Girlcrushes Annie and Cillian: Versace Icons Versace just dropped its new Icons campaign assets today and for Cillian Murphy, fresh off his first Oscar win for Best Actor, it’s also his first appearance as ambassador for the house. He was wearing Versace on Oscar night which was the start of the partnership, although if you By Lainey • Apr 03, 2024 03:36 pm
Oscars 2024 Fashion Dudes Here, now, is a selection of Very Handsome Men for you. First, let us acknowledge Try Guy Eugene Lee Yang, who voiced a character in the nominated animated film, Nimona. He is my Best Dressed Guy of Oscar night. That red tuxedo dress is EXQUISITE. It recalls Billy Porter’s By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 07:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Oppenheimer on Kimmel The SAG Awards are tomorrow night, streaming for the first time on Netflix. It’s the first major award show, I think, that we’re seeing on the platform, and I’m so curious about how it’s going to play out. For those of us who are television broadcast By Lainey • Feb 23, 2024 12:05 pm
Ryan Gosling Dressed Up Dudes at the BAFTAs Dudes showed up to the BAFTAs dressed up, and I bring this up for two reasons. One, I thought of a good joke, see if you can spot it. Two, I want to talk about the shift in men’s red carpet fashion and workshop a name for the new By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian and Matt before the finale Oppenheimer is one of the biggest movies of 2023, it’s a heavy favorite to win a lot of Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and star Cillian Murphy is in a heated competition with Paul Giamatti for Best Actor. But before all that, Cillian is at the Berlinale, By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 11:20 am
Award Season Campaigning Most of the movie men The Critics Choice Awards were last night, and Oscar nominations close tomorrow, and between these two points in time, we’re getting a clearer picture of the Oscar race. Robert Downey, Jr., for instance, widens his lead in the Best Supporting Actor category, while taking potshots at critics in his By Sarah • Jan 15, 2024 12:14 pm
Award Season Campaigning A Campaign of Actors So far we’ve only talked about the actresses who showed up to campaign at the Governors Awards last night, but so many of the actors in contention were out there hustling ahead of the Oscar nominations. In the best actor race, the two Golden Globe winners, Paul Giamatti and By Lainey • Jan 10, 2024 12:25 pm
Golden Globes 2024 Barbenheimer Showdown at the Globes Barbenheimer emerged because Barbie and Oppenheimer had the same release date of July 21, 2023. There was an attempt by some media outlets to frame this as a showdown, but the culture collectively rose up, rejected the competition narrative, and turned Barbenheimer into a phenomenon that benefitted both films. However, By Sarah • Jan 08, 2024 09:55 am
BFFs The Best Actors showed up The Palm Springs Film Festival opened last night, and it brought all the Oscar contenders out of the post-holiday woodwork. As proof that he does care about these things, Leonardo DiCaprio ditched Cabo earlier in the day, his p-ssy posse mates Tobey Maguire and Lucas Haas and current girlfriend, Vittoria By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:40 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 1, 2023 Dear Gossips, Variety’s “Actors on Actors” conversation series returns on December 4, and they announced their full lineup for the year, and they went for it, going all-in on Barbenheimer and pairing Cillian Murphy with Margot Robbie. Once again, let’s take a moment to acknowledge Margot’s excellent By Sarah • Dec 01, 2023 09:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian Murphy and half of Hollywood in Oppenheimer Films about Great Men are usually acts of hagiography, and in many ways, Oppenheimer is no different. Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, is invested in Oppenheimer as a once-in-a-generation genius, a Great Man who literally moved the earth, but Nolan is By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:03 pm
Style Barbenheimer London: Flo joins the Bomb Squad We’ve been talking for weeks about the Barbie-Oppenheimer aka Barbenheimer double feature next Friday. We’ve been talking all day about the possible actors’ strike that could start at midnight. And now, just hours ahead of whatever might happen, the casts of both films are in London – what could By Lainey • Jul 12, 2023 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer in Paris As we’ve mentioned a few times now in today’s posts, the deadline for the producers and the actors to reach a new deal is tonight. And if that doesn’t happen, the actors have already decided to join the writers on strike. Sarah just wrote in the previous By Lainey • Jul 12, 2023 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This Barbie is Oppenheimer Barbie and Oppenheimer continue to be joined at the collective consciousness’s hip because they are both being released on July 21. People are trying to make this into a thing, but they’re different movies aimed at different audiences. Given its broader, more family-friendly appeal, Barbie has a very By Sarah • May 08, 2023 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bomb movie goes boom Just like Barbie, a teaser for next summer’s Oppenheimer played in front of IMAX screenings for Avatar: The Way of Water over the weekend, and just like Barbie, Oppenheimer’s teaser is now online for all of us to see. Like Barbie, Oppenheimer looks good. Completely different, of course, By Sarah • Dec 19, 2022 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer dudes Christopher Nolan’s next film, Oppenheimer, is currently filming in Los Angeles. Cillian Murphy and his near-translucent stare rings the bell for some of y’all, so here he is on set yesterday, along with Matt Damon and Dane DeHaan in period World War II-era garb. To refresh, this movie By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 09:39 am