Maple Leaf Rachel’s home Spotlight Sarah’s review for Spotlight will follow this post. Here we are focusing on Toronto’s own Rachel McAdams. But I begin with an article in the Globe & Mail, Canada’s newspaper of record, published yesterday about how Hollywood has affected the festival, specifically how the Hollywood marketing and By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 09:11 am
Maple Leaf Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page’s plus ones Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page play sisters in Into the Forest and spent the weekend in Toronto. Ellen, Evan and I are the same age. I've watched their careers closely and admire them both for speaking their mind, and standing up for women in Hollywood. Since Ellen By Joanna • Sep 14, 2015 01:52 pm
Maple Leaf Platinum Bieber Justin Bieber performed today on The Today Show. With some new hair. 99% of you are probably rolling your eyes. I'm in my own corner, digging the sh-t out of it. But I have a thing for platinum blonde hair, cut short on the sides, floppy on By Lainey • Sep 10, 2015 03:50 pm
Maple Leaf Rachel in Telluride Rachel McAdams was at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend promoting Spotlight. Spotlight is receiving solid reviews coming out of Telluride and Venice and will screen at TIFF this weekend, continuing to build momentum for an Oscar run. And if it holds up, that’ll be the second ensemble in By Lainey • Sep 08, 2015 12:03 pm
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber: twang and drum There’s been a lot of talk about Justin Bieber’s management not letting him do any live interviews to promote his new song What Do You Mean because they don’t want him to f-ck up all the gains he’s made the last 6 months during his By Lainey • Sep 03, 2015 11:00 am
Break Ups Chavril: it’s over! Last year, almost exactly around this time, there were reports that Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger were done. Click here for a refresher. They tried to deny it. But it didn’t seem like they were together all that often. And then she got sick. Avril is better now, which By Lainey • Sep 02, 2015 03:48 pm
Maple Leaf The Weeknd: Best VMAs performance According to Kanye West and those of us who represent Scarborough, Ontario, The Weeknd delivered the best performance last night at the VMAs. Kanye was really feeling it. The Weeknd brought out the Taylor Swift in Kanye West: This is what you're missing if you're not By Lainey • Aug 31, 2015 09:14 am
Maple Leaf What Do You Mean, Justin Bieber? His new song, What Do You Mean, came out today. He’ll be performing it at the VMAs on Sunday. And the video will be released right after the show. Here’s a teaser for it that he just posted on Instagram: you got the song and the lyric video. By Lainey • Aug 28, 2015 03:03 pm
Maple Leaf Taylor at Staples: night 3 Natalie Maines. Ellen DeGeneres. And Alanis. Alanis! Here’s how Taylor Swift introduced her: “She defined the music of her decade. She inspired a generation of confessional female singer-songwriters who all of a sudden felt like you could actually say these raw feelings that you had. You could actually By Lainey • Aug 25, 2015 10:04 am
Hook Ups Serena’s victory kiss Serena Williams won the Cincinnati Masters yesterday which is the last warmup before the US Open. She lost last week in Toronto so it was a nice comeback to build momentum heading to New York. No jinx. No jinx. NO JINX. But first… a little time to celebrate before turning By Lainey • Aug 24, 2015 12:45 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Carly Rae’s super cute two-piece Or maybe it’s a romper. Whatever it is, it’s adorable. From the Peter Pan collar to the cuffed sleeves to the pattern, I’m all over it. And I feel like you could wear it well into fall with a pair of dark tights and booties. By Lainey • Aug 21, 2015 12:07 pm
Maple Leaf Emma & Ryan on a date Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are working on Damien Chazelle’s La La Land. I think these are the first shots we’ve gotten of them in the same frame, so I’m attaching for you to look at, even though there’s nothing new to say. It’s a By Lainey • Aug 20, 2015 02:08 pm
TV Updates Drake’s Degrassi reunion Drake has a lot of cache. Especially now, in Toronto, and in the wake of this lopsided Meek Mill feud. So when he chooses to make his first public appearance since his OVO Fest domination at the We Are Disorderly webseries premiere at home last night, it matters. Why? Because By Joanna • Aug 06, 2015 11:39 am
Maple Leaf Deadpool: Ryan Reynolds might actually have pulled this off No one has had worse luck with superhero movies than Ryan Reynolds. He’s been in three superhero movies of varying levels of bad—Blade: Trinity, hilariously awful; Wolverine: Origins, spectacularly bad; Green Lantern, disastrous—and if you add the completely misguided R.I.P.D., a non-superhero comic By Sarah • Aug 05, 2015 10:11 am
Maple Leaf Intro for July 30, 2015 Dear Gossips, Can’t go a day right now without hearing Where Are U Now at least a dozen times. So far, on my drive to work this morning, it’s already been twice. Justin Bieber told Ryan Seacrest he has a new track called What Do You Mean dropping By Lainey • Jul 30, 2015 09:40 am
TV Updates Rachel’s coming home TIFF just made its first lineup for this year’s festival. Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, is the opening night gala. Jake, as you know, could be a contender for his performance in Southpaw. His Southpaw co-star, Rachel McAdams, will be at TIFF By Lainey • Jul 28, 2015 11:33 am
