Movie Reviews and Previews Getting to know Newt Scamander J.K. Rowling announced yesterday that she would write the script for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, a movie set in New York, some 70-odd years before Harry Potter, and starring Newt Scamander. You’ve had 24 hours to process the following information: - Yes, there is wizarding By Duana • Sep 13, 2013 11:45 am
Books Intro for September 3, 2013 Dear Gossips, You ready? The long weekend is over. Summer is over. Gossip high season is before us. NY Fashion Week begins tomorrow. TIFF begins on Thursday. The Emmys are less than 3 weeks away. (Should we live-blog the show?) So the blog will be busy. And we had By Lainey • Sep 03, 2013 08:30 am
Books Intro for August 28, 2013 Dear Gossips, It’s been 15 years. Since when? Since many of us first met Harry Potter and went to Hogwarts. To celebrate the anniversary, JK Rowling is sharing some of her memories about writing the series and specifically who she misses the most: Dumbledore. The video is below. When By Lainey • Aug 28, 2013 09:01 am
Books Drew’s hearts Drew Barrymore is putting out a book of all hearts photography. Like an entire book of pictures of hearts. Page after page of hearts. Apparently she’s been taking pictures of hearts for 10 years. Now she’s curated her heart collection and wants to share the images with you. By Lainey • Aug 22, 2013 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 22, 2013 Dear Gossips, Have you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak? I referenced The Book Thief exactly 3 years ago here in a post arguing in favour of YA – that it’s underrated, that it’s ignorant to dismiss it on the basis of its classification, because otherwise you’d By Lainey • Aug 22, 2013 08:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 15, 2013 Dear Gossips, Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life, the book I fell in love with earlier this year (click here for a refresher) is becoming a movie. Some books you read them like a movie. Night Film, for example, by Marisha Pessl, my current book infatuation, you totally read like By Lainey • Aug 15, 2013 09:01 am
Books Intro for August 12, 2013 Dear Gossips, Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect. You will understand the significance of these three words when you read Night Film, the new book by Marisha Pessl due out on August 20th. But these three words also apply to Night Film, Pessl’s second novel, the follow-up to her high acclaimed By Lainey • Aug 12, 2013 09:04 am
Books Intro for August 7, 2013 Dear Gossips, I’ve been on you about Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians. It’s the read of the summer. Have you? If no, get on it. Crazy Rich Asians has just been acquired by the producers of The Hunger Games. According to THR, the film will be made By Lainey • Aug 07, 2013 08:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl Someone recently suggested Rosamund Pike for a Career Prospectus. Don’t think she needs one anymore, do you? According to The Hollywood Reporter, she’s been offered the role of Amy Dunne in the film adaptation of Gone Girl to be directed by David Fincher and also starring Ben Affleck. By Lainey • Jul 26, 2013 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Garrett Hedlund will not be Christian Grey He’s the right age. He’s the right build. He’s hot. But he’s also not interested. US Weekly reports that Garrett Hedlund has passed on becoming Christian Grey for the film adaptation of Fifty Shades Of Grey because he didn’t want to be locked into a By Lainey • Jul 26, 2013 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Flowers In The Attic I read an article this morning where a woman wrote that consuming Sex And The City as a teenager set up her and her friends for unrealistic expectations where sex was concerned. That in turn made them receptive and hungry when Girls came to present a different view. This makes By Duana • Jul 25, 2013 12:07 pm
B-tch please James Franco on a plane Have you seen Spring Breakers yet? I put it on my iPad for my flight from Vancouver to Toronto the other day. Not really the best idea. Watching it on one of the plane’s personal seat viewers is one thing. But viewing it from your iPad, with much better By Lainey • Jul 24, 2013 03:01 pm
Books Bridget Jones joins the Motherhood Industrial Complex The title of Helen Fielding’s new Bridget Jones novel Mad About The Boy was revealed in May – click here for a refresher. They’ve just released the book jacket. As you can see, along with a pair of stilettos, Bridge is surrounded by a toy giraffe, dinosaur, and a By Lainey • Jul 24, 2013 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tris & Four at Comic-Con Dauntless at Comic-Con. It was a big day for Divergent at Comic-Con to kick off this year’s Dork Storm, as Sarah calls it. Look how many outfits Shailene Woodley had to wear. Woodley of course is the new would-be Kristen Stewart/Jennifer Lawrence, headlining the film By Lainey • Jul 19, 2013 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck: lying, cheating husband gets punked? Fact or fiction? Fiction, OF COURSE it’s fiction. Ben Affleck met with David Fincher the other day. Click here to see the photos. At the time I asked if it was a directors’ lunch or whether or not it was an actor meeting with a director and it turns By Lainey • Jul 12, 2013 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ian Somerhalder auditioning everywhere There was a rumour circulating earlier this week that they’d be announcing who will play Christian Grey in the movie adaptation of Fifty Shades Of Grey at Comic-Con. What the f-ck in the sh-t? WHY would Fifty Shades Of Grey be at Comic-Con? For what By Lainey • Jul 03, 2013 04:05 pm
