Style Intro for November 2, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Sundance Institute yesterday announced that three filmmakers will be honoured at this year’s opening night film festival gala: Christopher Nolan, Celine Song, Maite Alberdi. Christopher Nolan doesn’t make independent films anymore, but Memento was a big moment for him in 2001 and he will be By Lainey • Nov 02, 2023 09:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s me, hi, I’m the Halloween Grinch, it’s me. Welcome to one of my least favourite days of the year. The best part of Halloween, for me, is that it’s the last day of this ugly season and tomorrow people will (hopefully) start picking By Lainey • Oct 31, 2023 09:13 am
TV Updates Timothee returns to SNL My brain refuses to retain the knowledge that Wonka is coming out this December—it is protecting me—so when Timothee Chalamet was announced as the host of the November 11 episode of SNL, I thought it was a holdover Dune thing. And then Lainey reminded me of Wonka and By Sarah • Oct 30, 2023 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio: Halloween’s Laziest On the plus side, Leonardo DiCaprio was not a Halloween scab. On the downside, Leonardo DiCaprio did as he always does for Halloween: hit up every single party and put in the least amount of effort on his costume. Every year he shows up in a hoodie and jeans and By Lainey • Oct 30, 2023 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in The Killer David Fincher’s latest film, The Killer, is an adaptation of the French comic book of the same name by Matz and Luc Jacamon. It asks the basic question—what if the secret assassin world of John Wick was actually boring and full of working stiffs? The Killer stars Michael By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is still waiting for his turn The full trailer for Maestro is here, showing off Bradley Cooper’s passion project about composer Leonard Bernstein. Casting misgivings aside, this movie does look really good, and I am so curious to see it because reviews from fall festivals have been strong, but a couple people whose taste I By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meg Ryan is ready to come back After eight long years since her last movie, Ithaca, which was her directorial debut, Meg Ryan recently spoke to PEOPLE about finally coming back into the fold with a new romcom called What Happens Later, which she wrote, directed and stars in. Having starred in classics like When Harry Met By Stephanie • Oct 26, 2023 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, By Beyoncé standards, this has been an active week! As Maria mentioned the other day in Celebrity Social Media, she unveiled her new fragrance, CÉ NOIR, in time for the holidays. And yesterday, we all tripped over ourselves when she actually posted an unboxing video, casually in her By Lainey • Oct 26, 2023 08:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flower Moon discourse has arrived And I am already exhausted. Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, star of Reservation Dogs, took to the platform formerly known as Twitter on Monday to share her reaction to Killers of the Flower Moon. It was not positive. Particularly, she highlights how “underwritten” the Indigenous characters are compared to the white men By Sarah • Oct 25, 2023 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tim & Flo in LA Timothée Chalamet’s November GQ cover story and photos were released last week, the third in what’s turning into a series between the publication and Timmy, kinda like a magazine version of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. GQ is checking in with Timothée every few years or so and collaboratively By Lainey • Oct 25, 2023 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Lee is coming Past Lives is one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year and if you haven’t seen it, now is the perfect time because this is a deeply moving and moody film, and we are now in Sad Girl Autumn. Past Lives is an A24 film and by By Lainey • Oct 24, 2023 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, releases today and, as mentioned last week in my post when allllll the revelations started coming out, I’d like to read it front to back for context, to really get a sense of how these recollections fit into the By Lainey • Oct 24, 2023 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese has long been interested in crime, America, and the intersections of greed, entitlement, and the American dream. In David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon he has a perfect subject, the conspiracy of the Osage Murders that occurred in Oklahoma in the early 20th By Sarah • Oct 23, 2023 02:43 pm
Music Taylor Swift: The Winningest WAG Taylor Swift, for the second weekend in a row, was #1 at the box office with her The Eras Tour movie with $32 million. Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon had a strong start, especially considering the film is over three hours long but Taylor remains dominant at By Lainey • Oct 23, 2023 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Napoleon is a weird little guy Yesterday, Lainey pointed out the rather lacking chemistry in the trailer for Anyone But You, the sexy rom-com starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney. It’s surprising that the trailer is so bland, given how hot Glen and Sydney were all over Sydney, Australia earlier this year. Well, another trailer By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saltburn with a side of murder We are one month away from Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, which looks like a f-cked up fairytale with a dash of classism and…human sacrifice? I said after the first trailer that the creepy butler looks like the type to poison people, but now this new trailer, Saltburn looks like By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 12:49 pm
