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 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
Oscars 2023 Top Gunners without Tom Despite being nominated as a producer in the Best Picture category, Tom Cruise was a no-show at the Oscars. I wonder if Jimmy Kimmel knew that, or if it was a late-stage decision, because his intro transitioned from a bit about him ejecting from Maverick’s jet, and By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 11:29 am
Amazingness Hakuna Matata, Tom Cruise Tom Cruise was celebrated in Hollywood on Saturday night at the Producers Guild of America awards, where he was presented the career achievement David O Selznick Award. Top Gun: Maverick was also nominated for Best Picture. Everything Everywhere All At Once took the prize, which is a solid bellwether for By Lainey • Feb 27, 2023 01:44 pm
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise: Mr Popular Goes to the Office The Hollywood Reporter published the most LOL article about Tom Cruise yesterday about Tom’s recent day of popularity. It was ten days ago, on February 13, when Tom made his first in-person appearance on the Oscar campaign circuit at the Nominees Luncheon where, in a room full of By Lainey • Feb 23, 2023 12:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Judd Apatow takes on Tom Cruise As Sarah noted yesterday in her coverage of the BAFTAs and the Directors Guild of America awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once was the DGA’s choice for Best Picture, honouring Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for their work on the film. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads at the By Lainey • Feb 21, 2023 10:14 am
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise’s Hollywood Homecoming It’s an Oscar tradition: the Nominees Luncheon, where the nominees gather to congratulate each other and ostensibly put a pause on their campaign activities (as if) and take a class photo. But even in a room full of stars, one star seemed to be the star that everyone wanted By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 10:54 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, My colleagues at etalk are probably super annoyed with me today because they have to deal with my gloat. Months and months ago, at the meeting table, I told them that Top Gun: Maverick would be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. And, well, it happened. TG: By Lainey • Jan 24, 2023 09:45 am
Xenu Where is Tom Cruise’s Best Friend? 2022 was a good year for Tom Cruise, professionally. One of his best years in a long time. Top Gun: Maverick was the biggest movie of the year, and by now we all know the story behind it – that Tom insisted on holding the picture through the pandemic because he By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 10:48 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise: Rides and Dives Yesterday I posted about Tom Cruise jumping out of an airplane and falling through the sky while delivering a thank you and happy holidays message and promoting Top Gun: Maverick on streaming and on its Oscar campaign. Today I’m back, because he’s back, and instead of jumping out By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 12:06 pm
Amazingness Happy Holidays from Tom Cruise Tom Cruise is ABSURD. Tom Cruise is always, absurdly, Tom Cruise. So what else did we expect a holiday message from him to look like? It is exactly what you would expect – because Tom Cruise is consistently and dependably absurd. Which is why he’s sending us his holiday wishes By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 10:22 am
