Name Nerd Duana Names: Now All Bets Are Off We are due with our fifth baby! Soon! (gender unknown) And it is definitely tougher to pick this time around. We have twins: Jack and James, and singleton daughters, MacKenna and Grace. The middle names for the kids are (all but one) family names (Richard, Patrick, Rosemary, Caroline) and we By Duana • Sep 13, 2019 05:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shia LaBeouf’s Honey Boy: the child actor who became a movie star Shia LaBeouf wrote Honey Boy based on his own childhood as a young star, and plays his own father, here renamed “James”. The film is directed by Alma Har’el, making her feature film debut. Two things about Honey Boy are true: Shia LaBeouf is probably being too hard on By Sarah • Sep 13, 2019 05:12 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Jennifer Lopez Who else would it be? Hustlers opens today – are you seeing it? Tonight? This weekend? As I mentioned earlier this week in my post about how Jennifer Lopez should be an Oscar contender for this film, I was trying to decide whether to post my review of Hustlers today or By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 04:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lucy in the Sky: a diaper-free disorienting astronaut love triangle The new Natalie Portman film Lucy in the Sky is not the simmering astronaut love triangle movie you're probably expecting to see. Instead, it's a disorienting look at life after space, raising a question of how "rocket lag" can permanently alter your desires and By Joanna • Sep 13, 2019 04:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Dolemite Is My Name Eddie Murphy returns to acting after a three year hiatus with Dolemite Is My Name, a biopic of Dolemite creator Rudy Ray Moore. Like every other biopic I’ve seen at TIFF this year, Dolemite is standard, run-of-the-mill biographical stuff, taking no real risks and doing nothing particularly inventive with By Sarah • Sep 13, 2019 03:36 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 13, 2019 Millie Bobby Brown is getting flack for a face washing tutorial gone awry (apparently she was, gasp, faking it. On the internet of all places!). She has her own line, so I consider this a commercial. In skin care commercials, women stand at the sink and fill their cupped hands By Maria • Sep 13, 2019 03:06 pm
TV Updates SNL hired Milkshake Duck As SNL heads into season 45, there are some casting changes. We know Leslie Jones is leaving, and yesterday three new cast members were announced: Chloe Fineman, Shane Gillis, and Bowen Yang, who has been on SNL’s writing staff and was recently featured in The Hollywood Reporter’s comedy By Sarah • Sep 13, 2019 01:34 pm
Sasha Lifestyle Sasha Finds: The Ultimate Face Mask I have been on the hunt for an amazing night mask for a while now which, I have to say, is off brand for me because I hate having sh-t on me when I’m sleeping – a lip mask can legit throw me off my sleep game. So I was By Sasha • Sep 13, 2019 12:28 pm
Royals Why Prince Andrew got into a fight Late last year, the UK tabloids feasted on a report about Prince Harry telling palace staffers “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets”, supposedly when they were planning their wedding. It was days and days, if not weeks, of this on the front pages. Earlier this week, it was reported that Prince By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 11:51 am
Award Season Campaigning Brad Pitt’s charm offensive Well sh-t. When’s the last time you saw Brad Pitt on a talk show? Not doing a bit like the weather or a bit with Colbert when they’re looking up at a fake sky or yodeling with Jimmy Fallon or walking across Jimmy Kimmel’s stage for a By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 10:34 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna puts up a signal But first, stop it. I’m going to stop you right there because you’ve probably seen this trending on Twitter and everybody freaking out that Rihanna is pregnant. There are two reasons for this. Well, three. The first two reasons I will show you in a second. The third By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 09:49 am
Intro for September 13, 2019 Dear Gossips, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Happy Harvest Moon! Today is one of the most important days on the lunar calendar, one of the major holidays in Chinese culture. Some of us call it Chinese Thanksgiving. This is the time of year when we pass around moon cakes. Moon cakes are By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 08:47 am
What Else What Else? Natalie Portman’s Lucy in the Sky premiered at TIFF last night and… there was an omission in the story. A major omission. An omission so offensive that people are in their feelings about it: it’s the diaper. You remember the astronaut in the diaper story, don’t you? By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 04:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harriet the Superhero Kasi Lemmons’ first feature film since 2013’s Black Nativity is Harriet, a long overdue biopic of abolitionist, underground railroad conductor, and Union spy Harriet Tubman. It is amazing to me that it is twenty-goddamn-nineteen and we are only just now getting the first feature film about Harriet Tubman. There By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 04:28 pm
Style Zendaya your wardrobe “Zendaya” there in the title is used as a verb. My wardrobe, and my makeup, has been totally Zendaya-ed. For the last two weeks at TIFF, all I’ve been doing with my eye makeup is her eye makeup in Euphoria: glitter under the eyes, like crying glitter. It’s By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 03:49 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 12, 2019 Jenny Slate is engaged to art curator Ben Shattuck. (Art world men are like a celebrity husband sub-genre: Jennifer Lawrence is engaged to an art dealer, and Drew Barrymore’s ex Will is an art consultant.) Jenny’s hometown Dairy Freeze posted this billboard, which is better than any engagement By Maria • Sep 12, 2019 03:18 pm
