What Else MBJ and Elmo: A Dream Interview Sarah covered it earlier this week – Michael B Jordan, who has kept a low profile since winning the Best Actor Oscar in March, is now promoting the animated movie, Swapped, premiering on Netflix this Friday. He was at the premiere the other day but this doesn’t seem like an By Lainey • Apr 29, 2026 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan’s animated movie Michael B. Jordan is a busy guy. He’s winning Oscars, he’s working on his remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, he’s going to co-star with Austin Butler in Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice remake, which I am sure will be a note-perfect popcorn movie, but as I By Sarah • Apr 27, 2026 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ and Austin Butler: Miami Vice … manifested! Let’s start with Michael B Jordan because he pretty much went underground after winning the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Sinners but resurfaced last week at CinemaCon during the Amazon presentation to promote his version of The Thomas Crown Affair. This is a project he’s been By Lainey • Apr 23, 2026 12:22 pm
Ryan Gosling The Movie Stars are still at it (CinemaCon) We’ve already covered the drama at CinemaCon, now let’s get back to our regularly scheduled Movie Stars. As Lainey said, CinemaCon is a celebration of movie stars and star power, and to that end, Ryan Gosling appeared to celebrate the success of Project Hail Mary and literally give By Sarah • Apr 16, 2026 10:08 am
What Else Ben Affleck but, really, Michael B Jordan Ben Affleck was in New York last night, taking his child Fin to a performance of Every Brilliant Thing, starring Daniel Radcliffe. I’ve been waiting for new photos of Ben to come up because I haven’t had a chance to post the video below. Please let me explain. By Lainey • Mar 26, 2026 04:22 pm
Oscars 2026 Coogler and Jordan: Rising Together, Winning Together They couldn’t possibly have scripted this to happen, but now that it’s happened, it feels like it was scripted somewhere – or that it was somehow destined, because for almost 15 years now, where there is Ryan Coogler, there is also often Michael B Jordan. MBJ starred in Ryan’ By Lainey • Mar 16, 2026 06:57 am
Michael B Jordan Intro for March 2, 2026 The SAG Actor Awards were last night on Netflix, and as can happen as we get deeper into awards season, surprises abound. There were several surprises but the biggest were the twin wins for Sinners, with Michael B. Jordan taking home Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading By Sarah • Mar 02, 2026 09:44 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs bring surprises and controversy I bet the Brits would love a day off from controversy, but that is not in god’s plan, apparently. The BAFTAs delivered controversy last night in two different ways. First, let’s talk about the lead acting categories, the site of a major upset (if you don’t pay By Sarah • Feb 23, 2026 11:29 am
What Else New Gossip Genie? Michael B Jordan is enjoying the experience of his first Oscar nomination this award season for his performance as both Smoke and Stack in Sinners. It’s still shocking to me that he’s not one of the frontrunners – because, like, it’s a towering achievement, two towering achievements, actually. By Lainey • Feb 11, 2026 04:14 pm
Award Season Campaigning Michael and Kate the morning after Yesterday morning, Michael B. Jordan earned his first Oscar nomination, one of sixteen record-breaking nominations earned by Sinners. Later in the day, he was all smiles while out in Los Angeles (he’s currently editing his remake of The Thomas Crown Affair). Like literally not even getting photographed by paparazzi By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 09:55 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 14, 2026 Like Lainey, JLo was my least favourite look on the Golden Globes red carpet. It was just very harsh and heavy, from the dress to the makeup. She pulled out a different look, much lighter and glowier, for the after parties. Now let me start some trouble and point out By Maria • Jan 14, 2026 03:25 pm
Golden Globes 2026 The Sinners snubbing has begun Prepare yourself for an eventuality in which Sinners shows up at all the awards shows, but is always the bridesmaid, never the bride. By Sarah • Jan 12, 2026 06:32 am
Ethan Hawke Sinners, PTA, and the surging actors There was a screener for Sinners yesterday in New York at SAG-AFTRA Foundation ahead of the Gothams and Lupita Nyong’o moderated the panel. She of course knows Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan well, Black Panther is the most famous example of their shared connection. And, of course, the By Lainey • Dec 02, 2025 11:20 am
What Else Remembering Chadwick We’ll never stop missing Chadwick Boseman. It’s been five years, and his death still feels like a fresh loss. Lainey and I were texting about this last night, how it doesn’t feel like it’s been five years already, how we still miss him. How Sinners feels By Sarah • Nov 21, 2025 04:03 pm
BFFs MBJ gets emotional Sarah started the site off today with a post about Timothée Chalamet and how he’s been cracking us up with his Marty Supreme…fruitionising, LOL. As I mentioned on Monday, Timmy hasn’t been making the rounds on the usual Oscar campaign stops, focusing instead on the hilarious marketing By Lainey • Nov 21, 2025 02:12 pm
Quiveration The Vanity Fair All-Men Hollywood Issue Up until last year, Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue was always released in February-ish timed for around the Oscars. Last year, a scheduling departure – the Hollywood issue came out in November, joining all the other “of the year” issues that other magazines put out around the season. One of By Lainey • Nov 19, 2025 02:29 pm
