Charlize Theron Charlize’s block party Speaking of the Bezos-Sanchez wedding, Charlize Theron had some words to say about it over the weekend. While hosting her fifth annual Block Party for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project—which supports youth in South Africa—Theron said, “I think we might be the only people who did not By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Start your day with dudes Behold, a collection of internet boyfriends all in one place. The press tour for Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film Warfare kicked off with a premiere in Los Angeles last night, bringing together many thirst-inducing men in one location. The film stars Joseph Quinn, Noah Centineo, Will Poulter, D’ By Sarah • Mar 28, 2025 10:18 am
TV Updates David Oyelowo in Lawmen: Bass Reeves David Oyelowo stars in Lawmen: Bass Reeves, an eight-part limited series depicting the life and times of Bass Reeves, the first Black US Marshal west of the Mississippi, and a lawman with a tremendous record of thousands of arrests—including of his own son, Bennie—with comparatively few deaths to By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 12:40 pm
TV Updates David Oyelowo is (finally) giving Bass Reeves his due Yellowstone is a self-sustaining television universe at this point, with the main series starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Reilly; the prequel, 1883, starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill; another prequel coming with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren called 1932 (should be called Mosquito Coast 2: Yellowstone Mosquitos or something similar) By Sarah • May 19, 2022 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney’s big Oscar beard Netflix is basically the only studio that has managed to get movies out with any consistency this year, and their train keeps rolling with the first trailer for George Clooney’s new sci-fi film, The Midnight Sky. It’s an end-of-the-world/space movie, with Clooney playing a scientist on Earth By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Water Man directed by David Oyelowo David Oyelowo made his feature directorial debut at TIFF with The Water Man, a kid-adventure story that is a little bit The Goonies, a little bit Stand By Me, and a lot The Bridge to Terabithia. Oyelowo sets a decent-sized task for himself, tackling not only an emotional family-in-crisis story, By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron and David Oyelowo in Gringo The advertising for Gringo is somewhat misleading, so realign your expectations now—this is not an R-rated weed comedy a la Pineapple Express. No, Gringo is more like a Coen Brothers movie in which a pot pill is the Macguffin. In fact, pot is so unimportant, beyond being a plot By Sarah • Mar 09, 2018 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Surprise, it’s a new Cloverfield movie A couple of years ago, JJ Abrams sprung a new Cloverfield movie on us after only a few months of hype. That movie, 10 Cloverfield Lane, turned out to be pretty good. And then began the hype for the next Cloverfield movie, which was, by that point, assumed to be By Sarah • Feb 06, 2018 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Black Panther Era It has arrived. Officially. Black Panther premiered last night and all my dreams for what I hoped the premiere of Black Panther would look like came true. LOOK AT ALL OF THIS BLACK EXCELLENCE. I actually don’t think I ever dreamed this big – that a film about an African By Kathleen • Jan 30, 2018 10:26 am
Style Lupita Nyong’o: Queen of press tours There are certain celebrities who do press tours that feel WAY too long. Halfway through a Blake Lively press tour I’m like, “can this movie open already so I don’t have to see her face every time I turn on my television or hear about how many times By Kathleen • Sep 30, 2016 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: A United Kingdom There’s a common problem with biopics and historical dramas of trying to do too much. It’s what makes a biopic feel overstuffed and shallow at the same time—there’s a lot of information being imparted, but the constant stream of exposition means less time devoted to story By Sarah • Sep 13, 2016 05:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Queen of Katwe Queen of Katwe is a Disney movie set in Uganda starring an all black cast and directed by a woman. Its heroine is a girl. There are no white saviours. It’s about an 11 year-old chess prodigy who overcomes impossible circumstances to achieve greatness in a game usually reserved By Kathleen • Sep 12, 2016 05:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita on screen Last week Kathleen wrote about Lupita Nyong’o’s defense of her (perfectly reasonable) decision to do a Broadway play—for which she’s Tony-nominated—instead of taking more film roles after winning an Oscar. In that piece, Kathleen mentioned that it’s been two years since we’ve seen By Sarah • May 11, 2016 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoe Saldana in Nina About halfway through the Nina Simone biopic, titled simply Nina, you start to feel really bad for everyone involved because there is a lot of earnestness on display. Zoe Saldana, heavily criticized for her involvement, is obviously trying very hard as Simone, and David Oyelowo, starring as Simone’s late-in-life By Sarah • Apr 27, 2016 04:26 pm
Idris Elba Intro for January 20, 2016 Dear Gossips, It’s been six days since the Oscar nominations were announced and every day criticism of the Academy’s pattern of exclusion continues to grow as more and more actors are speaking up and out against the lack of diversity represented on the supposed list of what was By Lainey • Jan 20, 2016 08:19 am
Style Eddie Redmayne, David Oyelowo, Rob Lowe: Golden Globes Sharply Dressed Men David Oyelowo’s suit was the one I saw first. It’s three pieces and it’s got a purple-on-purple dot thing going on. I ask you, why wouldn’t you? If you’re not nominated for a career-defining award (or really, the predecessor to one and you’re going By Duana • Jan 11, 2016 05:02 am
