Style GQ’s Men of the “Year” Another week closer to the end of the year—I am TELLING you, it’s the SUN’S FAULT—another “of the year” red carpet. This time, it’s GQ’s Men of the Year (men of the “year”, I dispute this passage of time), which also includes some women. By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire What is Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire? It’s the latest entry into Warner Bros. Pictures’ “MonsterVerse” films featuring Godzilla and all his pals, plus King Kong. It’s directed by Adam Wingard, returning from Godzilla vs. Kong, and is written by Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett, and Jeremy Slater. By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 01:19 pm
Top Reads Cannes has begun Yesterday, we saw the arrivals of Rebecca Hall, Noomi Rapace, and Julianne Moore in France, and now, behold, for they have united on the first red carpet of the festival for the premiere of the opening film, Final Cut (Coupez!), a zombie comedy directed by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (remember By Sarah • May 18, 2022 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rebecca Hall: Shameless self-promotion Rebecca Hall is one of the jurors at Cannes this year. (French star Vincent Lindon of Titane and Both Sides of the Blade fame is the jury president.) Here is Hall arriving in Nice ahead of the festival, with a great tousled pixie that is once again reminding me that By Sarah • May 17, 2022 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga in Passing In 1920s New York, two childhood friends reconnect by chance. Irene (Tessa Thompson) is now married to a doctor and living in Harlem, the epicenter of the Black American renaissance. Clare (Ruth Negga) has moved to Chicago, where she is married to a white man and passing for white herself. By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa, Ruth, and Rebecca: Passing Fashion As Sarah wrote last month, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut, Passing, could be one of the “outsider interrupters” of this award season. It’s a Netflix title, it will be released on October 29, and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of momentum it can generate in By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Godzilla vs. Kong is the dumb escape Spoilers Two years ago I wrote about Godzilla: King of the Monsters and said that I wasn’t sure there is a way to make Godzilla work as a Hollywood (re)invention. Godzilla is not our cultural myth, and America’s unwillingness to face the moral reckoning of the atomic By Sarah • Apr 01, 2021 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Let Godzilla and Kong fight Amidst all the spring blockbusters moving back to the fall, we are guaranteed one big movie to watch (at home): Godzilla vs Kong, which will premiere in whatever theaters are open and on HBO Max on March 26. Sure, everyone hates Warner Brothers now, a bunch of their creative partners By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Diana’s kinky origins in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Several movies in October are running up against bad timing, including Geostorm’s “the weather is trying to kill us” plot becoming redundant because the actual weather is actually trying to kill us, and Marshall’s depiction of a sexual assault case being made even more uncomfortable given the ongoing By Sarah • Oct 13, 2017 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rebecca Hall as Christine According to Rebecca Hall, the challenge of making a movie about Christine Chubbuck — a Florida-based reporter who died by suicide (reportedly on-air) barely a month before her 30th birthday in 1974 — is creating "a film about sensationalism without being sensationalistic." That's what she told the CBC, By Joanna • Sep 15, 2016 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joel Edgerton’s The Gift So you know how I was just recently saying that actor-directors are usually bad? Well, funny thing, Joel Edgerton just released his directorial debut, The Gift, and it’s really good. So while yes, fewer actors should become directors, Joel Edgerton gets a pass because he is actually good at By Sarah • Aug 14, 2015 11:43 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Rebecca’s bad booties I don’t know what’s going on here. The dress is good. The booties are gorgeous but together? Really? Not that I’m not all over a liberal wearing of booties. This however may be too much. By Lainey • Aug 20, 2013 09:27 am
Cheating Loins Rebecca & Sam together in NYC When Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes announced their divorce, there were rumours that he'd been hooking up with Rebecca Hall. It was denied, sort of, and the two waited a year before quietly confirming that they were together. Here are some rare candids of the two them in By Lainey • Aug 19, 2013 10:47 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Rebecca's missing a hood Really like this dress on Rebecca Hall and would totally buy it for myself but you know what would make it even more dope? A hood. What the f-ck is with these shoes?! Why are so many of them so heinous?! By Lainey • Apr 25, 2013 11:23 am
Robert Downey-Jr BUT WHERE’S GWYNETH??? I’ve been refreshing the photo agencies obsessively for the last hour checking for pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow at the London premiere of Iron Man 3 tonight and so far... nothing. As of this writing -- 3pm PT -- everyone else is there, RDJ, Don Cheadle, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley, By Lainey • Apr 18, 2013 06:36 pm
Amazingness Benedict Cumberbatch but, really, Tom Stoppard I’ve not yet started watching Parade’s End yet. I know! F-cking award season, right? But my travel slows down in a week or so and in between having a nervous breakdown over my deadlines, Parade’s End will be my jam, I promise, and I will probably love By Lainey • Mar 14, 2013 11:43 am
