Gary Oldman Gossip

So far, The Laundromat is my biggest TIFF disappointment. I was looking forward to this film for a few reasons, but only one of them proved out—Meryl Streep’s bucket hat is very jaunty, indeed. Full Story

Meryl Streep is receiving the TIFF Tribute Actor Award at this year’s film festival, to go along with the North American premiere of her new film, The Laundromat, directed by Steven Soderbergh. I’m not going to lie, when I first heard Soderbergh made a movie starring Meryl Streep called The Laundromat, I assumed it would be one of his interesting iPhone projects about a laundromat. Full Story

Casey Affleck is Oscar’s current reigning Best Actor. Would Casey Affleck, alleged sexual harasser, have won that Oscar this year? Last year, during award season, I kept linking to Amy Zimmerman’s excellent piece in The Daily Beast Full Story

Darkest Hour begins as Neville Chamberlain is forced to resign as Prime Minister on the eve of World War II, and Winston Churchill is selected as his replacement after the more popular Lord Halifax—also a supporter of appeasement—passes up the opportunity. It’s a bit of political maneuvering on Halifax’s part—everyone expects Churchill to fail, and then Halifax can swoop in with a unified party behind him and a plan for peace before him. Full Story

Somehow, incredibly, in the span of less than one year, Ryan Reynolds appears in the same bad movie, twice. Last summer I had to sit through the mind-numbingly bad Self/Less Full Story

So you’ve heard about this Gary Oldman Playboy interview, right? Oldman’s defenders tried to make it sound like he was taken out of context. How could he be taken out of context when the magazine posted the transcript? Others are saying that Oldman was simply “illustrating the absurd by being absurd”. Full Story

Could Iman have pulled off Anna Wintour’s floral Chanel at the MET Gala on Monday? How is what you’re wearing Punk, Iman? It’s not. I married David Bowie. If you’ve not seen this yet, you’re about to experience a love explosion. It’s Bowie’s video for The Next Day, directed by Floria Sigismundi, who also directed his The Stars video. Full Story

Um, Christian Bale and Natalie Portman look SUPER HOT as a couple, right? I’m so excited to see him look like himself in a movie - not scowling, not dying, not drug-addicted and emaciated but ordinary, and smiling. Anyway, about last night at the Movie Awards - in case you missed it, they played a Dark Knight retrospective and included a few scenes with Heath Ledger and then Bale took the microphone and could not contain his emotions. Full Story

And Sirius Black too. But hopefully it won’t be the last time he’s nominated for an Oscar. Hopefully next time he wins. For now, enjoy Gary on the carpet with his wife Alexandra and being delightful and awesome with Janet McTeer and Glenn Close at Vanity Fair afterwards, holding their shoes.  Full Story

If Gary Oldman was to build any momentum at all for Oscar as Sarah’s prediction, he really needed the BAFTA for Best Actor. This did not happen. Not to say he’s out of it entirely, but his chances are even smaller now. Like, microscopic. But that’s why you gamble, right? His wife Alexandra is really quite lovely. Full Story