Movie Reviews and Previews Bravermans, Fug Girls, and Kate Middleton. Yesterday was a fine day to be Lauren Graham (as if all the others aren’t). Because in addition to the news that Gilmore Girls is set to have a series of special episodes on Netflix, it was announced that Graham and her other, more recent, perhaps more realistic TV By Duana • Oct 20, 2015 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My Obsession is intense Sam Taylor-Johnson posted this shot to Instagram last night: Night before he starts his new movie ❤️ @aarontaylorjohnson A photo posted by Director (@samtaylorjohnson) onOct 4, 2015 at 7:45pm PDT The film is likely Nocturnal Animals. Tom Ford is directing. Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams are the leads. Not a By Lainey • Oct 05, 2015 05:17 pm
Models Becoming Cindy Crawford Cindy Crawford is currently promoting her new book Becoming. It’s a memoir. With pictures! Pictures from 80s modelling. So I have to have it. But specifically I’d like to receive it as a gift, like a stocking stuffer at Christmas. I will also be giving it as a By Lainey • Sep 29, 2015 02:00 pm
Books What Gisele doesn’t know US Weekly has a story this week about Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady’s marriage – that despite fronting like things are fine between them, the relationship is vulnerable. I can’t find the link directly at the US Weekly website so it must be in the print edition but here’ By Lainey • Sep 24, 2015 04:38 pm
Harry Potter Intro for September 24, 2015 Dear Gossips, Have you read the new Harry Potter family history on Pottermore yet? JK Rowling included the fresh piece along with a site update. We find out that “Potter” is shortened from “Potterer”, why Harry’s family was so rich, that the Potter men have always had unruly hair, By Lainey • Sep 24, 2015 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Room (Queen Brie) Aside from Cate Blanchett's work in Blue Jasmine, to me the best female performance of 2013 came from Brie Larson in Short Term 12. The film was criminally underseen by both critics and audiences, but she'll finally get her shot at golden glory with Room, in By Joanna • Sep 16, 2015 09:43 am
Style Nicole Kidman: countdown to opening night The last time Nicole Kidman performed in London on the West End, it was in The Blue Room. Her performance was universally acclaimed, with one critic saying watching her was “pure theatrical Viagra”. On Saturday she returns in a play called Photograph 51 to play British scientist Rosalind Franklin. People By Lainey • Sep 03, 2015 11:25 am
Dumbass “Too street” to be Bond After #BackToHogwarts, Idris Elba is currently the biggest trending topic on Twitter at post time. It’s because Anthony Horowitz who wrote the new Bond book, Trigger Mortis, has offered his opinion to the Daily Mail on whether or not Idris Elba would be a good James Bond: “Idris Elba By Lainey • Sep 01, 2015 11:14 am
Amazingness Intro for August 27, 2015 Dear Gossips, I’m never the kind of person who starts playing holiday music before Halloween but after yesterday, you know what we kinda need? We need some Christmas. You know who owns Christmas? Come on. It’s Mimi. Always Mimi. Christmas is Mimi season. Mimi wrote one of the By Lainey • Aug 27, 2015 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Salma Hayek presents Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet Salma Hayek has worked hard as a producer to get Lebanese philosopher Khalil Gibran’s seminal collection of poem-essays, The Prophet, to the big screen, and she’s finally succeeded, in the form of an animated film. The book, one of the most popular in the world, is a collection By Sarah • Aug 20, 2015 12:49 pm
Girlcrushes Mindy Kaling, Confidence Evangelist There’s nothing more clichéd to me than “PREACH!”. And yet, reading Mindy Kaling’s excerpt from her upcoming book in Glamour, about how to achieve confidence, there’s no other word for it. Let’s cut to the chase here: “Confidence is just entitlement…entitlement is simply the belief By Duana • Aug 06, 2015 12:43 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Charlize & August I saw these new shots of Charlize Theron out in LA yesterday wearing a really, really great top, I want it really, really bad, and realised we haven’t talked yet about the news that she’s adopted a daughter. TMZ had the exclusive a few days ago. The baby By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 04:27 pm
Books Smutty Social Media, Friday July 31, 2015 Selma Blair and a very young Jakey G. He had total boyband hair! One of my favorite friends. A lifetime ago. Seattle. #jakegyllenhaal #fbf A photo posted by Selma Blair (@therealselmablair) onJul 31, 2015 at 10:09am PDT Rebel Wilson fly-boarding in Ibiza. Is this like a trampoline on water, By Maria • Jul 31, 2015 04:23 pm
Books Luckiest Girl Alive I first saw Luckiest Girl Alive on Reese Witherspoon’s Instagram feed, and I knew that she was obviously going to buy the book’s film rights – would she be promoting it otherwise? Tracy Flick knows what she’s doing. So when I found myself on a 5-hour flight, I By Maria • Jul 30, 2015 04:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Room the movie Have you read Emma Donoghue’s Room? I reviewed the book a few years ago – click here to read that post. I met Emma Donoghue. Heard her speak at an event at my alma mater, Western University. She was asked to talk for 7 minutes about creativity. She ended up By Lainey • Jul 30, 2015 12:06 pm
Hook Ups Michelle Williams is in love because she reads A couple of years ago I blogged about my obsession with writer couples: Zadie Smith and Nick Laird, Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer. Click here for a refresher. Jonathan Safran Foer you know, likely from Everything Is Illuminated. Have you read Krauss’s The By Lainey • Jul 29, 2015 04:33 pm
