Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and Kerry do good press Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington have been all over my feed for at least a week now as they promote their new movie, Animals, arriving on Netflix on October 9. Kerry plays Abigail to Ben’s Mark Kimball, who is running for mayor when their son is kidnapped. It’s By Lainey • Oct 07, 2026 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kerry Washington showing up the boys You know what they say, no rest for the wicked, which means Netflix just keeps grinding. With East of Eden now streaming, it’s time to launch Animals, Ben Affleck’s latest as an actor-director. The premiere was last night in Los Angeles, ahead of the film’s October By Sarah • Oct 02, 2026 10:16 am
Ben Affleck Netflix loves Ben Affleck It feels like Ben Affleck has been really busy as a director, but Air, the last film he directed, came out in 2023. How has it already been three years since the time Ben Affleck made a biopic for a shoe? In other areas, he has stayed busy, acting in By Sarah • Aug 13, 2026 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig but mostly Josh O’Connor in Wake Up Dead Man In Knives Out, writer/director Rian Johnson introduced us to Benoit Blanc, a dapper, slightly eccentric, Southern-fried detective who can solve any crime, no matter how complicated it may seem, with a perfect cozy mystery setting: an autumnal New England estate. In Glass Onion, he shipped Benoit Blanc to By Sarah • Nov 28, 2025 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wake Up Dead Man is the creepy one As I write this, it is my final night in Toronto for TIFF and Wake Up Dead Man did not fit into my schedule. I am bereft, I am bothered, I am bemused, I am bereaved(?), I am exhausted and running out of b-synonyms. The teaser for Wake Up By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 10:35 am
Ben Affleck Netflix advertises the movies it doesn’t support Netflix’s annual fan event, Tudum, occurred over the weekend. It’s their effort to create an in-house marketing machine/hype event a la Disney’s D23, and it’s sort of working. Certainly, there were people who showed up in person and shrieked at celebrities standing on a By Sarah • Jun 02, 2025 11:20 am
Met Gala 2025 The Queen and the Ivory Court At the Met Gala, you hope for a moment when someone just takes over the stairs, makes it impossible for anyone else to do much else… even Zendaya! Who else but Diana Ross? Of course it’s the dress, with that 18-foot train, and the feathered hat, and the By Lainey • May 06, 2025 11:27 am
Michelle Yeoh No One Mourns Wicked At the Golden Globes There’s no sense hiding it, the truth is right there. Like many other writers today, I went ahead and chose an article title that’s a Wicked pun. But I’m not sorry, for two reasons: One, it’s a MUSICAL based on a century-old campy story. There’ By Duana • Jan 06, 2025 08:42 am
Royals Intro for December 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, Prince Harry was in New York yesterday at The New York Times' 2024 DealBook Summit in conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin. The big headline today is what he said when asked about the British tabloids making it a big issue lately that he and Meghan Markle are By Lainey • Dec 05, 2024 10:22 am
Gorgessity Dressing at Sundance Kathleen was at Sundance for the first time a few days ago and before she left she kept asking me what to pack. I’ve worked Sundance three times, probably my least favourite assignment. Because it’s cold AF and it’s not easy to get around. So all I By Lainey • Jan 22, 2024 02:32 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Kerry Washington’s Apples For All That title will make more sense to you when you watch Kerry Washington’s acceptance speech at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event yesterday where she received the Equity in Entertainment Award. Every point she made was educational and inclusive, starting with an analogy about a fence, an By Lainey • Dec 08, 2023 01:05 pm
Books Kerry Washington shares her abortion story Kerry Washington is currently promoting her memoir, Thicker Than Water, which came out today. Excerpts and other details have been making headlines over the last few days but I want to talk about her abortion story. Of the decision to include this in the book, Kerry tells PEOPLE: "I By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 01:12 pm
BFFs The Beyoncé Celebrity Fan Club: Tom, Zendaya, Meghan, and more Zendaya, Tom Holland, and Meghan Markle have been serving big BeyHive energy lately with multiple Renaissance appearances. Meghan was seen at two shows in four days – first with Prince Harry and then again last night, at the birthday concert, where she was seen hanging out with Kelly Rowland and Kerry By Lainey • Sep 05, 2023 01:26 pm
Met Gala 2023 Met Gala: Jackets and Gloves Karl Lagerfeld for some people meant wedding dresses and bows. There were a lot of feathers too. That was the uber-feminine side of Karl. But he was also known to mix some menswear in with the femme. That’s what Kerry Washington was serving last night. Kerry is wearing By Lainey • May 02, 2023 09:40 am
As Seen on Social Media As Seen On Social Media: Hailey Bieber at Coachella and Olivia Wilde at soccer Hailey’s body jewellery Body chains are back in a big way and I love how people are wearing them under white tank tops. Two leaders of this trend are Lori Harvey and Hailey Bieber and both have been wearing Jacque Aiche. The chains are really pretty and very expensive. By Maria • Apr 19, 2023 12:41 pm
Gorgessity Gigi, Katie, Kerry, and Law at the CFDAs The Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards were last night and Law Roach received inaugural Stylist Award presented to him by Kerry Washington. Law said during his speech that back in 2016, he watched the CFDAs from afar, having styled Zendaya at the event. And he promised himself that By Lainey • Nov 08, 2022 01:07 pm
