Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Brendan Fraser in Rental Family There is a phenomenon that occurs when an actor wins an Oscar that they often go forth and almost immediately appear in a better film, giving a better performance. Recent examples include Emma Stone winning an Oscar for La La Land only to appear in The Favourite, a better movie By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 02:46 pm
Equality Issues Cautiously Happy – Oscar Winner Brendan Fraser I wrote earlier that there were no bumps or missteps in last night’s production. Which is not to say there weren’t controversies. Brendan Fraser’s Best Actor Academy Award for The Whale was simultaneously one of the sweetest moments of the show, and one of the most upsetting By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 06:39 am
Award Season Campaigning Brendan and Austin are tight too Sarah just wrote in the previous post about the Best Actress Oscar race and how it’s pretty much a dead heat between Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett now after the SAG Awards. On the Best Actor side, it’s tight too. Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan is By Lainey • Feb 27, 2023 11:10 am
Award Season Campaigning Campaigning for Grownups The Oscar nominations have been announced. So Oscar campaigning is now in its most intense stretch, especially with so many tight races across the board, including Best Picture. One of the big campaign stops that brought out several contenders this weekend was the AARP Movies for Grownup Awards. AARP used By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 03:34 pm
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs set the tone The BAFTA nominations were announced yesterday, with All Quiet on the Western Front earning a record-tying fourteen nominations. This is one of my top 10 for 2022, but also, it’s the film I tipped for a tight race in Best Cinematography, and its impressive BAFTA haul is likely a By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics Cast Their Votes The Critics’ Choice Awards came and went last night with more of a whimper than a bang—it was a boring show and I say this as someone who gets to vote for those awards—but it is also the last big moment before Oscar nominations close on Tuesday. So, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2023 11:12 am
Award Season Campaigning Everyone was in Palm Springs yesterday The Palm Springs International Film Awards were last night as part of the Palm Springs Film Festival. We’re getting into the thick of awards season now, and with most of the categories either wide open or in a three-way split, everyone who is remotely a contender was out in By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 10:03 am
Award Season Campaigning Sandler and Fraser on Actors on Actors Yesterday, we talked about Ke Huy Quan’s comeback this year, so now let’s talk about the other comeback in the room, Brendan Fraser. He appeared on Variety’s “Actors on Actors” with Adam Sandler, an old pal from the 1990s, when they made the comedy classic Airheads together. By Sarah • Dec 08, 2022 02:18 pm
Award Season Campaigning Danielle Deadwyler gets closer Three weeks ago I posted about Danielle Deadwyler in the site open and how she’s been picking up momentum during award season for her role in Till while people are also enjoying her performance as Zora in From Scratch on Netflix. As noted in that article, Danielle is challenging By Lainey • Nov 29, 2022 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin, Brendan, Colin, and the wide-open race As Sarah noted in today’s open, the Oscar Academy’s Governors Awards took place this weekend recognising Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir, and Euzhan Palcy who all received honourary Oscars. This year’s Oscar race, however, is heating up. Which is why so many of the contenders By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser is not a hypocrite Brendan Fraser covers the December issue of GQ, four years after it was GQ that put him back in the spotlight via Zach Baron’s massively viral profile that asked, What ever happened to Brendan Fraser? Back in 2018, Fraser was talking about where he’d gone, how years of By Sarah • Nov 17, 2022 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Whale Content warning for eating disorders, fatphobia, self-harm, and emotional/verbal abuse. If you ever need proof that film festival audiences can be completely bonkers, look no further than Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, a film that received a 97-year ovation at its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, and By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser’s Oscar Season The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser, had its world premiere in Venice over the weekend. It’s on my TIFF schedule and I can’t wait to see it, but in the meantime, I am contenting myself with premium-branded Wholesome Brendan Fraser Content, of which there is PLENTY. EVERYONE is excited By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser begins his campaign Awards season 2022-23 officially kicked off yesterday with the Venice Film Festival’s opening night and premiere screening of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, and yes, Barbie has already come up: here’s the clip of asking if greta gerwig considered casting adam as ken in barbie & adam having By Sarah • Sep 01, 2022 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser is DINING OUT Brendan Fraser was a big deal in the 1990s and a slightly less big deal in the 2000s and then he sort of disappeared and then we found out that was GOING THROUGH IT! And now, Brendan Fraser is BACK, baby! He is DINING OUT on role after role these By Sarah • Oct 27, 2021 03:45 pm
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
