lainey • Sep 09, 2021 09:42 am
Royals Intro for September 9, 2021 Dear Gossips, The cover of the Fall 2021 issue of PEOPLE’s British royals quarterly features Prince William and Kate with a headline about how they are “ready to lead a modern monarchy”. They are the British royal hope for the future. But … what about the present? Well, the present By Lainey • Sep 09, 2021 08:51 am
