Oscars 2026 Jessie Buckley and Chloé Zhao had VERY different Oscar dresses Unsurprisingly, Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for her performance in Hamnet. A lot of people were annoyed with her after her anti-cat comments, but her acceptance speech was lovely, including a shoutout to mothers, as it was Mother’s Day in the UK (which she is not from, being Irish) By Sarah • Mar 16, 2026 08:38 am
What Else Paul’s brown wig Paul Mescal was seen on the set of one of Sam Mendes’s four Beatles biopics today in Liverpool, shooting a scene involving Paul McCartney on a bike with his guitar on his back. And wearing a dark brown wig that’s obviously a wig – that hairline, LOL – but is By Lainey • Feb 24, 2026 04:05 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Jessie, Hamnet, and the Lead Actresses Sarah has written today about One Battle After Another and how it is now, unquestionably, the frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars over Sinners which will likely get many, many nominations but few if any wins. We’ve been anxious about this for months, but this cannot be a By Lainey • Jan 12, 2026 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Three out of four Beatles Three out of the four actors who’ve been cast to play the Beatles in Sam Mendes's upcoming quad-biopic were at the British Independent Film awards last night in London. If you missed it, Sam is directing four separate films, each focusing on an individual Beatle; the plan By Lainey • Dec 01, 2025 02:03 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
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet In her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagines a sister of William Shakespeare called Judith, every bit as creative and talented as her brother, to illustrate how gender historically limited opportunities for women. Denied education and opportunity, the imaginary Judith dies in obscurity and is By Sarah • Sep 11, 2025 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul and Josh’s other movie Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor will both be in Toronto this weekend, Paul for Hamnet and Josh for Wake Up Dead Man. But first, they have to mark their other movie, the one they made together, The History of Sound. It premiered at Cannes earlier this year and is By Sarah • Sep 03, 2025 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet The Shakespeares Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Director with 2020’s Nomadland. Her work up to that point was deeply sensitive, humanist, and realist. Then she made Eternals for Marvel which, while very ambitious especially for that risk-adverse studio, didn’t really By Sarah • Aug 28, 2025 10:49 am
Cannes 2025 Paul Mescal in Cannes These are fresh photos of Paul Mescal in Cannes today at the photo call for The History of Sound which premiered last night but it’s not his gala look that’s doing it for me, it’s Paul Mescal in the daylight. Honestly, the original point of this post By Lainey • May 22, 2025 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beatle boys CinemaCon, the annual film industry trade show held in Las Vegas, has begun (and a good thing it’s happening now and not after The Studio skewers the whole dog and pony show in a few weeks). Sony’s presentation was last night, and they announced a lot of stuff, By Sarah • Apr 01, 2025 11:18 am
TV Updates Lorne Michaels’ night out Technically, it’s the Natural History Museum Gala in New York, but Lorne Michaels is usually there, and so is an SNL-heavy crowd. This year was no different, with Lorne Michaels, Colin Jost, and Scarlett Johansson showing up with basically the entire cast of SNL in tow, plus veteran SNL By Sarah • Dec 06, 2024 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Mescal in Gladiator II Twenty-four years later, Ridley Scott revisits one of his most beloved films, the sword-and-sandal epic Gladiator, though the sequel picks up a mere 16 years after the action of that film. Gladiator II starts in north Africa, where Roman imperial daughter Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) sent her son, Lucius, to protect By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 11:27 am
Style Paul Mescal: GRWM Paul Mescal is in New York today for a final push before Gladiator II opens on Friday. I have talked repeatedly over the last few weeks about how much I’m enjoying Paul Mescal on this press tour, specifically the way he’s embracing his big Movie Star moment. Paul, By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 01:33 pm
Style Oscar Futures In today’s previous two posts about last night's Governors Awards, Sarah posted about the 90s representation in contention for Oscars this year, and also some of the “overdue” candidates who are part of this year’s race. This post is about Oscar future, mostly those who have By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 01:30 pm
TV Updates Gladiator Strangers I am cornily proud of that title because when I came up with it, it only applied to one story but now I realise that it actually works for two! Let me explain… In London last night, the Gladiator II premiere, with director Ridley Scott and cast members Denzel Washington, By Lainey • Nov 14, 2024 12:39 pm
Amazingness Paul Mescal in Dublin (and grumpy Ridley Scott) When I was in Dublin last year, I stayed just down the street from Trinity College and met several people who were quick off the cuff to tell me they went to school with Paul Mescal. The local pride in Mescal for making it big was palpable, and yesterday he By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 11:03 am
