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
Movie Reviews and Previews So Many Supporting Actresses As mentioned earlier in the post about the competitive race for Best Actress Oscar, at this stage in the race, this might be one of the tightest Best Supporting Actress Oscar seasons we’ve had in a long time. For starters, if there’s a frontrunner, I don’t see By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Women Talking Content warning for sexual assault. Sarah Polley writes and directs this adaption of Miriam Toews’ novel, Women Talking. It’s a gutting drama in which a group of women must decide between two drastic courses of action. As Mennonites, they are at the mercy of the men in their community, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney Mara is Audrey Hepburn On Friday, news broke (via Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter) that Rooney Mara has been cast as Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming biopic to be directed by Luca Guadagnino. People were IN their FEELINGS about this, mainly because Mara is sort of famously glum and Audrey Hepburn did not have By Sarah • Jan 10, 2022 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nightmare Alley continues teasing us Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley opens in a month, and so far, it’s the least thirsty of the major awards contenders. I’m sure that will change as we get closer to the press tour and unleashing Bradley Cooper in a year with the toughest dude competition in By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is a monstrous man in Nightmare Alley Yesterday we saw the first look for Guillermo Del Toro’s new film, Nightmare Alley, and now we have a teaser by which to get a taste of Del Toro’s latest dark fantasia. It looks creepy all right! Old timey carnivals are always creepy, that’s a given. The By Sarah • Sep 17, 2021 09:21 am
Oscars 2020 Joaquin Phoenix & Renee Zellweger: Arrested Award Winners? Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger have had the dubious distinctions, this awards season, of being the de facto winners in their categories almost as soon as the season started. Like, everyone sort of agrees on the Golden Globes being a pace setter, but other shows having the ability to move By Duana • Feb 10, 2020 03:19 pm
BFFs Bradley Cooper’s side-part shows up for Joaquin Phoenix Bradley Cooper was not on the list of expected attendees at last night’s TIFF premiere of Joker, which just won the Golden Lion in Venice and is now an Oscar contender in several categories, including Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. There are many layers to this Bradley Cooper relationship By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 03:46 pm
Photo Assumption Joaquin’s Joker Oscar? Following the Joker world premiere at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, Joaquin Phoenix is now officially a contender for Best Actor Oscar. Up to this point, which is early, but not as early as you think considering the Oscars are at the beginning of February in 2020 which By Lainey • Sep 04, 2019 09:58 am
Met Gala 2018 Three Nuns Walk into the Met Gala OK none of these women are actually dressed like nuns, but let’s go with it. First, Alicia Vikander (who, to me, has very low energy on the red carpet) and Jennifer Connelly, who I was semi-excited about seeing. Both are in Louis Vuitton and both designs clearly had a By Maria • May 08, 2018 04:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Counterpoint: He Won’t Get Far The first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot—maybe the longest title since The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford—was released yesterday. It looks very good. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as cartoonist John By Sarah • Jan 17, 2018 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in A Ghost Story Filmmaker David Lowery’s last two feature films, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Pete’s Dragon, could not be more different. Saints is a crime drama infused with Southern Romantic flare, and Pete’s Dragon is a live-action remake of the Disney cartoon. They do have something in common, By Sarah • Jul 20, 2017 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney & Joaquin in Cannes Joaquin Phoenix was named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for his performance in Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. It was one of the last films to screen at the festival. And before that point, people were talking about Robert Pattinson and Adam Sandler as By Lainey • May 29, 2017 03:22 pm
Assy Hair Ginger Joaquin There’s not much to say here so I’ll keep it short. Joaquin Phoenix was photographed walking his dogs the other day. The last we heard from Joaquin it was about how he and Rooney Mara are/were “madly in love”. That was three months ago, in January. Since By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A New Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Yesterday it was announced that Sony will finally make the sequel to their 2011 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake. Sony is skipping the other books in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, though, and going right to the new book, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, written by David Lagercrantz. By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 01:58 pm
Relationship Assumption Kate & Rooney: Mara love updates Kate and Rooney Mara were both papped yesterday. Let’s start with Kate: her reps confirmed yesterday that she and Jamie Bell are engaged. You can see she’s wearing her engagement ring at LAX. They’ve been together since working together on Fantastic Four, a sh-tty movie that was By Lainey • Jan 17, 2017 10:08 am
