Movie Reviews and Previews Theo James in The Monkey Osgood Perkins has been making high-quality horror since 2015’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter—he comes by it honestly, he’s the son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins—and broke out in the mainstream with last year’s serial killer sleeper hit, Longlegs. Now, he’s back with The Monkey, By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Proper scares with The Monkey Just based on a title treatment teaser, I was into Oz Perkins’ new film, The Monkey. But now that the actual teaser has dropped, well, I texted Lainey “EXTREMELY MY SH-T” because The Monkey is, to be clear, EXTREMELY MY SH-T. Perkins’ work has always been right up my alley. By Sarah • Oct 16, 2024 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Osgood Perkins’ next thing Filmmaker Osgood Perkins is riding high on the success of Longlegs, which received critical acclaim AND audience acclaim; to date, it has racked up over $90 million against a sub-$10 million budget. This is what I’ve been saying about budgets all summer. People WILL go see movies other By Sarah • Aug 13, 2024 10:30 am
Gorgessity The Men of the Year stepped out It’s the year of Taylor’s Eras, Beyoncé’s Renaissance, and Barbie, so yeah, let’s talk about the men of the year. The GQ Men of the Year, that is. Jacob Elordi is one of the cover features for MOTY, we’ve already heard from him, deep in By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 10:45 am
TV Updates The White Lotus is a “drama” now The Emmy nominations were announced yesterday, for a ceremony scheduled in September that may or may not happen, depending on what happens with the SAG-AFTRA strike vote this morning. Unsurprisingly, The White Lotus was one of the most nominated series with 23 nods, including a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series, By Sarah • Jul 13, 2023 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shailene Woodley in The Divergent Series: Allegiant Last year Insurgent was one of the stupidest, most boring movies I saw. This year, Allegiant is sure to be one of the stupidest, most boring movies I see. It is infuriating to sit through a sequel that makes all the same mistakes as its predecessor, but that is exactly By Sarah • Mar 18, 2016 12:59 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, Tuesday April 21, 2015 Rihanna was a bridesmaid at her assistant Jennifer’s wedding yesterday in Hawaii. You’d have to be a very secure person to have Rihanna as part of your wedding because let’s face it, everyone would be looking at her, sneaking photos of her, and purposely going to the By Maria • Apr 21, 2015 04:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shailene Woodley in Insurgent review This may be the most challenging review I’ve ever written. For one thing, YA dystopia stories are not my bag. For another, I have neither read nor seen Divergent, so I’m walking into this franchise blind, as it were. And finally, Insurgent isn’t a real movie, so By Sarah • Mar 23, 2015 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 18, 2015 Dear Gossips, The Divergent Series: Insurgent opens this weekend. Shailene Woodley and Theo James have been on promotion for it for the last couple of weeks. As you know, if you’ve been reading this blog for a few years, I was big on the first book (review here), then By Lainey • Mar 18, 2015 09:03 am
Smutty Roundup Smutty Roundup: Sam & Leslie, Rooney & Theo, and just Ezra Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb are still together. And they were at Sundance. And that matters to the five of us who care about them, who would for sure rank them top 5 in a cool couple list…even though they are way too cool to be on a cool By Lainey • Jan 27, 2015 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Be Pregnant With The World It’s Shailene Woodley’s big moment. Friday. Divergent. Are you going? Will Shailene Woodley follow Kristen Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence? Or will she be more like Lily Collins? The film is not getting great reviews. Just 31% right now on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics do mostly agree however that Woodley’ By Lainey • Mar 19, 2014 04:48 pm
Hook Ups Tris & Four are dating in real life? I don’t know if they are. I just read the caption on these photos “Shailene Woodley and reported boyfriend Theo James at LAX". It’s the natural, expected narrative, I suppose. And I guess they’re hoping that it might turn into the whole Kristen Stewart/Robert Pattinson By Lainey • Mar 11, 2014 04:31 pm
Quiveration Divergent: final trailer We’re about 6 weeks out from the release of Divergent and I feel like there’s been very little buzz. So now a final trailer has been released and the stars are making themselves available. Shailene Woodley and Theo James were out in Hollywood yesterday and also appeared on By Lainey • Feb 04, 2014 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Divergent: More Of The Same There's a new Divergent featurette. I mean, watch it, by all means – but it’s the same damn thing as we’ve seen before. Tris is Divergent! Lots of cutting between industrial street scenes and fight scenes! You really don’t know what’s going on, what a By Duana • Sep 26, 2013 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Divergent first teaser Shailene’s somehow unannoying VMAs There was a kind of feeling of quiet despair at the VMAs. Did you feel it, at home on your couch? I think it was because there was so much promise – NSYNC, Taylor and Harry, Drake – and then so much sweaty disappointment. The four members of NSYNC who know that By Duana • Aug 26, 2013 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tris & Four at Comic-Con Dauntless at Comic-Con. It was a big day for Divergent at Comic-Con to kick off this year’s Dork Storm, as Sarah calls it. Look how many outfits Shailene Woodley had to wear. Woodley of course is the new would-be Kristen Stewart/Jennifer Lawrence, headlining the film adaptation of Veronica By Lainey • Jul 19, 2013 02:34 pm
