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
Leonardo DiCaprio All the Actors… but one It is very funny to me that for all the campaigning we’ve seen, and for all the debate that happened last year when Timothée Chalamet won the SAG Award and declared that he was aspiring to greatness, that he’s actually the one who’s been skipping so many, By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Thomas Anderon’s One Battle After Another Throughout his career, Paul Thomas Anderson has examined the American mythos from every angle, picking apart the American dream and all the various ways it can and will fail. His examinations are not really critiques, though, as much as they are clockworks depicting specific times and places in the “American By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, There are a handful of directors who are events unto themselves. Christopher Nolan, for example, is enough to sell a movie. All you need to see is his name in the credits and people are out here buying tickets a year in advance for hundreds of dollars. And By Lainey • Sep 09, 2025 09:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo and BenDeTo Wes Anderson’s new film, The Phoenician Scheme, opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, before expanding next week. The film premiered at Cannes, and there was another premiere last night in New York. I found myself scanning the photos because Scarlett Johansson turned up to the NYC By Sarah • May 29, 2025 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Unhinged Leo There was a moment in the 2010s when Leonardo DiCaprio’s career was consumed by “when will he win his Oscar” talk, and winning for 2015’s The Revenant felt like releasing a pressure valve and we could go back to just enjoying his performances. I hate the phrase “one By Sarah • Mar 28, 2025 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Soderbergh assembles a new team When Steven Soderbergh puts together a team, he does not hold back. Ocean’s 11 features one of the great Cool Guy ensembles of the 21st century, including one of Hollywood’s great Cool Girls, Julia Roberts. And while everyone remembers the heat-seeking chemistry of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez By Sarah • Jun 09, 2021 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jon Hamm is headed to Detroit Steven Soderbergh next film is called No Sudden Move. Production is now underway in Detroit and the reason why that’s notable is because, as he said: “The last time I shot a movie in Detroit with a great script and a great cast things worked out really well, so By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benicio Del Toro in Sicario: Day of the Soldado As I write this review, there has been another mass shooting in America. More people are dead. More people are injured. More suffering, more anger, more inaction, more misery. We can’t go a f*cking day without some fresh hell bursting forth and poisoning the well. At this point, By Sarah • Jun 29, 2018 11:08 am
BFFs Famous friends vs non-famous friends Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro was asked this week about his friend Johnny Depp being accused of domestic abuse by his estranged wife Amber Heard. “What I know, there’s a lot of trouble from the girl that sounds a little manipulative,” the Oscar winner told the Daily News’ Confidenti@ By Lainey • Jun 09, 2016 10:57 am
Top Reads Jennifer Garner: Best Oscar Single I loved Friday. I loved it so much because of Jennifer Garner. God that Vanity Fair article. Click here if you missed my post on it last week. She threw down a lesson in public scolding without getting your hands dirty. Remember, I always did say she had the Amazing By Lainey • Feb 29, 2016 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rising Star gets back to work John Boyega won the BAFTA Rising Star Award last night. And he was dressed for it, looking sharp in a black velvet suit. I love his reaction when he got up to collect his trophy – a wide open-mouthed WHOA! as he was buttoning up his jacket. Understandable, non? He was By Lainey • Feb 15, 2016 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar Dark Horse: Sicario This is such a great Oscar year! We have a REAL race in ALL categories! Periodically Lainey and I will text one another something along the lines of “this is so exciting!” because for once the Oscars are wide open across the board. The only category that feels close to By Sarah • Jan 06, 2016 01:08 pm
Will Smith Intro for November 24, 2015 Dear Gossips, When you have a few minutes today, please read The Hollywood Reporter’s Actors Roundtable featuring Samuel L Jackson, Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo, Will Smith, Benicio Del Toro, and Joel Edgerton. It’ll take 5, maybe 6, tops. And it’s really, really, really funny. Mark and Benicio By Lainey • Nov 24, 2015 09:30 am
Quiveration Benicio is sexy I never used to get it about Benicio Del Toro. You know my type. Charlie Hunnam, Liam Hemsworth… But then I saw Sicario. After Spotlight, it’s my favourite film of TIFF. Like Spotlight, it’s not an easy story. This is two hours of stress and anxiety. But worth By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benecio Del Toro is now a superhero Or maybe a supervillain. Del Toro is the latest to join Guardians of the Galaxy, the insane movie Marvel is set to start filming in a couple months. Chris Pratt is leading a cast that includes Lee Pace, Dr. Who’s Karen Gillan, Zoe Saldana, Glenn Motherf*cking Close, and By Sarah • Jun 04, 2013 10:27 am
