Style Award season Spike The Oscar nominees’ luncheon happened yesterday in LA. It was a full day of campaign stops as The Hollywood Reporter also hosted an event and the AARP held their annual Movies for Grownups Awards. Spike Lee made the rounds. And it reminds me of a question he was asked on By Lainey • Feb 05, 2019 10:58 am
Music Coop & Gaga lose and win The Directors Guild Awards happened this weekend. Bradley Cooper was nominated for Best Director and Best First Time Director and lost both to Alfonso Cuaron and Bo Burnham respectively. I’m not sure it was a surprise that he didn’t win the first, especially after the Academy didn’t By Lainey • Feb 04, 2019 10:42 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Gaga & Bradley: the screen test Even though the Oscar nominations were announced last week, actual voting for the Oscars doesn’t begin until February 12. The voting period starts two days after the BAFTAs and the Grammys. It lasts a week and ends the Tuesday before the Oscars. Which means there’s still a lot By Lainey • Feb 01, 2019 11:19 am
Music Gaga & Bradley Cooper go “Shallow” in Vegas Bradley Cooper was at Lady Gaga’s show in Las Vegas on Saturday night. She invited him on stage to sing “Shallow” with her. Naturally it went viral. If you haven’t seen it yet, here are two angles. I prefer the second angle because… Well… We all know Gaga By Lainey • Jan 28, 2019 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy’s Ironic Oscar Nom Maybe the title above isn’t fair. Melissa McCarthy got an Oscar Best Actress nomination for playing Lee Israel, an irascible crank in her 50s who pulled off an incredible scam, and Can You Ever Forgive Me is completely worth your time. The nomination is completely deserved and also kind By Duana • Jan 22, 2019 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina King and the Beale Street 3 All of us who write on this site have written repeatedly about how much we love If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s so … much. This is a film that will hold up, there will never be a time, in 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, when it won’t By Lainey • Jan 22, 2019 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Star is… Spiked? Or is it Argo-ed? There are always snubs on Oscar nomination day. Some snubs are bigger than others. Because they’re so unexpected. This year’s #1 Oscar snub is Bradley Cooper for Best Director. And yet, it was not a bad morning for A Star is Born. ASIB earned 8 nominations, including Best By Lainey • Jan 22, 2019 12:04 pm
Award Season Campaigning Bradley Cooper: scruff’s coming in Roma won Best Picture and Best Director last night at the Critics’ Choice Awards but that doesn’t mean it’s the Oscar favourite. The Critics do not speak for the Oscars when it comes to Netflix. And the Oscars have a complicated relationship with Netflix. What will be interesting By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews When Regina King Talks That was my poor attempt at a play on If Beale Street Could Talk, but seriously, no one talks like Regina King. In an award season that refuses to give us a break from insufferable, worse-than-Hathaway twee speeches from Lady Gaga (I like Gaga but can she DO LESS please? By Kathleen • Jan 14, 2019 01:42 pm
Assy Style Blunt-Krasinki Inc at Critics’ Choice Emily Blunt and John Krasinski arrived together to the Critics’ Choice Awards last night but sat apart – she was with the Mary Poppins Returns table and he was seated with the A Quiet Place team. And then she joined the A Quiet Place team onstage for their win in the By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 11:42 am
Maple Leaf Crazy Rich Asians is The Favourite Lainey and I watched The Critic’s Choice Awards together over text. Sometimes she was ahead and sometimes I was, depending on bathroom breaks, dog walk breaks, etc. When Crazy Rich Asians won Best Comedy, Lainey texted me about a minute before I heard the reveal with an “Omgggggggg!!! Kathleenn! By Kathleen • Jan 14, 2019 09:53 am
Award Season Campaigning Glenn and Gaga: it’s a tie There were two ties at the Critics’ Choice Awards last night: Amy Adams and Patricia Arquette for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television and Glenn Close and Lady Gaga for Best Actress. The Critics also have a category for Best Actress in a Comedy – Olivia By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 09:19 am
Award Season Campaigning Lupita and MBJ’s flirty squats As Joanna just posted in her article about Emily Blunt previous to this one, there’s been a lot of Oscar campaigning happening in New York this week. Bradley Cooper’s screening A Star is Born for voters during nomination week and last night Lupita Nyong’o and Michael B By Lainey • Jan 11, 2019 12:25 pm
BFFs Ryan and Blake’s perfect timing for Emily Blunt Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively hosted a special screening of Mary Poppins Returns in New York last night, fêting Emily Blunt and director Rob Marshall. The photos are sweet: lots of hugging, schmoozing, and big smiles. And they couldn’t have had better timing. See photos from tonight’s special By Joanna • Jan 11, 2019 11:29 am
Award Season Campaigning Spike in, Bradley in…and in The Directors Guild of America announced their nominees today and Spike Lee is on the list – his FIRST ever DGA nomination. Which...probably isn’t a surprise considering Spike has never been nominated for Best Director at the Oscars and many of the members of the DGA are also members By Lainey • Jan 08, 2019 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke moonwalks Ethan Hawke was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards last night to collect his award for Best Actor for his performance in First Reformed. He was also on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the revival of Sam Shepard’s True West opening soon on Broadway By Lainey • Jan 08, 2019 01:08 pm
