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
Award Season Campaigning Intro for August 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, She’s Dr Michelle Yeoh now. On Saturday Michelle received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute presented to her by The Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who directed her in Everything Everywhere All At Once, considered by almost everyone to be one By Lainey • Aug 16, 2022 09:38 am
TV Updates Quinta’s New Deal Final round voting for the Emmys began on Friday and will run until August 22. Quinta Brunson and Abbott Elementary got a big boost this weekend, winning four awards at the Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards including Best Comedy. These awards are too new to be considered a good predictor By Lainey • Aug 15, 2022 01:45 pm
TV Updates Lee Jung-jae: Squid Game, Emmys, and TIFF Voting for the Emmys begins next Friday, August 12 for ten days, concluding on August 22. Everyone is angling now to get their messaging out before TV Academy members make their choices. In the Outstanding Drama category, Succession is the presumed favourite, but I don’t think anyone wants to By Lainey • Aug 03, 2022 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya and Tom go for lunch A sighting of the Twitter’s favourite couple – here are Zendaya and Tom Holland who went out for lunch yesterday in New York with her brother. And now everyone’s relating it to her mishap in the kitchen last week when she posted photos of herself getting stitches: Zendaya shares By Lainey • Jul 21, 2022 11:21 am
TV Updates Zendaya’s TIME Vintage Earlier this week Zendaya and Andrew Garfield fangirled and fanboyed each other for Variety’s Actors on Actors series. You can imagine how the internet reacted, given how popular they each are individually and then when you add the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home on top of that, and By Lainey • Jun 09, 2022 11:21 am
