Movie Reviews and Previews Zac and Phoebe are Famous This sounds like the title of a YA book from the 2000s– Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares… I used to read them compulsively and haven’t had that much time over the last few years, By Lainey • Nov 27, 2024 12:23 pm
Gorgessity A Family Affair: the premiere A Family Affair releases on Netflix in a couple of weeks on June 28. I saw it this week because I did the junket for it for ETALK, interviewing Zac Efron and Joey King, paired and virtual. It was a good interview and will be airing on our show in By Lainey • Jun 14, 2024 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole, Zac, Joey: A Threesome That is a clickbaity headline, I admit it, so let me first say that the new Netflix movie, A Family Affair, starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, and Joey King is not a sexual threesome, please don’t accuse me of depravity. But it IS a rom-com with three stars: the By Lainey • May 30, 2024 03:51 pm
BFFs Nicole and Zac again Nicole Kidman was honored by the American Film Institute with the Lifetime Achievement Award this weekend and we’ll get to that in a minute. As expected, since Nicole is such an acclaimed artist, there were a lot of celebrities there to honour her, including Zac Efron. And the reason By Lainey • Apr 29, 2024 01:53 pm
Award Season Campaigning The never-ending contender parade With the pace of events this week and next, you would think the Oscars are right around the corner and not in f-cking MARCH. Last night was yet another event, the National Board of Review Gala in New York. All the Oscar girlies came to play, plus a few people By Sarah • Jan 12, 2024 10:22 am
Award Season Campaigning A Campaign of Actors So far we’ve only talked about the actresses who showed up to campaign at the Governors Awards last night, but so many of the actors in contention were out there hustling ahead of the Oscar nominations. In the best actor race, the two Golden Globe winners, Paul Giamatti and By Lainey • Jan 10, 2024 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron in The Iron Claw In the 1970s and 1980s, Saturday nights at the Dallas Sportatorium was the home to a regional wrestling outfit run by Jack Adkisson and dominated by his sons, known as the Von Erichs. Jack himself wrestled as Fritz Von Erich, he had middling success and never won a world heavyweight By Sarah • Dec 19, 2023 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron’s should-be nomination The Iron Claw is one of the hundred movies premiering in the next week—December is always a clusterf-ck but it feels extra bad this year and I can’t decide if it’s because there IS a glut of films premiering late due to the strikes, or I’m By Sarah • Dec 12, 2023 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, The second strike is over! The SAG-AFTRA strike officially ended at 12:01 AM today, Thursday, November 9, 2023. The SAG-AFTRA TV/theatrical committee voted unanimously to approve the deal on Wednesday, the work stoppage ends today, and tomorrow, the deal goes to the union’s national board By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is this the end of A24? Growing up in Texas in the 80s, there were three sports everyone took very seriously: football, college football, and professional wrestling. Every kid had their favorite wrestler—mine was Ric Flair because he was the sparkliest—and everyone knew about the “Von Erich curse”. As a kid, I was never By Sarah • Oct 12, 2023 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 11, 2020 Dear Gossips, Interesting career move by Zac Efron. According to The Hollywood Reporter Zac will star in the Disney remake of Three Men and a Baby. The original movie was released in 1987 starring Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, and Steve Guttenberg, three bachelor roommates who suddenly have to look after By Lainey • Aug 11, 2020 08:54 am
Zac Efron All Reunions, All The Time The COVID-19 global health crisis has resulted in a show business trend: reunions. Supermodels are reuniting, ex-lovers are reuniting, cast members from medical shows are reuniting, the cast of Hamilton reunited, and boy bands might be reuniting too. Celebrities want to make people feel good and send messages of support. By Lainey • Apr 14, 2020 10:09 am
Zac Efron Zac Efron in the sauna Before we get to this photo of Zac Efron in the sauna, can we talk about how he was supposed to be an Oscar contender? No, I didn’t just pull this out of my ass – at the beginning of 2019, after Sundance and the premiere of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is McConaughey even acting? Harmony Korine, who is the filmmaking equivalent to Florida, is finally following up his last feature, 2012’s Spring Breakers, with The Beach Bum, which actually looks like a real movie? At least, it looks about as straight forward as anything Korine has made. This is the guy, after all, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2019 02:25 pm
Hook Ups Mel B’s rebound Zefron Mel B and Zac Efron reportedly had a “night of passion” after they met on a dating app. Yes, that Mel B. And yes, that Zac Efron. I read a lot of books that include nights of passion. Reading The Sun’s breakdown of Mel B and Zac Efron’s By Kathleen • Sep 10, 2018 12:13 pm
TV Updates Choice Hottie This is still a category that exists at the Teen Choice Awards. I learned that and so many other important things while watching the show last night. I learned that the teens’ Best Chris may be Pratt – or at least he’s the one who shows up for them (Chris By Kathleen • Aug 13, 2018 10:09 am
