Style Actress Contenders at the Museum Gala As Sarah just wrote in the post previous to this one about the actors who showed up at the Academy Museum Gala this weekend, at this stage in the season, it’s looking like it’s pretty wide open across the board in most of the major categories for the By Lainey • Oct 21, 2024 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cynthia Erivo's reclamation Cynthia Erivo took to social media to slam a fan-edited poster for her upcoming film, Wicked. Earlier this month, Warner Brothers released a poster for the film in which nearly the whole face of her character, Elphaba, is visible. But the recent fan edit making the rounds on social media By Stephanie • Oct 17, 2024 11:01 am
Jock Smut Olympic Celebrities It used to be, before social media, that summer was quiet in celebrity news. That’s changed over the last decade, there is no break, because celebrities are celebrity-ing every day of the year and we’re seeing them in Italy and Greece on their yachts and whatever. This summer, By Lainey • Jul 29, 2024 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Converting to Wicked Sarah and I just had an exchange over text about Wicked because the new trailer just dropped and we were deciding who would write it. The issue is that movies are usually Sarah’s department and Wicked is a BIG movie – two BIG movies. But… Sarah haaaaaaates musicals. I don’ By Lainey • May 15, 2024 03:40 pm
Gorgessity The Gold Gala: Fashion and Gratitude As mentioned earlier in today’s site open, Gold House’s Gold Gala was a celebration of Asia Pacific talent and Lucy Liu was honoured with the Gold Legend Award at the event this weekend. During her acceptance, Lucy talked about how she was initially hesitant to accept the honour By Lainey • May 13, 2024 03:48 pm
Style The Met Gala Joy of Being A Lot It was Taylor Russell’s first Met Gala. And Stray Kids’, and Tyla’s. All of whom had excellent first times out (especially Tyla!) – but let’s be real. The first time you go to the Met Gala, all you really want to do is stick the landing. Just make By Duana • May 07, 2024 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked is already exhausting As Lainey mentioned, CinemaCon, the annual showing of Hollywood wares, is happening now in Las Vegas. Yesterday, Universal and Focus Features—which is owned by Universal—showed their wares to the National Association of Theater Owners, or as I like to call them, the other NATO. Their big presentations were By Sarah • Apr 11, 2024 11:20 am
Oscars 2024 Witches and Colour at the Oscars As noted in my post about achromatic looks at the Oscars, there wasn’t much colour, not at the awards proper and not even at Vanity Fair, which is why those who did go with colour popped even more. For Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, it was colour and character. By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked is the latest stealth musical The other biggest trailer of Super Bowl Sunday is that for Wicked, the first in a two-part adaptation of the Broadway musical, itself adapted from Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel. Does Wicked need to be two parts? I don’t think so! But then, I also don’t think it By Sarah • Feb 12, 2024 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pinocchio is probably cursed I’ll say this for Pinocchio, the latest in the Disney live-action remakes, it’s not Cats. That’s sort of like saying I only got hit by a car, not completely run over. Both seem pretty bad. And while yes, Pinocchio is bad, it’s not inventively bad like By Sarah • Sep 08, 2022 01:16 pm
Style Tonys Fashion Understated is never the theme of the Tonys, especially not when Broadway was celebrating its return after two years of COVID shutdowns. So there were a lot of great looks last night and we’ll showcase some of them here, starting with Cynthia Erivo, my personal favourite. Because I’ve By Lainey • Jun 13, 2022 11:25 am
Oscars 2022 Kristen, Cynthia, Niecy, and Wanda: Queer Love at the Oscars Look, I wish we lived in a time when it wasn’t particularly noteworthy to see queer couples on Hollywood’s biggest night. I get that dedicating a post to queer love at the Oscars could be interpreted as a form of othering. Because in an ideal world, it’d By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 10:20 am
Style Louis Vuitton Hollywood The Louis Vuitton show is always a big celebrity draw and after almost two years of restrictions, when so many people couldn’t travel, today’s presentation brought out the stars, some of whom haven’t been seen all that often during the pandemic. Like Emma Stone who matched in By Lainey • Mar 07, 2022 11:50 am
SAG Awards 2022 Black and Colour: SAG Fashion Selects Before the SAGs last night, I told Sarah I was curious whether or not the fashion would be scaled back because of what’s happening in Ukraine; it’s happened before. No judgment either way, I was just trying to anticipate all angles of what we might see at the By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked, finally The musical Wicked is nearly twenty years old—the book is twenty-six—and, finally, it is coming to the big screen. Jon M. Chu continues to not make the Crazy Rich Asians sequel will direct Wicked, following up his previous song and dance efforts Step Up 2 & 3, Jem By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 09:23 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Chloe Zhao and her Backpack Chloe Zhao wore her hair down yesterday instead of in her signature double braids for the Venice Film Festival jury photo call. The braids were missing again last night at the gala for opening night. But the hair is not the story here. I thought the story might be the By Lainey • Sep 02, 2021 11:33 am
