Style SAG miscellany Going into the fall festival season, everyone was leaving room for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer to be a major awards contender, not least because Daniel Craig is a candidate for an “it’s his time” Oscar campaign. Well, that did not pan out (we all should have remembered the Academy By Sarah • Feb 24, 2025 01:34 pm
Equality Issues The Emmys LGBTQ+ Representation Was Remarkably Unremarkable If you haven’t seen Baby Reindeer, I get it. The trailers are terrifying, and honestly, they don’t lie – the show is great, and ultimately satisfying, but it’s not easy, per se; there are genuine laughs but you pay for them, you know? One of the uncompromisingly bright By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 09:42 am
Oscars 2024 Why can’t actresses be friends? Speaking of the five-presenter format and when it works, here is an example of when it DOESN’T work—the actresses. The matchups were much more awkward, the intros, more stilted, and even when real-life friendship does exist, they didn’t take advantage of it. Let’s start with the By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 12:19 pm
Award Season Campaigning Elle gets it right Elle’s annual Women In Hollywood issues are here, a collection of nine cover features that reads like potential ballots for the Oscars. Best Actress hopefuls Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, and Fantasia Barrino Taylor are among the featured profiles, as are Best Supporting Actress contenders Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson, By Sarah • Dec 01, 2023 12:32 pm
TV Updates Jodie Foster will try to revive True Detective Hey remember True Detective? Remember how it was the best show on TV and then immediately the worst show on TV? Or, at least the most disappointing show on TV? Few series have had such a sharp freshman to sophomore season quality drop as True Detective. Quality-wise, it rebounded with By Sarah • May 27, 2022 03:22 pm
Cannes 2021 Intro for July 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, Like so many other events, the Cannes Film Festival didn’t happen last year. Which means that Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, the 2020 Best Picture Oscar winner, is still the reigning Palme d’Or film, at least for another ten days until this year’s Palme d’Or By Lainey • Jul 07, 2021 08:52 am
Style Spike, Mati, Maggie, Marion, Adam: Cannes is Back If the theme of yesterday’s postings was celebrity love, today the theme appears to be: back. The Clooneys are back in Lake Como. The stars are back in Paris for Haute Couture week in the front row. And Cannes is happening, a few weeks later than usual, and after By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 11:45 am
Jodie Foster Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster in The Mauritanian Originally brought in for questioning in November 2001, Mohamedou Ould Slahi was eventually renditioned to Jordan by the US government, and then ultimately imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for fourteen years without ever being charged with any crime. In 2015, Slahi published a book, Guantanamo Diary, while still in jail (an By Sarah • Mar 03, 2021 01:43 pm
Golden Globes 2021 The Golden Globes Didn’t Bother To Make a Television Production What’s the most common critique of the Golden Globes? I mean, the overarching one (not the one that occurred this weekend when it became clear they have zero Black members to the point where they all remember the last person who applied, and was rejected, somewhere in the 2010s. By Duana • Mar 01, 2021 06:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie Foster in Hotel Artemis In case you, like me, watched the trailer for Hotel Artemis and thought, Oh, a fun John Wick knock-off, allow me to disabuse you of the notion. Despite obvious similarities, particularly in the “hotel for criminals” vein, Hotel Artemis isn’t really a John Wick knock-off. There’s a likeness, By Sarah • Jun 12, 2018 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Hotel Artemis Jodie Foster’s new movie is a straight-up John Wick knock-off, and I do not care, it looks super fun. It’s called Hotel Artemis, and except for the near-future, vaguely dystopian setting, it might as well be called Hotel Continental. The Hotel Artemis runs on rules suspiciously similar to By Sarah • Apr 18, 2018 12:51 pm
Oscars 2018 Intro for March 3, 2018 Dear Gossips, It's Oscar Saturday! This weekend, all weekend, is a work weekend. Which is why so many celebrities make a point of being in LA on Oscar weekend, even if they're not nominated or they don't have films to promote. A lot of By Lainey • Mar 03, 2018 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Money Monster Money Monster is several different movies rolled into one, all of them mediocre. It stars two of the biggest old school Movie Stars in the world, but only puts them on screen together for about eight minutes. It is directed by a celebrated actress-cum-filmmaker who cannot manage tension but who By Sarah • May 13, 2016 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Those Movie Star smiles Julia Roberts, George Clooney, and Jodie Foster were at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes today for the Money Monster press conference. The carpet is tonight, prime time Cannes Thursday, ensuring that the pictures and the buzz is out there ahead of the movie opening tomorrow. But with Civil War By Lainey • May 12, 2016 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes Preview 2016 It’s that time of year again, with the Cannes Film Festival kicking off on Wednesday amidst unprecedented security measures. Usually the pre-Cannes stories are all about yachts, parties, prostitutes, and producers (the 3 Ps), but this year it’s all about the crazy security in place. That’s a By Sarah • May 10, 2016 10:40 am
BFFs Julia, George, and Jodie on the Croisette The Cannes Film Festival kicks off in a month with Woody Allen’s Café Society starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg. It is expected that, one night later, it’ll be Kristen’s friend Jodie Foster on the red carpet with her stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney representing Money By Lainey • Apr 12, 2016 12:36 pm
