Top Reads Avengers Assemble for Kamala Lainey emailed me last night and the subject was I’m a corny asshole and it was to share a video of various Avengers uniting to support Harris-Walz in the last days of the US election, and before election day next Tuesday. We're back. Let's #AssembleForDemocracy. By Sarah • Nov 01, 2024 10:52 am
Gorgessity Janet steps out for Thom Browne If you visit this site often, you might be familiar with my affinity for Thom Browne. Thom Browne is my whole style lane. So the Thom Browne show, for me, is the New York Fashion Week presentation that I look forward to the most. And look who Thom Browne was By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Tig stands up It has been a minute since we’ve seen her, but Tig Notaro showed up over the weekend for the Stand Up To Cancer biennial telecast. In case you forgot, let this be your reminder that Tig Notaro is hot. Also present for the telecast were Danai Gurira, Elizabeth Banks, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2023 11:35 am
Outfit of the Week Let Angela Bassett feel her feelings It wasn’t exactly surprising, given how momentum shifted after Jamie Lee Curtis won the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress, but still, there was a sting in her winning the Oscar over Angela Bassett. And Bassett felt it, you could tell. As Curtis’s name was read, Bassett didn’ By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 07:57 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Danai Gurira …without question Sarah has mentioned several times the last couple of weeks how Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has stayed with her, how the film is a meditation on grief and its many faces. Same, same. And it’s like this for a lot of people who are still processing the movie, it’ By Lainey • Nov 18, 2022 01:13 pm
Style Outfits of the Week: Wakanda Forever in London A week from today, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be the biggest movie in the world. Sarah’s review is coming next week and while I’m not here to drop spoilers, let me repeat what I’ve already said: be ready for the tears, your own tears and everyone By Lainey • Nov 04, 2022 10:47 am
Style Wakanda Forever, the premiere I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever this morning and while official reviews are still embargoed, reactions are allowed. Here’s my reaction: I SOBBED. Hard. And I don’t cry a lot but I cried a lot during this movie. Also laughed a lot. And did that corny thing were By Lainey • Oct 27, 2022 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Women of Wakanda return Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is filming now in Cambridge, MA. Set photos have dropped showing Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright in costume as Okoye and Princess Shuri (Queen Shuri?), respectively. We also have our first look at Dominique Thorne, who made her feature film debut in If Beale Street Could By Sarah • Aug 26, 2021 09:43 am
TV Updates Danai Gurira runs the show Danai Gurira joined The Walking Dead in its third season, before its particular brand of brutality grew tiresome. In the time since she joined the show, The Walking Dead’s popularity has peaked and waned, she’s gone on to be a fan-favorite character in the MCU, and she’s By Sarah • Feb 25, 2020 02:59 pm
Music Janelle & Lupita “got the juice” You're so damn electro-cute You know you got that juice You know you got that juice You know you got that juice Now, squeeze all that passionfruit Ain't no one fresher than you Those are the opening lyrics to Janelle Monae’s song “I Got the By Lainey • Jul 04, 2019 12:39 pm
Met Gala 2019 Gabrielle Union & Dwyane Wade: Met Headgear Champions How do they do that? How do they make what could easily veer into cheesy couple’s costume territory look so dramatically badass? Look at these two. Just please experience Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade right now… I don’t have enough knowledge of various Catholic orders to have the By Duana • May 07, 2019 11:14 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Danai’s pre-Oscar white If this wasn’t Oscar week, with so many parties still to come, Danai Gurira in white would be the Outfit of the Week. This is SO good. The dress is easy. It’s flattering. The dress, however, is not the main event. The main event, obviously, is her hair. By Lainey • Feb 20, 2019 02:56 pm
SAG Awards 2019 Black Panther coming through! All award season, no one has really expected Black Panther to win. Just being nominated IS the win, when the trophy club is so stacked against superhero movies. But the SAGs broke rank and actually gave Black Panther a trophy, awarding the cast Best Ensemble, the equivalent of Best Picture. By Sarah • Jan 28, 2019 01:10 pm
Style Black Panther: Globes Best Dressed (Kathleen) The cast of Black Panther almost cost me a laptop, my friendship with Lainey Lui, and probably my job. I was ready to tear apart her entire basement. I was ready to throw whatever I could at the TV screen. As soon as I saw Danai Gurira, Michael Bae Jordan By Kathleen • Jan 07, 2019 12:39 pm
Award Season Campaigning ScarJo works for Black Panther Black Panther is the first Marvel movie with a real shot at a major Oscar nomination. As such, Disney is backing an actual, proper award campaign for the movie and key craftspeople involved, particularly Ruth Carter, the costume designer. I attended an event with Ruth Carter a couple months ago By Sarah • Dec 10, 2018 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Women of Black Panther are Entertainers of the Year I’m looking at a webpage open to Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year post, specifically the one on the women of Black Panther. The window that I’m looking at is currently frozen on a Clairol ad, featuring a black woman with curly, seemingly natural hair. Her smile By Kathleen • Nov 29, 2018 03:50 pm
