Movie Reviews and Previews A big weekend for awards season It was a big weekend for awards season, with a number of awards shows, including the BAFTAs in London and the Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles (with a London outpost for the BAFTA crowd) on Sunday, and the Directors’ Guild Awards and Annie Awards (for animation) on Saturday. Let By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 10:07 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, Halle Berry received the SeeHer Award last night at the Critics Choice Awards. During her acceptance speech, she talked about starring in and directing Bruised, and asking someone she knew about what he thought of the film afterwards, honestly. He told her that he felt uncomfortable “seeing a By Lainey • Mar 14, 2022 08:57 am
What Else What Else Cardi B pulled out of a movie called Assisted Living at basically the last minute, saying she is “overextended” right now. Film shoots don’t come out of nowhere, so I wonder why no one on the production side thought, “maybe this isn’t the best moment for filming to By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Phases of Matter: A day in the life of a hospital Turkish filmmaker Deniz Tortum spent three years haunting the halls of the hospital where he was born and where his father works a doctor with a camera, capturing life in Istanbul’s Cerrahpaşa Hospital. It’s a teaching hospital, but it’s also threatened with closure, and so Tortum’s By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 03:19 pm
TV Updates Ramy Youssef mogulizes Have you gotten around to watching Ramy yet? If not, why? It’s on Hulu, there are only two seasons, twenty episodes total, each about thirty minutes. It’s an easy binge! The series was co-created by and stars Ramy Youssef, a surprise winner at the 2020 Golden Globes, By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 02:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 11, 2022 This week, Twitter decided to do a deep dive into LL Cool J’s archives and please keep in mind that in the 90s, this kind of chaos was normal. We would watch TV for hours just to catch a glimpse of our favourite artists on MuchMusic. We had Pop By Maria • Mar 11, 2022 02:11 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Thandiwe Newton in Rodarte It’s one of those looks that’s worth a scream. Thandiwe Newton wearing the sh-t out of this Rodarte dress – better on her than it was on the runway. The same dress was also seen on Lorde recently in Vogue Australia: Thandiwe and her stylist tightened the straps By Lainey • Mar 11, 2022 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Turning Red is a puberty allegory for everyone Domee Shi, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the Pixar short Bao, makes her feature film debut with Turning Red, a bubbly, fun, heart-warming allegory for puberty in which thirteen-year-old Meilin (Rosalie Chiang) finds herself transformed into a giant red panda whenever she loses control of her emotions, By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 12:49 pm
TV Updates Moon Knight is serious, says serious actor Moon Knight premieres at the end of the month on Disney+. Ahead of that, a new featurette hit the internet yesterday, with series stars Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke talking up their mystical mythology superhero show. According to Isaac, “it’s a real, legitimate character study”. Actors best known for By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage’s greatest role April Fool’s Day falls on a Friday this year. I bring this up because the trailer for Nicolas Cage’s new movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, came out this week and it’s set to open in April, but on the twenty-second. If ever there was By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 11:02 am
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart loves being nominated Kristen Stewart was back in New York yesterday to promote Spencer at Tribeca Screening Room. The film made the festival circuit late last summer and through the fall. It officially opened in November and has been available on VOD for a while. So all told, it’s been over half By Lainey • Mar 11, 2022 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler is about to be everywhere Austin Butler isn’t a household name. Yet. With Baz Luhrman’s Elvis biopic on the horizon, and a fancy historical war epic looming (Masters of the Air, about WWII-era bomber pilots and co-starring fellow rising stars Barry Keoghan and Callum Turner), it’s only a matter of By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 09:45 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for March 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Hey, did you forget about the HFPA? I wouldn’t blame you if you did. With no Golden Globes televised this year, and still reeling from the revelations of last year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been laying low, trying to get their sh-t together to By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 09:05 am
What Else What Else? Stanley Tucci doesn’t understand why he’s a sex symbol and the internet has spent all day trying to explain it to him. He can make a perfect cocktail, help you with your outfit, take you out for the best meal of your life, is elegant but can also By Lainey • Mar 10, 2022 04:10 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 10, 2022 Isn’t it weird how NFTs just dropped out of the spotlight on Twitter so quickly? I guess that’s why these schemes are characterized as “get rich quick.” #NewNFTProfilePic NFT by FlowerGirls pic.twitter.com/d8sXjxpQ5s — Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) February 4, 2022 Or am I misreading and Twitter wasn’ By Maria • Mar 10, 2022 03:53 pm
Chris Pine Chris Pine’s open shirt In Sarah’s post last week about the upcoming movie All the Old Knives, streaming on Amazon on April 8, she hoped that it would be a horny movie. Or maybe she wrote that it looked like the movie might be horny and I’m the one hoping it will By Lainey • Mar 10, 2022 02:32 pm
