Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper, Nominee As Sarah just wrote in the previous post about today’s Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper did not make the cut in the Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor categories for his performances in Nightmare Alley and Licorice Pizza. It was his part in Licorice Pizza that was the highest possibly By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 12:27 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Oscar nominations: No chaos Unlike the BAFTA nominations, which are pure chaos, the Oscar nominations this morning are much more in line with expectations. The Power of the Dog, an awards favorite since last fall, leads all nominations with twelve. Craft-friendly Dune follows with ten. West Side Story and Belfast follow with seven apiece. By Sarah • Feb 08, 2022 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the greater Los Angeles milieu of the 1970s, but instead of a despairing tale about the failure of the American Dream, he’s here with a sweet, mostly gentle coming of age dramedy loosely inspired by his own adolescence in the Valley. As someone who By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 01:47 pm
Relationship Assumption Bradley & Irina on the red carpet Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley has officially entered the award season chat. He’s an Oscar-winning director. He directed an Oscar Best Picture (The Shape of Water). So insiders were always leaving open room in the awards race for this film. Nightmare Alley screened last night for the first By Lainey • Dec 02, 2021 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nightmare Alley continues teasing us Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley opens in a month, and so far, it’s the least thirsty of the major awards contenders. I’m sure that will change as we get closer to the press tour and unleashing Bradley Cooper in a year with the toughest dude competition in By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 11:39 am
Award Season Campaigning Lady Gaga: Home for Gucci Tonight is the New York City premiere of House of Gucci and we’ve already seen Lady Gaga light it up on the UK red carpet and in Milan, but NYC is home for her. And, well, she’s been going all out to promote this film and her performance By Lainey • Nov 16, 2021 01:56 pm
Relationship Assumption Bradley & Irina: Back Together? Here are some new shots Bradley Cooper out in New York today. His hair is looking GREAT – like getting to that classic Bradley Cooper hair length. Like Hangover length, who let the dogs out? Anyway, Bradley’s making headlines today because he was photographed walking arm-in-arm with Irina Shayk. You By Lainey • Nov 16, 2021 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper and Campaign Endorsements One of the most interesting parts of award season, at least to us here on this site, is seeing who steps up to endorse whom on the Oscar campaign trail. Because endorsements tell us about celebrity friendships. Julia Roberts has campaigned for Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Anne Hathaway has By Lainey • Nov 10, 2021 11:56 am
Hair Bradley Cooper: Looking good and right on time Here are some new shots of Bradley Cooper in New York yesterday. Bradley’s maintained a low public profile for about two years now but behind the scenes, there’s a lot of work that’s been happening and we’re about to see the results of that work quite By Lainey • Oct 20, 2021 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper revisits A Star Is Born (kinda) After posting about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, Licorice Pizza¸ Southern California gossips wrote in to let us know that Licorice Pizza was a record store in the region during the 1970s and 1980s. Cool, it’s still word salad to the rest of the world. I don’t By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 01:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews PTA is here with Licorice Pizza Licorice Pizza sounds terrible. Not as a film, but as a thing. Licorice is one of those flavors, very strong and sometimes medicinal, that not everyone likes. Pizza, however, is universal. Everyone has their own idea about what goes on pizza, but pizza itself is widely adored. I wonder what By Sarah • Sep 23, 2021 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is a monstrous man in Nightmare Alley Yesterday we saw the first look for Guillermo Del Toro’s new film, Nightmare Alley, and now we have a teaser by which to get a taste of Del Toro’s latest dark fantasia. It looks creepy all right! Old timey carnivals are always creepy, that’s a given. The By Sarah • Sep 17, 2021 09:21 am
Award Season Campaigning Del Toro, Coop, and Cate enter the race One of the big question marks of the 2021 awards season was Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, a new adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s novel (there is also a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell) of the same name. Del Toro literally JUST finished the film, By Sarah • Sep 16, 2021 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper goes to yoga Bradley Cooper has been quiet the last couple of years. It’s the pandemic, of course, which is still not over, which I feel the need to repeat all the time because there are people out there acting like it is, but it’s also because it was definitely not By Lainey • Aug 23, 2021 03:15 pm
BFFs The Regina King Party…and Bradley Cooper Regina King and Kemp Powers were honoured last night at the Moth Ball in New York City. Regina directed the film adaptation of Kemp’s play, One Night in Miami, that was released last year and made a run during award season. This is a powerful partnership and the event By Lainey • Jun 23, 2021 10:28 am
Relationship Assumption Irina’s week without Kanye It’s been a week since photos confirmed that Kanye West and Irina Shayk have indeed been spending time together. There’s not much more information than that – other than she was with him for his birthday trip to France with some other friends, and that sources say they’ve By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 02:51 pm
