Movie Reviews and Previews Henry Cavill can’t say about Grey Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer are currently promoting The Man From UNCLE. He’s also been rumoured for a part in the Fifty Shades sequel. So E! asked him if it was true – and this is how he reacted: OK, so basically they’re trying to do the deal now? By Lainey • Jul 22, 2015 05:20 pm
Douchebags Jesse Eisenberg knows his words Jesse Eisenberg was at Comic-Con. Was Jesse Eisenberg at Comic-Con because he’s in a small budget, independent movie shot in a café in Brooklyn from a screenplay written on an old-fashioned typewriter? Actually, no. Jesse was at Comic-Con for a movie called Batman vs Superman. You may have heard By Lainey • Jul 15, 2015 11:41 am
Books Intro for July 14, 2015 Dear Gossips, Have you read Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman yet? It came out last week. Duana and I have been angst-ing about it for months and finally on Sunday she was like, after I’d been telling her repeatedly that I’m too scared, are you going By Lainey • Jul 14, 2015 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Dornan’s tongue Jamie Dornan was in Prague today promoting Anthropoid. He looks GOOD. I quite like this shot of him sticking his tongue out. On the subject of tongues… Grey, the book. You read it? Click here if you missed Maria’s review. I’ve stopped at 20%. Which means it’s By Lainey • Jul 09, 2015 05:17 pm
Books Grey is Beige Yesterday, Lainey wrote about the #AskELJames hashtag hijacking (click here for a refresher) and, having read the book, I can understand where (and who) those tweets are coming from. People like me who spent $11.99 on Grey. I’ll start with the bad and get to the worse (things By Maria • Jun 30, 2015 12:15 pm
Amazingness Intro for June 30, 2015 Dear Gossips, Judy Blume is currently in Toronto promoting her new book In The Unlikely Event. Duana wrote about it a few weeks ago – click here and click here for a refresher. This is exciting. Actually, it’s the MOST exciting. And I know many of you understand. I know By Lainey • Jun 30, 2015 10:03 am
Books #AskELJames Have you been following this on Twitter? If not, do a search for #AskELJames. E.L. James, the author of Fifty Shades Of Grey, decided to participate in a Twitter chat today, I guess to promote the new book, Grey, and, well… That’s kind of Twitter is for, isn’ By Lainey • Jun 29, 2015 03:45 pm
Amazingness Fan Bingbing’s cats and hearts Fan Bingbing at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Did you hear about the social media fight she got into with Wang Sicong this week? Wang Sicong is the 27 year old son of the richest man in China. He recently posted a photo of his dog wearing two Apple watches, By Lainey • Jun 18, 2015 02:46 pm
Books Maybe He IS That Into You (But Lost His Phone) Does everyone like Aziz Ansari as much as I do? What I like about him is that he’s a modern comic. Of course Louis C.K. and Seinfeld and Chris Rock are considered comedy gods but they are also from a generation that became famous before the internet existed. By Maria • Jun 09, 2015 11:29 am
Books In The Unlikely Event Spoilers everywhere – come back if you haven’t finished. You know, usually I am not afraid of endings. Usually I am the one who says things like “I’d rather something end well, early, than go on too long”. I am unsentimental, not because I’m heartless, but because usually, By Duana • Jun 08, 2015 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everest: A big bag of NOPE Jake Gyllenhaal is going for the gold this year, first with Southpaw and then Everest, which is due in September—wouldn’t surprise me to see this one premiere at TIFF. Everest is based on Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, about the 1996 climbing disaster in which eight By Sarah • Jun 04, 2015 03:19 pm
Books Shonda Rhimes Says Yes Lainey once called me contrary. This idea is preposterous, as I am not contrary. (Lainey: you are.) But I will admit that I don’t like to be predictable. If it’s too obvious that I’m going to go a certain way, I like to check myself. So in By Duana • Jun 03, 2015 10:24 am
Books In The Unlikely Event It’s a momentous day. There hasn’t been a day like this in almost 20 years. Today, Judy Blume releases her new book, In The Unlikely Event. I know a lot of you feel the way Lainey and I feel about that. That Judy Blume ushered you through your By Duana • Jun 02, 2015 11:18 am
Media Manipulation 50 Shades of Repetition Well, we suspected it was coming, right? EL James has announced a new book, titled Grey, that will cover the same ground as 50 Shades of Grey, but from Christian’s perspective. Hasn’t it all been from Christian’s perspective? It’s not like Ana had a strong POV By Maria • Jun 01, 2015 01:15 pm
Books Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak are complicated and wealthy together It was announced yesterday that Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak will be paid 7.5 million dollars for a book that explores the details of their complicated, untraditional relationship. Seven Point Five MILLION dollars. Yes, publishing gives big advances to celebrity authors who are likely to sell well, and By Duana • May 22, 2015 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 21, 2015 Dear Gossips, Buzzfeed posted a photo on Twitter yesterday that made me hug myself. The Khaleesi and Neville Longbottom! Neville Longbottom + Mother of Dragons: pic.twitter.com/y3MFazNQcg— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) May 20, 2015 It came from Matthew Lewis’s Instagram. They’re working together on Me Before You which, presumably, By Lainey • May 21, 2015 09:32 am