Top Reads Will Smith continues his streak Will Smith clocked two more wins this weekend, picking up Best Actor trophies at the BAFTAs and the Critics’ Choice Awards (full disclosure: I am a voting member of the CCA). He seems fairly unstoppable at this point, that “it’s his time” energy coalescing right as final balloting for By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 11:48 am
Music King Richard at the Luncheon…without Beyoncé As Sarah wrote in her post yesterday about this past weekend’s schedule of pre-Oscar events and awards ceremonies, King Richard is the industry editors’ choice for Best Picture this year which was a surprise because it was up against a film like Dune which, you would think, is the By Lainey • Mar 08, 2022 09:58 am
SAG Awards 2022 Will Smith: It’s his time The Best Actor Oscar race has presumed to be between Will Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch all awards season, but after last night, Will Smith emerges as the clear frontrunner. King Richard is not his best performance, but he’s playing a real person, he does A Voice, and like I By Sarah • Feb 28, 2022 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, On Tuesday Will Smith received his third and fourth Oscar nominations for his performance in King Richard and for being one of the producers. On Wednesday he was promoting the new Fresh Prince reboot series BEL-AIR. Will, Jada, and Jaden were at the premiere last night. It’s By Lainey • Feb 10, 2022 09:12 am
Award Season Campaigning David Letterman and Nominee Will Smith Here is Will Smith, fresh off his SAG award nomination, taping a segment with David Letterman for Letterman’s Netflix interview show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. They both look to be in high spirits, which isn’t unusual for Will Smith—that guy is always on—but Letterman By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in King Richard In King Richard, Will Smith stars as Richard Williams, a man so determined to produce champions he mapped out his daughters’ paths to victory before they were even born. He takes his young daughters, Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton), to practice every day at a run-down tennis court By Sarah • Nov 22, 2021 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, Will Smith, Saniyya Sidney, and Demi Singleton, who play Venus and Serena Williams respectively, were in London last night for the UK premiere of King Richard, which opens tomorrow in theatres and will also stream on HBO Max. They also did a photo call at Wimbledon. The film By Lainey • Nov 18, 2021 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beyoncé is coming for the Oscar I posted earlier about Adele and how she manages to work Beyoncé into all of her interviews. Even for Adele, as it is for the rest of us, Beyoncé is always top of mind. On November 19, the day that her album drops, Adele might actually be listening to something By Lainey • Oct 22, 2021 02:40 pm
Business of Hollywood Tom Cruise: Helicopter Life Forever There were reports recently that Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell, who are still working on Mission: Impossible 7, which may as well be called Mission: Impossible Never-ending, considering how long they’ve been in production for this movie, broke up – even though it’s never been confirmed that they were By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 11:19 am
Relationship Assumption Deconstructing ‘Will Smith’ and His ‘Unconventional’ Marriage Will Smith looks strikingly older on the cover of GQ, right? Or maybe he’s just really tired. His smirk on the cover might be believable if not for his eyes looking… a little sad? The profile’s titled Introducing the Real Will Smith and the real Will is evidently By Cody • Sep 28, 2021 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith is coming for Oscar Will Smith is not an actor who consistently pursues Oscar nominations, but he is occasionally seized by the fervor. Has two nominations under his belt, for Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, but it’s been over a decade since his last nomination. Apparently, the Oscar bug bit him again, By Sarah • Jul 29, 2021 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua abandon Georgia So, obviously, Joe Biden becoming President of the United States did not fix every problem in the world. In fact, based on the events of the last few weeks, it is very much a case of “same song, different verse”. Following a historic election in Georgia that saw the red By Sarah • Apr 13, 2021 01:11 pm
Gossip Nostalgia The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air still is, 30 years later A lot of casts of long-running shows say that they (and the crew) feel like a family. I believe it – I’ve been lucky enough to have that feeling on shows myself, and the intimacy and constant togetherness definitely feels familial… though the truth is in the years afterward, when By Duana • Nov 20, 2020 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Return of Rom-Com Sandra The last time Sandra was on Netflix was almost two years ago this coming December, when Bird Box became the movie of the holiday season. Sandra Bullock has been in Vancouver the last few weeks shooting a Netflix movie based on a British miniseries called Unforgiven about a woman released By Lainey • Oct 15, 2020 10:30 am
TV Updates Fresh Prince 2020 There’s been a lot of hype about the Friends reunion coming …eventually… on HBO Max. I don’t know that I’m all that excited about it, like excited enough to get a subscription. I am, however, very excited about the Fresh Prince of Bel -Air reunion. Yesterday marked By Lainey • Sep 11, 2020 11:40 am
Hook Ups Will and Jada talk about her “entanglement” That was definitely the gossip word of the weekend: “entanglement” is how Jada Pinkett Smith characterised her relationship with August Alsina. This all started a couple of weeks ago when August confirmed in an interview with Angela Yee that he and Jada were indeed dating and that Will Smith gave By Lainey • Jul 13, 2020 10:05 am
