Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell: More Bat-Villains The main cast for Matt Reeves’ The Batman is rounding out, with Colin Farrell added to the list of names on the villain call sheet. He is in talks to play the Penguin, joining Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Paul Dano as the Riddler. (Andy Serkis is also in talks By Sarah • Nov 06, 2019 11:47 am
Style Who is Katie Holmes? Katie Holmes is promoting Brahms: The Boy II. I assume this is a sequel. If so, I’ve never heard of the first one but, then again, scary movies are not my thing. It comes out in February and Katie covers two magazines – the December 2019 issue of ELLE UK By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 11:15 am
Relationship Assumption Kristen Stewart “can’t f-cking wait” to propose I can’t f-cking wait to see Charlie’s Angels starring Kristen Stewart. She’s currently promoting the movie and was on Howard Stern yesterday doing the kind of interview she probably would have avoided during the Twilight era. It’s now been over a decade and, as we’ve By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 09:42 am
Royals Intro for November 6, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Amy Robach hot mic leak yesterday kept Prince Andrew’s friendship with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the headlines. For almost six months now, Andrew has remained in the headlines because of his association with the Registered Sex Offender who died under mysterious circumstances and By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 08:57 am
What Else What Else? First of all, we here in Toronto, we love Serge Ibaka. We would love to get Serge Ibaka on The Social but he’s kinda busy right now with his regular job and his side hustle. The side hustle is a YouTube show where he cooks for his guests and By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 05:36 pm
Chris Evans Chris Evans: Movies With Secrets I did not order the articles this way today on purpose, I SWEAR. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, never mind. Knives Out, directed by Rian Johnson, due out on November 27th. I saw this at TIFF – and I LOVED it. Every minute. I can’t By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 04:38 pm
Jenny Slate Jenny Slate’s Stage Fright Jenny Slate’s first stand-up special, Stage Fright, is not going to work for you if you don’t like Jenny Slate. A traditional stand-up set combined with a personal mini-documentary about Slate’s life, Stage Fright is maximum Jenny Slate from every direction. If you’ve ever seen (or By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 03:33 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 5, 2019 To quote Kelly Kapoor, “Yeah. I have a lot of questions. Number one: how dare you?” High pony > High stakes pic.twitter.com/hbszUDrOuC— Karlie Kloss (@karliekloss) November 5, 2019 Yesterday I wrote about Harry Styles releasing his new album, but I misread that date as November 16 (that By Maria • Nov 05, 2019 02:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Apple TV+ enters award season Yesterday the first trailer for The Banker dropped. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie as a pair of would-be bankers who, because of racial prejudice, train a white guy (Nicholas Hoult) to stand in for them as the owner of their bank, so it’s BlacKkKlansman for By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 02:05 pm
Royals The Palace and a hot mic Duana and I are planning an upcoming episode of Show Your Work about The Morning Show. As I wrote last week, The Morning Show isn’t perfect – but it’s really, really watchable, it’s compelling, we burned through all of it FAST, and partly the reason we’re so By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 01:08 pm
Top Reads Angelina Jolie: Her Wild Identity Over the last few months, as she’s stepped back into the spotlight with the announcement that she’s part of Marvel’s Eternals and during promotion for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, it feels like we’ve been watching the rebirth of Angelina Jolie. She’s been more accessible than By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 11:33 am
Break Ups Brad Pitt here and there The Oscars are happening on February 9, 2020, about two weeks earlier than usual. This means that it’s a shorter award season and since the season is condensed, all contenders are stepping up their efforts – it’s going to be balls out from now until mid-December, when everyone goes By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 10:53 am
Christian Bale Matt Damon tells a story Ford vs Ferrari opens next week – Sarah reviewed the film in September at TIFF – and there are a lot of people who think it could be an Oscar contender, with both leads, Christian Bale and Matt Damon, submitted in the Best Actor category. Which means they’re going to head By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 10:07 am
Shout-Outs November 5, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs For Laisha Rosnau, the author of six books – congratulations on the release of your latest, Little Fortress, from a friend who sends along this message: "Laisha, you fierce woman! Congratulations on launching Little Fortress in Toronto and Hamilton this week! Love you forever, Nancy” For more on Laisha and By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 09:49 am
Music Intro for November 5, 2019 Dear Gossips, Big day for Selena Gomez yesterday. Her new song, “Lose You To Love Me”, topped the Billboard 100, the first #1 of her career. It’s not my favourite song (and it’s OK to have different preferences, Selenators – we are allowed to like what we like) but By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 09:17 am
What Else What Else? Remember what I said last week about Heidi Klum’s Halloween being overtaken by celebrities? Instagram has made it so that celebrities are all going ALL OUT for Halloween – and of course no family goes more ALL OUT than the Kardashians. I know the story here is that they photoshopped By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 04:39 pm