Relationship Assumption Trying to make Tom and Ana happen Back in February just before Valentine’s Day, Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas were seen having dinner together in London. At the time, their reps were apparently with them, so it was said that they were talking about potential working opportunities. And she was immediately papped with her boyfriend, By Lainey • Mar 17, 2025 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan and Taylor Russell?!?! If the Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre hard launch last week wasn’t enough of a fantasy come true, here comes another… possibly. Michael B Jordan’s The Thomas Crowne Affair update has been in development for a while. He will direct and star in the project and ever since By Lainey • Mar 12, 2025 10:33 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: The Magic of Gaga It’s been a long road filled with soundtracks and poorly-received films, but alas, Mother Monster is back and with a f-cking vengeance. Mayhem, Lady Gaga’s seventh studio album is finally here and has caused mayhem (for lack of a better term) amongst the Little Monsters and music fans By MC • Mar 11, 2025 01:52 pm
Music Ana, Emma, Lisa, and Sophie at Louis Vuitton As usual, the Louis Vuitton presentation and after-party yesterday at Paris Fashion Week attracted a lot of big names. I won’t write to all of them in this post but the gallery includes shots of Law Roach, Jennifer Connelly (whose red outfit was my favourite and has always been By Lainey • Mar 11, 2025 11:50 am
BFFs Ben Affleck at SXSW: Matt Damon, Dancing, and Tom Cruise Inside the world premiere of The Accountant 2. What do Ben Affleck and Tom Cruise have in common? Commitment to the bit, and apparently, their love of challenging stunt work. Ben Affleck claims he spent “months and months” perfecting how to line dance for The Accountant 2, before joking “Tom By Joanna • Mar 10, 2025 02:33 pm
Style Anna, Blake, and a Very Bad Dress Of all the premieres at SXSW this weekend, Another Simple Favor was the main event. Would it have been if not for all the drama with Blake Lively and her legal mess with Justin Baldoni? Of course not. But this is our current timeline and so it was inevitable that By Lainey • Mar 10, 2025 12:44 pm
Style Power and Style 2025 This is probably my favourite issue that The Hollywood Reporter does every year – and it always happens right after the Oscars: The Power Stylists List and this year THR has named Jason Bolden the Stylist of the Year, well deserved! I was just talking last week about Jason’s output By Lainey • Mar 07, 2025 11:01 am
TV Updates A Meghan Sussex Love Letter (to Meghan Sussex) I have finally worked through With Love, Meghan, an extended infomercial for her new brand that is about her loving and learning and learning and loving. She makes honey puns and says things like “progress over perfection” and marvels at nature in lush Montecito. The new Netflix series opens with By Maria • Mar 06, 2025 02:12 pm
Style The Rise of Fashion Doechii What a year it’s been for Doechii. Maybe not even a year. I mean, for her, it’s been many years, of course, making music, hustling, but this is a tough business and oftentimes even the most talented don’t break the way they hope to. In Doechii’s By Lainey • Mar 06, 2025 12:39 pm
Photo Assumption The OTHER Bennifer 2.0?! It’s been almost a year since rumours first started that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were breaking up. As that became more and more of a reality, Ben was more and more seen with Jennifer Garner which resulted in speculation that, perhaps, he would bounce from one Jen to By Lainey • Mar 05, 2025 10:35 am
Hook Ups Jessica Alba and Alex Edelman?! What’s with the Oscars this year producing all these new couples? Or possible new couples? This is the third couples post of the day – and involves two people no one would have predicted: Jessica Alba and Alex Edelman. But first a note on Alex because I interviewed him last By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 01:02 pm
Quiveration Teyana & Aaron: An Oscars Hard Launch The Oscars were horny this year! The previous post was about whether or not Ralph Fiennes and Chelsea Handler are horny for each other. And this post is about Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre being legit horny for each other and making the rest of us horny for them, and By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 12:17 pm
Top Reads The Most Exhausting Supporting Actor Competition The show’s overall pace was good, especially toward the beginning. And Robert Downey, Jr.’s introduction of the five nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category was incredibly skillful, in a move that nobody else was able to replicate quite as well. True, it necessitated RDJ acting like he By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 10:19 am
Top Reads Adrien Brody: A Case for Speechwriters If there was another bad speech at the Oscars, I don’t remember it, because Adrien Brody decided to take so much time near the end of a show that was already running long – he erased all recollection of anyone else who was annoying up on that stage with a By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne is Verity Let’s talk about a Colleen Hoover book-to-film adaptation. Not THAT one, for a change, but the next project that is now in production: Verity. As you probably know, Colleen Hoover is probably COVID’s most successful author. She was self-publishing before 2020 and her books were modestly successful, she’ By Lainey • Feb 28, 2025 10:17 am
Award Season Campaigning The Nominees Dinner The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – aka the Oscar Academy – typically hosts an Oscar Nominees Luncheon every year to celebrate everyone a few weeks before the big night. This is where they also remind potential winners about keeping their speeches tight and right and gently ask them not By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 12:30 pm
