Oscars 2023 Duana’s Best Dressed: Rihanna The worst thing Lainey and I ever did where our analyses of awards show fashion year-over-year is concerned was to introduce the concept of lifetime achievement/ retirement. Because once we did it for Zendaya – a decision we stand behind – it became obvious that we would run into the same problems, By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 04:56 pm
Oscars 2023 One Woman, Still Talking It is amazing to me how many people were thrilled by Sarah Polley’s win last night. And the most disparate people, who to my knowledge would have no particular connection – I mean, not that they need one, any more than I do to, like, Nicole Kidman’s wardrobe, but By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 12:30 pm
Oscars 2023 Colin Farrell, Banshees, and The Terrible, Wonderful Luck of The Irish Why did you go see The Banshees of Inisherin? Even if I weren’t a writer on this site or a part of this industry, I would have seen it, sooner or later, because of the part Irish thing. Not that an Irish person in 2023 would agree with that By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 10:51 am
Oscars 2023 Nicole Kidman’s Best Actress Dress Code Nicole Kidman is a beautiful woman, no question. She’s tall and striking, no question. Is it absolutely beyond the pale for me to suggest that has nothing to do with why she looks so damn good all the time? I mean yes, it’s preposterous. Of course it’s By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 09:34 am
Equality Issues Cautiously Happy – Oscar Winner Brendan Fraser I wrote earlier that there were no bumps or missteps in last night’s production. Which is not to say there weren’t controversies. Brendan Fraser’s Best Actor Academy Award for The Whale was simultaneously one of the sweetest moments of the show, and one of the most upsetting By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 06:39 am
Oscars 2023 An On-The-Rails Oscars The production of the 95th Academy Awards went… well. There were no bumps, fumbles, mistaken awards or assaults. It went smoothly. Which – of course it did. After last year, and the correct calling-out of the Academy for doing effectively nothing about a live televised assault (it’s a word, okay? By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 05:12 am
SAG Awards 2023 The Jenna & Aubrey Show The next time I’m asked to give a bunch of young hopefuls advice, I am going to cut to the chase and give one two-pronged directive about how to succeed in this business: If you have a niche or a thing – like if you become popular for a particular By Duana • Feb 27, 2023 12:54 pm
SAG Awards 2023 SAG Points to Chastain You know what you can count on the SAG awards for, every single time? Great speeches. Why don’t they advertise themselves that way? I mean, it’s for the same reason the speeches are so good. They don’t need to advertise because this show is not for anyone By Duana • Feb 27, 2023 11:41 am
TV Updates Daisy Jones & The Six Have Arrived A hotly-anticipated trailer drops. You race to watch – and just as it fades up, a quick, silent prayer. I hope it’s good. The bigger and more beloved the projects, the bigger the stakes. So when it comes to the trailer for Daisy Jones & The Six – New York Times By Duana • Jan 25, 2023 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Are You There, God? Because We Are HERE Raise your hand if you thought this day might never come. Just me? No, I didn’t think so. It’s been at least a couple of years since we heard there would be an adaptation of Judy Blume’s seminal Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, and By Duana • Jan 12, 2023 02:09 pm
Golden Globes 2023 Jennifer Coolidge’s Golden Moment You know, she already started the night on a high, with her creative pronunciations of Kaylee Cuoco and ________________. You never quite know if she’s joking, and that makes her exciting to watch, because anything could happen. And you can tell that everyone feels it. Everyone loves her. Even Jerrod By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 02:54 pm
Golden Globes 2023 Colin Farrell: Irish Tabulation, Globes Edition Look, here was the best thing about the show last night. We all had …low expectations, right? This show just got out of being the TV equivalent of grounded, you wouldn’t think it would have been surprising, but people said a lot of fun stuff, and also a lot By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 01:37 pm
Golden Globes 2023 Ryan Murphy’s Golden Eye The tribute to Ryan Murphy was overwhelming, in so many ways. As Lainey said to me, when the room first welcomed him, “that entire room has worked with him” – it’s true that since each Ryan Murphy show is its own niche thing, he really has multiple audiences, and he By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 12:50 pm
Golden Globes 2023 The Bear Is A Kitten There is a dirty secret about The Bear. You know, the gritty show about the kitchen and the guy with dashed dreams running after his brother – it’s grimy and dark and desperate, but there is one fact about it that should get it kicked directly out of whatever we’ By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 10:10 am
Top Reads Best Dressed: Quinta Brunson and Abbott Elementary I’ve decided that the best thing about Sheryl Lee Ralph’s win last night is that it was all the things. It was unexpected – in a stacked category, she was not favoured to win, particularly, though I don’t think there’s anyone out there who doesn’t love By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 10:30 am
Emmy Awards 2022 The White (And Red, And Green, And Magenta) Lotuses… I need to start this post with an apology to Mare Winningham and Kaitlyn Dever, both of whom were in Dopesick, but who must have known, when they saw the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, that there was absolutely no chance they were getting By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 09:37 am
