The Squawk
LaineyGossip, Emily, Jacek, Sarah, Duana, Michael Cadoch (MC)A LaineyGossip community for discerning gossips to squawk together and discuss all things pop culture.
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Artificial’s Oscar Buzz
Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, about Sam Altman and OpenAI, is making a lot of noise and generating Oscar buzz after it screened last night at the NY Film Festival.
Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, about Sam Altman and OpenAI, is making a lot...
Squawk Mailbag for October 2, 2026
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Dear Squawkers,
It’s been exactly a week since Taylor Swift released The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, with four new tracks that were written after The Life of a Showgirl sold a re...
You May Already Be Doing Fiction Wrong
One writer’s take on the “Children of Blood and Bone” controversy
I’m going to start this piece by telling on myself, but it can’t be helped – my algorithm did not bring the Children of Blood and Bone controversy to my desk until this week...
Squawk Mailbag for September 25, 2026
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Dear Squawkers,
I was just saying to Sarah that in comparison to some of the movies releasing over the next few weeks, Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime,...
Brange and the Blog
How Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie birthed the Celebrity Blog (and my career)
Today is the tenth anniversary of a major gossip event: the breakup of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, known for 12 years as “Brangelina” and referred to at LaineyGo...
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Gossip, TV reporter, soup lover.
LaineyGossip site manager. Dog (and cat, I guess) enthusiast. Introvert. Find me by the ocean or in the forest.
Generalist, dog lover, chocolate covered almond consumer
I am a film critic and writer with fifteen years’ experience writing about film, television, industry business, pop culture, and celebrity. Deputy editor, LaineyGossip; programmer, Chicago Critics Film Festival; general menace and average nuisance.
What song should I be singing riiiiiight ...*now*?
Michael is a pop culture expert working in Canadian TV, and a self-proclaimed music junkie. He is also the sole producer and host of his own 2000s pop culture podcast “Planet 2000s”.
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