Award Season Campaigning Angelina hustles While the Best Actor contenders may be taking a more casual approach to awards season, the Best Actress contenders stay hustling. Over the weekend, Angelina Jolie attended a screening and Q&A for Maria hosted by the Academy in Beverly Hills. She was greeted warmly by the crowd: © sonyaruben By Sarah • Nov 05, 2024 01:40 pm
Award Season Campaigning Best Actors on tour Over on The Squawk, Lainey is handicapping next week’s Sexiest Man Alive announcement, and both Daniel Craig and Paul Mescal appear on the list, so subscribe to The Squawk if you haven’t already and get in on the odds making. Speaking of Paul Mescal and Daniel Craig, though, By Sarah • Nov 05, 2024 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pamela Anderson is campaigning My biggest question mark for awards season this year is how seriously will the Oscar establishment take Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl? They SHOULD take her very seriously, because her performance is terrific. It’s so good that were it anyone else in the role, I have no doubt By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gotham Awards have some overlap Awards season has officially kicked off with the nominations for the 2024 Gotham Awards, which is the first major stop on the trophy trail (the ceremony is on December 2), though the Gothams are rather hit or miss when it comes to overlap with the Oscars. They’re not the By Sarah • Oct 30, 2024 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie: Movie Star Mayhem I was going to post about Angelina Jolie yesterday but I ran out of time. She was at the premiere of Maria at AFI Fest and showed up with curly hair, just like it was styled in her recent editorial for CR Fashion Book. The texture is actually a little By Lainey • Oct 29, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo campaigns on two fronts Jennifer Lopez was busy this weekend promoting Unstoppable. The film had its world premiere at TIFF about six weeks ago and there were back-to-back screenings this weekend at the DGA and AFI Fest. Her outfit at AFI Fest surprised me. This is not what I would have predicted. By Lainey • Oct 28, 2024 10:38 am
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart: Supporting and Campaigning It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Kristen Stewart pop up in the gossip cycle, right? Maybe since the press tour in the first quarter of the year for Love Lies Bleeding? She spent the summer in Latvia working on her directorial feature debut, adapting Lidia Yuknavitch’s By Lainey • Oct 25, 2024 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina is showing up The teaser trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Maria promised Angelina Jolie emoting, and the official trailer is now doing a really good job selling Angelina’s performance as Maria Callas in a true career-defining role. The trailer is all about Angelina as Maria, she looks impossibly gorgeous and fragile By Sarah • Oct 25, 2024 10:30 am
TV Updates Nicole and Zoe: Lionesses contending together A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Nicole Kidman that was titled “Nicole Kidman doesn’t stop” and in that post I included a tweet that made me laugh. As I wrote at the time, “some people were offended by it but I understand the spirit because it By Lainey • Oct 24, 2024 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews You Will Be Entertained A box office battle is happening exactly a month from now, on November 22, 2024: Gladiator II vs Wicked Part 1. These two movies are coming out on the same day… and I feel like there’s not much conversation about it. Which is weird, I guess, because it’s By Lainey • Oct 22, 2024 11:26 am
Award Season Campaigning Angelina campaigns in London Angelina Jolie is currently one of the frontrunners for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Maria. She was not at the Academy Museum Gala this weekend but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t campaigning. Because campaigning doesn’t just happen in Hollywood. Angelina was at the London By Lainey • Oct 21, 2024 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy and Zendaya: Longshots A few months ago, when it was announced that Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch would premiere at TIFF, the list of Best Actress Oscar hopefuls expanded to include the film’s star, Amy Adams. Amy’s been nominated multiple times already, some consider her “overdue”, and she’s always reliably solid By Lainey • Oct 17, 2024 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul and Gracie There are certain corners of the internet and social media that lose their f-cking minds whenever Paul Mescal does something. So I’m very curious to see what the next few weeks will be like as we near the release of Gladiator II. Promotion for the film should be By Lainey • Oct 08, 2024 01:14 pm
Faux Gossip Party Angelina The post previous to this one today was about Jennifer Aniston and her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, during which she and Jimmy joked about some of the crazy sh-t that’s been reported about her, including a cover story in In Touch Weekly about her allegedly making the By Lainey • Oct 03, 2024 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews FYI: Timmy and Kylie are “very serious” Sarah posted yesterday about Timothée in New York, filming Josh Safdie’s new movie Marty Supreme, in which he becomes Timmy Ping-Pong, as the movie is based on “Ping-Pong Hustler” Marty Reisman who I’d never heard of until this project was announced which led me to that By Lainey • Oct 03, 2024 10:20 am
Gorgessity Angelina and Nicole build momentum Angelina Jolie was joined by her three eldest children, Maddox, Zahara, and Pax, at the NYFF premiere of Pablo Larraín’s Maria this weekend. Just as it was in Venice, the film was met with mixed to warm reviews, but critics seem to agree that this is an extraordinary performance By Lainey • Oct 01, 2024 01:23 pm
