Douchebags Brad Pitt’s Sh-t List Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who currently stars in Bullet Train with Brad Pitt, made headlines this week when he revealed that Brad has a “sh-t list” of people he won’t work with. Aaron told reporters at a press conference at the Locarno Film Festival that: “[Brad] is in a new chapter By Lainey • Aug 10, 2022 10:37 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise, the Musical Remember back in the spring of 2020, when we were all shellshocked from lockdown? I don’t want to remember it either but this is about context, and at the time, with movies being pulled from theatres and everyone in Hollywood trying to figure out what the f-ck to do By Lainey • Aug 09, 2022 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Endless Summer Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick is the movie phenomenon of the year. And maybe of the decade so far? It’s been out now for two whole months…and is STILL doing solid business at the box office around the world. With a total global take of $1.25 By Lainey • Jul 20, 2022 10:33 am
Jock Smut Big G and the Bad Boy of Tennis This could be a new show… Nick Kyrgios managed to take a set off Novak Djokovic yesterday but Novak eventually won his fourth straight Wimbledon title. Both of these players are problematic, so I have no further thoughts on the result, I’m just here to talk about Nick’s By Lainey • Jul 11, 2022 01:11 pm
Jock Smut Serena’s Backup Plans Ideally for Serena Williams, she’d be focused on the Wimbledon semi-finals right now, that was the original plan. Things didn’t go to plan but I do love what she posted on Instagram following her first-round loss: “My goodness I enjoyed that” – in other words, she had a good By Lainey • Jul 06, 2022 03:46 pm
Jock Smut Tom Cruise’s Birthday Weekend Tom Cruise turned 60 years old yesterday. He spent the weekend in London with a full social calendar. First up – the Adele show. Here he is taking a selfie with Luke Evans: #TomCruise and #LukeEvans at the #Adele Concert at Hyde Park. pic.twitter.com/ZEr5VNYw5b — Tom Cruise News (@TCNews62) By Lainey • Jul 04, 2022 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun and Elvis tied (probably) Two box office reports in a row! It’s almost like the before times when summer movie season was a bustling time of year! And in some ways, YES, this weekend is a major positive indicator for the post-COVID theatrical recovery of the film business. Top Gun: Maverick, in its By Sarah • Jun 27, 2022 12:29 pm
Style Tom Cruise, Top Gun, and a LOT of Finger Hearts Top Gun: Maverick is nearing a billion dollars worldwide at the box office. As we’ve seen, people are going again and again, including this weekend for Father’s Day as domestically the movie brought in another $44 million… in its FOURTH week, a drop of only 15% from the By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews On Top Gun: Maverick’s big weekend and big propaganda After two years of COVID delays, it turns out that the long game paid off and Top Gun: Maverick will likely go down as the movie that “saved” summer blockbusters. It has banked $126 million for the three-day weekend and pulled in $156 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun: Maverick brings Maverick full circle Rarely does a nostalgia-driven sequel make a case for itself as well as Top Gun: Maverick does. Picking up 36 years after Top Gun, we find Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) working as a test pilot on a next-gen jet on the brink of being scrapped in favor of unmanned By Sarah • May 25, 2022 03:15 pm
Shoes Jennifer Connelly’s Biggest Tour Sarah wrote in the previous post re: the Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning trailer (and its bonkers punctuation, which spilled over into this sentence!) about why the culture in general has embraced Tom Cruise and not side-eying his freaking Scientology sh-t and she cited a number of reasons ranging from By Lainey • May 24, 2022 02:02 pm
Xenu Smut Mission: Impossible – Punctuation Hell and Tom Cruise’s rehabilitation Over the weekend, a trailer for the next Mission: Impossible film leaked, so now the trailer has been released in all its official HD glory, even though this movie doesn’t come out for 13 months. (Presumably, they’re going to tack this onto Top Gun: Maverick this weekend, as By Sarah • May 24, 2022 01:01 pm
Royals Tom hosts Will and Kate In London last night, the UK premiere of Top Gun: Marverick. And, naturally, because this is a Tom Cruise movie and Tom Cruise is always extra AF, they went full throttle with the presentation. Leicester Square was a spectacle, a huge maze of digital screens was set up outside the By Lainey • May 20, 2022 09:58 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise in Cannes: Fist-pumps, standing ovations, and chivalry Sarah posted photos from the Top Gun gala spectacle in Cannes yesterday along with details from his Q&A before the premiere at the palais. I’m here to follow up on a few more details now that the movie has screened for the festival audience – to a five By Lainey • May 19, 2022 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gunapalooza It is here, it is now, it is nigh—the Top Gun: Maverick premiere is happening at Cannes. And, I am shocked and upset to report, as of this writing, there is no Lady Gaga. I repeat, there is NO Lady Gaga. And I was SO looking forward to her By Sarah • May 18, 2022 02:37 pm
Royals The Queen at her Jubilee do Queen Elizabeth II is ninety-six years old and celebrating her seventieth year on the British throne with a platinum jubilee. She is the longest reigning monarch in British history, and the longest reigning queen regnant in history, period. To mark the occasion, she attended an event last night called “A By Sarah • May 16, 2022 11:06 am
