Music Intro for May 20, 2015 Dear Gossips, Have you watched the Feeling Myself video yet? I can’t stop watching Beyonce and Nicki Minaj dedicate an entire video to celebrating themselves. Please. Isn’t every video a self-celebration? If you’re going to do it – and they ALL do it – you might as well By Lainey • May 20, 2015 10:19 am
Style Emily Blunt’s Cannes debut Emily Blunt has been to Cannes for a few parties here and there. But I don’t recall ever seeing her at the Palais, representing her own film. It’s well worth the wait though as she was joined by Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin today at the photo By Lainey • May 19, 2015 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The “Men” vs Mad Max The photo call and presser for Mad Max: Fury Road happened in Cannes this morning. Click here to read my review from yesterday. I have no doubt the audience at the Palais would have loved it. Like I wrote yesterday, the movie is straight up, balls out mental. Half the By Lainey • May 14, 2015 10:04 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 13, 2015 Dear Gossips, As Sarah wrote the other day, one of most highly anticipated films premiering in Cannes is Todd Haynes’s Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Cate covers the new issue of Variety in support of the film. And since the film is about romance between two women, By Lainey • May 13, 2015 09:23 am
BFFs Joss Whedon quits Twitter, world implodes On Monday, Joss Whedon quit Twitter. I assumed it was because with Avengers: Age of Ultron open in all the theaters everywhere, he was finally done promoting it and so he deleted his Twitter page, which was started two years ago to promote a movie. I didn’t think much By Sarah • May 07, 2015 10:40 am
TV Updates Amy Schumer, 12 Angry Men, and Reasonable Chub I know that I always start articles all “go watch this then come back”. And I also know that sometimes there’s just not time. I do it too. Sometimes I just read the article about the thing instead of watching the thing. But if you don’t watch this By Duana • May 07, 2015 09:54 am
Dumbass Please stop talking, Jeremy Renner I’ve always said Jeremy Renner is good for gossip, and he is certainly giving us something to talk about recently. The Avengers: Age of Ultron press tour was famously peppy, and during an interview Renner and Chris Evans stepped in a pile of internet dog sh*t when they By Sarah • May 06, 2015 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 1, 2015 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been reading this blog a while, you know I like to get down with a good horny book. And I’ve recommended several. Yesterday on The Social we interviewed filmmaker Laurie Kahn whose documentary Love Between The Covers is screening at Hot Docs this week. By Lainey • May 01, 2015 09:31 am
Dumbass Mae Whitman denied a role that was already hers Have you heard about this one? So Mae Whitman played the President’s Daughter in Independence Day. In 1996. She was 8. Now they’re making Independence Day 2 to come out next year, a full 20 years later. All bets should be off, cast-wise, 20 years later. Who By Duana • Apr 30, 2015 03:10 pm
Dumbass Meredith tries but Stacey Dash is dumb Generally speaking, I think people should play within their weight class. What I mean by that is I have very little patience for people who are smart, and know they’re smart, giving condescending lectures to people who they know don’t understand the same things they do, just so By Duana • Apr 30, 2015 01:11 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Jessica Alba is the Bossiest Bossy Boss in the World If you follow a lot of mocktresses on Instagram (like I do), you’ll see the hashtag #girlboss tossed around a lot, along with homages to Sophia Amoruso’s book of the same name. And of course there was the Ban Bossy PSA from 2014 with people like Jennifer Garner By Maria • Apr 29, 2015 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel’s Woman Problem There’s a piece up today at The Daily Beast about Black Widow and the “problem” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that she—a strong, capable character in her own right—keeps being used in service of the male heroes. I don’t disagree that there is a problem in By Sarah • Apr 28, 2015 12:43 pm
Douchebags The Avengers are TOO PEPPY We’ve said it before—the Avengers are the coolest club in Hollywood. When you put that group together, they’re a marketing flak’s wet dream. They sell themselves, they sell the movie, they sell the ongoing pop cultural domination of Marvel simply by showing up. And they’ve By Sarah • Apr 23, 2015 02:51 pm
TV Updates Shonda says “Normal is not innovative” As you know, we have a lot of love for Shonda Rhimes here. Normally it’s Duana who gets to hog on loving Shonda. But she’s busy today. So I’m stealing this one from her and it’s big. Last night Shonda was named to the National Association By Lainey • Apr 14, 2015 11:11 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 24, 2015 Dear Gossips, Angelina Jolie. She put it in her own words in the New York Times. If you’ve not yet read the piece, click here. This is the part that resonated most with me: “Regardless of the hormone replacements I’m taking, I am now in menopause. I will By Lainey • Mar 24, 2015 09:30 am
Dumbass Shailene Woodley is a trailblazer…? The MTV Movie Awards, hosted by Amy Schumer, are coming up. MTV has just announced that the Trailblazer Award will be presented to Shailene Woodley. So… They just invented this award in 2012: “The MTV Trailblazer Award recipient spearheads the way for others that work in the movie industry. The By Lainey • Mar 23, 2015 11:37 am
