Movie Reviews and Previews Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Top Gun is one of those movies, if it’s on, I’ll watch it. It’s irresistible. Peak Tom Cruise, 1980’s homoeroticism, Cold War tough-guy action—this movie has everything, as Stefon would say. A sequel has been teased for years, and today it’s finally happening. Tom By Sarah • May 31, 2018 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise: theatre hero Yesterday was the Paramount presentation at CinemaCon in Vegas. Paramount needs a turnaround because they don’t have much, yet, to compete with the other studios. They do, however, have the Mission: Impossible franchise. And the new M:I is coming out this summer. So Tom Cruise was there to By Lainey • Apr 26, 2018 10:39 am
Nicole Kidman BKC When you see those initials, who do you think of? Beyoncé . Knowles. Carter. Right? This post is not about Beyoncé Knowles Carter or, actually, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter, but about Bella Kidman Cruise, daughter of Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, who has launched a clothing line, BKC. Which I’m By Lainey • Feb 02, 2018 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in American Made There’s a game I like to play with new Tom Cruise movies. It’s called “How Old Does This Movie Think Tom Cruise Is?” It’s simple, all you have to do is watch a recent Tom Cruise movie and try and figure out how old he is supposed By Sarah • Sep 28, 2017 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 27, 2017 Dear Gossips, Tom Cruise has a film coming out on Friday. It’s called American Made. And, at post time, it’s currently sitting at 90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics aren’t calling it the movie of the year or anything but most seem to agree that it’s By Lainey • Sep 27, 2017 08:59 am
Top Reads Nicole Kidman: Emmys Best (and most controversial?) Acceptance Speech As Kathleen just wrote in her post about Alexander Skarsgard and the on-the-mouth kiss he shared with Nicole Kidman in front of Keith Urban when he was heading up to stage to accept his award, everybody calm down. In North America, we are too f-cking pearl-clutchy about these kisses. If By Lainey • Sep 18, 2017 10:19 am
Xenu Smut Katie & Jamie for the first time Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx have been together undercover since 2013. He’s tried to deny though that they’re dating. And they’ve managed to avoid the paps …until now? Click here to see Katie and Jamie holding hands on the beach in Malibu on the weekend. Malibu! Like By Lainey • Sep 06, 2017 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews But what about Henry Cavill’s mustache? We all saw Tom Cruise bounce off that building over the weekend while filming a stunt for Mission: Impossible 6 – Cruise Control—HOW IS THIS NOT THE REAL TITLE—and try to walk it off. But it doesn’t sound like he’s been able to, as now it’s By Sarah • Aug 16, 2017 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise gets hurt Tom Cruise was shooting Mission: Impossible 6 this weekend. For one particular scene he was attached to a harness and had to jump from a scaffold onto the roof of another building. As we all know, Tom does most of his own stunts. That’s one of his trademarks. He By Lainey • Aug 14, 2017 12:51 pm
Break Ups Today in Gossip Nostalgia: June 29, 2012 Without googling, do you remember what happened 5 years ago today? It was around noon ET on a Friday. It was a major gossip bombshell. Ninja Katie Holmes! That was day Katie Holmes, seemingly out of f-cking nowhere, announced that she’d left Tom Cruise through from her attorney. We By Lainey • Jun 29, 2017 12:16 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: the difference between JLO and Tom Cruise I put avocado on my burgers. Duana thinks this is like going to the farmer’s market. I object to that comparison. She also tried to tell me that hipsters come from California. No one has time to do population forensics on the location origin of hipsters and it doesn’ By Lainey • Jun 12, 2017 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s back catalogue The Mummy opens this weekend. Sarah’s review was posted yesterday and while she didn’t hate it, she wasn’t impressed. Other critics apparently feel the same way because the movie is not scoring well on review sites and its box office tracking is dropping. Last month the projection By Lainey • Jun 08, 2017 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in The Mummy In the tradition of mummy monster movies, beginning with the original 1932 Boris Karloff film, the 2017 reboot of The Mummy is pretty dumb. But then, the 1999 movie starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz is pretty dumb, too, so it’s not like there’s a real high bar By Sarah • Jun 07, 2017 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TomZac 2019 In the previous post about Tom Cruise, Sarah mentioned the Top Gun sequel, which Tom confirmed recently is happening. And that the title is Top Gun: Maverick. Years ago I was thinking Taylor Lautner as Tom’s heir. But after watching Tom and Zac Efron together on Graham Norton this By Lainey • Jun 05, 2017 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scuzzy Tom Cruise The first trailer for Tom Cruise’s post-Mummy movie, American Made, was just released and it’s the scuzziest we’ve seen Tom Cruise in a while. There’s some ribbing in the LaineyGossip email chain offices about how OF COURSE Tom Cruise crash-lands a plane and walks away—in By Sarah • Jun 05, 2017 03:34 pm
Nicole Kidman Intro for June 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, “(A) lot of my forces are maternal. I mean, they’re romantic too. I’ve always chosen to have really deep, intense romantic relationships. I don’t flit around, Laura. I don’t dabble. That’s who I am, and my mother’s always said it: “You’re By Lainey • Jun 01, 2017 09:54 am
