Movie Reviews and Previews Teasing and torturing Leonardo DiCaprio It was decided weeks and weeks ago – Leonardo DiCaprio will win Best Actor for being cold in The Revenant. Everybody knows this. Everyone in his category knows this. Even science knows this. Have you seen the Best Actor analysis on FiveThirtyEight? There’s basically no way he can lose at By Lainey • Feb 09, 2016 11:28 am
TV Live Blog Tom Hardy before the Oscars On Monday we say Happy New Year, welcome the Year of the Monkey. On Monday the Toronto Zoo will also be making an announcement about the baby pandas. The cubs are now 4 months old. And we’ll learn their names on Chinese New Year! Click here to visit the By Lainey • Feb 05, 2016 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson OscarsSoWhite Timing is on Brie Larson’s side. Or is it? She’s the subject of a new cover story in The Hollywood Reporter one week after earning an Oscar nomination for her work in Room. Brie’s been building Oscar momentum all season. She won a Golden Globe and a By Joanna • Jan 21, 2016 11:26 am
Media Manipulation Leo’s victory tour Still 5 weeks to go before Leonardo DiCaprio collects his first Oscar for his performance in The Revenant. He’s been in Europe this week promoting the film. It’s kinda like an advance victory tour. Leo was honoured in Davos yesterday at the Annual Crystal Awards to open the By Lainey • Jan 20, 2016 01:45 pm
Award Season Campaigning Matt Damon went to lose It’s done. Leonardo DiCaprio will win his first Oscar for being cold and snotty in The Revenant. By now his lead is pretty much insurmountable and, as Sarah noted a couple of weeks ago, the voters probably just want to get it over with so he stops trying to By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 09:40 am
Maple Leaf Rachel reps Spotlight Rachel McAdams was the only Spotlight cast member present at the Critics’ Choice Awards last night and spoke on behalf of the cast when it was named Best Acting Ensemble. “Our cast” is what she said, which is the way it should be said. Once again, just as it was By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 08:33 am
Bad Style Jennifer Aniston: Worst Critics’ Choice How about a wayback throwback even though it’s not Wednesday or Thursday? Last year at the Critics’ Choice Awards, fresh off not being nominated for an Oscar, even after hiring an Oscar consultant and campaigning valiantly by wearing her hair up and going “serious”, Jennifer Aniston showed up at By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 07:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The first draft of Leonardo DiCaprio’s acceptance speech We’re preparing ourselves for the inevitability of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar win, right? There’s always a chance that Bryan Cranston’s Trumbo hustle could pay off, or that Michael Fassbender will get off his ass and decide to participate and upset Leo, but I think we’re all By Sarah • Jan 14, 2016 04:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rachel in, Kristen out Rachel McAdams was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar this morning. TwiHards were hoping that Kristen Stewart would get in there, given that several critics associations singled her out and it was great to see her out there, hustling for it. But she was always going to be a By Lainey • Jan 14, 2016 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse Ronan, Irish Oscar Nominee So Saoirse Ronan grabs an Oscar nomination, which is not really a surprise, given that the buzz about Brooklyn has been huge, and that she’s a great actress. Remember, it’s not even her first nomination – that was for Atonement, back in 2008. What was a surprise was getting By Duana • Jan 14, 2016 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo vs Max Well, my one prediction was wrong. Young Jacob Tremblay was not nominated for an Oscar. But he is in an Oscar nominated film, Room. There will be 8 films competing for Best Picture this year at the Oscars. So the nominations were just announced. We’ll be splitting up the By Lainey • Jan 14, 2016 09:31 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Leo & the baby dangle It has been so satisfying to watch Leonardo DiCaprio go for this Oscar. Because Leo wasn’t supposed to be the one with so much Try. Leo wasn’t supposed to be the one who was desperate for it. Leo was the one who just worked for the work, you By Lainey • Jan 13, 2016 10:48 am
Maple Leaf Intro for January 13, 2016 Dear Gossips, Jacob Tremblay, from Room. And also from Vancouver. I miss you every day, Vancouver. Anyway, Jacob’s dad was trending during the Golden Globes the other night, did you hear about this? Click here if you missed it. Fine…but what about mom? Jacob was accompanied by both By Lainey • Jan 13, 2016 09:05 am
Douchebags Leo is sensitive to the “persecuted” woman This morning Parade posted their new interview with Leonardo DiCaprio. The Revenant (Struggler) opens in wide release today. Leo talks a lot about his work as an environmental activist and humanitarian and how he feels a moral obligation to do more with his platform, because otherwise greed will win: Parade: By Lainey • Jan 08, 2016 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Double Alicia BAFTA award nominations were announced today as the Academy nominations deadline nears. (Ballots are due at the end of the day.) Just as she was for the Golden Globes, Alicia Vikander has been nominated twice. She’s in the Best Actress category, proper, for her work in The Danish Girl, By Lainey • Jan 08, 2016 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ and a baby It’s Golden Globes weekend. Michael B Jordan has not been nominated and Creed was not included in the film categories, its only nomination was for Sylvester Stallone as Best Supporting Actor – which will be one of the best speeches of the night if he wins, I promise you. MBJ By Lainey • Jan 08, 2016 10:07 am
