Hugh Grant Everyone is outside We are in the thick of press tour season, because all the holiday movies want to get their press tours out of the way before Americans collectively unbutton our pants for the five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Thus, this mash-up post of Unstoppable and Paddington in Peru. By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 03:13 pm
Antonio Banderas Intro for January 29, 2024 Dear Gossips, I know what you want to talk about today and we’ll get to those two, I promise, but let’s start with Dakota Johnson because there's kinda a Taylor Swift connection there anyway, since she shouted out TS during her opening monologue on Saturday Night By Lainey • Jan 29, 2024 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman: Another kind of Babygirl Nicole Kidman was in New York today, photographed on the set of Babygirl, a new film co-starring Antonio Banderas. I chuckled over the title when they announced it a few months ago, because “babygirl” is what Keith Urban calls her. He’s done it on live television, like during award By Lainey • Jan 09, 2024 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Uncharted Well, it’s happened. After thirty years of trying, video games movies have finally reached the middle. Uncharted, the globe-trotting Indiana Jones-riff adventure game, comes to the big screen at last, starring Tom Holland as a young, just-starting-out adventurer, Nathan Drake, and Mark Wahlberg as his shady mentor, Sully. It By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland: No Oscar, but Uncharted One of the sidebar conversations ahead of the Oscar nominations today was whether or not Spider-Man: No Way Home would make the cut, particularly in the Best Picture category. The movie did receive one nomination for special effects, but they put a significant budget into getting a nomination in the By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 02:28 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Hollywood Film Awards: Family, Friends, and Mentors The Hollywood Film Awards don’t really mean anything in that even though they happen during award season – and we are firmly in award season now – they don’t predict real awards. Winning a Hollywood Film Awards doesn’t increase your chances at an Oscar. Showing up at the Hollywood By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 03:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for October 3, 2019 Dear Gossips, You know what award season is good for? Contrasts. People are campaigning, everyone has their own campaign strategy. So from October to the Oscars, we get to see these plans play out, side by side, in real time – an off-screen performance that supports the onscreen performance. Joker is By Lainey • Oct 03, 2019 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Laundromat of smugness So far, The Laundromat is my biggest TIFF disappointment. I was looking forward to this film for a few reasons, but only one of them proved out—Meryl Streep’s bucket hat is very jaunty, indeed. Every other element of the film is either miscalculated or confusing. The Laundromat is By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler & Antonio Banderas can (and should) challenge Joaquin Phoenix Before the start of Adam Sandler's Uncut Gems at its big TIFF premiere on Monday, somebody shouted out "Oscar for the Sandman!" People laughed nervously and clapped, because they did not know what they were in for from the uncomfortably tense and dark dramedy about a By Joanna • Sep 11, 2019 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl’s bucket hat Meryl Streep is receiving the TIFF Tribute Actor Award at this year’s film festival, to go along with the North American premiere of her new film, The Laundromat, directed by Steven Soderbergh. I’m not going to lie, when I first heard Soderbergh made a movie starring Meryl Streep By Sarah • Aug 29, 2019 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde after Life Itself Chances are you haven’t seen Life Itself. The reviews are dismal. Life Itself is currently sitting at 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. If you haven’t seen it, please know that I saw it for you at TIFF. And 11% is generous. Which is super disappointing. Because of the cast. By Lainey • Sep 28, 2018 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Antonio Banderas in The 33 In 2010, the world was captivated by the real life drama of thirty-three Chilean miners trapped underground in a collapsed gold and copper mine. Sixty-nine days later a miracle was achieved when all thirty-three men were rescued, starved but alive. Interviews, television appearances, and books followed, and a film adaptation By Sarah • Nov 26, 2015 02:39 pm
Break Ups Antonio Banderas’s single summer There’s JLO’s version of a single summer…and then there’s Antonio Banderas who for sure, for sure, for sure is no longer with Melanie Griffith because she’s removing the tat of his name across her arm. They tried though. They really did. They tried for a By Lainey • Aug 18, 2014 12:35 pm
Break Ups Why not the whole thing? Melanie Griffith is in Italy for the Taormina Film Festival. She wore a sleeveless dress on the carpet last night. As you know, Melanie and Antonio Banderas are divorcing. So she tried to divorce him off her arm with makeup… Johnny Depp did the same, permanently, when he turned “Winona By Lainey • Jun 18, 2014 03:10 pm
Break Ups Melanie Griffith & Antonio Banderas to divorce TMZ reports that Melanie Griffifth and Antonio Banderas are divorcing. She’s filed the papers requesting spousal support and custody of their daughter and supposedly it’s amicable…even though there’s a lot of land to divide. So are you surprised? They fought for it for a long time By Lainey • Jun 06, 2014 03:05 pm
Dumbass Is there a behind-the-scenes? Have you seen this Paramount Vanity Fair photo yet? In celebration of its 100th anniversary, 116 of the studios “greatest talents” gathered for a class photo. You can see the image here, with a zoom feature to closely analyse every expression. But what about what happened behind-the-scenes? How much do By Lainey • Jun 12, 2012 11:17 am