Movie Reviews and Previews Sofia Coppola & Patty Jenkins: from festivals to the box office – but will Hollywood notice? Sofia Coppola won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend and became just the second-ever female filmmaker to receive that honour. It’s a big deal. And if you ask her The Beguiled star Nicole Kidman, she’ll probably say it’s an even bigger By Joanna • May 29, 2017 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 17, 2017 Dear Gossips, The 70th Cannes Film Festival begins today. Sofia Coppola’s new film, The Beguiled, will be screening in competition for the Palme d’Or before its theatrical release on June 23. In support of The Beguiled, Sofia and Kirsten Dunst are on the cover of the new issue By Lainey • May 17, 2017 08:47 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Beyoncé lets Yvette go off On Monday, Lainey wrote about how Beyoncé does not explain. We know this. We rarely get words from our Queen unless she is honouring Miss Tina, supporting Solange or dropping life-changing pieces of art that speak for themselves. Yesterday, Beyoncé still did not explain. She let her rep Yvette Noel-Schure By Kathleen • May 05, 2017 03:18 pm
Equality Issues Intro for April 24, 2017 Dear Gossips, On Friday, at the Variety Power of Women event, where Blake Lively was being honoured alongside Chelsea Clinton, Gayle King, Shari Redstone, Audra McDonald, and Jessica Chastain, Blake “popped off” when a reporter asked what her “go-to power outfit” was. Get it? Power of Women? Power outfit? Maybe By Lainey • Apr 24, 2017 08:19 am
Books Victoria Beckham 2017 Back in January, we featured Victoria Beckham on an episode of the Show Your Work podcast. Duana was the one who pitched her for the Do We Need To Care About….? segment that we do at the end of every show. I mean, of course we need to care about By Lainey • Apr 07, 2017 04:01 pm
TV Updates Smash, Scorned showrunners, and ‘Yes, And’ When I first read the Theresa Rebeck's essay about being fired from Smash that Entertainment Weekly ran, I was standing in a long lineup and immediately looked up, shocked that the line was still happening. Like, I somehow expected everyone else around me to have read it at By Duana • Apr 05, 2017 01:24 pm
TV Updates Kerry Washington’s art and activism I’m in a fight with Scandal because of what happened at the end of season 6, episode 7. I won’t tell you what happened because #nospoilers but let’s just say that Olivia Pope and Shonda Rhimes are usually my imaginary besties but lately, I’ve been yelling By Kathleen • Apr 04, 2017 02:57 pm
Music Kendrick's controversy & Kelly Rowland I’m so f-cking sick and tired of the Photoshop/ Show me somethin’ natural like afro on Richard Pryor/ Show me somethin’ natural like ass with some stretchmarks On Friday when I wrote about Kendrick Lamar’s Humble music video, I noted that these lyrics were going viral and gently By Kathleen • Apr 03, 2017 03:09 pm
TV Updates Feud and the Working Woman’s Trap Five episodes into Feud: Bette and Joan and we have covered the making of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, its release, and subsequent trip to the Oscars in 1963. We’re now at the point where Bette Davis and Joan Crawford should be swamped in offers, careers reignited thanks to By Sarah • Apr 03, 2017 11:04 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 30, 2017 Dear Gossips, Yesterday I posted about the new Sherry Lansing biography and the story about Angelina Jolie while she was shooting Tomb Raider. The Hollywood Reporter is featuring several stories about Sherry Lansing in its new issue, including an interview with the former studio boss in which she defends Mel By Lainey • Mar 30, 2017 09:40 am
Gossip Nostalgia Babysitting Angelina Sherry Lansing used to be the head of Paramount, the first woman to head a Hollywood film studio. She has stories. She obviously can’t tell all of the stories. Or maybe even the best ones. But she’s sharing some of them in a new book, Leading Lady: Sherry By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 11:32 am
Dumbass F-cking Sorkin! “F-cking Sorkin!” is what Duana and I outburst at each other because Aaron Sorkin is impossible. I first wrote about “F-cking Sorkin!” two days after Donald Trump won the US election when Sorkin posted an open letter to his wife and daughter about how bitterly disappointed they were by the By Lainey • Mar 27, 2017 11:07 am
TV Updates Ava DuVernay, the great leader Ava DuVernay has been working on A Wrinkle In Time. The film’s budget is at least $100 million making her the first black woman to direct a movie of that size. She posted on Instagram the other day that principle photography is now complete and now they’re in By Lainey • Mar 23, 2017 11:14 am
Douchebags Nobody asked you Yeah but Justin Timberlake has to be part of it. And because he’s Justin Timberlake, this time he’s part of it when it’s conveniently too late. So here’s what JT tweeted the other day: That Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos tho........ 🔥🔥🔥— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) March 9, By Lainey • Mar 10, 2017 11:51 am
Top Reads Gwyneth at the “forefront” Charlie Hunnam covers the new issue of Men’s Health and Gwyneth Paltrow covers the new issue of Women’s Health. She looks great. Which is part of the reason why she’s been trying to give you advice on how to look and feel as great as she does. By Lainey • Mar 09, 2017 12:18 pm
Equality Issues Duana nominates: Emily Doe Emily Doe wrote, perhaps, the most important document we read in 2016: her victim impact statement. Emily was named Woman of the Year by Glamour and in November, I wrote about her essay in the magazine and why we must never forget her words and never stop finding ways to By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 05:26 pm
