Style Little history Kathleen texted me on Monday night. “Are we seeing Little together opening weekend?” My response: F-CK. YES. We should see it twice.” We are serious about this. We might see it back to back. Like Prem said, April’s looking like a GOOD month. Great month. Lots of good things By Lainey • Apr 03, 2019 01:06 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Regina Hall’s shiny suit This suit is SO good. And it wouldn’t be as good without that pattern. The pattern, of course, gives it texture. So that it’s not just flat shine which would be a totally different – and lesser – effect. The way it looks here it’s like there’s an By Lainey • Jan 16, 2019 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oh MY GOD, Marsai Martin I’ve talked about how I feel about black-ish, right? If you’re new here, do a site search for “black-ish”. You should find reading material that will take up a couple of hours. I almost had a black-ish crisis the other night when I thought that the show would By Lainey • Jan 10, 2019 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Hate U Give A few years ago, book-to-screen YA adaptations meant sci-fi worlds of vampires or dystopian futures. Their heroines were named Bella or Katniss or Tris and even though their stories were unique in their own ways, a few things were constant. Love was as integral to these teen girls as forces By Kathleen • Sep 11, 2018 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Monday cry The first trailer for The Hate U Give dropped during the BET Awards last night. If you’ve been reading this site, you know how I feel about Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. You know how Lainey feels about it. We’ve haven’t been subtle about By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 24, 2017 Dear Gossips, Back in March I read a book and even though we weren’t even at quarter of the way through 2017, I called it the Book of the Year. That would be Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give, which made it to the top of the NY By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews “Use your lady mouth” Yesterday at CinemaCon, the cast of Girls Trip made an appearance to talk about the film and introduce new footage. If you don’t know about Girls Trip, it’s the female-led raunchy comedy starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish. In the post-Bridesmaids era, “female-led By Kathleen • Mar 30, 2017 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina Hall and Morris Chestnut in When the Bough Breaks If ever a movie needed to be rated R, it’s When the Bough Breaks, the evil-surrogate “thriller” from Screen Gems, the latest in what has become their annual fall tradition of releasing a bad genre movie aimed at black audiences (see also: The Perfect Guy, No Good Deed). I By Sarah • Sep 26, 2016 11:54 am
