Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Sometimes important things happen in the world, and sometimes you find out there’s an insurance company called Chubb. This is the latter instance. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was one of the better movies of the summer, but it struggled at the box office, barely eking By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 08:59 am
Douchebags Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and The Rock: Battle of the Striking Stars Today in Strike Watch! it’s a battle of the A-listers as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson made a seven-figure donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund, while everyone wonders if Brad Pitt is a scab. Courtney B. Vance, president of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, and its executive director, Cyd Wilson, sent By Sarah • Jul 25, 2023 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dead Reckoning’s plan backfired It has been a bad box office summer so far (lots of pressure on Barbie and Oppenheimer to turn things around!). Sure, a couple big movies are doing well—Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is sitting at $842 million, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is at $663 million—but By Sarah • Jul 17, 2023 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One The Mission: Impossible movies have never been about much beyond impossible missions and Tom Cruise’s devotion to increasingly life-threatening stunts, but ever since filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie took over directing duties—he also co-writes the films—with 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, there has been a halfhearted effort to By Sarah • Jul 12, 2023 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Impossible Mission I was in New York last Thursday and Friday for the Oppenheimer junket. More on that in the coming days because I can’t actually remember if there’s an embargo; I can tell you, however, that Cillian Murphy will probably be nominated for an Oscar for his performance, he’ By Lainey • Jul 11, 2023 12:41 pm
Style Intro for June 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, As we wait to see if the actors go on strike—as I am writing this, the final hours of negotiations are ticking down—the Barbie press tour continues. Margot Robbie is in Australia with Greta Gerwig, Issa Rae, and America Ferrera. We’ve already seen Robbie’s By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 09:31 am
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise & Co. in the UK The press tour for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One kicked off earlier this week with the world premiere in Rome. Yesterday, the crew was in London for the UK premiere. This is the second summer Tom Cruise has rocked that tousled hair on a press tour, and this is By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise takes Rome As mentioned last week, the big Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 premiere was yesterday in Rome. Rome because one of the movie’s big set pieces, a car chase, takes place in Rome. And … as it always is where Tom’s movies are concerned… the event was a f-cking By Lainey • Jun 20, 2023 12:07 pm
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise: One-handed Driving We are now less than a month away from the release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 and you know what that means? It’s time for the Tom Cruise Stunt Narrative. We should all be familiar with this routine by now? Every Tom Cruise movie involves Tom Cruise By Lainey • Jun 15, 2023 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise vs. Christopher Nolan Ever since the trailers for Barbie and Oppenheimer started dropping, people have been trying to make a narrative of Barbie vs. the nuclear bomb since both movies have the same release date of July 21, but it turns out the REAL fight is between Tom Cruise and Christopher Nolan. According By Sarah • Jun 05, 2023 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s #Family We saw the first trailer for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (I’m pretty sure that’s the right punctuation, I hate these titles) one year ago, and now that the film is actually due on July 12, the second trailer is here to show off even more of By Sarah • May 18, 2023 02:16 pm
Relationship Assumption Do the Shaki Cruise I think we could all see it coming. The minute Shakira and Tom Cruise were seen hanging out at the Miami GP this weekend, it was inevitable. But is it possible? Is it already possible? Page Six is reporting that Tom is “extremely interested in pursuing” Shakira. According to a By Lainey • May 10, 2023 11:55 am
Royals King Tom: Planes, Cars, and Popcorn This weekend was the most visible Tom Cruise has been in months with three appearances, though only one of them was live and, naturally, all of them were related to Tom’s uber-stunting. It’s been reported for weeks that Tom either was invited to King Charles’s coronation or By Lainey • May 08, 2023 01:39 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Why are we talking about TomKat? TomKat, for those of you who weren’t around back then, was the celebrity portmanteau for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes who told Seventeen magazine in 2004 that “I used to think I was going to marry Tom Cruise” and then actually started dating him about six months later in By Lainey • Mar 22, 2023 02:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 15, 2023 Dear Gossips, Jimmy Kimmel did a round of press last week ahead of the Oscars. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jimmy confirmed that Tom Cruise would be there and that was pretty much what everyone else was expecting, to the point where Jimmy’s monologue involved several Tom By Lainey • Mar 15, 2023 09:18 am
Oscars 2023 Lainey’s Best Dressed: Lady Gaga It was reported last week that Lady Gaga would not be performing “Hold My Hand”, her Oscar nominated song from Top Gun: Maverick, at the Oscars. No word at the time on whether or not she would attend. Then, curiously, on Saturday, a day before the Oscars, there was word By Lainey • Mar 13, 2023 04:32 pm
