Movie Reviews and Previews So Many Supporting Actresses As mentioned earlier in the post about the competitive race for Best Actress Oscar, at this stage in the race, this might be one of the tightest Best Supporting Actress Oscar seasons we’ve had in a long time. For starters, if there’s a frontrunner, I don’t see By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Actresses Show Up To Campaign Unlike the Best Actor category which I posted about earlier, the Best Actress category for Oscar this year is much more competitive. We have our frontrunners, no doubt, but there are several other women with legitimate claims to the few remaining spots. And it’s looking like it’s a By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin, Brendan, Colin, and the wide-open race As Sarah noted in today’s open, the Oscar Academy’s Governors Awards took place this weekend recognising Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir, and Euzhan Palcy who all received honourary Oscars. This year’s Oscar race, however, is heating up. Which is why so many of the contenders By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser is not a hypocrite Brendan Fraser covers the December issue of GQ, four years after it was GQ that put him back in the spotlight via Zach Baron’s massively viral profile that asked, What ever happened to Brendan Fraser? Back in 2018, Fraser was talking about where he’d gone, how years of By Sarah • Nov 17, 2022 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Nighy isn’t Jared Leto As mentioned in today’s open, Danielle Deadwyler looks to be in good position for a Best Actress Oscar nomination, and it’s a competitive field. The Best Actor category, however, isn’t quite as tight this year as it has been in the past and there are still spots By Lainey • Nov 07, 2022 12:01 pm
TV Updates Intro for November 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Have you finished From Scratch yet? I love this series SO much, I want to hug it, I want to thank it, I want to share it with everyone like it’s mine. And now I’m curious – is From Scratch the kind of show that will be By Lainey • Nov 07, 2022 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews DanRad doesn’t back down Weird: The Al Yankovic Story hits “The Roku Channel” this Friday. It’s one of my favorite movies of the year (so far), but I am devastated to report that my dream of Austin Butler and Daniel Radcliffe doing an “Actors On Actors” episode together is dead because Weird is By Sarah • Nov 02, 2022 02:29 pm
Award Season Campaigning Campaigning at the Academy Museum Gala The Oscars are still five months away but it’s never too early to campaign, and when it’s a proper Oscar event, of course you show up to represent. The second annual Academy Museum Gala happened on Saturday, this year honouring the contributions of Miky Lee, Steve McQueen, Tilda By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Woman King campaigns The Woman King came out of TIFF with good reviews. Then it opened at #1 at the box office. In the weeks since it has pretty much recouped its budget, and with strong word of mouth, it should continue to see steady business; I went on Saturday and my theatre By Lainey • Oct 04, 2022 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas sets her narrative Blonde, the quasi-biopic of Marilyn Monroe starring Ana de Armas, is in limited theatrical release now, but it hits Netflix next week, which is when Blonde-mania will crest. It’s also when Ana de Armas will launch into the forefront of the Best Actress Oscar race, as she will get By Sarah • Sep 22, 2022 12:04 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for September 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, TIFF announced that Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans won the People’s Choice Award which has become an Oscar booster over the years. There is no doubt that The Fabelmans will be a contender. The Academy loves Spielberg and this film is not only semi-autobiographical, By Lainey • Sep 22, 2022 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Sarah wrote yesterday about The Banshees of Inisherin and the overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to Martin McDonagh’s film at the Venice Film Festival, possibly propelling Colin Farrell into the Best Actor Oscar race. As she mentioned in her post, Sarah’s on her way to Toronto for TIFF, By Lainey • Sep 07, 2022 09:50 am
Quiveration Colin Farrell has entered the chat Up till now, the only real contenders for Best Actor have been Austin Butler and Brendan Fraser (largely based on working with Darren Aronofsky in a physically transformative role), and while Fraser declared himself a legit contender this weekend in Venice, Colin Farrell has also entered the chat. He’s By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser’s Oscar Season The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser, had its world premiere in Venice over the weekend. It’s on my TIFF schedule and I can’t wait to see it, but in the meantime, I am contenting myself with premium-branded Wholesome Brendan Fraser Content, of which there is PLENTY. EVERYONE is excited By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser begins his campaign Awards season 2022-23 officially kicked off yesterday with the Venice Film Festival’s opening night and premiere screening of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, and yes, Barbie has already come up: here’s the clip of asking if greta gerwig considered casting adam as ken in barbie & adam having By Sarah • Sep 01, 2022 12:47 pm
Award Season Campaigning Cousin Greg is Tim Riggins W Magazine’s latest feature ahead of the Emmys is to have the stars of current tv series pose as their favourite characters from their favourite television shows. It’s a great idea and some of these pictures are amazingly unexpected. And also amazingly hilarious. Like … I’m sorry… but By Lainey • Aug 17, 2022 10:38 am
