Movie Reviews and Previews Team Strangers after the shutout Despite picking up six BAFTA nominations, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers—one of my best films of the year—was shutout of nominations at the Oscars. 2023 was a good year in film, and there were never going to be enough spots to recognize all the deserving films By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 01:32 pm
TV Updates The Crown ends with a whimper The final season of The Crown was split into two parts, with season six part one reaching the series’ nadir. Part two is now streaming and is at least a little step up from the first four episodes of this season. Six episodes make up the second part of the By Sarah • Dec 14, 2023 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Priest and Connell in a time warp Fall festival season is not quite over, with two more marquee fests coming in October, the New York Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Both take place over the first couple weeks of October, and both will feature Andrew Haigh’s new film, All of Us Strangers. The By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews So Many Supporting Actresses As mentioned earlier in the post about the competitive race for Best Actress Oscar, at this stage in the race, this might be one of the tightest Best Supporting Actress Oscar seasons we’ve had in a long time. For starters, if there’s a frontrunner, I don’t see By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Women Talking Content warning for sexual assault. Sarah Polley writes and directs this adaption of Miriam Toews’ novel, Women Talking. It’s a gutting drama in which a group of women must decide between two drastic courses of action. As Mennonites, they are at the mercy of the men in their community, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 01:44 pm
TV Updates Claire & Paul’s Very British Scandal Claire Foy and Paul Bettany are currently in New York promoting their new series – it’s already aired in the UK – which starts streaming on Amazon on April 22. A Very British Scandal is based on the true divorce story of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, a major tabloid By Lainey • Apr 13, 2022 10:32 am
TV Updates Justice for Duchess Margaret at last Back in 2018, Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw starred in A Very English Scandal, a three-part dark comedy about an MP who tries and fails to have a former (male) lover killed, and from there events spiral out of control. It’s a SPECTACULAR mini-series, if you haven’t seen By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 02:09 pm
Golden Globes 2019 Amy Adams and Claire Foy knew better at the Globes What I mean by “knew better” is that they knew what would happen – or that they dressed for what they knew would happen. What happened is that neither of them won anything. In Claire’s case, that was expected. For Amy Adams… well… I guess, at this point, it’s By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 04:33 am
TV Updates Claire Foy works her odds Claire Foy co-hosted the Evening Standard Theater Awards over the weekend, showing up in a McQueen that I wish was either not off the shoulder, or had shorter sleeves, one or the other, because right now the sleeves are doing too much. Foy is enjoying the last days of her By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Claire Foy in The Girl in the Spider’s Web The Girl in the Spider’s Web is an attempt to reboot the potential franchise started by the English-language reboot of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it did not open well, with less than $10 million on opening weekend. And with a B CinemaScore, it didn’t really By Sarah • Nov 14, 2018 02:08 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Claire Foy’s marigold dress I always forget about the word “marigold”. It’s such a good word to describe that specific colour of yellow – the yellow here on Claire Foy. When it comes to dresses in this colour though, you know which one my mind goes to, right? And probably your mind too? Here, By Lainey • Oct 05, 2018 01:24 pm
Emmy Awards 2018 KERI RUSSELL ROBBED, Matthew Rhys Cute The Americans won for best writing in a Drama Series, and my Twitter exploded like it was my birthday and my wedding day both. We got excited, because awards so rarely go the way they’re supposed to, and The Americans won for the best finale of the best season By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: First Man First Man, Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to La La Land could not be more different than his previous films. For one thing, First Man is not about music. For another, it is a much bigger production in scope, scale, and imagination, and Chazelle takes to this kind of grandiose filmmaking By Sarah • Sep 13, 2018 04:37 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Ryan and Claire open Venice I think Ryan Gosling’s stylist and I might be mind-melding. Yesterday I posted about his arrival in Venice ahead of the First Man world premiere and I predicted that he’d wear a white tux to the gala. Which is what he did. He likes a white jacket. This By Lainey • Aug 30, 2018 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews First Man in Venice Here are some shots of Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy arriving in Venice today ahead of tonight’s gala where Damien Chazelle’s First Man will open the festival. You’ll recall, the last time Damien and Ryan were in Venice, it was for La La Land, kicking off its By Lainey • Aug 29, 2018 10:12 am
Maple Leaf Ryan Gosling: First look at First Man Ryan Gosling is playing Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle’s new biopic First Man. Claire Foy is playing his wife, Janet Armstrong. The first trailer is premiering tonight during Jimmy Kimmel Live! which explains why Ryan was spotted wearing a spacesuit at the Kimmel studios yesterday. Ryan doesn’t leave By Kathleen • Jun 08, 2018 02:22 pm
