Award Season Campaigning Joel Edgerton is campaigning The post previous to this one was about the best actress Oscar race and Amanda Seyfried picking up momentum to secure the fifth spot for a nomination for her performance in The Testament of Ann Lee. Joel Edgerton is in a similar position because the best actor nomination list isn’ By Lainey • Dec 11, 2025 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Train Dreams: In praise of a life lived small In Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella of the same name, the scope is wide, but the focus is small. The film, adapted by Bentley and Greg Kwedar and narrated by Will Patton—who has such a perfect voice to narrate a neo-Western, he By Sarah • Nov 25, 2025 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Starry Sundance It was a star-studded opening weekend for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, maybe the most star-studded since the pandemic. A slew of weekend premieres and parties brought out the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Lily Gladstone, Carey Mulligan, Chloe Sevigny, and Joel Edgerton (who is already getting trophy By Sarah • Jan 27, 2025 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney isn’t running You know it’s a competitive awards season when George Clooney directs a movie, based on true historical events, about the American Olympic rowing team, due out on Christmas Day, and it’s not part of the Oscar conversation. George is currently promoting his film, The Boys in the Boat, By Lainey • Dec 12, 2023 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel in The Green Knight David Lowery is a filmmaker profoundly interested in time. All of his films from the traditionally narrative (The Old Man & the Gun) to the abstractly lyrical (A Ghost Story) to the big-budget studio (Pete’s Dragon) in some way address time, its relentlessness, man’s desire to defeat it, By Sarah • Aug 19, 2021 01:54 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad ep 1-3 Spoilers for episodes 1-3 of The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, arrives on Amazon Prime today, with all ten episodes available to stream at once. This is completely the wrong way to absorb it. The Underground By Sarah • May 14, 2021 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in The King What is the point of Shakespeare without Shakespeare? This question is central to David Michôd’s The King, which tells the story of Henry V of England, a story canonized in English literature by Shakespeare’s Henry Cycle of plays. There are other great warrior-kings of England that Shakespeare did By Sarah • Nov 04, 2019 02:43 pm
Quiveration Timothee Chalamet: the bowl cut has an accent We interrupt MTV VMAs coverage because… Timothee Chalamet has an accent. I wrote about Timothee Chalamet’s bowl cut when the poster for The King was released last week and just the sight of him, with his jawline, and the frustration on his face, was enough to distract me for By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet’s royal bowl cut Like I said the other day, movies are coming at us from everywhere right now as we get closer to fall movie season, prestige movie season. Last week Timothee Chalamet was part of that conversation when the first trailer for Little Women was released and people got into their feelings By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 02:30 pm
Award Season Campaigning Team Kidman and Boy Erased at the Governors Awards (Lainey: Nicole Kidman is currently promoting Boy Erased. In a couple of weeks she’ll be promoting Destroyer. Gold Derby just asked her about the possibility of being nominated for both Best Actress and Supporting Actress in the same year - it’s rare, but it’s not impossible…and By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Boy vs. Boy Joel Edgerton forever separated himself from being confused with Sam Worthington when it turned out he’s a good filmmaker with his debut feature film, The Gift. Now he’s following up that quasi-exploitation horror flick with Boy Erased, which he adapted from Garrard Conley’s memoir about being sent By Sarah • Jul 18, 2018 04:21 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 Will Smith in Bright At first glance, Bright seemed batsh*t crazy, and the combination of director David Ayer, who specializes in down and dirty action movies particularly of the cop variety, and screenwriter Max Landis, who specializes in “this plus that” story pitches, seemed crazy enough to create the perfect storm of good-bad By Sarah • Dec 27, 2017 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith: WAND COP Earlier this year we saw a teaser trailer for Bright, the Netflix movie directed by David Ayer and starring Will Smith. It looked sort of interesting, with Smith playing an LAPD officer in a world where trolls and fairies are real, and seemed like a decent-ish rebound chance for both By Sarah • Jul 21, 2017 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith’s rebound Suicide Squad won an Oscar on Sunday—2017 is the Year of Nonsense—but despite acquiring some award polish, that movie didn’t really work out the way anyone wanted. Sure, it made money on paper, but no one likes it and time isn’t going to revise that one By Sarah • Mar 01, 2017 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in Loving 1967. It wasn’t that long ago. Our parents were alive. Your grandparents could have been going to the movies to see Sidney Poitier and dancing to Elvis, stars that are still relevant today. 1967 was the year Richard and Mildred Loving were finally told that their love – specifically their By Kathleen • Nov 04, 2016 10:41 am
