Equality Issues The Final Slap After moving up their meeting regarding Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars which feels like 14 years ago, the Academy leadership (“leadership”) has taken the step of banning Smith, who has already resigned his membership from the Academy, from the Oscars and all Academy events for By Sarah • Apr 11, 2022 09:37 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Canadian Screen Week concluded last night – it was a week-long celebration of Canadian film and television, and a showcase for the range of storytellers creating and working in Canada. Scarborough was named Best Motion Picture, with directors Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson also winning in their category, and By Lainey • Apr 11, 2022 09:01 am
Top Reads Jared Leto’s Artistic Disability If I seem sensitive about this story, it’s because I am. My ma has a physical disability. Since 2010/11 she’s been living with a rare disorder called POEMS which is tricky to diagnose. Since it took so long for them to figure out what was wrong, they By Lainey • Apr 05, 2022 11:22 am
Equality Issues Our Flag Means Death is a shot across the bow of queerbaiting Spoilers Our Flag Means Death is a Kiwi-quirky romp through pirate history, full of deliberate anachronisms and a mellower, more melancholic tone than one might expect of a “silly pirate show”. But it is also a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a show that starts as one thing, and becomes By Sarah • Apr 01, 2022 01:29 pm
Style Oscar Isaac says “gay” Moon Knight starts streaming a week from today. As we saw last week, Oscar Isaac is currently on the press tour, serving up look after look, and he’s been on the junket, doing interviews, and during one of those interviews, with Variety, he was asked about the homophobic assholes By Lainey • Mar 23, 2022 12:21 pm
Top Reads Will and Kate’s Tour: A Royal Mess Prince William and Catherine Cambridge’s tour of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas is not going the way they and the royal team had hoped. The hope, of course, was that this would be all sunshine and smiles and cute photo opportunities, and some good outfits. Definitely no controversy. Well, By Lainey • Mar 23, 2022 11:29 am
Top Reads Angelina and Zahara’s Presidential Namecheck Angelina Jolie was in Washington DC yesterday for President Joe Biden’s signing of the reauthorisation of the Violence Against Women Act. She’s been part of the lobbying effort for this legislation for a long time, has been to DC time and again to meet with activists, alongside daughter By Lainey • Mar 17, 2022 12:04 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Apple TV’s Pachinko, adapted from Min Jin Lee’s acclaimed novel by the same name, starts streaming on March 25 with the first three episodes dropping right away and then one a week until all eight are released. Reviews so far have been really strong. Rolling Stone By Lainey • Mar 17, 2022 09:23 am
TV Updates Annie just met Jared Anne Hathaway is currently promoting WeCrashed, premiering this weekend on Apple+. Anne and Jared Leto play Adam and Rebekah Neumann, the WeWork scam couple, and while Jared’s doing another accent fresh off House of Gucci, Anne’s coming in with a new voice for her role, too. It’s By Lainey • Mar 16, 2022 11:35 am
TV Updates Selena Gomez is remaking Sixteen Candles for Gen Z It has happened, people who grew up in the Eighties. Enough time has passed that the Youths are reimagining the cultural objects of YOUR youth. Selena Gomez, along with playwright Tanya Saracho and writer/producer Gabriela Revilla Lugo, is reimagining the John Hughes coming of age classic Sixteen Candles as By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 10:18 am
Equality Issues Amber Ruffin rips into Marvel and Disney Over the weekend, a clip from last week’s The Amber Ruffin show made the rounds online from a segment she calls “How Did We Get Here?”. In it, she details an appearance by Matoaka, or Matoax, better known as Pocahontas, in an issue of King Conan from February (written By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 02:48 pm
Style Emma Watson is “here for ALL the witches” It was about a year ago that the Daily Mail reported that Emma Watson was retiring from acting. It was a big story at the time and then it wasn’t because it turns out that it wasn’t true. Not really all that surprising considering the source. Emma presented By Lainey • Mar 14, 2022 01:27 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, Halle Berry received the SeeHer Award last night at the Critics Choice Awards. During her acceptance speech, she talked about starring in and directing Bruised, and asking someone she knew about what he thought of the film afterwards, honestly. He told her that he felt uncomfortable “seeing a By Lainey • Mar 14, 2022 08:57 am
Equality Issues Ariana DeBose: A Leading Lady …who dances and sings Ariana DeBose was just profiled in Vanity Fair for their Oscar package. She is, of course, nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Anita in West Side Story and currently the presumed frontrunner. Articles like this will reach Oscar voters, it’s all part of campaign By Lainey • Mar 10, 2022 01:13 pm
Top Reads Everything gets worse for Disney Over the last 24 hours, everything has gotten worse for Disney and its now-embattled CEO, Bob II. Following his mealy, both-sides memo addressed to Disney employees about the company’s stance re: Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, he is now facing backlash on multiple fronts. Let’s start By Sarah • Mar 10, 2022 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, Oscar winner Domee Shi’s new film, Turning Red, about a Chinese Canadian girl going through puberty is based in Toronto. So the premiere, fittingly, was in Toronto on Tuesday night. Domee was there along with cast members Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Rosalie Chiang. Domee won the By Lainey • Mar 10, 2022 09:32 am
