Award Season Campaigning Best Actors on tour Over on The Squawk, Lainey is handicapping next week’s Sexiest Man Alive announcement, and both Daniel Craig and Paul Mescal appear on the list, so subscribe to The Squawk if you haven’t already and get in on the odds making. Speaking of Paul Mescal and Daniel Craig, though, By Sarah • Nov 05, 2024 11:50 am
Style Wickediator kicks off Ever since Paramount and Universal doubled down on releasing Gladiator II and Wicked congruently on November 22, the studios have been trying to make a Barbenheimer-style double bill event happen, but it hasn’t really gained any traction. Partly because you can’t force a Barbenheimer situation, but also because By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 10:58 am
Quiveration Paul Mescal: Smiling, Fresh, and Guitar Sarah just emphasised the word five (FIVE) in her previous post about the Gotham nominations and how many more months there are in this award season, LOL. I mention this because, sometimes, by the end of it, you can tell how long it’s been on the faces of the By Lainey • Oct 30, 2024 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews You Will Be Entertained A box office battle is happening exactly a month from now, on November 22, 2024: Gladiator II vs Wicked Part 1. These two movies are coming out on the same day… and I feel like there’s not much conversation about it. Which is weird, I guess, because it’s By Lainey • Oct 22, 2024 11:26 am
Style Dudes at the Academy Museum Gala Dudes showed up to the 4th annual Academy Museum Gala and we HAVE to start by talking about the ABOSLUTE GOSSIP GIFT of Joaquin Phoenix showing up to the same event as Danny Ramirez, who was supposed to star with Phoenix in Todd Haynes’ now-toast queer romantic drama. Do you By Sarah • Oct 21, 2024 10:21 am
Quiveration Paul Mescal leads with Pelvis Paul Mescal covers the new issue of GQ and I’m not even going to pretend that I’ve read the article. Reading is for later and I won’t apologise. I also don’t think I need to apologise because both he and the magazine know exactly what they’ By Lainey • Oct 15, 2024 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul and Gracie There are certain corners of the internet and social media that lose their f-cking minds whenever Paul Mescal does something. So I’m very curious to see what the next few weeks will be like as we near the release of Gladiator II. Promotion for the film should be in By Lainey • Oct 08, 2024 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gladiator II spoils itself As we inch into October and autumn, we’re also approaching the holiday movie season, which means trailers for the big holiday movies, like Gladiator II. I liked the first trailer for this film a lot, especially the glimpses of what looks like a potentially great Denzel Washington performance. This By Sarah • Sep 23, 2024 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will you be entertained? As Paramount and Skydance finally agree to a merger, here comes the first trailer for what will be the last big film of the Paramount Pictures era, and it’s a doozy. Gladiator is a nearly perfect film, one of Ridley Scott’s true opuses, which splits the difference between By Sarah • Jul 09, 2024 10:30 am
Photo Assumption Natalie and Paul, new couple alert? When last we heard from Natalie Portman, she was attending the Dior show at Paris fashion week. Then, she finalized her divorce from Benjamin Millepied in March. Now, Natalie is in London, living her best single gal life with Paul Mescal. Or maybe not single? Time for everyone’s favorite By Sarah • May 30, 2024 11:45 am
Hook Ups Flo and Paul: Made by the Internet Florence Pugh and Paul Mescal were both at the BAFTAs this weekend. And of course they hit the afterparties. Now according to the British tabloids they might be a thing – the Sun is reporting that they were hanging out at the Netflix post-BAFTA event. Here’s how they reported it: By Lainey • Feb 20, 2024 10:35 am
Ryan Gosling Dressed Up Dudes at the BAFTAs Dudes showed up to the BAFTAs dressed up, and I bring this up for two reasons. One, I thought of a good joke, see if you can spot it. Two, I want to talk about the shift in men’s red carpet fashion and workshop a name for the new By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Strangers after the shutout Despite picking up six BAFTA nominations, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers—one of my best films of the year—was shutout of nominations at the Oscars. 2023 was a good year in film, and there were never going to be enough spots to recognize all the deserving films By Sarah • Jan 24, 2024 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Priest and Connell in a time warp Fall festival season is not quite over, with two more marquee fests coming in October, the New York Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Both take place over the first couple weeks of October, and both will feature Andrew Haigh’s new film, All of Us Strangers. The By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Be upset in spaaace Do you want to feel nervous and upset heading into the weekend! Great, the Foe trailer is here just for you. Garth Davis, director of the crowd-pleasing Lion and Mary Magdalene, the film starring Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix that no one saw, is back with an adaptation of Iain By Sarah • Aug 25, 2023 03:28 pm
