Award Season Campaigning Everyone is at the Chateau At various points in its near-hundred-year history, Los Angeles’s Chateau Marmont has been a hip celebrity hangout. It had one of its many revival periods in the 90s when the Gen Xers liked hanging out there—some loyalists, like Keanu Reeves, are still frequent visitors. But then it kind By Sarah • Jan 08, 2026 11:06 am
Award Season Campaigning The Gotham Awards set the tone The 35th Gotham Awards took place last night in New York. The Gothams are interesting, partly because they’re so early, they get to set the mood for the rest of awards season, but also partly because the voting body is split into two parts: nominating committees made up of By Sarah • Dec 02, 2025 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charli XCX’s Moment Charli XCX had a big (brat) summer last year, and this year she’s been getting into acting with three films, Erupcja, Sacrifice, and 100 Nights of Hero. Next year, she’s getting into filmmaking with The Moment, a mockumentary about a pop star on her first headlining tour, inspired By Sarah • Nov 21, 2025 11:34 am
TV Updates Alexander Skarsgård in Murderbot Apple TV+ has carved out a niche for itself as the home of high-concept sci-fi series such as For All Mankind, Foundation, and Silo. The latest entry into this super specific niche is Murderbot, a series adaption of Martha Wells’ popular book series, The Murderbot Diaries. Coming from sibling creators By Sarah • May 29, 2025 01:03 pm
Cannes 2025 Alexander Skarsgård’s Cannes weekend Alexander Skarsgård is very busy. Murderbot premiered on Apple TV+ on Friday—eventually I will have a review!—and on the same weekend, he turned up at Cannes for the premiere of his new film, Pillion, co-starring Harry Melling (probably still best known as Dudley Dursley, but this guy has By Sarah • May 20, 2025 03:45 pm
TV Updates Is this Alexander Skarsgård’s next big thing? Alexander Skarsgård is one of those actors who is, by any metric, having a great career—he’s been on numerous great TV shows, he’s won a bunch of awards, he’s a fun cameo in a bunch of other great TV shows, he’s been in more great By Sarah • Apr 10, 2025 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg’s unlikely partnership Last week I mentioned Kate Winslet’s upcoming war biopic of photographer Lee Miller, titled Lee, mostly in reference to how hot Andy Samberg looks in this movie. Now there is a full trailer for Lee, though, so let’s talk about Winslet and Lee Miller, who was a very By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 02:40 pm
Succession Alexander after Succession You know a detail I love in the final season of Succession? The way Lukas Mattson keeps insisting that unflattering magazine illustration of Shiv working him like a marionette doesn’t bother him. Just the way he keeps saying, “It’s fine,” it’s so obviously NOT fine, but Alexander By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard in The Northman Robert Eggers’ third film, The Northman, continues his cinematic tradition of creating fanatically detailed, historically grounded worlds so tangible you can practically smell the body odor and see the lice crawling on his characters. The Northman, co-written by Eggers and Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón, is basically a Heilung concert By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard’s victory lap The Northman, the Icelandic saga-inspired Viking epic starring Alexander Skarsgard, opens this week, and the premiere was last night in Los Angeles. Skarsgard was on hand along with his castmates Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, and writer/director Robert Eggers. Keith Urban joined Kidman on the black carpet, and By Sarah • Apr 19, 2022 10:24 am
Gorgessity Anya Taylor-Joy: Love and Style Anya Taylor-Joy is currently promoting The Northman. She was at the London premiere the other night with co-star Alexander Skarsgard and boyfriend Malcolm McRae. They recently made their first red carpet appearance together at the Vanity Fair Oscar party and are now following it up at one of her movies. By Lainey • Apr 07, 2022 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard fulfills his destiny in The Northman Robert Eggers, auteur of the itchiest goddamn cinema, is back with a new film starring Alexander Skarsgard, The Northman. Skarsgard fulfills his destiny by playing Thor a Viking prince called Amleth. In medieval Scandi literature, Amleth is the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a boy whose father, the king, is By Sarah • Dec 21, 2021 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga in Passing In 1920s New York, two childhood friends reconnect by chance. Irene (Tessa Thompson) is now married to a doctor and living in Harlem, the epicenter of the Black American renaissance. Clare (Ruth Negga) has moved to Chicago, where she is married to a white man and passing for white herself. By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson have entered the race Whew, this awards season is so crowded. On the heels of Nightmare Alley, Belfast, and The Tragedy of Macbeth comes the trailer for Passing, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Passing was one of the Sundance stand-outs this year, based on Nella Larsen’s By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 02:55 pm
TV Updates Succession SNL There were two Succession cast members at the Saturday Night Live after-party this weekend. Well here’s a return to “normal”: the traditional SNL after-party has always been a thing. The parties were suspended, obviously, until recently. But bars and restaurants in New York have been open for a few By Lainey • May 10, 2021 09:49 am
TV Updates Alexander Skarsgard’s First Succession Maria mentioned it in Celebrity Social Media yesterday – Alexander Skarsgard has joined the cast of Succession for the third season. He’s a “confrontational tech executive” so, basically, a rich Silicon Valley type with an aggressive personality. Which means he’s probably an asshole and will fit right into this By Lainey • May 05, 2021 10:17 am
