TV Updates David Beckham: Honey, Spice, Emmy David Beckham has been in LA the last few days and yesterday stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! for an interview about his Netflix documentary, Beckham. We’ll get back to the doc in a minute, let’s start with the interview itself, because it’s a good one, he came By Lainey • May 09, 2024 12:16 pm
TV Updates Emma comes for Emmy Emma Stone won her second Best Actress Oscar last month for her performance in Poor Things. And now it’s Emmy season. I know, I know, it feels like it’s early to be talking about the Emmys because the Emmys just happened in January but that was only because By Lainey • Apr 25, 2024 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the Oppen-Oscars Usually, I format my Oscar predictions as favorite/upset/dark horse, but this year, even the most competitive categories are down to two competitors, not a wide-open field of possibility. Also, brace yourself for the Oppen-Oscars, as Oppenheimer is probably going to dominate the whole night. So this year, I By Sarah • Mar 07, 2024 11:28 am
Gorgessity Ali and Ayo win everything Ali Wong and Ayo Edebiri have both swept this (seemingly interminable) award season and this weekend also gave us some of the best looks on the red carpet. I mean, if you want to be a stickler, technically there is one loss on Ayo’s page – she did not win By Lainey • Feb 26, 2024 12:19 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, For the first time this weekend, a major award show streamed on Netflix. Prior to this year, the Screen Actors Awards were never broadcast on one of the big networks so you could say that Netflix was giving them their biggest platform. And for Netflix, this was their By Lainey • Feb 26, 2024 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Oppenheimer on Kimmel The SAG Awards are tomorrow night, streaming for the first time on Netflix. It’s the first major award show, I think, that we’re seeing on the platform, and I’m so curious about how it’s going to play out. For those of us who are television broadcast By Lainey • Feb 23, 2024 12:05 pm
Award Season Campaigning Emma is Bella and Fantasia’s First Let’s start with Fantasia Barrino because she has not missed once this entire award season, working with stylist Daniel Hawkins. Fantasia was at the BAFTAs last night as a first-time nominee for her performance in The Colour Purple and she made it count. I love the drama here. And By Lainey • Feb 19, 2024 11:36 am
Award Season Campaigning It’s about OppenPoor now The BAFTAs were last night in London, and forget Barbenheimer, it’s all about OppenPoor now. Barbie was, once again, shut out at an awards show, and we should now expect a similar result at the Oscars for Team Barbie, including Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and Ryan Gosling (America Ferrera By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 10:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, We are now less than three weeks away from the Oscars and this weekend the Oscar caravan was in England for the BAFTAs, with some notable exceptions, including the team from Killers of the Flower Moon. Lily Gladstone, who was not nominated for a BAFTA, was back in By Lainey • Feb 19, 2024 09:42 am
Award Season Campaigning Talk Show Lily Lily Gladstone was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night to talk about Killers of the Flower Moon but, of course, also to campaign for Oscar. We’re a week and a half away from the SAGs and the BAFTAs, where she was NOT nominated. The SAGs are By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Let BCoop be BCoop Every year has one, a villain in the narrative of the Oscar season, some person or film everyone can rally around, as if to say, We might not agree on what should be Best Picture or who should win Best Actress, but we can all agree X sucks. In past By Sarah • Feb 13, 2024 10:55 am
BFFs Mark Ruffalo and Barry Keoghan are friends? Mark Ruffalo is a four-time Oscar nominee, all in the Best Supporting Actor category, and once again, he is not the favorite to win. He’s probably going to lose to his old buddy RDJ, but he’s enjoying his award campaign anyway, which most recently includes getting a star By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Celine and Margot get back to work The Oscars are still a month away, but some nominees are already moving onto their next projects. Notably, Celine Song is preparing her Past Lives follow-up, described as a rom-com which will be produced by A24, which also produced Past Lives. The film is called Materialists, and the log line By Sarah • Feb 08, 2024 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Ryan Became Ken Ryan Gosling covers the new issue of Variety, just as SAG voting is underway and, of course, ahead of the Oscar voting period, to finally talk about his preparation for playing Ken because as the magazine points out, even though there was obviously extensive marketing for the Barbie movie ahead By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma’s day, continued Emma Stone continued promoting Poor Things in New York yesterday, finishing the day that started at Good Morning America at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she talked Jeopardy! again. Annette Bening is getting feted in Santa Barbara, Emma Stone is doing the rounds in New York, Lily Gladstone By Sarah • Jan 31, 2024 09:45 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 31, 2024 Dear Gossips, After a crush of award shows in January, we have a little break—on the film side, anyway—until the end of February, when the BAFTAs and the SAG Awards open and close the week of February 18th. That does not mean, however, that awards season is quiet. By Sarah • Jan 31, 2024 09:07 am