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
Katie Holmes Katie’s Instagram Birthday Gift Katie Holmes’s birthday was last Friday, December 18. I always remember because it’s also Brad Pitt’s birthday and at one point I tried to Gossip Genie the two of them together. But then Emilio Vitolo Jr came along. What did Emilio give Katie for her birthday, her By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 10:30 am
Weddings Ariana Grande is Engaged Dalton Gomez put a ring on it. Ariana Grande broke the news on Instagram yesterday with a collection of photos captioned “forever n then some.” Mixed in with the candid shots of her and her fiancé were some closeup looks at her new hardware. The ring is simple and extra By Cody • Dec 21, 2020 10:08 am
Shout-Outs December 21, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Rebekah! I’m SO sorry I missed this last week, especially since it’s been such a f-ck of a year and you’ve had so much going on. As for the crying, girl, same. Same, same, same. So I’m thinking of you in your pyjamas while I’m By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 09:58 am
Kristen Wiig Intro for December 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was so good to see Maya Rudolph and Kate McKinnon join Kristen Wiig onstage for the opening monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They’ll go down as all-time greats on the show for sure. Actually, they already are. The women of SNL have always held By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 09:18 am
What Else What Else? Well now I really have to go watch some Nancy Meyers movies because reading about these f-ckwits at the Denny’s who refused to wear a mask, claiming civil rights and religious freedom is making me rage. The fact that they went in there with their phones recording the whole By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 03:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 18, 2020 Alicia Silverstone is a long-time vegangelist and that’s great, it works for her. She wants it to work for other people, too. She often uses her son Bear as vegan poster child, telling US Weekly that he doesn’t get sick or get ear infections (and has never taken By Maria • Dec 18, 2020 01:55 pm
Best Of 2020 My Favorite Things of 2020: Rom-Coms Movie theaters were closed most of 2020, but this was not a year without movies. There have been many good and a few great movies this year, with more yet to come in the early months of 2021 to qualify for the adjusted awards season schedule. Eventually, I’ll get By Sarah • Dec 18, 2020 12:40 pm
Outfit of the Week Jennifer Garner: Outfit of the Week What do you call these … spikes on Jennifer Garner’s sweater? To me they look like the blades on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. Is that what you’re seeing too? That’s mostly what I’m seeing. The other part, because vaccines have been so much in By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 11:47 am
Best Of 2020 My Favourite Things of 2020: Boman Here’s a name you need to know: Boman Martinez-Reid. For better or worse TikTok become even bigger in 2020. We were locked inside and looking for even more entertainment than usual, a distraction from our increasingly serious problems and anxieties which are being shared worldwide. One person providing a By Cody • Dec 18, 2020 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Finally, Tenet Tenet has finally arrived for on demand home viewing, which means it is finally time to review Tenet! Or maybe I have already reviewed Tenet! Maybe my review of Tenet has drifted back from the future, to materialize at just the right moment—now!—and I can close the loop By Sarah • Dec 18, 2020 10:29 am
Jennifer Lopez JLo’s Full-Body Check Jennifer Lopez stepped out yesterday or what the paps are calling a dermatologist appointment, apparently for the second day in a row. JLo recently launched a skincare line and as Maria wrote in her post about the products, of course we all want JLo’s skin – but it’s more By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 10:00 am
Hook Ups Tom & Hayley: The Inevitable Back in October, when pap photos of Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell shooting Mission: Impossible 7 in Italy were released, I posted about their “vibration”. This is how director Christopher McQuarrie described their chemistry, that the energy between Tom and Hayley is a “vibration”. As I said at the time, By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 09:19 am
Equality Issues Intro for December 18, 2020 Dear Gossips, A few years ago at the London Film Festival, Meryl Streep had something to say about film critics – specifically how male film critics largely outnumber female film critics and the effect that disparity has on how films are received, both commercially and culturally. She was talking about how By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 09:03 am
What Else What Else? Dua Lipa’s outfit is a LOT. And I was thinking this even before I got to see the entire thing. Because you have to see all of it to appreciate it. I do appreciate it. I appreciate the commitment to go head to toe, literally, not only in this By Lainey • Dec 17, 2020 04:13 pm