Movie Reviews and Previews Macbeth Needs No Introduction One of the surefire heavy hitters of awards season is The Tragedy of Macbeth, a new adaptation of the Scottish play from Joel Coen (working for the first time in his career without his brother, Ethan). Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, we now have our first, brief, look at By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 01:07 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
BFFs Timothée Chalamet in the Woods Timothée Chalamet covers the November issue of GQ and presumably this was set when Dune was still supposed to be coming out at Christmas. The film has now been moved to October 2021 which means a year from now we’ll be doing it all over again and while this By Lainey • Oct 16, 2020 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nomadland wins Venice… TIFF next? Chloe Zhao’s third feature film, Nomadland, is a contemplative, quietly assertive film about a little-seen segment of the American population: a transient working class of American laborers who are largely older, casualties of the Great Recession and the true economic anxiety of spending a lifetime at work only to By Sarah • Sep 14, 2020 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Get sad with Nomadland One of the early Oscar tips for 2020 is Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland starring Frances McDormand. The film is about a transient worker in America, driving from job site to job site in a van in which she also lives. I would describe Zhao’s two previous feature films, Songs By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to Wes Anderson’s Land of Impossible Twee Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is set for a summer release and is expected to premiere at Cannes. If it does, it will bring a collection of stars to the Croisette unlike any other ensemble that could be assembled. Few directors can attract such high-wattage stars to By Sarah • Feb 12, 2020 02:17 pm
Met Gala 2018 Frances McDormand: the best Met surprise Before tonight, did you know you needed this? Did you think that by the time the Met Gala 2018 red carpet was over you would be saying to yourself, well, sh-t, I’m so happy Frances McDormand was there? Nobody, OK? Nobody would have predicted it. And that’s why By Lainey • May 08, 2018 02:59 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: “The Room Where It Happens” If you know Hamilton, you know where we took our inspiration for the title of this week’s episode of Show Your Work. We are not, however, talking about Hamilton. We are talking about rooms – the rooms where Hollywood decisions are made, the rooms where plans are laid, the rooms By Lainey • Mar 12, 2018 04:01 pm
Oscars 2018 When Frances McDormand Says Jump… Remember Frances McDormand being surprised at her win? Or if not surprised (because she’s won every award all season and actively asked people to stop voting for her), then kind of flustered? Did you wonder why? Apparently because if she had to go through the irritation of actually winning By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 10:05 am
Equality Issues Kate & Frances The BAFTAs happened in London yesterday and, ahead of the event, since the BAFTAs are the first major red carpet after Time’s Up was launched, attendees were encouraged to wear black in support of the movement, just like they did at the Golden Globes. Leading up to the BAFTAs, By Lainey • Feb 19, 2018 10:04 am
Sally Hawkins The Oscar Nominees Luncheon You know who wasn’t at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon yesterday? Frances McDormand. At least I don’t see her in any of the photos. And maybe this isn’t surprising. Remember at the SAGs when Frances won for Best Actress and got up on stage all like, hey, younger By Lainey • Feb 06, 2018 01:01 pm
Golden Globes 2018 Frances McDormand, the frontrunner Frances McDormand showed us tonight that she can be a hardass. That she doesn’t suffer fools gladly – and I’m hopeless with these kinds of expressions so if I haven’t used it correctly here, I’m sorry. I’m the fool she wouldn’t suffer. Frances McDormand had By Lainey • Jan 08, 2018 03:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) lives at the end of a lonely road in rural Missouri, the only thing marking her way are three decrepit billboards. She buys the ad rights for the billboards and up go three violently red billboards asking the town police chief why her daughter’s murderer By Sarah • Sep 15, 2017 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Three Billboards and Frances McDormand The first trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was just released and all I really have to say is that in the course of two and a half minutes, Frances McDormand c*nt-punts a teenager, calls Sam Rockwell “f*ckhead”, attacks a dentist with his own drill, cusses out By Sarah • Mar 23, 2017 02:59 pm
Emmy Awards 2015 Emmys nothing to give: Frances McDormand Frances McDormand won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/Movie for Olive Kitteridge, which gives her a TOE (Tony-Oscar-Emmy). This is a not insignificant achievement, and as icing on her cake, Kitteridge also won a boatload of other Emmys, including ones for writing, directing, lead and supporting By Sarah • Sep 21, 2015 06:13 am
