Music Lady Gaga’s Oscar song “I’ll Never Love Again” has been insulted on this site by Lainey Lui multiple times now. Yesterday, she dared to call it “sh-t". That was the last straw. I refuse to stand by and let the most impressive song on the A Star Is Born soundtrack be disrespected By Kathleen • Oct 23, 2018 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Viggo, Ethan, Willem, and the “due” game Viggo Mortensen was the Middleburg Film Festival promoting Green Book this weekend. Green Book won the People’s Choice at TIFF last month. And Viggo is definitely a contender for Best Actor for his performance in the film, alongside Mahershala Ali. Ethan Hawke, meanwhile, was at the London Film Festival By Lainey • Oct 22, 2018 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s not all Gaga A Star is Born is a big movie. It has emerged as the Oscar Best Picture frontrunner – for now. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will receive multiple nominations. But that doesn’t mean that they’re running away with it. And they shouldn’t run away with it. Anybody running By Lainey • Oct 19, 2018 10:57 am
Music Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga: box office and charts A Star is Born just crossed the $100 million mark at the box office after twelve days. And, as we’ve been saying, it’s one of those movies that has been able to sustain its earnings weekend after weekend as people go back to see it again and again By Lainey • Oct 18, 2018 12:32 pm
Style Timothee Chala-mania Here’s Timothee Chalamet at the London premiere of Beautiful Boy inspired by Harry Styles. Timmy was in great spirits – perhaps he knew that the movie was doing very well stateside at the box office. Beautiful Boy posted one of the highest per-screen averages of the year, with around $55, By Joanna • Oct 15, 2018 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Here comes Christian Bale Last Friday, it was quietly announced that Adam McKay’s film about Dick Cheney, starring Christian Bale, would be released on Christmas Day. Before then, the film didn’t even have a title. Now we know it’s Vice and we also know that, given the timing of the opening By Lainey • Oct 04, 2018 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley and Ryan, pound for pound The Oscars are still five months away. It’s early. I know it’s early. But if you’re an award season nerd, and I know you’re out there, it doesn’t feel too early this year to be talking about the races. Because at this point in the By Lainey • Oct 04, 2018 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper’s Hollywood premiere A Star is Born is a classic Hollywood story, the kind of story that Hollywood loves about itself: when one star rises, another must fall. I don’t care if you yell at me about this being a spoiler – because it’s not a spoiler, it’s a story as By Lainey • Sep 25, 2018 12:45 pm
Style Ryan & Timmy in San Sebastian Ryan Gosling and Timothee Chalamet are both at the San Sebastian Film Festival promoting First Man and Beautiful Boy. Let’s start with Ryan. Because he’s serving us a selection of interesting looks. Ryan wore a red leather jacket when he arrived. Today, with Claire Foy at the photo By Lainey • Sep 24, 2018 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper on tour A Star is Born is two weeks from today. I’m excited for you to see it. I’m excited for you to see Lady Gaga. Or to UN-see Lady Gaga. And I’m excited to talk about all the parts we need to talk about, what worked for you By Lainey • Sep 21, 2018 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper, the contender As you’re now probably aware, after the reaction to A Star is Born in Venice and especially in Toronto, in front of a North American audience, the film is a now a major contender for award season and, ultimately, for Oscar. A Best Picture nomination seems likely, especially if By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy, the contender For all of the amazing photos of Laura Dern in fishing gear, or a dressed down Nicole Kidman hanging with fellow Aussies Hugh Jackman and Joel Edgerton at the Telluride Film Festival over the weekend, it looks like nobody was having more fun than Melissa McCarthy. Her movie, Can You By Joanna • Sep 04, 2018 10:42 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Bradley Cooper’s family campaign As mentioned yesterday, A Star is Born world premieres in Venice tonight and we’ll have a solid idea then how far it can go during award season. Given what we’ve seen of the campaign strategy so far, I can’t imagine that the film is going to crash By Lainey • Aug 31, 2018 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman wants that Oscar Late last year when we saw set photos of Hugh Jackman running around as disgraced presidential hopeful Gary Hart, I stacked up his Oscar odds for The Greatest Showman and concluded, “Better luck next year, Hugh.” Well next year is here, and we have a trailer for The Front Runner, By Sarah • Aug 31, 2018 10:15 am
Style Saoirse & Timmy in Santa Barbara The Oscar Nominees luncheon is happening right now in Beverly Hills. The photos haven’t been posted yet so we’ll have that for you tomorrow. But for sure Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet will be there. First though, last night they were together at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. By Lainey • Feb 05, 2018 03:44 pm
Award Season Campaigning Allison Janney wasn’t sleeping It’s tradition on Oscar nomination morning to hear about how the nominees reacted to their nominations. Some release statements and those make headlines. And, over the years, we’ve become accustomed to the story that they were sleeping. That their moms or their agents woke them up. That their By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 09:56 am
