Style Bridget’s Balmain moment The Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy press tour is in full swing, and while I have zero interest in this film—I like Bridget Jones, but have enjoyed the sequels progressively less—I had to talk about these photos from the London premiere because Renee Zellweger is wearing a By Sarah • Jan 30, 2025 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bridget and All Her Boys We’re just two weeks away from the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the return of Renée Zellweger as Bridget, now a widow and single mother, having to manage the school run and the dating apps at the same time. She and Helen Fielding were at By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 11:42 am
Amazingness Intro for January 16, 2025 Dear Gossips, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy comes out in less than a month and Renée Zellweger covers the new issue of British Vogue as she kicks off promotion. Renée’s hair is short, she is styled in mostly menswear, she looks great, and I can’t wait to By Lainey • Jan 16, 2025 09:43 am
Amazingness Hugh Grant’s glorious misery It was six years ago, during the Golden Globes, that LaineyGossip became a Hugh Grant fansite. Duana was the one who wrote the post back in 2018 during our Globes coverage – Hugh was there as a presenter, his job was to introduce Dunkirk, one of that year’s nominees, after By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Grant in Heretic Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of A Quiet Place, are back with a new vision of horror—missionaries. Together they write and direct Heretic, a horror film about the ghastliness of guests, or the misery of being forced to talk to people, depending on how you look at it. By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 03:12 pm
Hugh Grant Everyone is outside We are in the thick of press tour season, because all the holiday movies want to get their press tours out of the way before Americans collectively unbutton our pants for the five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Thus, this mash-up post of Unstoppable and Paddington in Peru. By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside of you are two trailers Inside of you are two trailers, and they are always fighting. One of them is emptiness and despair, one of them is justice and light. Which one will win? Whichever one you watch more. Exhibit A: Abandon All Hope The trailer for Red One, the action-comedy Christmas movie starring Dwayne By Sarah • Jun 26, 2024 03:02 pm
Hugh Grant Apple’s dystopic advert Can we just have one day where it doesn’t feel like our tech overlords are trying to run us directly into a dystopic nightmare? This week, Apple unveiled an ad for the new iPad called “Crush”. It depicts various musical instruments, works of art, books, art materials, and symbols By Sarah • May 09, 2024 01:54 pm
TV Updates Let Kate Winslet be fun Kate Winslet is one of the most admired actors of her generation, but she has never been “above TV”, as many of her peers insisted they were, at least until the prestige revolution of the 2010s. She starred in a miniseries adaptation of Mildred Pierce all the way back in By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 03:15 pm
Amazingness Hugh Grant is a Blink It’s the final push for Wonka before it opens in North America on Friday and Hugh Grant was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night doing his part. By doing his part I meant that Hugh Grant was Hugh Grant and opened the interview by basically saying By Lainey • Dec 13, 2023 01:39 pm
Style Our very little Wonka treat Monday’s photocall for Wonka in London was a relatively lowkey affair, given that Timothee Chalamet, one of the few men who is a true red carpet star, is involved. With Timmy, we have come to expect a lot, as we expect a lot from Zendaya, Rihanna, and Margot Robbie By Sarah • Nov 29, 2023 09:56 am
Style A brief Wonka break Before we get back to Gotham Awards madness, let’s take a brief break for the Wonka photocall yesterday in London. The actual premiere is today, which is why, I assume, everyone saved their best looks for later. Even Timothee Chalamet, a reliable red carpet star, dressed relatively down, by By Sarah • Nov 28, 2023 09:41 am
Style Timmy in Tokyo Sarah keeps forgetting that Wonka is an actual movie that is actually coming out very soon. As she has written a number of times lately, for whatever reason, her brain refuses to retain this information and now it’s become kind of like a kink for me – I’m her By Lainey • Nov 22, 2023 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The most cursed movie this year It’s Friday the 13th in the month of October as we approach Samhain and what cursed object has befallen us? Why, it’s a new trailer for Wonka, the most cursed movie this year! I am really, REALLY trying to give this movie the benefit of the doubt, because By Sarah • Oct 13, 2023 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonkune Ever since the world realized that Barbie and Oppenheimer open on the same day, the internet has been obsessed with “Barbenheimer”, a proposed double bill of the two movies. Tom Cruise has his Barbenheimer plan in place. AMC has seen a spike in double-billed tickets. There are tee shirts. But By Sarah • Jul 12, 2023 12:04 pm
Douchebags Chris and Crusty Hugh at the premiere The Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves press tour is underway, here’s Chris Pine and the rest of the cast at the London premiere last night. It defies logic how well Pine works that contrasting yellow tie/shirt combo, but then, standard fashion rules have never applied to Chris By Sarah • Mar 24, 2023 09:52 am