Movie Reviews and Previews News of the World is the dad movie of 2020 In News of the World, Tom Hanks stars as the extravagantly named Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a world-weary Civil War veteran who is atoning for his Confederate past by attempting to bring frontier communities together through the power of stories. In 1870, Kidd crisscrosses Texas to read the news to By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 09:52 am
Mariah Carey Intro for December 23, 2020 Dear Gossips, For a lot of people this year, the holidays are nothing like what we’re used to which is why, where we can, we are improvising, figuring out how to keep some traditions, only modified according to guidelines. In an ordinary year Jacek and I would be in By Lainey • Dec 23, 2020 09:19 am
What Else What Else? Would you have tried the McDonald’s Oreo Spam burger if it was available where you live? I would. I f-cking love Spam. Spam isn’t as big in China as it is in Korea (Koreans are obsessed with Spam) but in Hong Kong, where I half grew up, they By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 03:53 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 22, 2020 Jennifer Lopez was on Radio Andy and said she and Alex have considered the Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell approach (long-term commitment without the marriage certificate). This is surprising to me because as we know, Jennifer loves love and, in the past, that meant getting engaged and/or married. This time By Maria • Dec 22, 2020 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Felicity Jones in The Midnight Sky George Clooney’s latest feature film is The Midnight Sky, an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning, Midnight. Clooney stars as Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist at an Arctic outpost when some cataclysmic event occurs which forces everyone to evacuate the facility. It is hinted at being nuclear in By Sarah • Dec 22, 2020 01:50 pm
Best Of 2020 My Favourite Things of 2020: Food Edition! It was a Friday morning in the middle of March when I took my first bizarre grocery trip of 2020. Even though we were yet to wear masks, the silence among us, the lack of eye contact, the absence of background music, and the lack of rice and beans and By Violeta • Dec 22, 2020 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bridgerton is a romantic, gossipy confection Bridgerton is Shonda Rhimes’ first production for Netflix, and it is a lavish, visually stunning historical romance series. Adapted from Julia Quinn’s series of novels depicting the lives and loves of the copious Bridgerton family in Regency England, the first season of Bridgerton tackles the first book in the By Sarah • Dec 22, 2020 12:57 pm
Amazingness Hugh for the Holidays How does a man who so famously hates everything bring out the opposite emotion in us? Hugh Grant is delightful! Does he know how delightful he is? Does he know that the more he curmudgeons, the more joy he brings? Does he know that his self-loathing makes us love him By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 12:07 pm
Royals Harry & Meghan Before the Holiday Card Prince Harry and Meghan Markled were papped in Beverly Hills on Sunday (Page Six has more photos) heading into an office building. It is not known specifically which business they were visiting. It was 27˚C/81˚F in Beverly Hills that day. Harry is dressed for it. Meghan, however, By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 11:16 am
Royals A Royal Pandemic Promenade How lovely! The lights are so beautiful this time of year, aren’t they? I really, really love holiday lights. And in London especially, they really do know what they’re doing with the lights. I’ve been in London a couple of times during the holiday season and the By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 10:43 am
Equality Issues Intro for December 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, Joyce Echaquan is the Atikamekw woman who died in a hospital in Quebec after live-streaming hospital staff verbally abusing her with racial slurs and generally not taking her condition seriously. Her death exposed once again the inequalities in all Canadian institutions, from education to community infrastructure to healthcare By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 09:48 am
What Else What Else? I will read anything that Allison P Davis produces but this piece, what’s presumably her final major piece of the year, is why she’s one of the best culture writers right now. It’s about how a Black family had to deal with a racist neighbour and covers By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 02:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 21, 2020 What is the Jason Mantzoukas couple doing for the holidays? If you don’t remember, it was a Reddit thread about a husband who was catfishing his wife as her celebrity hall pass, Jason Mantzoukas. I think about them all the time. Will the summer of 2021 belong to Zola? By Maria • Dec 21, 2020 02:31 pm
Top Reads The BTS Magazine Effect Did you do your assigned homework? On Friday, in What Else, I linked to CNN’s article about the BTS effect on the American magazine industry this year as assigned reading. If you read it then you know that the piece reported on the magazine sales of four publications that By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Small Axe: Education is a fitting end to the anthology Education is the final installment in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology—which collectively won Best Picture from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association—and like Lovers Rock, it is not based on a specific person, but on a specific event that occurred in the Afro-Caribbean community in London in By Sarah • Dec 21, 2020 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Mandalorian became small SPOILERS From the beginning of The Mandalorian, when Mando hooked up with Baby Yoda, he was charged with returning the tyke to “his kind”, but “his kind” turned out not to be the mysterious species to which Baby Yoda belongs, but to the Jedi. In and of itself, this is By Sarah • Dec 21, 2020 11:30 am
