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
Music Intro for September 25, 2024 Dear Gossips, Lady Gaga already confirmed in her most recent Vogue cover story that her next album, LG7, will be out next year, with the first single dropping in October. Late yesterday though, another announcement: Harlequin, a companion album to Joker: Folie à Deux, is coming this Friday. The album By Lainey • Sep 25, 2024 09:26 am
Style Zendaya reminds us of Dune: Part 2 A majority of the films that are contending during award season are fall releases. Not all, but a majority. So for films that are in contention with earlier releases, it’s about reminding voters and audiences, as the conversation becomes more crowded, that they should remain in the race. That’ By Lainey • Sep 23, 2024 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse’s double shot Speaking of actors with two notable films this year, Saoirse Ronan has entered the chat. She has two films out this fall, addiction drama The Outrun, which opens next week, and Blitz, Steve McQueen’s period drama about a family during the London Blitz of World War II, which opens By Sarah • Sep 20, 2024 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan launches his campaign(s) Sebastian Stan has two films out this year, A Different Man and The Apprentice. Both have earned him the highest praise of his career so far, including the Silver Bear for acting at the Berlin International Film Festival for A Different Man. And despite the controversy surrounding it—threats of By Sarah • Sep 20, 2024 11:29 am
Award Season Campaigning Emmy Nominee Lewis Pullman Lewis Pullman is henceforth and forever to be known as Emmy Nominee Lewis Pullman. He’s been campaigning hard for Lessons in Chemistry, in which he plays sexy and lovable scientist Calvin Evans, so it’s not like he came out of nowhere for his nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor By Sarah • Jul 18, 2024 01:28 pm
TV Updates Shōgun is the Most In her post, previous to this one, about the Emmy nominations, Duana argued gently that maybe categories don’t matter, which is a conversation that’s been coming up a lot with respect to The Bear. On our Substack today, a member called Miss Mellie said they were tired of By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 03:51 pm
TV Updates Emmys: Nominations Mean Everything; Categories, Not So Much It’s kind of funny to me that awards show coverage always leads with “[PROJECT] gets a stunning [NUMBER] nods!” I get that it’s a shorthand for how well-regarded a show is, if every possible category landed a nomination. But it’s also indicative of past Emmy discourse, By Duana • Jul 17, 2024 03:18 pm
TV Updates Qualified Emmy love The Emmy nominations are here and are largely as expected (lots of The Bear, Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer), but there are a couple nice surprises, and one maybe not so much surprise and disappointingly met expectation. Let’s start with the good news. Reservation Dogs FINALLY got major Emmy nominations! By Sarah • Jul 17, 2024 02:04 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Emmy nominations will be announced today at 1130am ET/830am PT and we’ll have more posts about that later. For me personally, the Emmys storyline I care most about is Shōgun and how many nominations the series will receive. Shōgun is heavily predicted to lead the By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 09:32 am
TV Updates Mariko, Toranaga, and… Yabushige! Emmy nominations voting starts tomorrow so we’re down to the final stages of nominations campaigning and the most acclaimed series of 2024 is bringing out their MVPs. There was a Shōgun FYC event yesterday in LA with Lord Toranaga himself, Hiroyuki Sanada, making an appearance. Hiroyuki has been pretty By Lainey • Jun 12, 2024 01:18 pm
