Top Reads Avengers Assemble for Kamala Lainey emailed me last night and the subject was I’m a corny asshole and it was to share a video of various Avengers uniting to support Harris-Walz in the last days of the US election, and before election day next Tuesday. We're back. Let's #AssembleForDemocracy. By Sarah • Nov 01, 2024 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Unstoppable Here I am being a grump about a well-intentioned film again. But as with We Live in Time, the issue with Unstoppable is how extremely well-trod the genre is, and how the film does not find a way to inject new life into it. Unstoppable is an underdog sports drama By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 01:48 pm
Golden Globes 2024 Intro for January 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, So the “new” Golden Globes were…a mess. Which is how we like our Golden Globes! Unfortunately for Jo Koy, in most of the post mortem coverage of the show, his performance as host is included in that mess. In his defence, he had no time. We all By Lainey • Jan 08, 2024 07:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Tig stands up It has been a minute since we’ve seen her, but Tig Notaro showed up over the weekend for the Stand Up To Cancer biennial telecast. In case you forgot, let this be your reminder that Tig Notaro is hot. Also present for the telecast were Danai Gurira, Elizabeth Banks, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2023 11:35 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
Amazingness Intro for August 13, 2021 Dear Gossips, For the second time in two weeks, a clip involving Kevin Hart has gone viral. Last week it was when he and Snoop Dogg were calling the dressage event at the Olympics. I still watch that back once a day and crack up. “The horse Crip walking, cuz! By Lainey • Aug 13, 2021 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Soderbergh assembles a new team When Steven Soderbergh puts together a team, he does not hold back. Ocean’s 11 features one of the great Cool Guy ensembles of the 21st century, including one of Hollywood’s great Cool Girls, Julia Roberts. And while everyone remembers the heat-seeking chemistry of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez By Sarah • Jun 09, 2021 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jon Hamm is headed to Detroit Steven Soderbergh next film is called No Sudden Move. Production is now underway in Detroit and the reason why that’s notable is because, as he said: “The last time I shot a movie in Detroit with a great script and a great cast things worked out really well, so By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 12:25 pm
Equality Issues Beyoncé & Jay-Z call for action Beyoncé posted a video on Instagram this weekend encouraging her followers to sign one or all of the petitions being circulated demanding justice for George Floyd. The petitions can be accessed through her website. Beyoncé, as we know, has been supporting front line workers during the pandemic and has donated By Lainey • Jun 01, 2020 10:02 am
Equality Issues Brie Larson’s Body Language There’s an absolutely ridiculous video on YouTube that was released last Friday making rounds on Twitter. The creator, an alleged ““““““““expert”””””””” in body language, analyzes a press interview with Brie Larson, Don Cheadle, and Chris Hemsworth. The video makes you both laugh at the sheer absurdity of some of By Prem • May 02, 2019 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews (Half) The Avengers assemble Two and a half weeks to go until Avengers: Endgame opens and we find out how they’re going to take out Thanos and reverse the Snap. So the final press push begins. Which is interesting because even though, in theory, we know that most of them will somehow be By Lainey • Apr 08, 2019 10:23 am
Music DAMN KENDRICK Kendrick Lamar released DAMN. on Good Friday. I didn’t listen to DAMN. until Saturday afternoon. I wasn’t busy. I was waiting. I wanted to savour it. You know the envy you feel towards someone who hasn’t watched your favourite TV series yet? When anyone tells me they By Kathleen • Apr 19, 2017 11:44 am
Don Cheadle Golden Globes TV Nominations 2017 Awww HFPA, you’re so cute! You are adorable, because the way you nominate shows sometimes intersects with the best things on TV, but…you know, not all the time. For example, Game Of Thrones, representing once again in Best Dramatic Series, and…that’s it? OK, there’s also By Duana • Dec 12, 2016 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don Cheadle in Miles Ahead Don Cheadle worked for years to get his Miles Davis biopic, Miles Ahead, made. Part of the uphill battle was that he not only wanted to star as Davis, he wanted to write and direct as well. Well his long slog to the finish line paid off, as Cheadle makes By Sarah • Apr 15, 2016 01:37 pm
Style Don Cheadle & Ewan McGregor Ewan McGregor at the Miles Ahead premiere in New York. This is Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis passion project and directorial debut. Sarah wrote about the trailer a few weeks ago – click here for a refresher. The film opens next week. But is it the film that Don wanted to By Lainey • Mar 24, 2016 10:09 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, February 16, 2016 This would have been glorious. I almost Kanyed tonight. #Restraint #Temperance @kendricklamar #AlbumoftheYear !!!!— Don Cheadle (@IamDonCheadle) February 16, 2016 Of course Reese would be down with Taylor, and of course Taylor would retweet her praise. They have a lot more than Jake Gyllenhaal in common. @taylorswift13 Loved your amazing words! By Maria • Feb 16, 2016 02:55 pm
