What Else Remembering Chadwick We’ll never stop missing Chadwick Boseman. It’s been five years, and his death still feels like a fresh loss. Lainey and I were texting about this last night, how it doesn’t feel like it’s been five years already, how we still miss him. How Sinners feels By Sarah • Nov 21, 2025 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Wakanda Forever power trio talk about grief, but not vaccines Spoilers for Wakanda Forever Last week, Ryan Coogler, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright covered the digital edition of Variety, but I put off writing about it until more people got to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever over the weekend. The Variety profile focuses heavily on the loss of Chadwick Boseman, By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Get out the tissues for Wakanda Forever The big finale of Marvel’s three-year plan presentation was the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever panel and the teaser for the movie. The overwhelming sentiment after the first look landed on the internet was “already crying”, and there’s no doubt everything around and about this movie is going to By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 04:03 pm
Oscars 2021 Oscars Scorecard: It’s something! This year, I attempted to guess every winner of the “Oddscars”—or as they shall henceforth be known, the “total chaos Oscars”—and I did pretty okay. I got 15 categories out of 23 right, which Professor Calculator tells me is 65% correct. Of the 8 misses, 7 were from By Sarah • Apr 26, 2021 06:07 am
SAG Awards 2021 Intro for April 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, Over the last year we have seen award shows try to innovate and not innovate at all (ahem, the Golden Globes) during the pandemic. Weeks ago the Screen Actors Guild announced that they were not going to bother with a facsimile of what the SAGs typically look like By Lainey • Apr 05, 2021 08:53 am
Golden Globes 2021 Chadwick Boseman’s Golden Globe Last night, Chadwick Boseman took home the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, the fourth Black actor to do so in the award’s history. Of course, there is endless significance to this win. We are still dealing with the magnitude of his loss; it came By Melayna • Mar 01, 2021 07:42 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, If not for the pandemic, Oscar nominations would be announced around now. Everything has been pushed back, as we know, but the races are starting to shape up. The big question is how different voting will be now that award season campaigning isn’t happening the way we’ By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is adapted from August Wilson’s play of the same name, written for the screen by Ruben Santiago-Hudson and directed by George C. Wolfe. It feels very much like a play, with a staginess to the setting, especially early on, and long, unbroken monologues that By Sarah • Dec 17, 2020 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was always going to be an award season contender, being a lavish adaptation of an August Wilson play produced by Denzel Washington and starring Viola Davis, but as it is now, sadly, Chadwick Boseman’s final performance, the film carries extra weight and expectations. The By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 10:35 am
Top Reads Chadwick Boseman’s “Donation” to Sienna Miller Empire Magazine’s new issue is dedicated to Chadwick Boseman featuring interviews with his collaborators, colleagues, and co-stars. One of those people is Sienna Miller. They worked on 21 Bridges together and Sienna shares the story of how she came to sign onto the film and what Chadwick did to By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 10:48 am
BFFs Intro for September 1, 2020 Dear Gossips, As people close to Chadwick Boseman continue to publicly share their thoughts on his passing, it’s becoming even more obvious how committed he was to not allowing his cancer to affect his work – and their work too. Here’s Michael B Jordan’s tribute to his big By Lainey • Sep 01, 2020 09:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman leaves an unassailable legacy It is hard to think about the passing of Chadwick Boseman and not think about all that he never had time to do. At Howard University he earned a BFA in directing, and as a young playwright he received a Jeff Award nomination for New Work in 2006 for his By Sarah • Aug 31, 2020 09:51 am
Chadwick Boseman Intro for August 31, 2020 Dear Gossips, Like so many of you, I watched Black Panther again this weekend – a few times. And it’s not like I haven’t seen it multiple times already. Now though, of course, the film pulses with even more resonance, revealing even more layers to what was already a By Lainey • Aug 31, 2020 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is an old-man movie the same way The Irishman is Martin Scorsese’s old-man movie, in that this is only a movie Lee could make now, after thirty years of filmmaking, when he has gained the perspective to look back and see cycles repeating By Sarah • Jun 16, 2020 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman in 21 Bridges 21 Bridges is a standard police thriller, the type that comes chock-a-block full of recognizable character actors and used to do middling business at the theater and then find a long, healthy second life on cable. It’s what I call a “weekend afternoon movie”, the sort of thing you By Sarah • Nov 27, 2019 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick and Henry > Charlie CinemaCon is happening this week in Vegas. This is when the studios bring in the stars to schmooze theatre owners. Chadwick Boseman was there to promote 21 Bridges. It’s his first starring role since Black Panther in which he plays a police officer hunting down a group of criminals By Lainey • Apr 03, 2019 10:34 am
