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: Riz Ahmed in Hamlet Hamlet is Hamlet is Hamlet, there’s only so much you can do with Hamlet, it’s been done so many times by so many people in so many mediums over the literal centuries since Shakespeare’s play debuted. The latest update comes from director Aneil Karia and stars Riz By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 01:42 pm
Oscars 2024 What Does A Lapel Pin Say? The Artists4Ceasefire pins worn at the Oscars last night actually debuted at (or before) the Grammy Awards, and are representative of a group of artists petitioning Joe Biden to ask for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, after the 30,000 lives lost and over 70,000 injured in Gaza and By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 11:05 am
Met Gala 2022 Intro for May 3, 2022 Dear Gossips, As far as themes go, this year’s Met Gala wasn’t the highest degree of difficulty. The Costume Institute’s exhibit is In America: An Anthology of Fashion so, technically, any American designer puts you “on theme”. According to the invitation, the dress code was “gilded glamour, By Lainey • May 03, 2022 08:18 am
Oscars 2022 The Chaoscars When I dubbed the 2022 Oscars the “Chaoscars”, I didn’t mean it like this! And look, we’ll talk about the biggest story of the night in its own post, but for now, let’s start with everything else and how this was a truly terrible Oscars from start By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 05:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Riz Ahmed, Cover Star Riz Ahmed had a huge 2020 with Sound of Metal, which earned him his first Oscar nomination—the first time a Muslim actor was nominated for Best Actor—and he’s back in 2021 for another potentially huge year. Thanks to pandemic delays, he has two movies doing the fall By Sarah • Oct 21, 2021 02:08 pm
Oscars 2021 The Oscar Couple: Riz Ahmed and Fatima Farheen Mirza If you were watching the Oscar pre-show on E!, I think you know what I’m talking about, right? Riz Ahmed and his wife, Fatima Farheen Mirza, at the arrivals wall making their red carpet debut. In case you missed it, Riz and Fatima were quietly married last year. He By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 11:42 am
Oscars 2021 Intro for April 23, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s Oscar weekend. And the Oscars will not be Zoomed. This is a live event, people are showing up, people will be dressed. The whole thing will feel like a movie, on television – a television movie? – in real time, so kinda sorta like a play too. And By Lainey • Apr 23, 2021 09:01 am
Award Season Campaigning Riz and Sir Anthony Hopkins’ night before ‘Twas the night before Oscar voting closes… and Best Actor contenders Riz Ahmed and Sir Anthony Hopkins both flexed their last-minute campaign hustle on two separate late night talk shows. Sir Anthony Hopkins popped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert alongside his The Father director, Florian Zeller, while a By Joanna • Apr 20, 2021 01:05 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 16, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Oscar nominations yesterday revealed that the Academy still gets hard over movies like Mank (auteur, black and white, Old Hollywood) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (film critic Rad Simonpillai told me yesterday on etalk that there could be a comparison here between Brokeback Mountain and By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 09:21 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, Riz Ahmed was named Best Actor at the virtual Gotham Awards earlier this week for his performance in Sound of Metal, which Sarah called the “most unique film experience of 2020” in her review. Sound of Metal is currently streaming on Prime Video. Although the favourite in the By Lainey • Jan 14, 2021 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal A heavy metal drummer with four years of sobriety under his belt, Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is doing pretty okay. He and his girlfriend, Lou (Olivia Cooke), form a duo called Blackgammon and they live in their vintage Airstream, driving to gigs and rocking out. Until, that is, Ruben’s hearing By Sarah • Dec 03, 2020 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Venom When a movie fails, there are two possible outcomes. One is that it’s bad and boring, and thus forgettable, because there is nothing about it to make an impression other than its overall badness. Or, it’s bad yet entertaining, because while it doesn’t work, it fails in By Sarah • Oct 05, 2018 10:13 am
TIFF 2008 Red Carpet TIFF Review: The Sisters Brothers Opening this weekend is the latest in the budding sub-genre of sensitive, revisionist Westerns (following on the heels of Slow West and Damsel), The Sisters Brothers, a view on the classic gunslinger trope that allows for existential dilemmas and regret. Adapted by Thomas Bidegain and director Jacques Audiard from Patrick By Sarah • Sep 21, 2018 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Vegas for Venom While almost everyone (except Chris Evans) from the MCU was in LA last night for the Avengers: Infinity War premiere, Tom Hardy who is Marvel-ish but not MCU proper was in Vegas at CinemaCon for the Sony presentation and the release of the new Venom trailer, with Michelle Williams and By Lainey • Apr 24, 2018 11:53 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Riz Ahmed and Issa Rae: Emmys Best Couple Riz Ahmed and Issa Rae presented Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series. From the moment they walked on to the Emmy stage, side by side, looking goddamn impeccable, I was imagining the life I want them to live together. Most people were tweet-wishing for Issa and Riz to star in By Kathleen • Sep 18, 2017 11:01 am
