Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart loves being nominated Kristen Stewart was back in New York yesterday to promote Spencer at Tribeca Screening Room. The film made the festival circuit late last summer and through the fall. It officially opened in November and has been available on VOD for a while. So all told, it’s been over half By Lainey • Mar 11, 2022 10:21 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
Gorgessity Jessica Chastain’s surprise win The Best Actress Oscar race has been an assumed contest between two frontrunners: Nicole Kidman and Kristen Stewart. Well, last night Jessica Chastain busted into that race like the Kool-Aid man entering your house, and now the Best Actress race is suddenly a bit topsy-turvy. It’s not like anyone By Sarah • Feb 28, 2022 09:24 am
TV Updates Three for Squid Game Two years ago, Parasite won the SAG Award for Best Ensemble, the Screen Actors’ equivalent of Best Picture, before going on to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Both at the SAGs and at the Oscars, though, no members of the Parasite cast were singled out for individual acting honours. By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 08:17 am
SAG Awards 2022 Intro for February 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, Jennifer Hudson wore a custom pink Vera Wang dress to the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night where she was nominated for Best Actress for her performance as Aretha Franklin in Respect. The night before, at the NAACP Image Awards, it was custom Christian Siriano: RESPECT the winner By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 07:43 am
Gorgessity Zoë wears the Bat Signal The Batman press tour is underway and the first red carpet was the UK premiere last night in London. Reviews are embargoed but early reaction I’ve seen has been quite positive so far. Well it better be, LOL. The movie is five minutes shy of three hours and if By Lainey • Feb 24, 2022 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bat and The Cat cover hotness The Batman comes out in two weeks, so we’re in the full-court press for, er, press. Yesterday, it was Robert Pattinson at Jimmy Kimmel Live, today it’s RBattz and Zoë Kravitz together on the digital cover for Entertainment Weekly. (In a heart-crushing blow to the celebrity/pop culture By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 11:07 am
Gorgessity BREAKING BIG LOVE! BIG WEDDING! You know how I know this is a big story like beyond just the people who follow East Asian entertainment and watch Chinese and Korean dramas? Kathleen just texted me: “Where are these two people from and how can I watch them make out?” With this tweet attached: no but By Lainey • Feb 10, 2022 02:47 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Pregnancy Fashion, by Rihanna Like there was any chance Rihanna, now pregnant, would change up her routine – that routine being going out to the places she loves... in style. Rihanna’s pregnancy announcement in and of itself was all style, a whole new style of celebrity pregnancy announcement, pivoting away from the Instagram reveal By Lainey • Feb 10, 2022 10:36 am
Music Adele: Comeback and a Ring Over the last few weeks, Adele’s been in the headlines for whatever it is that led to the postponement (and possible cancellation) of her Las Vegas residency. The rumours have ranged from COVID outbreaks to production setbacks to creative disputes behind the scenes to romantic drama compromising Adele’s By Lainey • Feb 09, 2022 09:37 am
Gorgessity Hoyeon covers Vogue! Hoyeon Jung, the breakout star of Squid Game, covers the February issue of Vogue. This is a surprise but not a surprise… Not a surprise because Hoyeon started her career as a model, and worked in New York for a few years, right up until she had her last callback By Lainey • Jan 05, 2022 01:09 pm
Music Billie: New Music Video, New Hair Billie’s newest music video dropped yesterday, and this time around, her self-directed video was for the last track on Happier Than Ever called “Male Fantasy”. This video is one of her more simplistic ones and it feels grown up. The song is about heartbreak (and being frustrated that you By Anastasia • Dec 07, 2021 12:22 pm
Style Ava, Shamier, and Celebrating Black Cinema In the previous post about Drake, I wrote about him devaluing the Grammys and assigning value elsewhere. That’s what Shamier Anderson and his brother Stephan James are attempting to do with The Black Academy, measuring success on new terms, reframing the benchmark of success in entertainment, and who gets By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 11:19 am
Style Jennifer Lawrence’s golden return to the red carpet Even before COVID, Jennifer Lawrence was keeping it low-key. Last night’s Don’t Look Up red carpet was her first film premiere, by my records, since Dark Phoenix in June 2019. She is a major movie star, pretty sure I don’t have to list off her credentials, so By Lainey • Dec 06, 2021 10:24 am
Equality Issues Sandra Bullock’s Red Table Talk Look, I know that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are a LOT. Especially lately with all the revelations coming out from his book, and on top of the whole “entanglement” thing that they told us about last year. At the same time, we can also talk about the influence of By Lainey • Dec 01, 2021 10:42 am
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart gives a speech Award season, we’re in it now, and it was the Gotham Awards last night celebrating independent film where Kristen Stewart was honoured with the Performer Tribute Award. This, of course, is connected to her recent acclaimed performance in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer but she wasn’t nominated for it By Lainey • Nov 30, 2021 11:56 am
