Steven Yeun Intro for December 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, Maybe it’s all those holiday season feelings but I was emotional the other day when I saw Steven Yeun on the cover of the current issue of Variety. He is the star of the upcoming Minari, which won the grand jury and audience prizes at Sundance last By Lainey • Dec 28, 2020 09:25 am
What Else What Else? Reminder: we are dark tomorrow and Friday for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and will resume posting on Monday. HAPPY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! HAPPY HAPPY! It’s been over a week now since leaked audio of Tom Cruise losing it on the London set of Mission: Impossible 7 made headlines. By Lainey • Dec 23, 2020 02:57 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 23, 2020 Sex and the City season 7 is reportedly being considered by HBO Max. It’s a money-making franchise, so I don’t blame them. But is the quality there? The second movie was a disaster and Twitter has reconsidered the characters, with Carrie coming out as a nightmare human and By Maria • Dec 23, 2020 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Soul is a love letter to teachers that will probably bore your kids Soul is Pixar’s latest existential film about the meaning of life, this time told from the almost-afterlife. Co-written and co-directed by Pixar impresario Pete Docter and Kemp Powers (who also adapted his own play for the screen in One Night in Miami), with a script assist from Mike Jones, By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 01:14 pm
Dilireba: A Red Carpet Princess The Tencent Video Star Awards happened in Nanjing, China earlier this week. If you’ve never heard of Tencent and you care about pop culture, you should start getting familiar. Tencent is a major multimedia Chinese conglomerate. It is the world’s biggest gaming company and has a stake in By Lainey • Dec 23, 2020 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie and Arsenio (and Eddie and Arsenio) are back One of the casualties of the 2020 movie season was Coming 2 America, which Paramount took off their release calendar, then sold to Amazon. Now, however, Coming 2 America is finally coming to the world as an Amazon release in March 2021. The first trailer has dropped and it’s By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 11:08 am
Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt: Holiday 2020 Brad Pitt was making headlines exactly a year ago this week for a few reasons. First, he was the frontrunner for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood which he would go on to win. But also, he was seen at Jennifer By Lainey • Dec 23, 2020 10:49 am
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