Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone, take two One of the most memorable breakout performances of the last few years was Lily Gladstone in Kelly Reichardt’s 2016 film, Certain Women. She is quietly devastating in that film, and I have not forgotten her since. Gladstone is one of a handful of actors whose IMDB pages I check By Sarah • Feb 12, 2021 10:46 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, GUNG HAY FAT CHOY! The Year of the Ox has arrived! If you’ve been a regular visitor here over the years, you may remember that my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, provided annual Chinese Zodiac advisories for each of the 12 signs leading up to Lunar New By Lainey • Feb 12, 2021 10:06 am
What Else What Else? Yesterday when I posted about Jennifer Lopez’s pixie hairstyle on the cover of Allure, and that it’s not my favourite on her, I mentioned several other celebrities who can totally rock a pixie. Sharon Stone was not one of them, but she should have been. Here’s a By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 04:22 pm
Royals Happy New Lunar from… Sarah Ferguson Of all the Lunar New Year well-wishes from celebrities and other notables I thought I might see when browsing social media, I did not expect this. I did not expect that it would be Sarah Ferguson celebrating Lunar New Year. Fergie! Have you looked at this yet? If not, well, By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 03:57 pm
Top Reads Charisma Carpenter Outlines On-Set Abuse By Joss Whedon Charisma Carpenter is a great name. In the late 1990s, in what was then called stuff akin to ‘the teen TV boom’, there were many sudden household names, generally the stars of the show or movie (with a subset of three named stars like Chad Michael Murray, Rachael Leigh Cook, By Duana • Feb 11, 2021 03:38 pm
Royals Meghan Wins A decision has been made in Meghan Markle’s lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the parent company that publishes the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail. She and her legal team made the case that her privacy and copyright had been violated when the Mail published contents of a letter By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 03:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 11, 2021 HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys spoke to TV Line about the upcoming Sex and the City revival and said that the series will focus on the women in their 50s and, most notably, how friendships change and “fade.” This seems to allude to how they will explain the By Maria • Feb 11, 2021 02:09 pm
TV Updates Queen Jodie (in the dark) As we learned last year, Jodie Turner-Smith is playing Anne Boleyn in a new prestige drama series about the doomed queen’s downfall. We’ve seen her on set in the headpieces, but now we have our first official still of JTS as Anne and, well, it’s not great. By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:53 am
Dumbass More like Cara DONE Over the last decade, Gina Carano successfully segued from a career as an MMA fighter to a career as an actor, finding mainstream success in action movies before hitting the jackpot by landing a role in The Mandalorian, as ex-Rebel soldier Cara Dune. Carano had it made. She was on By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:24 am
Music Taylor Swift’s Version Taylor Swift’s fans starting making noise on Twitter last night when Good Morning America announced that she’d be appearing on today’s show – and when it comes to a star as big as Taylor, it’s never going to be a small thing. Immediately there was speculation that By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 10:52 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS has been pretty quiet the last few weeks. Not entirely off the grid, and still releasing treats for their fans, but in terms of major announcements that get circulated beyond ARMY awareness, it’s been pretty low-key. This week though, ahead of Lunar New Year, there is By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 08:56 am
What Else What Else? The Oscars happened a year ago today. A year ago today Duana and I were running on 48 hours without sleep and a 15,000 word count…and exhilarated. And it’s not like we didn’t make the most of it, we always do, but if we could have By Lainey • Feb 10, 2021 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robin Wright’s Land Robin Wright makes her feature directorial debut with Land, a film centered on Edee (Wright), a woman in obvious pain. She begins the film in therapy and very quickly exits modern life in Chicago for a remote one-room cabin in Wyoming on the border of the Shoshone National Forest. Her By Sarah • Feb 10, 2021 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo Felt the Sting Jennifer Lopez covers the new issue of Allure and I’m surprised at the cover look they chose for this issue for their 30th anniversary. Maybe that was the point – to surprise. Because even though JLo changes her hair all the time, it’s usually a familiar rotation: topknot, voluminous By Lainey • Feb 10, 2021 02:32 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 10, 2021 Britney Spears is once again the center of the pop culture conversation. Yesterday Lainey wrote about her, and our, complicity in the framing of Britney Spears. There are snippets of that conversation happening online but a lot of it is focused on media. At the time of the Britney uproar, By Maria • Feb 10, 2021 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah One of the great films of the 21st century is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a film that unpicks a major piece of American folklore by focusing on the grubworm who betrayed a beloved but largely fictionalized figure in Americana. Shaka King’s Judas and By Sarah • Feb 10, 2021 12:33 pm
