Business of Hollywood The Soderbergh Oscars Yesterday, the producers of the 93rd Academy Awards were announced: Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh, who, yes, dressed like a member of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for his press release photo. Welcome to the team, @JesseCollinsEnt, @StaceySher and Steven Soderbergh! Meet the 93rd #Oscars producers. By Sarah • Dec 09, 2020 09:39 am
Shout-Outs December 9, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Judy Chiao is a teacher at Burnaby North Secondary. She and her students with diverse abilities have published a book! The book is called 1, 2, 3 Count With Me: A Bug Can Count If You Believe! All the students participated – colouring, rhyming, drawing. This is a wonderful achievement and By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 09:07 am
Amazingness Intro for December 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, A few weeks ago on her BBC Show, Nigella’s Eat, Cook, Repeat, Nigella Lawson made headlines in the UK and then around the world because she butters her toast twice. She adds the first layer when the bread comes out of the toaster and then a second By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 08:55 am
What Else What Else? Regina King is one of PEOPLE’s People of the Year. No debate on this one, right? And she may be one of the People of Next Year too because of her work directing One Night in Miami, one of the contenders for Best Picture. Regina just might receive a By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Small Axe: Red, White and Blue asks a haunting question In Red, White and Blue, the latest installment in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series (Mangrove was the first and Lovers Rock is the second), John Boyega plays Leroy Logan, the son of Caribbean immigrants living in London. His father, Kenneth (Steve Toussaint), is a sort of call-and-response to Mangrove’ By Sarah • Dec 08, 2020 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried in Mank David Fincher is too technically proficient as a director to make a really bad movie. Even his less interesting efforts will have something worth looking at, and Mank is certainly one such case. A biopic of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Mank is an odd Fincher misfire. It’s based on a By Sarah • Dec 08, 2020 02:29 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 8, 2020 Miley Cyrus’s new album Plastic Hearts is out and she’s celebrating success by thanking everyone who worked on her album, from producers to songwriters to mixers. Usually this is done in an album liner – remember those? But now that a lot of us forgo physical copies for downloads, By Maria • Dec 08, 2020 01:32 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck Wears His Drama Wearing your drama, as words on a t-shirt, is way better than living the drama. And despite the fact that 2020 has been a f-cking prick of a year, Ben Affleck, as least publicly, didn’t have a bad one. While Ben may not have been involved in any drama By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 01:09 pm
TV Updates 12 Dates of Christmas: A Must-Watch For some reason 2020 has become the year that I started watching reality dating shows. I’ve never seen an episode of The Bachelor or any of its spinoff franchises because I don’t appreciate the lack of diversity or adherence to traditional gender roles. But then came Netflix’s By Cody • Dec 08, 2020 12:15 pm
Royals Will and Kate’s Medium Mini Tour What’s in between a bomb and a hit? That’s the word I’m looking for to describe Prince William and Kate’s royal train mini tour of the UK to visit frontline and essential services workers who’ve given so much during the pandemic. Royal tours like this By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 11:13 am
Business of Hollywood Warner Brothers’ inevitable HBO Max fall out Last week, Warner Brothers announced they will releasing their entire 2021 slate of films simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max (in America, the only country with HBO Max). This was obviously huge, unprecedented news, and in my original write up, I said, “it is crushing to production partners like By Sarah • Dec 08, 2020 09:58 am
Best Of 2020 Intro for December 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, Over the next couple of weeks, as we approach the end of 2020, we’ll be sharing some of our favourite 2020 content, entertainment that got us through this f-cked up year. If you asked me at the end of 2019, if we could have predicted that we’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 09:30 am
What Else What Else? The optical illusion of this dress also freaked me out and I’m luckier than the Fug Girls because I was told that it was an optical illusion in the title so I was prepared going in but that doesn’t mean it still isn’t weird the way Sabrina By Lainey • Dec 07, 2020 04:37 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 7, 2020 This weekend, Ms. Dionne Warwick had time to gather all of the kids for their stage names. That’s not to say she isn’t a fan, but points were made. “Holy” by Justin the Bieber @justinbieber and @chancetherapper is one of my favorite songs right now. — Dionne Warwick (@dionnewarwick) By Maria • Dec 07, 2020 04:18 pm
Top Reads BTS’s Award Show Weekend It’s now year-end award season in South Korea and this weekend there were two music award shows, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. The one on Sunday is referred to as MAMA, the Mnet Asian Music Awards, a major event in Asia, comparable to the MTV VMAs in By Lainey • Dec 07, 2020 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar Isaac takes on the video game curse Oscar Isaac is the latest A-lister to take the video game challenge and try to make a video game adaptation that doesn’t suck. Slowly but surely, Hollywood seems to be figuring video games out—Tomb Raider didn’t completely suck—but they still remain tougher to adapt than you’ By Sarah • Dec 07, 2020 01:44 pm
