Xenu Smut Leah Remini’s anti-Sci Emmy Leah Remini’s show, Scientology and the Aftermath, won the Emmy for Outstanding Information Series at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday. I’m not sure the Outstanding Information Series Emmy winner ordinarily generates a lot of headlines. The reason it’s generating headlines, of course, is because Leah Remini By Lainey • Sep 12, 2017 03:59 pm
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2017 Dear Gossips, The Emmys are 5 weeks away. Emmy voting began yesterday and ends August 28th so this, right now, is when campaigning is at its most intense. As previously reported, they’re now spending as much on Emmy campaigns as the Oscars and it’s an especially competitive year By Lainey • Aug 15, 2017 09:37 am
TV Updates A girl in a suitcase Confession: I’m not watching The Handmaid’s Tale. I tried but I couldn’t make it through the second episode—it’s TOO REAL. When I read the book in college it was like a warning to not take for granted the ground gained and keep fighting for more, By Sarah • May 11, 2017 12:55 pm
TV Updates Rory Gilmore: the “secret weapon” I’m still making my way through Gilmore Girls. It’s been months, I know. And I like it, I do. It’s just not binge-TV for me. So far I’m two episodes into season 5. And finally, finally Rory has done something interesting. But I am most interested By Lainey • May 11, 2017 10:12 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Make Brad Pitt Great Again That Brad Pitt piece in GQ – as I wrote last week, this was a solid appeal to the base. But if you’re not part of the base… were you rolling your eyes? Duana and I go through the eye-rolly parts. And those eye rolls brought us to “Make Brad By Lainey • May 08, 2017 04:38 pm
Elisabeth Moss Intro for April 28, 2017 Dear Gossips, Do you remember Premiere Magazine? It’s been exactly 10 years since Premiere’s last issue. I loved Premiere. I don’t know if I can say I would still love Premiere if I could go back now and read the content but I remember loving the content. By Lainey • Apr 28, 2017 09:27 am
TV Updates Waiting for The Handmaid’s Tale Big Little Lies has been over for, what?, two weeks now? Do you miss it? It’s OK. There is another. The Handmaid’s Tale begins next Wednesday, April 26 on Hulu and April 30th in Canada on Bravo. It’s 10 episodes. And we can’t wait. It’s By Lainey • Apr 20, 2017 11:59 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, March 22, 2017 This isn’t helping Jimmy Fallon’s late night credibility. Now this is funny!!! Well done @jimmyfallon for poking some well deserved fun at me without… https://t.co/6tC2fuCuFF— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 22, 2017 William Shatner really hates the latest Bachelor dude. BTW as an early birthday By Maria • Mar 22, 2017 04:35 pm
TIFF 2016 Coverage Liev Schreiber is The Bleeder Mercury is in retrograde, so yada yada yada, I walked in to my screening of The Bleeder late. The night before, for the red carpet for The Bleeder, Lainey and I had to rush there due to some technical woes. It all worked out, and we got some great interviews By Joanna • Sep 12, 2016 04:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston in High-Rise You expect a movie to be weird, and then you watch it and it’s WEIRD. So it goes with Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s classic sci-fi novel. Steeped in a 1970s aesthetic consistent with the publication of Ballard’s book, High-Rise is stylish By Sarah • May 02, 2016 12:07 pm
Emmy Awards 2015 Elisabeth Moss, Emmy Barbie? Looking up pictures of Elisabeth Moss’s magenta dress, one outlet described her look as Barbie-esque. Um, Elisabeth Moss doesn’t look anything like a Barbie, and I certainly don’t think she’s trying to. Yes , her dress is bright pink, her hair is blonde and she has blue By Maria • Sep 21, 2015 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Truth Truth is Spotlight’s more depressing cousin, another investigative procedural but this time, the outcome is less celebratory. Based on her own book, Truth tells the account of Mary Mapes, the 60 Minutes producer who oversaw the story on then-President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. The By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 10:43 am
Mad Men The End Of An Era The final episodes of Mad Men will begin airing on April 5 on AMC. Are you ready? They’re calling it The End Of An Era and it really does feel like it. Don Draper made Walter White possible. Mad Men brought down hemlines. Mad Men’s influence on television, By Lainey • Mar 23, 2015 10:18 am
TV Updates Peggy Olson’s next move Elisabeth Moss has been making some solid career choices outside of Mad Men in advance of the series finale. Her performance in Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake was widely acclaimed. Her new film The One I Love, in theatres this month, is receiving decent reviews. And now it’ By Lainey • Aug 05, 2014 03:18 pm
Mad Men The Sound of Typewriters Mad Men Season 7 Episode 3 recap. “Okay.” This is why I love screenwriting so much. There are so many things that lesser writers would have put into Don Draper’s mouth. So many words. In fact, even just the volume of words that could have been put there would By Duana • Apr 28, 2014 12:17 pm
Golden Globes 2014 Elisabeth Moss: Best Globes Understatement I don’t know why I think she’s an understatement, exactly. After all, she’s invited to all of these awards, is usually nominated and half the time she wins. She knows how to do these shows. And it’s not like she’s playing shrinking violet, either. This By Duana • Jan 13, 2014 04:44 am
