Movie Reviews and Previews Annie’s Epic Romance If you’ve been visiting this site regularly over the years, you’re probably aware that I read a lot of horny books, unapologetically. In 2018 or so, I started getting emails from people recommending a book called The Idea of You by Robinne Lee. Those emails picked up again By Lainey • Oct 25, 2022 10:29 am
Break Ups Tia and Tamera's separate ways Yesterday was a big day for Tia and Tamera Mowry. For Tamera, it was the official release of her memoir, You Should Sit Down For This. And for Tia, it was news of her decision to file for divorce from her husband of 14 years, Cory Hardrict. Publishing a memoir By Stephanie • Oct 05, 2022 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jacob Elordi: Just Before Elvis I’ve been waiting for new photos of Jacob Elordi for a couple of weeks now – here he is in LA yesterday – because we need to talk about Jacob and Elvis Presley. It was announced this month that Sofia Coppola's next film, titled Priscilla, will be based on By Lainey • Sep 23, 2022 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s a Friday mystery! Henry Cavill has a new spy movie coming out—no, not James Bond, sorry—called Argylle. It’s coming from Apple TV+ sometime in 2023. It’s directed by Matthew Vaughn and adapted for the screen by Jason Fuchs (who has a story By Sarah • Sep 16, 2022 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Adam Driver help save Netflix? Netflix has had a rough year, but maybe a strong awards season run can turn things around. Wall Street doesn’t seem to be buying streamers’ bullsh-t anymore about the promise of endless money at the end of the rainbow, but maybe a strong slate of must-see films will draw By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 11:39 am
TV Updates Brie Larson suits up as a scientist Here’s Brie Larson on the set of the Apple series Lessons In Chemistry, based on the novel by Bonnie Garmus. I read Lessons In Chemistry back in the spring – and LOVED it so much. It’s about science, social science, and food science, the ways in which science and By Lainey • Aug 11, 2022 01:01 pm
Books Constance Wu comes back Trigger warning, sensitive content to follow. Constance Wu has not been on social media for a few years. Not that she hasn’t been working, during her social media absence, Constance has worked steadily and currently stars in The Terminal List with a couple of film projects in post-production. Earlier By Lainey • Jul 18, 2022 11:22 am
Books A (second) Bridgerton prequel book is coming A Bridgerton prequel series has been in the works for the last year, centering on the romance between a young Queen Charlotte and King George, but now there is, in true synergistic style, a tie-in prequel book coming from Bridgerton author Julia Quinn and showrunner Shonda Rhimes. The queen does By Sarah • Jul 08, 2022 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Some good Angelina news The recent news about Angelina Jolie has been troubling—at best—as it involves her never-ending split from Brad Pitt and their winery-estate, Miraval, and her share of the wine business that she sold, legitimately and above board, to a liquor company. Well! Enough of that! How about some good By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 10:27 am
Maple Leaf Simu Liu: acting, singing, hosting, dancing, writing I’m travelling this week so I wasn’t able to watch Simu Liu host the Juno Awards from Toronto on Sunday. I have however watched online clips of his opening monologue and one part where he sings. Let’s start with the monologue which starts with a sketch before By Lainey • May 17, 2022 01:10 pm
Books Intro for March 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Academy of Country Music Awards happened last night in Las Vegas, co-hosted by the legend Dolly Parton who joked during her opening monologue that a disco ball fell on top of her. That was just the first of several outfit changes and appearances, including performances. Dolly did By Lainey • Mar 08, 2022 09:05 am
Books Ryan Atwood is a journalist now (sort of) Because we are living in not only the darkest timeline, but also the dumbest, Ben McKenzie, always and forever known as The OC’s Ryan Atwood, is co-writing a book about cryptocurrency with journalist Jacob Silverman. The pair have written articles for Slate about crypto, and are appearing at SXSW By Sarah • Feb 25, 2022 01:13 pm
Books Andrew Garfield’s next moment Andrew Garfield is currently enjoying his relaxed and good-hair awards season, plus a victory lap for Spider-Man: No Way Home, but he will soon be back out promoting a new project, the true crime series, Under the Banner of Heaven. Based on Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name, By Sarah • Feb 24, 2022 12:22 pm
TV Updates Keanu in the White City? There is movement at last on the long-gestating adaptation of Erik Larson’s book, The Devil in the White City, produced by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. This is, indeed, GREAT news to kick off 2022, as true crime aficionados have been waiting for this adaptation since DiCaprio acquired the By Sarah • Jan 04, 2022 11:46 am
Books Riley and Suki are Daisy and Karen Duana and I loved Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & The Six …hard. We wrote it about it on the site, we talked about it on Show Your Work, and we even talked to Taylor about it on the podcast. That was back in 2019 and at the time, By Lainey • Oct 18, 2021 12:02 pm
Books Angelina Jolie: A Book Signing After Dinner Angelina Jolie was seen leaving dinner with Johnny Lee Miller in LA the other night – you can see the photos here. It’s the second time they’ve had dinner – that we know of – in the last few months. Back in the summer she was photographed heading to his place By Lainey • Oct 14, 2021 02:18 pm
