Movie Reviews and Previews The Report: Adam Driver needs a scene partner Longtime Steven Soderbergh collaborator Scott Z. Burns writes and directs The Report, an extremely thorough and incredibly dry movie about the controversial Senate report on the US’s use of torture in the post-9/11 era. This film relies heavily on Adam Driver, particularly his ability to emote repressed passion By Sarah • Sep 09, 2019 04:38 pm
TIFF 2019 Coverage Kristen Stewart: Dance parties, Hooters, and Taika Waititi Kristen Stewart is kind of a TIFF regular. I interviewed her here last year for JT LeRoy. She was here for Certain Women in 2016 and Equals in 2015 and On the Road in 2012. There are probably more but you get the point – she knows the festival and she’ By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 04:04 pm
TIFF 2019 Coverage Robert Pattinson: TIFF Party MVP Robert Pattinson was one of the MVPs of the TIFF party circuit this weekend. He was among the people everybody wanted to get some face time with, and then did, and appeared to be in really great spirits the whole time…although, when you're schmoozing with Taika Waititi By Joanna • Sep 09, 2019 02:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 9, 2019 The Sacklers are the dirtiest name in society, and it’s interesting that they would offer Courtney Love money to attend a fashion show. Courtney is one of the only celebrities who truly doesn’t give a f-ck about playing nice and she already has a front row seat at By Maria • Sep 09, 2019 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Personal History of David Copperfield or Dev Patel can play any role Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield is a breezy, fun, surprisingly straightforward take on the classic. Iannucci co-wrote the script with his frequent collaborator Simon Blackwell, but if you’re expecting a Veep or Death of Stalin-style satire—as I was—don’t hold your breath. Iannucci By Sarah • Sep 09, 2019 12:46 pm
Maple Leaf Shawn and Camila on his home-stage Shawn Mendes concluded the North American leg of his tour with a show at home in Toronto on Friday night. And it was an emotional night. He played Rogers Centre. It’s a stadium, where the Blue Jays play, it’s where we won our back to back World Series By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 11:53 am
BFFs Jamie Dornan and Sebastian Stan: the new bromance Endings, Beginnings was always going to have a star-studded world premiere at TIFF. The cast is stacked: Sebastian Stan, Jamie Dornan, Shailene Woodley, Shamier Anderson… and with the film being on the market, they came ready to play and sell Drake Doremus’ latest improv-based “romantic” breakup drama. But the real By Joanna • Sep 09, 2019 11:28 am
BFFs Meghan Markle at the US Open Meghan Markle was in New York this weekend to cheer on Serena Williams in the US Open finals. Serena lost, it was her fourth grand slam loss since coming back after pregnancy as she’s still looking for that closing magic. Afterwards Serena said she was upset with herself because By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 10:54 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “verbal dispute” Meghan Markle was in New York on Saturday for the US Open women’s final, supporting her friend Serena Williams. There’s been a LOT of coverage of Meghan’s trip, and a lot of controversial reaction to Meghan’s trip in the British media, which we’ll get to By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 09:57 am
Sports Intro for September 9, 2019 Dear Gossips, I love technology. Maybe, one day, I along with all humankind will regret loving technology, but this weekend technology made me so happy. I was locked in on TIFF red carpets during both finals at the US Open this weekend and while waiting for the arrivals, I was By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 08:59 am
What Else What Else? Rich white people decided a long time ago that it’s poor etiquette to talk about money, probably because they didn’t want poor people to know that they were hoarding all of it. Here’s the thing though – even when people claim they’re uncomfortable talking about money, we By Lainey • Sep 06, 2019 05:40 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: What Would They Choose? Hi Duana! I always thought I would be writing you about naming my baby but that sort of worked itself out. She was born in April and we named her Georgiana (pronounced Georgie- ahna) Kay. My FIL is George and Kay was my mom's middle name. My husband’ By Duana • Sep 06, 2019 05:15 pm
Style Outfits of the Week: Katie Holmes If you’ve been visiting this site over the years, you know our favourite game, the game I christened Photo Assumption, making baseless assumptions from pictures – it’s an unreliable science, which means it’s not at all a science but you know what else is considered, like, a cultural By Lainey • Sep 06, 2019 05:06 pm
Relationship Assumption Gigi and Tyler’s family time Gigi and Bella Hadid’s grandmother passed away and they were at the funeral with Yolanda and Anwar and other family members a few days ago in the Netherlands. Anwar was joined by his girlfriend, Dua Lipa. And Gigi was with Tyler Cameron! I put an exclamation point on that By Lainey • Sep 06, 2019 03:08 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 6, 2019 Derek Blasberg has launched a fashion and beauty vertical over at YouTube, which is confusing, because I thought he already did that? He’s been busy procuring talent like Victoria Beckham, Naomi Campbell and Gwyneth Paltrow, but I guess this is a more formal place that will integrate fashion houses, By Maria • Sep 06, 2019 01:37 pm
Music Nicki Minaj to retire? Yesterday, without warning, right in the middle of a relatively uneventful Thursday, Nicki Minaj announced her retirement. Not to be confused with a moment for haters, or even critics, or as she calls them “cocksuckers” or “the Nicki hate train”, this was just for the Barbz. Nicki’s exact wording, By Melayna • Sep 06, 2019 12:41 pm
