Style Emma and Jesse: Campaigns and conspiracies Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest, Bugonia, opens in limited release this weekend and wide the following. It’s Yorgos and it’s Emma which means that there’s some expectation that this film and its performances will contend for Oscars. But also, it’s Yorgos and it’s Emma which means By Lainey • Oct 22, 2025 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t forget about Jesse Bugonia is the big gala tonight in Venice as Yorgos Lanthimos and his muse, Emma Stone, were on the red carpet, along with his other and newer muse, Jesse Plemons, for the premiere. Alicia Silverstone is also a member of the cast. Earlier in the day Team Bugonia was at By Lainey • Aug 28, 2025 02:03 pm
Style Academy Museum Gala power couples Some couples stepped out at the 4th annual Academy Museum Gala, starting with Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song. They were at TIFF together, too, since Brenda stars in The Last Showgirl, which is now set for a limited release on December 13, courtesy Roadside Attractions. That means it’s full By Sarah • Oct 21, 2024 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone in Kinds of Kindness Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has always made films with a challenging worldview, from the visceral cruelty of his breakout film, 2009’s Dogtooth, to the deeply weird love story of his English-language debut, The Lobster, to the mind-f-ck of The Killing of a Sacred Deer, his films are interesting, if unpleasant. By Sarah • Jun 28, 2024 01:41 pm
Cannes 2024 Jesse Plemons is the Cannes Best Actor A couple of months ago I wrote about Jesse Plemons, the quality of work he’s delivered over the last few years, how every director seems to want him in their films, and how, even still, he remains known, primarily, as a “character actor” and not necessarily a “leading man” By Lainey • May 27, 2024 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kiki and Jesse: One Movie, Two Profiles Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, Hollywood’s most low-key power couple, were at the premiere last night of their new film, Civil War. With its $50 million budget, Civil War is the most expensive film A24 has made to date and I’m saying this because I think by now By Lainey • Apr 03, 2024 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yorgos & Emma, again Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone only just wrapped up their Oscar run for Poor Things, but they’re back already with Kinds of Kindness, their fourth collaboration, and the first one with a contemporary setting. This is not, however, Lanthimos’s first contemporary-set film, some of his most f-cked up By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 11:42 am
Oscars 2024 Greta, Sydney, and Three Couples: Achromatic Oscar Sarah taught us a new word last night: achromatic. It was an achromatic night in fashion at the Oscars – very little colour, to Duana’s disappointment. Even when there was colour it was the lightest shade of whatever colour was chosen. There was a lot of black and white and By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 10:16 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 19, 2024 US Weekly wrote a story about Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons and I don’t like it one bit. The story is positive but this is not their style. They are not feeding stories to US Weekly. And I don’t want any tabloids on their tail because they are By Maria • Jan 19, 2024 03:10 pm
Dumbass Bradley Cooper said hold my beer I have been annoyed at Glen Powell since the weekend for dressing as Ricky Bobby from Talladega Nights for the Casamigos Halloween party. Talladega Nights is owned by Sony, an AMPTP member company and thus, a struck company. The SAG-AFTRA leadership specifically asked members NOT to dress as characters from By Sarah • Nov 01, 2023 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese has long been interested in crime, America, and the intersections of greed, entitlement, and the American dream. In David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon he has a perfect subject, the conspiracy of the Osage Murders that occurred in Oklahoma in the early 20th By Sarah • Oct 23, 2023 02:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A true American story The first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon was solid, introducing the concept of the “two wolves” and Lily Gladstone as the film’s star. The new trailer more adroitly lays out the plot—the Osage have “the worst land possible” but it turns out, that By Sarah • Jul 06, 2023 11:46 am
Oscars 2022 The power of anything but Netflix The anti-Netflix bias in the Academy is REAL. Sure, Netflix logs a lot of nominations, but the Academy is reluctant to hand them a Best Picture win. Apple, in fact, becomes the first streamer to win Best Picture with CODA, despite only being in the game for two years. Jane By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 07:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A big weekend for awards season It was a big weekend for awards season, with a number of awards shows, including the BAFTAs in London and the Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles (with a London outpost for the BAFTA crowd) on Sunday, and the Directors’ Guild Awards and Annie Awards (for animation) on Saturday. Let By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Power of the Shutout The Power of the Dog went into the SAG Awards with the most nominations among films—three but it left with a goose egg. It was a shutout for the Dog. It’s not like the actors are ignoring Dog—they gave it three nominations, after all—but they don’ By Sarah • Feb 28, 2022 11:47 am
Award Season Campaigning The Power of the Dog parties The Power of the Dog crew showed up in force at the LACMA Art + Film Gala. Benedict Cumberbatch—who introduced himself to Lil Nas X—along with Sophie Hunter, was there, as were power couple Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, and scene-stealer Kodi Smit-McPhee. The film is a heavy favorite By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 03:23 pm
