Award Season Campaigning Ladies Who Lunch At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, that is. The Academy Women’s Luncheon was yesterday, held at the Academy’s own museum in Los Angeles—the Academy WILL make that museum worth it if it kills them! Which it might!—and as has been the case all of this By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy and Zendaya: Longshots A few months ago, when it was announced that Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch would premiere at TIFF, the list of Best Actress Oscar hopefuls expanded to include the film’s star, Amy Adams. Amy’s been nominated multiple times already, some consider her “overdue”, and she’s always reliably solid By Lainey • Oct 17, 2024 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Sometimes in my reviews I will cheekily dub a character “Lady Mom”, such as in my review of Unstoppable, in which Jennifer Lopez stars as a stereotypically underwritten mother character. “Lady Mom” is a derogatory shorthand for characters definable only by being female and mothers, with no real individual narrative By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams is Nightbitch One of the films Lainey and I are both super looking forward to at TIFF is Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel of the same name. The trailer just dropped ahead of the film’s TIFF premiere, and in it, Amy Adams stars as a stay-at-home-mom By Sarah • Sep 04, 2024 01:52 pm
What Else What Else? TIFF announced its first slate of films for this year’s festival and Nightbitch is coming to Toronto. With just one press release, Amy Adams Oscar buzz is beginning. It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Amy Adams, but I also feel like every time Amy Adams is By Lainey • Jun 19, 2024 04:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams is Nightbitch Today in Well This Is Exciting news, Amy Adams is teaming up with director Marielle Heller for an adaption of Rachel Yoder’s novel, Nightbitch. No, this is not the story of an avenging female superhero with, probably, a great pair of boots. The book is about a stay-at-home mom By Sarah • May 20, 2022 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dear Evan Hansen is PSYCHOTIC In many ways, Dear Evan Hansen is “better than Cats”, mainly because Evan isn’t physically painful to look at—I don’t want to pluck out my eyeballs and run screaming into the sea—and because the musical is not sung through. But in all the ways that count, By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews At last: Zack Snyder’s Justice League After all the sturm und drang to get to this point, Zack Snyder’s Justice League—the official name of the “Snyder Cut”—is here to give Zack Snyder a mulligan on Justice League after he had to leave the project in 2016 before completing it. One thing can be By Sarah • Mar 17, 2021 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glenn Close and Amy Adams in Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was a 2016 bestseller and was held up as an explainer for the newly minted Trump’s America and the “economic anxiety” that precipitated it, downplaying white resentment of a Black president and instead emphasizing the blue-red swing of rural central America as By Sarah • Nov 10, 2020 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams and Glenn Close deserve Oscars, but NOT LIKE THIS I can count on one hand how many books I’ve abandoned mid-go, but Hillbilly Elegy is one of them. J.D. Vance’s self-selecting memoir about the “economic anxiety” of his Ohio hometown and Appalachian roots is a collection of personal anecdotes that repackage the myth of the welfare By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 12:47 pm
Emmy Awards 2019 Amy Adams trends at her first Emmys I didn’t actually know that last night was Amy Adams’s first Emmys. Because we see Amy Adams so often at award shows. She’s often at the Golden Globes. She’s often at the SAGs and the BAFTAs. She’s been Oscar-nominated six times. SIX! This is why By Lainey • Sep 23, 2019 06:39 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Amy Adams’s BAFTA taffeta Last Friday, Amy Adams’s red dress in Paris was the Outfit of the Week. It was her best dress of this award season. And I was surprised. Because the dress was so good, so much better than anything she’s worn on any carpet this year, that I wondered By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 12:06 pm
LifestyleArticle Amy Adams in red - Outfit of the Week Without a doubt the best red carpet look on Amy Adams this entire award season and it’s not even at an award show. This is Andrew Gn and she looks amazing. I don’t normally vote for a red dress but this one, on Amy Adams, is undeniable. I By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 02:56 pm
Golden Globes 2019 Amy Adams and Claire Foy knew better at the Globes What I mean by “knew better” is that they knew what would happen – or that they dressed for what they knew would happen. What happened is that neither of them won anything. In Claire’s case, that was expected. For Amy Adams… well… I guess, at this point, it’s By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 04:33 am
Award Season Campaigning Amy & Regina do both Amy Adams received two acting Golden Globe nominations this morning, one for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series and another for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Vice. She’s now trending on Twitter. But don’t forget about Regina King. Regina has been nominated By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian, Amy, Bradley: an American Hustle Oscars American Hustle came out five years ago, directed by David O Russell, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jeremy Renner. The film was nominated for several Oscars. Now three of its stars are in this year’s Oscar race, two of them going up against each By Lainey • Nov 23, 2018 01:27 pm
