TV Updates This is for The Pitts Emmys voting officially begins today so there were wall-to-wall Emmys events over the weekend as everyone’s trying to get into position for the next week or so before people gear way down before Labour Day. Just a heads up that we’ll be gearing down too – we’re all By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 11:24 am
Oscars 2024 Just dudes being bros This year, the Oscars brought back the five-presenter format for the acting awards, in which previous winners personally introduced each of the five nominees. It’s a fun piece of living Oscar history, even if I would ALSO like to see clips of the nominated performances (make the show four By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Argylle is for the indoor girlies Over the last decade, filmmaker Matthew Vaughn has indulged his spy thriller fantasies with his series of Kingsman films, about a stateless spy organization that utilizes sharp suits, gadgets, and parkour to save the world. Beyond Vaughn’s work, though, cinema is loaded with spy films of various quality, from By Sarah • Feb 02, 2024 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I am here for the cat Matthew Vaughn made his name directing action films like Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and the Kingsman movies (as well as being Mr. Claudia Schiffer and the #1 suspect in the case of January Jones’s anonymous baby daddy). His latest film is Argylle, which has a “life imitates By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 03:12 pm
Sam Rockwell A rare Sam Rockwell sighting Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb have been together forever, they’ve been working actors for even longer, Sam is fairly famous and a recent-ish Oscar winner, and yet, I feel like we hardly ever see them. Behold, then, Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb out and about in New York. I By Sarah • May 05, 2023 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Moviegoers didn’t show up for Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell Richard Jewell did not perform well at the box office this weekend. It’s Clint Eastwood’s “worst opening in four decades”. The film is about Richard Jewell, the man wrongfully accused of the Centennial Park bombing during the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, and the latest white male hero trumpeted By Sarah • Dec 17, 2019 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Clint Eastwood’s annual late entry It’s practically a rite of passage in Oscar season at this point: Clint Eastwood showing up late with a movie no one realized he had finished already. (He works fast because he gets everything in one take, even if that one take is sh-t, it’s the take, move By Sarah • Oct 03, 2019 03:29 pm
Award Season Campaigning Let Billy Porter host a truth-telling roundtable Award season roundtable roulette continues, and this time, it’s the drama dudes up to bat. The roundtable features Stephan James (Homecoming), Diego Luna (Narcos), Richard Madden (Bodyguard), Billy Porter (Pose), Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal), and Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon). That’s a solid group, and just as By Sarah • Jun 07, 2019 12:32 pm
TV Updates Fosse/Verdon is coming for all the awards During the Oscars, FX dropped a new trailer for Fosse/Verdon, the engineered-to-win-ALL-the-awards drama they have coming later in the spring. Sam Rockwell went into the Oscars the reigning Best Supporting Actor and a back-to-back nominee on the night. Now he’s being set up to win an Emmy. It’ By Sarah • Feb 26, 2019 01:53 pm
TV Updates The Battle for Favourite Show Last week Sarah emailed me, Lainey, and Emily, our site manager. Subject? Duana’s new favourite show. Body? “This show was made with only the freshest ingredients, pureed in the most expensive blender, and poured into a tall, frosty glass just for Duana's consumption.” I mean, let’s By Duana • Jul 30, 2018 12:07 pm
SAG Awards 2018 Sam & Leslie: SAGs Best Couple Do you love them as much as I love them? Do you love Leslie Bibb as much as I love her? Did you see her interview Guiliana Rancic on the red carpet and make it one of the best interviews of the night? Guiliana was supposed to be interviewing them, By Lainey • Jan 22, 2018 11:09 am
Golden Globes 2018 Sam & Leslie at the Globes I have been obsessed with Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb for a long time so please don’t call this a bandwagon. It’s not a bandwagon when you’re in the corner, caring all by yourself. It’s especially hard to care about a couple that doesn’t live By Lainey • Jan 08, 2018 03:23 am
Golden Globes 2018 Frances McDormand, the frontrunner Frances McDormand showed us tonight that she can be a hardass. That she doesn’t suffer fools gladly – and I’m hopeless with these kinds of expressions so if I haven’t used it correctly here, I’m sorry. I’m the fool she wouldn’t suffer. Frances McDormand had By Lainey • Jan 08, 2018 03:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) lives at the end of a lonely road in rural Missouri, the only thing marking her way are three decrepit billboards. She buys the ad rights for the billboards and up go three violently red billboards asking the town police chief why her daughter’s murderer By Sarah • Sep 15, 2017 12:12 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 18, 2016 One of Lainey’s favourite un-Swoki couples, Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb. Do you think she could ever convince him to join Instagram? he doesn't trust you...i keep trying to convince him, but no g-o- #sammyandleslie A photo posted by Leslie Bibb (@mslesliebibb) onAug 11, 2016 at By Maria • Aug 18, 2016 02:36 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, July 15, 2016 I’m including this because it’s a rare Sam Rockwell sighting on social media, and “Sammy Rocks” cracks me up. I'm trying to see and support as much theatre as I can on my off days in London. So, here I am with the great Sammy Rocks By Maria • Jul 15, 2016 01:12 pm