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
Seth Rogen Intro for May 26, 2025 Dear Gossips, It’s a holiday weekend in the United States but the work will pick up almost immediately afterwards, not only because there are some other major summer blockbuster releases that are about to come out but because these are the final two weeks before Emmy nomination voting begins By Lainey • May 26, 2025 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily and Bryan on set Fresh off Sundance, where The Wedding Banquet got a very warm reception, Lily Gladstone is working, this time in Albuquerque alongside Bryan Cranston in a new film called Lone Wolf. For a lot of people, Bryan Cranston in Albuquerque brings back the Breaking Bad feels, but for me it’s By Sarah • Feb 06, 2025 10:01 am
Business of Hollywood The Sweet Spot of Striking Actors As Sarah noted the other day in her post about Dwayne The Rock Johnson’s historic donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, major movie stars have largely stayed away from the picket lines – intentionally. The big name celebrities, she wrote, are a distraction. There’s already so much misinformation about this By Lainey • Jul 26, 2023 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Breaking Bad Reunion El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie premieres on Netflix this coming Friday, just in time for Canadian Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is all about gathering with family and/or friends and last night in Hollywood, Team Breaking Bad reunited at the premiere in support of the film. People got really into their By Lainey • Oct 08, 2019 11:03 am
BFFs Jennifer Garner on the Walk of Fame Jennifer Garner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday and to mark the occasion, she brought along three people who “define [her]:” her kids Violet, Seraphina and Samuel. Violet is 12. 12! Jennifer’s parents and sisters were on-hand, too. No Ben Affleck, though. And there was By Joanna • Aug 21, 2018 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson’s meticulous, highly stylized worlds are particularly suited to stop-motion animation, the most meticulous and stylized form of animation. It’s no coincidence that one of Anderson’s best films is The Fantastic Mr. Fox, his first attempt at stop-motion, and now he follows up Fox with another By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying Richard Linklater is on a “spiritual sequel” streak. His previous film, Everybody Wants Some!!, is a spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused, and his new film, Last Flag Flying, is a spiritual sequel to Hal Ashby’s 1973 film The Last Detail. Like The Last Detail, Flag is adapted from By Sarah • Nov 10, 2017 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman: riding the wave Nicole Kidman is one of the savviest stars I've ever seen walk a red carpet. If she's going to show up - she'll make it worth her time, and your time (for the press). She'll serve it in the photo department and By Joanna • Sep 14, 2017 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston and James Franco in Why Him? Why Him? is more than just a Christmas comedy, and more than a fish-out-of-water, meet-the-family tale. It’s a deep philosophical exploration of the inescapable loneliness that haunts us all, which is inevitably exacerbated by the tide of false cheer and forced goodwill that is the holiday season. Why Him? By Sarah • Dec 13, 2016 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston vs James Franco I watched the new red-band trailer for Why Him? starring Bryan Cranston and James Franco the other day. It’s the first footage I’ve seen of the movie ever. Why Him? opens at Christmas, when you might need to get out of the house, away from your family, and By Lainey • Nov 17, 2016 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wakefield aka Two (Estranged) Lovers and an Attic. Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner basically star in a film that should be called Two (Estranged) Lovers and an Attic. Bryan plays Howard Wakefield, a high-end Connecticut-based lawyer who runs away from his idyllic married life to live in isolation on the property. In his mind, it's a By Joanna • Sep 14, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston in The Infiltrator Bryan Cranston excels at playing dangerous liars, and The Infiltrator gives him another chance to play a dangerous liar, doing Walter White: Variation on a Theme. Cranston stars as Robert Mazur, a US Customs agent who goes undercover with Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel in an effort to bust up By Sarah • Jul 15, 2016 01:58 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, July 11, 2016 I bet you Taylor sent her those balloons. Taylor is definitely the kind of friend who would celebrate your social media following with a mylar balloon delivery. Holy $@&#..... 5 million😱 !?! Thank you to the moon and back! Infinite love and gratitude to you all. XOXOXO A photo posted by By Maria • Jul 11, 2016 04:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominees talk about the importance of their nominations Award season roundtables are all the rage now, and Vulture is getting in on the action with a roundtable discussion featuring eight Oscar nominees, including Alicia Vikander, Bryan Cranston, and screenwriting nominees Phyllis Nagy (Carol) and Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton). During the discussion, the importance of nominations came up, By Sarah • Feb 10, 2016 10:00 am
Award Season Campaigning Matt Damon went to lose It’s done. Leonardo DiCaprio will win his first Oscar for being cold and snotty in The Revenant. By now his lead is pretty much insurmountable and, as Sarah noted a couple of weeks ago, the voters probably just want to get it over with so he stops trying to By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 09:40 am
