Award Season Campaigning The Critics Choice Awards set the tone Welcome back from the liminal space, everything is a nightmare, let’s talk about awards shows! The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards were held last night in Los Angeles, the first heavyweight awards show on the trophy trail. The big winners were Sinners and One Battle After Another, with The By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 10:22 am
Ethan Hawke Sinners, PTA, and the surging actors There was a screener for Sinners yesterday in New York at SAG-AFTRA Foundation ahead of the Gothams and Lupita Nyong’o moderated the panel. She of course knows Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan well, Black Panther is the most famous example of their shared connection. And, of course, the By Lainey • Dec 02, 2025 11:20 am
What Else Remembering Chadwick We’ll never stop missing Chadwick Boseman. It’s been five years, and his death still feels like a fresh loss. Lainey and I were texting about this last night, how it doesn’t feel like it’s been five years already, how we still miss him. How Sinners feels By Sarah • Nov 21, 2025 04:03 pm
BFFs MBJ gets emotional Sarah started the site off today with a post about Timothée Chalamet and how he’s been cracking us up with his Marty Supreme…fruitionising, LOL. As I mentioned on Monday, Timmy hasn’t been making the rounds on the usual Oscar campaign stops, focusing instead on the hilarious marketing By Lainey • Nov 21, 2025 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan in Sinners Growing up in the American South, something I find missing in most Southern-flavored media is the heaviness of the air. It is challenging to communicate in removed mediums like cinema because the viewer can never physically feel the weight of the air pressing down on them, so the burden is By Sarah • Apr 21, 2025 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Late Night with Coogler and MBJ Michael B Jordan appeared via video last night during the Amazon MGM presentation to advance-hype his next directorial effort, The Thomas Crown Affair, co-starring Taylor Russell, which he’ll be shooting in London this summer. He couldn’t be there in person, however, because he’s currently on the Sinners By Lainey • Apr 03, 2025 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Michael B Jordans is not enough The biggest story in movies so far today features Michael B Jordan once again starring in a Ryan Coogler production. Anticipation has been high ever since it was announced that these two would be working together again, especially since plot details and the title of the film were kept under By Lainey • Sep 24, 2024 10:54 am
BFFs Michael B Jordan gets his star Michael B Jordan’s Walk of Fame ceremony yesterday. Ryan Coogler and Jonathan Majors were there to honour and support him. MBJ’s relationship with Ryan should be well-known by now. It’s been over a decade and their collaborations range from Fruitvale to Black Panther to Creed and more. By Lainey • Mar 02, 2023 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Wakanda Forever power trio talk about grief, but not vaccines Spoilers for Wakanda Forever Last week, Ryan Coogler, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright covered the digital edition of Variety, but I put off writing about it until more people got to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever over the weekend. The Variety profile focuses heavily on the loss of Chadwick Boseman, By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Grief takes center stage in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Usually, the star of a film gets the headline for the review, but in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, grief IS the lead character. Dealt the incredible loss of his friend and collaborator Chadwick Boseman, director Ryan Coogler finds a way to marshal on in the world of Wakanda, though the By Sarah • Nov 10, 2022 01:19 pm
Style Wakanda Forever, the premiere I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever this morning and while official reviews are still embargoed, reactions are allowed. Here’s my reaction: I SOBBED. Hard. And I don’t cry a lot but I cried a lot during this movie. Also laughed a lot. And did that corny thing were By Lainey • Oct 27, 2022 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wakanda Forever in all white The full trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is here, and just like the Comic-Con trailer, it is tugging heart strings while setting up the next chapter in Wakanda’s story, one that will not include T’Challa. Chadwick Boseman’s death hangs over this movie, but it does look By Sarah • Oct 04, 2022 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Get out the tissues for Wakanda Forever The big finale of Marvel’s three-year plan presentation was the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever panel and the teaser for the movie. The overwhelming sentiment after the first look landed on the internet was “already crying”, and there’s no doubt everything around and about this movie is going to By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 04:03 pm
TV Updates Ryan Coogler is bringing Wakanda to TV Yesterday, it was announced that Ryan Coogler’s production company, Proximity Media, has signed a five-year deal with Disney to produce shows for their television outlets, including Disney+. The deal also includes development “for Disney’s other outlets as well”, which could mean shows for Hulu, or maybe a docu-series By Sarah • Feb 02, 2021 12:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning Oprah for Black Panther As we’ve seen over the last few weeks, many of Hollywood’s biggest names have been rallying around their friends in the Oscar race. It happens every year – celebrities campaigning for each other, hosting screenings and dinners, posing for photos, making sure Academy members know who’s the most By Lainey • Dec 18, 2018 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Coogler returns to Wakanda Marvel is recovering nicely following the clusterf-ck firing of James Gunn, hiring new directors including a pair of women, Cate Shortland and Chloe Zhao, and now they have locked down Ryan Coogler for Black Panther 2. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and Coogler made Marvel’s By Sarah • Oct 12, 2018 02:29 pm
