BFFs Ben Affleck at SXSW: Matt Damon, Dancing, and Tom Cruise Inside the world premiere of The Accountant 2. What do Ben Affleck and Tom Cruise have in common? Commitment to the bit, and apparently, their love of challenging stunt work. Ben Affleck claims he spent “months and months” perfecting how to line dance for The Accountant 2, before joking “Tom By Joanna • Mar 10, 2025 02:33 pm
Style Anna, Blake, and a Very Bad Dress Of all the premieres at SXSW this weekend, Another Simple Favor was the main event. Would it have been if not for all the drama with Blake Lively and her legal mess with Justin Baldoni? Of course not. But this is our current timeline and so it was inevitable that By Lainey • Mar 10, 2025 12:44 pm
Style Nicole Kidman: SXStepford SXSW was a big draw this weekend for celebrities who weren’t at Paris Fashion Week with so many premieres featuring big name talent, including Nicole Kidman who remains on a f-cking tear with all her work – and it’s work that has, primarily, supported female directors. This time it’ By Lainey • Mar 10, 2025 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Bett Rickards in Queen of the Ring Sports dramas, like romantic comedies, are a genre of film hidebound by narrative tropes and genre conventions. There isn’t much you can do within the bounds of the genre before the film stops being of the genre, so the best way to ensure a fresh approach is to find By Sarah • Mar 07, 2025 02:44 pm
TV Updates Paris people The Oscars may be over, but Paris fashion week is still going strong. Fresh off her cheeky appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Zoë Kravitz is now in Paris, hitting up the Costes party with her DC sister in villainy, Cristin Milioti. They have now rocketed to the top By Sarah • Mar 07, 2025 10:14 am
Gorgessity Intro for March 6, 2025 Dear Gossips, Sorry to whine at you to start the day but I promise you there’s a point at the end of this – because it’s been a long week, I’m going on ten straight days of work, with three back-to-back 18 hour days and two all-nighters so By Lainey • Mar 06, 2025 09:37 am
Music Doja Cat and Joseph: From LA to Paris I appreciate that Doja Cat walked her first Oscars red carpet in cat print even though her second dress of the night, for the Vanity Fair party, was probably more formal…but also, maybe, a little more naked, LOL. It’s Balmain, and it’s the one she chose as By Lainey • Mar 05, 2025 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Stath is back and some Oscar haterade I needed a little break today and I got it in the form of a red band trailer for A Working Man, the upcoming Jason Statham film that I cannot wait to see. Besides the fact that I generally enjoy Jason Statham movies, it looks like a perfect palate cleanser By Sarah • Feb 28, 2025 04:03 pm
Twilight All’s Well That Ends Well… in Sacramento A trailer for the film Sacramento was released yesterday. Sacramento is directed and co-written by Michael Angarano who also stars alongside Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart, and Maya Erskine. I like all of these people and I like the vibe of them all together in a movie about two friends who’ By Lainey • Feb 28, 2025 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne is Verity Let’s talk about a Colleen Hoover book-to-film adaptation. Not THAT one, for a change, but the next project that is now in production: Verity. As you probably know, Colleen Hoover is probably COVID’s most successful author. She was self-publishing before 2020 and her books were modestly successful, she’ By Lainey • Feb 28, 2025 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, How about some low stakes cartoon conflict to kick off Oscar Friday? Yesterday, a sub-30 second teaser announcing Shrek 5 dropped, and everyone lost their damn minds over Shrek’s glow up, or glow down, depending on your preference for slimy or sticky looking boogers. Check it out: By Sarah • Feb 28, 2025 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Havoc doesn't look like garbage I was scanning for new trailers when I came across a Tom Hardy movie for Netflix called Havoc. I was going to give it a pass, but then Timothy Olyphant popped up for a second. Such is my love for this man, I will watch any amount of garbage. To By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s just Another Simple Favor I love A Simple Favor. It’s a movie that totally surprised me on first watch and only got better with time. It’s a black comedy that excels at being both dark and funny, it’s a pitch-perfect satire of true crime and mass-market murder mystery publishing, it features By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 02:47 pm
Style All the Hollywood youths It’s Oscar week, which means plenty of pre-Oscar parties are happening. Last night it was the Vanities: A Night For Young Hollywood party, presented by Vanity Fair and Instagram. The hosts included Oscar nominee Monica Barbaro—still gloating about calling that, by the way!—Keke Palmer, Anna Sawai fresh By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 10:23 am
Gorgessity Gabrielle Union: Professional Riff Raff Gabrielle Union was minding her own f-cking business last week when she got dragged into the headlines by Matthew Lawrence running his mouth on a podcast. Matthew was talking about a television movie from way back in 1999 called H-E Double Hockey Sticks and his experience with Gabrielle Union. If By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 01:00 pm
TV Updates Nicole Kidman: Just Another Day Nicole Kidman was one of the women honoured at TIME’s Woman of the Year event last night. She also participated in a Q&A during the day, and the conversation was focused on the reason she’s been recognised – which we have to specify because Nicole Kidman has By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 10:31 am
