Shoes Bennifer’s Quiet January Compared to some other months since last April, January 2022 has been quiet on Bennifer watch. They’ve been seen a couple of times out for lunch and with their kids but the frequency of these occasions has been much less than before. It could just be that they’re By Lainey • Jan 24, 2022 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Holy bathroom breaks, Batman, The Batman is LONG All signs point to The Batman keeping its March 4 release date, including the confirmation of its run time at a whopping two hours and fifty-five minutes (including credits). That makes it the longest ever movie starring Batman—I guess Zack Snyder’s Justice League doesn’t count because By Sarah • Jan 21, 2022 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bong Joon-ho and RPattz are getting weird in space Remember that split second in 2020 when Bong Joon-ho and Parasite, a good movie people actually saw, won all the Oscars, and for a moment, pop culture was fun and enjoyable? Good times, good times. Well, anyway, Bong Joon-ho is preparing his next project, and it looks like By Sarah • Jan 21, 2022 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, The latest movie Disney intends to grind up in its live action remake mill is The Aristocats, a “dark age” cartoon in which a posh city kitty and her kittens are dumped in the countryside by a jealous butler, only to be rescued by a wily tom cat By Sarah • Jan 21, 2022 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Fallout, a Gen Z movie While scrolling through Twitter the other day, I came across the tweet below which revealed the trailer for the upcoming movie, The Fallout, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. A raw and honest coming-of-age story for this generation. @jennaortega and @maddieziegler star in Megan Park’ By Anastasia • Jan 20, 2022 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Clooneys are back in Hollywood George and Amal Clooney were in Australia for a stretch there starting last fall while he was working on Ticket to Paradise co-starring Julia Roberts. However, like so many recent productions, they’ve been shut down due to COVID. And shut down for long enough that the Clooneys have By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 02:16 pm
Award Season Campaigning Ben Affleck: Batman and Oscar One of the sidebar conversations on social media that came out of that Joss Whedon profile this week was about Batman. As Sarah noted in her post about Joss, for years there has been in-fighting among fanboys about Justice League and Zack Snyder’s version vs Joss’s version By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan: Son-in-Law in training Lori Harvey turned 25 last week and she spent it on a yacht, as she’s been sharing photos and video from her birthday trip on Instagram. And yes, Michael B Jordan appeared to be with her as he posted this video on his feed a few days ago to By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pocket Prince Daniel Radcliffe to play Comedy King Weird Al Today in Short King News, it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe will star as Weird Al Yankovic in a biopic of the seminal comedian, musician, filmmaker, and polka legend for, of all places, the Roku Channel. (Did not know that Roku has a channel, but you learn something new every By Sarah • Jan 19, 2022 11:00 am
TV Updates Joss Whedon takes himself to the woodshed There is a longform profile of Joss Whedon in New York Magazine titled “The Undoing of Joss Whedon” and it is a masterclass in interviewing someone and letting them take themselves out back to the woodshed. The piece is from writer Lila Shapiro, and it could also be titled “Joss By Sarah • Jan 18, 2022 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews We have to relitigate Beanie Babies now Right at the end of December, a documentary dropped on HBO Max about the Beanie Baby collecting craze of the 1990s, Beanie Mania. It’s not groundbreaking, but it does bring shame to the entire Chicago area—the first avid collectors were suburban Chicago moms—and it does a pretty By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 02:42 pm
Award Season Campaigning Awards season takes shape As we’ve been saying, this awards season is wide open. But with the SAG nominations landing today, we’re finally starting to get a picture of what the Oscar race really looks like. For instance, The Power of the Dog, a favorite frontrunner since it hit the festival circuit By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 01:21 pm
BFFs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon chew the fat Ben Affleck is still on the combined promotional trail for The Tender Bar and campaign trail for that movie and/or The Last Duel, neither of which have serious hopes of major awards nominations. He follows his LA Times interview with a new Entertainment Weekly cover story, with an interview By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 12:21 pm
Top Reads A Gossip Wish: The Magic Mike Oscars During the Winter Television Critics Association virtual press tour yesterday, Craig Erwich, the president of ABC, which is the network that airs the Oscars, confirmed that this year’s show will have a host, after going host-less for the last three. The Oscars this year are happening later, at By Lainey • Jan 12, 2022 10:10 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer: An Unplanned Reunion Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were seen out for lunch yesterday in West Hollywood, officially the first time they’ve been papped together in the new year. She looks really cute in that poncho, and it’s weather-appropriate since it’s chilly in LA right now, like for LA. By Lainey • Jan 11, 2022 10:55 am
Award Season Campaigning Ben Affleck pre-50 George Clooney’s The Tender Bar started streaming on Prime last Friday, which is why Ben Affleck was featured in the LA Times this weekend. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in the film (he didn’t win) and he does have a shot at an By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 01:27 pm
