Top Reads The 2022 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Every year around this time, just before the Oscars, Vanity Fair unveils its annual Hollywood Issue and it can often be controversial for who is featured, who isn’t featured, who’s featured on the front and who lands on the folds, and that conversation can say more about Hollywood By Lainey • Feb 17, 2022 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange is in trouble Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness debuted a new trailer during the Super Bowl, and it shows off more of Stephen Strange futzing about the multiverse that, apparently, he broke open despite his best efforts to shut it down in Spider-Man: No Way Home. It looks like Strange is By Sarah • Feb 14, 2022 12:59 pm
Award Season Campaigning Awards season takes shape As we’ve been saying, this awards season is wide open. But with the SAG nominations landing today, we’re finally starting to get a picture of what the Oscar race really looks like. For instance, The Power of the Dog, a favorite frontrunner since it hit the festival circuit By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anderson + Cumberbatch + Dahl Wes Anderson is on a roll. With The French Dispatch out in 2021, and his next project, an ensemble film called Asteroid City, already in post-production and expected later this year, Anderson is already prepping his next-next project, a Roald Dahl adaptation for Netflix, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The news comes By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange meet in the multiverse The post-credit scene on Spider-Man: No Way Home is a teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has now been released online. It’s fine. It doesn’t feel especially like a Sam Raimi movie, but it does feel like a teaser for a movie that is By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 12:02 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch, Skater Boy Up until last night, Benedict Cumberbatch hasn’t been much of a presence on the Spider-Man: No Way Home press tour, even though Doctor Strange is a big factor in the movie. Most of his press appearances the last few months have been connected to The Power of the Dog, By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Power of the Dog screened last night at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles. The whole cast and Jane Campion turned up, including Kirsten Dunst, Best Supporting Actress contender, and Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Actor contender. So far, Kiki’s campaign has consisted of turning up places looking By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 08:53 am
Award Season Campaigning The Power of the Dog parties The Power of the Dog crew showed up in force at the LACMA Art + Film Gala. Benedict Cumberbatch—who introduced himself to Lil Nas X—along with Sophie Hunter, was there, as were power couple Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, and scene-stealer Kodi Smit-McPhee. The film is a heavy favorite By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 03:23 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Stars at the Academy Museum: A Pre-Oscar Fashion Show The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka the Oscar Academy, has been working on the Academy Museum for several years now. The Museum officially opens on September 30 and this weekend the opening gala was a star-studded event, with multiple Oscar winners in attendance, and members of the By Lainey • Sep 27, 2021 12:57 pm
TIFF 2021 Coverage TIFF Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Benedict Cumberbatch’s other TIFF film, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, could not be more different from The Power of the Dog. Far from the calculated cruelty of his performance in Dog playing a 1920s Montana rancher, in Life Cumberbatch plays English artist Louis Wain, whose illustrations and paintings By Sarah • Sep 16, 2021 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog That Benedict Cumberbatch is capable of great performances is not a surprise at this point, but still there is something astonishing about his performance in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Adapted by Campion from Thomas Savage’s novel of the same name, Cumberbatch plays Phil Burbank, an By Sarah • Sep 13, 2021 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s only the second day of the Venice Film Festival and it looks like a contender has emerged as more and more people are reacting to first screenings of Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Jane was joined by her lead actors Benedict Cumberbatch and By Lainey • Sep 02, 2021 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kirsten Dunst: A Contender? The Venice Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and one of the most highly anticipated titles to world premiere on the Lido this year is Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. As Sarah wrote last week, it looks like Netflix will be putting everything they can behind this film By Lainey • Aug 31, 2021 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch whistles with menace Jane Campion’s first feature film in twelve years is The Power of the Dog, an adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name. Ahead of the film’s premiere at Venice, the teaser has dropped and it features Benedict Cumberbatch whistling menacingly while Kirsten Dunst expresses By Sarah • Aug 27, 2021 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Parker vs. Doctor Strange Over the weekend, a trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home leaked. Now, with CinemaCon, the annual convention for theater owners in Las Vegas, underway, the trailer has been released for real. (Sidebar: Having CinemaCon right now doesn’t feel like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, it feels like trying By Sarah • Aug 24, 2021 10:11 am
Jodie Foster Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster in The Mauritanian Originally brought in for questioning in November 2001, Mohamedou Ould Slahi was eventually renditioned to Jordan by the US government, and then ultimately imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for fourteen years without ever being charged with any crime. In 2015, Slahi published a book, Guantanamo Diary, while still in jail (an By Sarah • Mar 03, 2021 01:43 pm
