TV Updates Daenerys Stormborn arrives for the Golden Globe week Game Of Thrones is up against The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, and This Is Us for Best Television Drama at the Golden Globes this week. The category looked almost the same last year with one exception – Westworld was in there instead of The Handmaid’s Tale. And By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mary J Blige’s new year “breakthrough” The Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala happened last night. This is always an important stop on the award season circuit since so many Oscar voters show up at the event. Which is why so many Oscar hopefuls show up at the event. The voting period for Oscar nominations By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RPattz goes for it Robert Pattinson gave his best performance to date this year in Good Time. He’s gotten a Gotham Award nomination for it, and an Independent Spirit Award nod, too. People have noticed him doing Good Work this year (he also gave a solid performance in James Grey’s Lost City By Sarah • Dec 08, 2017 01:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, The American Film Institute (AFI) released its Top 10 of 2017 yesterday. We’ll discuss some of the entries through the day but in this space I want to once again spotlight The Big Sick, co-written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V Gordon and, by alphabetical order, the By Lainey • Dec 08, 2017 08:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman, the Showman The Greatest Showman comes out in a couple weeks. Oscar campaigning is in full swing and Hugh Jackman is on the cover of Variety, a favourite read of Academy voters. Is Hugh Jackman a contender? In October, Sarah wrote about his chances and she decided that he doesn’t have By Kathleen • Dec 06, 2017 03:52 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 5, 2017 Dear Gossips, If you haven’t already, listen to the Angelina Jolie interview on Scott Feinberg’s Awards Chatter podcast that was just posted yesterday. It’s almost an hour of her talking through her career, sounding more relaxed and casual than she does when we see her on panels By Lainey • Dec 05, 2017 08:39 am
Books Intro for December 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, The NY Film Critics Circle announced their selections for the best of 2017 yesterday. And guess who just stomped into the awards race? TIFFANY HADDISH! Tiffany was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Girls Trip even though the NYFCC was big on Lady Bird. Lady Bird By Lainey • Dec 01, 2017 08:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta & Saoirse get closer Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, set the record for best reviews at Rotten Tomatoes. Saoirse Ronan is the star of the film. Saoirse won Best Actress at the Gotham Awards which moves her into very strong position for an Oscar nomination By Lainey • Nov 29, 2017 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson’s nominations Robert Pattinson and some friends were photographed sightseeing at the Acropolis in Greece yesterday. I’ve never been to Greece. I so badly want to eat my way through Greece. The reason we’ve yet to go to Greece is because I feel like I would need more than a By Lainey • Nov 22, 2017 11:26 am
Dumbass Get Out challenges award season Should we care about award season when Hollywood’s predator infestation is so far from being exterminated? Is award season trivial? Sure, parts of it. But there are some storylines that are playing out this award season that deserve our attention. Consider Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut and By Lainey • Nov 17, 2017 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Feeling CMBYN I FINALLY saw Call Me By Your Name, and Lainey would like me to get “all up in my feelings” about it, but I don’t have Kathleen’s gift for emotive expression. I do really like it, kind of love it, actually, and you will certainly feel many things By Sarah • Nov 16, 2017 11:17 am
Award Season Campaigning Getting ready for the Golden Globes The Hollywood Foreign Press Association celebrated 75 years of the Golden Globes last night. As mentioned earlier, the Golden Globe nominations will be announced on December 11. Many of the contenders attended the event last night, continuing to work the award season circuit. I’ve mentioned a few times now By Lainey • Nov 16, 2017 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mary J. Blige, an appreciation I won’t pretend that this post is anything other than an expression of admiration and excitement for Mary J. Blige. So, if you don’t want to read me glowing up Mary J for too many words, turn back now. It has been a little over a year since By Kathleen • Nov 16, 2017 09:06 am
Douchebags JT’s Oscar suck-up The best thing about the Oscars last year was that Justin Timberlake did not win one. He tried though. He was nominated for Best Song for the Worst Song of 2016, Can’t Stop The Feeling, from the movie Trolls. What JT really wants though, as we know, is to By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 12:38 pm
Award Season Campaigning Angelina dances with Agnes and talks to Jake Angelina Jolie attended the Academy’s Governors Awards on Saturday to present an Honorary Oscar to Agnes Varda. This isn’t the first time this season that she’s stepped out to support Agnes. Last month she attended the premiere of Agnes’s documentary Faces Places. So there’s an By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 11:59 am
BFFs Emma, Jen, and Andrew As mentioned earlier, the Governors Awards happened on Saturday. These are not the Oscars but it’s an Academy event, and Oscar voters are present, so it’s a critical campaign stop. Almost everyone shows up. Almost. We’ll get to that later but first… Oscar-winning friends, Emma Stone and By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 11:15 am