Amazingness Ava DuVernay like a BOSS Ava DuVernay was honored this year as part of Elle’s annual Women In Hollywood awards, and she gave an AMAZING speech at their awards dinner. The whole thing is well worth a read, but there are a couple highlights that tie into some of the particular issues surrounding diversity By Sarah • Oct 26, 2015 10:12 am
Gorgessity Best Dressed - Kerry Washington I have an unsettling theory to put forward. Do you think that maybe Kerry Washington is the embodiment of a cliché? You know the one, right? A person who is as beautiful inside as they are out? Look, I know, I’m on little sleep and it seems saccharine in By Duana • Sep 21, 2015 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Straight Outta Compton …to the Oscars? As you know now, Straight Outta Compton took the box office this weekend, handily. A $57 million opening…in August. It’s an achievement. And now it’s generating some very loud Oscar buzz. First you need the money. They brought in the money. Then you court the Academy. Well, By Lainey • Aug 17, 2015 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay is NOT directing Black Panther, Marvel is 37% less cool Today in “We Could Have Had It All” news, Ava DuVernay told Essence magazine in an interview that she ended up passing on the Black Panther directing gig, citing “different ideas” with Marvel over the direction the movie should take. This is a total bummer, because DuVernay seemed like a By Sarah • Jul 06, 2015 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay bagged a Marvel gig Say what you want about Marvel movies, but directing them is a landmark career moment for filmmakers. Marvel can’t guarantee A List status for its stars, but it can transform a director’s career. So it is very, VERY exciting that Ava DuVernay has signed on to direct Black By Sarah • Jun 22, 2015 02:25 pm
Oscars 2015 Ava Duvernay: Oscars Most Overlooked It wasn’t until two thirds into the show, into candy and onion rings and punchiness, that I realized I hadn’t seen Ava DuVernay. I was shocked, but when I brought it up, nobody else had seen her either. She’d just not been on camera. I mean, it’ By Duana • Feb 23, 2015 04:55 am
Smutty Roundup Smutty Roundup: DJ Idris, David is gracious, and Oscar’s Star Wars Idris Elba was in Berlin yesterday at the Jaguar presentation. Isn’t that a Bond car? Or a villain car? Aston Martin is the Bond car, right? Whatever. I needed to make a Bond connection there. And he says he’s not Bond…yet: “It’s really just a rumor— By Lainey • Jan 28, 2015 05:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What was unspoken at the Critics’ Choice Awards Could you sense it? You could sense it, right? There was an unspoken discomfort agitating underneath the Critics’ Choice Awards last night. Jessica Chastain, when accepting the first ever MVP Award, was the one who came closest to addressing it. She encouraged her peers to speak up about the lack By Lainey • Jan 16, 2015 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Whiteness of the Oscars It’s almost as if they were like, “Hey, we gave you 12 Years A Slave in 2014. So wait another 10 years before we reward you again”. I mean, I’m happy for Laura Dern, and Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo. But David Oyelowo belongs there. And, more importantly, By Lainey • Jan 15, 2015 09:55 am
