Maple Leaf Rachel McAdams returns to Marvel and Tatiana Maslany is IN I’ve been covering the info dump from yesterday Disney Investor Day, where they bragged about topping 86 million subscribers in 13 months, and announced a bunch of new theatrical and streaming stuff to roll out over the next few years. As you’ve seen already today there’s so By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 01:04 pm
Maple Leaf Wonder Woman stress Lainey emailed me this morning about being “stressed” about how she is going to watch Wonder Woman 1984 later this month. For Canada, the stress is real. With no HBO Max and not ideal circumstances for going to movie theaters right now, how to see WW84 is a stressful situation. By Sarah • Dec 07, 2020 01:10 pm
Equality Issues Intro for December 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, For a few years now at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, the B.L.A.C.K. Ball has been one of the most anticipated events on the schedule. B.L.A.C.K. stands for “Building a By Lainey • Dec 04, 2020 08:52 am
Maple Leaf Intro for November 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we approach the end of the year, the lists keep coming. I do love a list. I like the discipline of holding myself back from scrolling to the bottom of it so as to not spoil #1. I like the reward of reading through each entry – and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2020 08:48 am
Music Justin Bieber opens the AMAs Justin Bieber opened the American Music Awards last night with back-to-back performances of his songs “Lonely” and “Holy”. It’s been almost a year since JB announced his return to music, eventually releasing his fifth studio album, Changes, with plans for a world tour. Nobody went on tour this year By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 11:59 am
Music Shawn and Justin: Their Inner Monsters I’ve always found it weird how Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber have rarely crossed paths — at least publicly. Justin was already a megastar by the time Shawn even stepped onto the scene, but in my head these two princes of pop, who grew up down the highway from each By Cody • Nov 20, 2020 09:36 am
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: The Movie Star of All Feelings As I wrote yesterday in my post about Keanu Reeves, we have to take the delight where we can get it – and you know who’s all about giving? Our Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion. And she’s making headlines in an unexpected space: movies! It was announced yesterday By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 10:36 am
Maple Leaf Shawn Mendes’s Thirsty Trailer Every time we see Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello together, I debate whether they’re in madly in love, the way they tell us they are, or if it’s a showmance. I’m still undecided, but the trailer for Shawn’s new Netflix doc In Wonder is giving me By Cody • Oct 21, 2020 10:10 am
Maple Leaf Keanu kissed Alexandra Keanu Reeves is in Berlin continuing to work on The Matrix 4 and was seen presumably getting dropped off for work the other day by Alexandra Grant. They kissed as they said goodbye. It’s almost civilian styles, in this case however we’re talking about when one of the By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 11:25 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Does it just feel like there’s been a lot of new music this year… or has there actually been a lot of new music? The pandemic has made it so that artists can't party and they can’t tour. And while, sure, some of them By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 08:56 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s Thanksgiving in Canada this weekend. But COVID numbers are surging in many parts of the country, including where I live, where a record number of new cases was confirmed yesterday and more restrictions are being put in place. I imagine that Thanksgiving or not, this is By Lainey • Oct 09, 2020 09:29 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, It wasn’t a question of whether or not Schitt’s Creek would win any Emmys, it was always how many. Because leading up to last night, there was no denying the momentum. The series was at the top of every expert predictions list and by the halfway By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 06:21 am
TV Updates Tatiana Maslany’s big role Despite another expected delay that could slide the MCU schedule back again, Marvel is still casting up their next round of projects. On the heels of casting Jonathan Majors as a supervillain, the latest heroine to enter the Marvel fold is Tatiana Maslany, who will headline the upcoming She-Hulk series By Sarah • Sep 18, 2020 10:34 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 18, 2020 Dear Gossips, I’ve seen several films this week (virtually) at TIFF – among them I Care A Lot, which Sarah just reviewed yesterday. It’s dark, it’s hilarious, and Rosamund Pike is exhilarating, I’m obsessed with her. But the best film I’ve seen at TIFF this year By Lainey • Sep 18, 2020 09:17 am
Maple Leaf Justin and Selena: the saga continues I tried to stay offline from Friday until yesterday afternoon. Tried to. Which meant I only scanned some headlines and social media once a day and, um, made sure to not fall too far behind on BTS’s relentless output. For the most part, I was pretty successful at resisting By Lainey • Sep 08, 2020 03:13 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for September 2, 2020 Dear Gossips, Today in celebrity birthdays… someone super uncontroversial: Keanu Reeves. Today Keanu Reeves is 56 years old. Which makes him the same age as Brad Pitt for the next three months. They actually started acting around-ish the same time. Point Break and Thelma & Louise came out the same By Lainey • Sep 02, 2020 10:14 am
