Oscars 2024 Da’Vine Joy Randolph: Prepared and Sincere Like Robert Downey, Jr., it was pretty much a clean sweep this award season for Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Like RDJ, she was prepared – you don’t win everything right up to the Oscars without at least allowing for the possibility that it might happen on the biggest night. But By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 07:35 am
Award Season Campaigning It’s about OppenPoor now The BAFTAs were last night in London, and forget Barbenheimer, it’s all about OppenPoor now. Barbie was, once again, shut out at an awards show, and we should now expect a similar result at the Oscars for Team Barbie, including Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and Ryan Gosling (America Ferrera By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 10:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Most of the movie men The Critics Choice Awards were last night, and Oscar nominations close tomorrow, and between these two points in time, we’re getting a clearer picture of the Oscar race. Robert Downey, Jr., for instance, widens his lead in the Best Supporting Actor category, while taking potshots at critics in his By Sarah • Jan 15, 2024 12:14 pm
Hook Ups My New Favourite Couple Dua Lipa showed up to the premiere and the afterparty for Masters of the Air on Wednesday night in LA and since she’s not in the show, it was assumed that she was there to support someone or someones. One of those people, it turns out, is Callum Turner. By Lainey • Jan 12, 2024 11:51 am
BFFs The Best Actors showed up The Palm Springs Film Festival opened last night, and it brought all the Oscar contenders out of the post-holiday woodwork. As proof that he does care about these things, Leonardo DiCaprio ditched Cabo earlier in the day, his p-ssy posse mates Tobey Maguire and Lucas Haas and current girlfriend, Vittoria By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Holdovers It has been six years since Alexander Payne’s last film, Downsizing, and nineteen years since his previous collaboration with Paul Giamatti, Sideways. Now, Payne is back with The Holdovers, which once again sees Giamatti as his leading man. If Downsizing was a rare miss from Payne, The Holdovers is By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Mara in Morgan One of the all-time great good-bad movies is Deep Blue Sea, the movie about the super-shark that eats a bunch of people, and figures out how to turn an oven on in order to kill someone inside it. Deep Blue Sea is just the right amount of terrible, action oriented, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2016 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “You are now about to witness…” There was a distraction from the Grammys on Sunday. It distracted me for almost half an hour. Twitter too, it seems, because it was trending for a while… A red band trailer for Straight Outta Compton was released. Have you seen it yet? It opens with Dre and Ice Cube By Lainey • Feb 10, 2015 11:55 am
Quiveration What a boss How awesome is the sight of George Clooney arriving on a boat? Look at this. Who does it better than this? Who owns the world better than this? (Maybe Brad Pitt, but it would be a bloody battle.) This is George Clooney, all boss, cranking up the handsome, arriving at By Lainey • Aug 31, 2011 05:46 am
Paul Giamatti He could be Haymitch too As noted previously in posts about The Hunger Games, my pick for Haymitch is Philip Seymour Hoffman. That said, Paul Giamatti works too. So many articles about Giamatti reference the fact that he’s not a pretty guy. Thing is though, he gets more, and lately better, than most of By Lainey • Nov 19, 2010 07:23 am
Maple Leaf Life after Twilight It’s Rachelle Lefevre in Rome with Paul Giamatti and that sexy beast Scott Speedman shooting Barney’s Version based on Mordecai Richler’s famous novel of the same name. As I said 2 weeks ago, for an actor from Montreal, working on a Richler project is the opportunity of By Lainey • Aug 19, 2009 08:31 am
