Movie Reviews and Previews The Favourite begins campaigning The Favourite is one of my favorite films of the year—yes, I see that, too—and it will be rolling out starting next week, beginning a hopeful Oscar charge. Leading the way on that is a cover feature in The Hollywood Reporter with its trio of stars, Olivia Colman, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2018 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Rami challenge Bradley? Critics’ reactions to Bohemian Rhapsody have been mixed – click here to read Sarah’s thoughts on the film if you missed it – but it is definitely a crowd-pleaser with the box office to match, already crossing the $100 million mark in the US and bringing in strong numbers internationally By Lainey • Nov 15, 2018 10:39 am
Music Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s campaign promise We are in it now. It’s mid-November. Golden Globe nominations will be announced in three weeks. And while we do have a front runner for Oscar Best Picture, the major prize, the one that matters the most, I’m not sure anyone is convinced at the moment that By Lainey • Nov 13, 2018 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ is not the SMA If you have been a regular visitor of this site for the last 15 years, you know that at this time of year, this week exactly actually, I handicap a list of possible contenders for PEOPLE’s annual Sexiest Man Alive and make a prediction. Click here to see last By Lainey • Nov 06, 2018 10:08 am
BFFs Annie honours Hugh Hugh Jackman received the Hollywood Actor Award at the Hollywood Film Awards last night for his performance in Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner which doesn’t come out until November 21. Like I said, this is a bizarre event on the awards circuit but it’s meant to position By Lainey • Nov 05, 2018 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Sometimes Back when she was campaigning for her Black Swan Oscar, I dubbed Natalie Portman “Natalie Never” because I couldn’t handle her cloying campaign persona. Over the years, though, I’ve mellowed toward Portman, and in the last year I’ve actually kind of liked her. It’s mostly thanks By Sarah • Oct 31, 2018 11:29 am
Style Rami Malek’s Oscar odds I have seen Bohemian Rhapsody. I loathe it. I’ll have a full review as soon as I can wrangle my incoherent fuming into something more orderly, but I need a minute to just be in my feelings about how much I hate this movie. There’s a new trailer By Sarah • Oct 25, 2018 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jen and Dolly “politickin’” together? As covered in the previous post, Dolly Parton started her Oscar campaign yesterday for the Dumplin’ soundtrack. Last week, when I wrote about Dumplin’, there had yet to be a release date. We have one now – the movie will start streaming on Netflix December 7th and also have a limited By Lainey • Oct 23, 2018 12:45 pm
Music Dolly says not yet I am EXCITED. As I posted yesterday, even though A Star is Born is currently the Oscar frontrunner across most major categories, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Bradley Cooper, they’re not letting them run away with it. Nobody is standing aside, not yet. Why would they? It’ By Lainey • Oct 23, 2018 11:00 am
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 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 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
