Gorgessity Natalie and Tessa: Love and Thunder The UK premiere of Thor: Love and Thunder was last night. And the two highlights on that carpet, for me, were Tessa Thompson and Natalie Portman. When I last posted about Tessa a week ago yesterday, it was about her setting the style standard. The outfits on this press tour By Lainey • Jul 06, 2022 02:51 pm
Style Tessa Thompson sets the standard It’s a short week in Canada this week because Friday is a federal holiday and we won’t be posting so if there’s going to be an Outfit of the Week post, it would go up on Thursday. But Tessa Thompson set our weekly fashion standard on Monday By Lainey • Jun 28, 2022 11:48 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Outfit of the Week: How Tessa Walks the Dog Tessa Thompson has been featured in the Outfit of the Week spot multiple times and I generally try to avoid repeats but… I can’t help it here because, well, we have dogs and this is not how I look when I walk our dogs. My dog walking fits are By Lainey • May 13, 2022 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Whither Thor Love and Thunder Three months from this Friday, Thor Love and Thunder—which is a great title but I’m still sad this isn’t called Th4r—is slated to open in theaters. Marvel used to run on a six-month publicity clock, which meant we’d have a trailer by now, but I’ By Sarah • Apr 05, 2022 11:49 am
Style Tessa in Grinch Green and Jennifer Garner’s Brown Boots More photos from The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Hollywood event last night and one of the standout looks on Tessa Thompson. And it’s official now, right? This is (at least) the third time we’ve seen Grinch green in the last three weeks – first on Gemma Chan, then By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 03:25 pm
Style Ava, Shamier, and Celebrating Black Cinema In the previous post about Drake, I wrote about him devaluing the Grammys and assigning value elsewhere. That’s what Shamier Anderson and his brother Stephan James are attempting to do with The Black Academy, measuring success on new terms, reframing the benchmark of success in entertainment, and who gets By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 11:19 am
Style Tessa, Lana, Alexandra, & January: Bold and Risky at InStyle As Sarah and I have mentioned multiple times re: the 2021/2022 award season, it’s a very competitive year in several categories. Rebecca Hall’s Passing has been received solid reviews – including one from Sarah posted last week but it’s still considered an underdog because of all the By Lainey • Nov 16, 2021 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga in Passing In 1920s New York, two childhood friends reconnect by chance. Irene (Tessa Thompson) is now married to a doctor and living in Harlem, the epicenter of the Black American renaissance. Clare (Ruth Negga) has moved to Chicago, where she is married to a white man and passing for white herself. By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 12:22 pm
Lizzo Celebrity Halloween Awards 2021 In Hollywood, just as there is in real life, there are those celebrities for whom Halloween will always be sexy. Halloween is an opportunity, just like every other day, to look hot. I don’t subscribe to that kind of Halloween, so I appreciate those celebrities who aren’t worried By Lainey • Nov 01, 2021 03:18 pm
Gorgessity Tessa’s robe and rumoured boyfriend Tessa Thompson and Ed Harris were shooting scenes for Westworld yesterday in New York. While she was blocking out the scene, and waiting to roll, she had on a grey robe. I mean, the white outfit she’s wearing here, with her hair tied back and long like that, it’ By Lainey • Oct 07, 2021 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa, Ruth, and Rebecca: Passing Fashion As Sarah wrote last month, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut, Passing, could be one of the “outsider interrupters” of this award season. It’s a Netflix title, it will be released on October 29, and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of momentum it can generate in By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson have entered the race Whew, this awards season is so crowded. On the heels of Nightmare Alley, Belfast, and The Tragedy of Macbeth comes the trailer for Passing, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Passing was one of the Sundance stand-outs this year, based on Nella Larsen’s By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 02:55 pm
Met Gala 2021 Lupita and Tessa: Met Gala Western There were a few western interpretations of In America last night. Jennifer Lopez was probably the most extra – and, obviously, we’ll get to her soon. But there were other western style standouts, like Lupita Nyong’o and Tessa Thompson. Lupita wore denim Versace, perhaps the most elevated jean dress By Lainey • Sep 14, 2021 12:13 pm
Top Reads Taika, Tessa, and Rita Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are dating. Which has elevated Rita to the celebrity status that she may have been thirsting for for a while now. When I was texting about this with Sarah last week, though, she made an observation that isn’t getting quite as much play – it’ By Lainey • May 25, 2021 02:30 pm
Michael B Jordan Sexiest Director Alive? Fresh off being named People’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2020, Michael B. Jordan is set to direct Creed III. His on-screen love interest in the franchise, Tessa Thompson, confirmed the new gig in an interview with MTV News where she couldn’t help but poke fun at MBJ’s By Cody • Dec 30, 2020 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, I hit play on a new film last night just before dinner and ended up watching it twice, back-to-back. I mean, I’m always down for a romance but what is it about this time of year that makes romance extra appealing? And this year in particular? We’ By Lainey • Dec 29, 2020 09:37 am
