Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart’s voice Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, opens in limited theaters this weekend before expanding nationally in January. The film’s distributor, indie outfit The Forge, is also mounting a little-engine-that-could awards campaign for the film and Stewart. Serving both the film’s release and the trophy By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 12:56 pm
BFFs Gwyneth aims to please Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment issue as this year’s recipient of the publication’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. GP was also at a morning event yesterday celebrating the women who’ve been recognised by the trade. By Lainey • Dec 04, 2025 11:09 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber: Strangers, birthdays, and golf Justin Bieber is heading into the Grammys this year with four nominations, including Album of the Year. Over the course of his career, while he’s been nominated many times, he has two wins. Both of those wins, however, for “Where Are Ü Now” and “10000 Hours" are not By Lainey • Nov 25, 2025 01:23 pm
Style Kate Beckinsale and the two eggs Kate Beckinsale is promoting a movie called Wildcat that opens today in select theatres. As you can see from the poster and the trailer below, she’s in her action bag, playing a character who might have been a former assassin and her daughter gets kidnapped and maybe there are By Lainey • Nov 25, 2025 11:51 am
Royals Fashion Meghan Meghan Sussex’s With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration will premiere on Netflix on December 3. Typically, for a show like hers, which is about hosting, the usual promotional strategy would involve the talk show circuit, daytime in particular. There’s always hosting content on daytime – cooking and decorating and crafting, By Lainey • Nov 20, 2025 11:22 am
Quiveration The Vanity Fair All-Men Hollywood Issue Up until last year, Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue was always released in February-ish timed for around the Oscars. Last year, a scheduling departure – the Hollywood issue came out in November, joining all the other “of the year” issues that other magazines put out around the season. One of By Lainey • Nov 19, 2025 02:29 pm
Style Cynthia goes home I knew nothing about Wicked before I saw the movie last year – and I went with the best possible person, the most theatre kid in my life, Duana. For many of us, loving something means wanting to share the thing that you love with people you love. For a theatre By Lainey • Nov 19, 2025 11:51 am
Quiveration Just Josh O’Connor Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery opens in theatres November 26, in time for American Thanksgiving, and starts streaming on Netflix on December 12, just in time for Christmas. The LA premiere was last night and director Rian Johnson was joined by cast members Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, By Lainey • Nov 18, 2025 02:38 pm
Music Taylor’s 13 Trailer Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour docuseries premieres a month tomorrow, December 12, but 13 is her favourite number, and today is November 13. So a gift for Swifties – she shared the first trailer for the series today. And, well, it has everything. Because she says in the preview, her By Lainey • Nov 13, 2025 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return of the Fashion Devil: a teaser and the Met Gala? I’ll tell you this right now, six months ahead, and I’m confident I won’t change my mind: I will love the sh-t out of The Devil Wears Prada 2. Even if some people think it’s sh-t, there is no way I will hate it. I am By Lainey • Nov 12, 2025 02:51 pm
Break Ups Nicole Kidman: Another Day, Another Job It’s been six weeks since news broke that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban had split, and that it was Keith who wanted out of the marriage and Nicole who was trying to save it. And since then, the overwhelming reaction has been… Keith, you fool. On so many levels, By Lainey • Nov 12, 2025 12:48 pm
Music AI popstars and digital colonization For the first time ever, an AI-generated artist has made an appearance on the Billboard charts. Xania Monet is an AI singer created by a Mississippi woman named Telisha “Nikki” Jones. Her song, “How Was I Supposed to Know?”, sung by her AI creation first popped up on the Adult By Stephanie • Nov 10, 2025 11:34 am
Style Cynthia and Ariana: High fashion and all the feels It feels like the return of a friend. One of the biggest pop culture stories of 2024 was the Wicked press tour last fall and through the winter, when Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande took over the timeline in green and pink and, together, created some of the most insane By Lainey • Nov 10, 2025 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meghan Sussex does a movie Now that it’s actually happening, this seemed inevitable, didn’t it? Meghan Sussex was seen yesterday on the set of Close Personal Friends. The film stars Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Henry Golding and Jack Quaid, about a couple on a trip to Santa Barbara and encounter a celebrity couple. By Lainey • Nov 06, 2025 11:54 am
Quiveration Jonathan Bailey is the Sexiest Man Alive! On one of their multiple covers for their 2025 Sexiest Man Alive issue, PEOPLE boasts in the lower corner that, “We know, we nailed it”. And they did, they really f-cking did. Which means their editorial team can be as puffy as it wants in this situation. Because this is By Lainey • Nov 04, 2025 09:53 am
Douchebags Millie Bobby Brown needed protection Lily Allen’s new album, West End Girl, is essentially a diary detailing the collapse of her marriage to David Harbour. She puts his sh-tty behaviour on blast, as she’s working out her own pain and trauma. And she decided to release it just before the final season of By Lainey • Nov 03, 2025 02:20 pm
