BFFs Will and Jada tried If you've been keeping up with Tyrese's Instagram, you know he's been going through some sh-t. He's been working through that sh-t very loudly and publicly on the gram. He's been airing out the details of his child custody dispute By Kathleen • Nov 06, 2017 03:55 pm
Music Will Smith’s dad rapping A few weeks after 4:44 dropped, Wesley Morris wrote a brilliant piece for The New York Times called “Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age.” In it, he praises Jay for thriving in a climate where there’s “not much of a road map for a rapper By Kathleen • Sep 11, 2017 04:14 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Girl Talk, Mindy’s New Project, and ‘Tante Céline’ Our podcast is always fun to record and often we’re having a celebratory beverage as we record – but this week we were recording moments (well… several moments) before running out the door to see Girls Trip. The movie had the best live-action comedy opening of the year, it was By Duana • Jul 24, 2017 05:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith: WAND COP Earlier this year we saw a teaser trailer for Bright, the Netflix movie directed by David Ayer and starring Will Smith. It looked sort of interesting, with Smith playing an LAPD officer in a world where trolls and fairies are real, and seemed like a decent-ish rebound chance for both By Sarah • Jul 21, 2017 11:35 am
Equality Issues Jessica Chastain speaks out The Cannes Film Festival closed down with an award ceremony and press conference, and during the presser the jury took the stage to talk about their festival experience. Jessica Chastain specifically talked about how the representation of women on screen “disturbed” her: Say that, @jes_chastain. pic.twitter.com/H7QHnEE5JA— By Sarah • May 30, 2017 12:16 pm
BFFs Leo & David I posted yesterday about David Beckham at the amfAR gala in Cannes and predicted that he would hang out with Leonardo DiCaprio. And that’s what happened. As Variety reports: Leo and David! Leo and David! Everybody was trying to get near this year’s power duo at the Cannes By Lainey • May 26, 2017 12:14 pm
Cannes 2017 Intro for May 18, 2017 Dear Gossips, When it was first announced that Will Smith would be a member of the Cannes jury, most people reacted by pointing out that Will’s never had a film at Cannes. He’s stunted a movie in Cannes (Shark Tale) but his films have never been part of By Lainey • May 18, 2017 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith will be the Genie now Earlier this year we learned that Will Smith was planning for his next bad movie to be Tim Burton’s “live action” Dumbo for Disney, but then a month later he decided that was too bad of a decision to make and dropped out of negotiations. But now! Will Smith’ By Sarah • Apr 20, 2017 03:18 pm
TV Updates Where’s Aunt Viv? "The first Aunt Viv was the best Aunt Viv." Not only is this an undeniable fact about The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, it’s also a line in The Hate U Give. I had been meaning to read it. It was on my list. Then, on Saturday, Lainey By Kathleen • Mar 28, 2017 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith’s rebound Suicide Squad won an Oscar on Sunday—2017 is the Year of Nonsense—but despite acquiring some award polish, that movie didn’t really work out the way anyone wanted. Sure, it made money on paper, but no one likes it and time isn’t going to revise that one By Sarah • Mar 01, 2017 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith’s next bad decision I doubt 2016 turned out the way Will Smith hoped (“SAME,” shouts the rest of the world). Suicide Squad proved to be as derided as Superhero Face Punch, and Collateral Beauty was totally insane and didn’t make much of an impression at the box office, either. This following a By Sarah • Jan 12, 2017 11:40 am
Will Smith Helen Mirren wants a “hey hey” A reader called Sharon set this Daily Beast link over to me this morning about Helen Mirren’s Christmas message on the Graham Norton Show while she was on with Will Smith and Naomie Harris to promote Collateral Beauty – Sarah just reviewed the movie and said it was bananas. Anyway, By Lainey • Dec 22, 2016 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Collateral Beauty SPOILERS because this movie is INSANE Based on the trailers, you probably think Collateral Beauty, aka Will Smith’s holiday movie, is some kind of twenty-first century It’s A Wonderful Life, where the universe conspires to convince a sad schmuck that he’s better off being a sad schmuck, By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 11:44 am
TV Updates What Milo learned from Will Milo Ventimiglia is having a moment. Not only is he nailing his role as Jack, the hot dad of all hot dads, on This is Us, he’s also experiencing a renewed fandom after his Gilmore Girls character Jess Mariano showed up in the revival looking exactly how you don’ By Kathleen • Dec 02, 2016 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Love, Death, Time I like to say that I don't appreciate being emotionally manipulated by movies but I'm pretty sure I often get emotionally manipulated by movies and make that a point in posts about being emotionally manipulated by movies so...maybe I do actually enjoy being emotionally manipulated By Lainey • Nov 10, 2016 02:49 pm
Theatre Nerd Six Degrees of….Allison Janney? If there is anyone in the world who doesn’t love Allison Janney, I don’t know about it or they have been sent into deep, deep hiding. Everyone loves her—because she can do everything. Beloved prestige dramas? Of course. Gigantic Chuck Lorre sitcom that’s one of the By Duana • Oct 20, 2016 11:05 am
