Movie Reviews and Previews Is Borderlands our new Fifth Element? The quest to permanently dispel the video game curse—and maybe overtake the superhero movie as the dominant popcorn entertainment genre—continues with Borderlands, Eli Roth’s take on the popular game series that debuted in 2009. The first trailer dropped and it’s sort of a wild mess, but By Sarah • Feb 21, 2024 02:15 pm
TV Updates A Casual Cate Blanchett Last year around this time, Cate Blanchett was campaigning for her third Oscar as Lydia Tár. It was between her and Michelle Yeoh and it was a tight race. Michelle won the SAG but Cate won the BAFTA, Critics Choice, the Gotham, and several more. It was Michelle in the By Lainey • Feb 09, 2024 10:55 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Cate Blanchett keeps rewearing Like Zendaya and Rihanna, at this point, Cate Blanchett should be retired from best dressed and outfit of the week consideration because the looks are always amazing. But what Cate’s doing here is extra, extra special, even by her standards. This is Cate last night at the Fragrance Foundation By Lainey • Jun 16, 2023 12:40 pm
Oscars 2023 Nicole Kidman’s Best Actress Dress Code Nicole Kidman is a beautiful woman, no question. She’s tall and striking, no question. Is it absolutely beyond the pale for me to suggest that has nothing to do with why she looks so damn good all the time? I mean yes, it’s preposterous. Of course it’s By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 09:34 am
Top Reads Michelle and Cate in a dead heat Just as Ke Huy Quan made history at the SAG Awards, so did Michelle Yeoh. Like Quan, she’s the first Asian to win in her category, in this case, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. And like Quan, she gave a wonderful, emotional speech, and By Sarah • Feb 27, 2023 10:39 am
Award Season Campaigning The big BAFTA weekend We are getting down to the wire in awards season, with the BAFTAs and the Directors’ Guild Awards occurring over the weekend. Because of their recent voting changes, the BAFTAs aren’t as central to the Oscar race as they used to be; for instance, despite both giving excellent performances, By Sarah • Feb 20, 2023 11:06 am
Award Season Campaigning Hollywood’s Great Cate Here’s what I’ve observed about how people in Hollywood perceive Cate Blanchett over the last 17 years I’ve spent working as an entertainment reporter. I’ll always remember Mark Ruffalo walking out of a junket suite at TIFF jokingly exclaiming to an entire hallway of journalists that By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics Cast Their Votes The Critics’ Choice Awards came and went last night with more of a whimper than a bang—it was a boring show and I say this as someone who gets to vote for those awards—but it is also the last big moment before Oscar nominations close on Tuesday. So, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2023 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The SAG Awards look like an Oscar preview We are in the thick of awards season, coming off the mid-week Golden Globes and diving right into the SAG Awards nominations, which were announced yesterday morning, and voting for Oscar nominations starts tomorrow. The importance of the SAG Awards during awards season is debatable—some people will insist they’ By Sarah • Jan 12, 2023 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Actresses Show Up To Campaign Unlike the Best Actor category which I posted about earlier, the Best Actress category for Oscar this year is much more competitive. We have our frontrunners, no doubt, but there are several other women with legitimate claims to the few remaining spots. And it’s looking like it’s a By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 01:41 pm
Style All the Cate Fashion I wrote about The Woman King and Viola Davis in the previous post and their Oscar ambitions. Viola will submit in the Best Actress category and we’ve been talking about how competitive it’s looking this year, even though Ana de Armas’s chances might be receding with all By Lainey • Oct 04, 2022 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett’s third Oscar? At the Venice Film Festival, Cate Blanchett won the Volpi Cup for best actress, for her starring role in Tár, Todd Field’s long-awaited third feature film. In it, Blanchett plays a composer-conductor, Lydia Tár, who lands in some kind of trouble. The logline describes her as a “promethean artist By Sarah • Sep 29, 2022 02:50 pm
Gorgessity Cate, Julianne, and Timmy: Scenes from Venice Cate Blanchett is now in Venice to promote Todd Field’s film, Tár, in which she plays a conductor. Early reaction to her performance is overwhelmingly positive, at least from what I’ve seen. The Hollywood Reporter says she “astounds” in the film, and The Guardian calls it a “colossal” By Lainey • Sep 01, 2022 02:06 pm
Style Cate Blanchett, podcaster Cate Blanchett was in New York last night to receive the prestigious Chaplin Award by Film at Lincoln Centre. At 52, she is one of the youngest recipients of the award, just 38 days older than Tom Hanks when he won it at 52 too. Take a look at the By Lainey • Apr 26, 2022 10:01 am
SAG Awards 2022 Black and Colour: SAG Fashion Selects Before the SAGs last night, I told Sarah I was curious whether or not the fashion would be scaled back because of what’s happening in Ukraine; it’s happened before. No judgment either way, I was just trying to anticipate all angles of what we might see at the By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 01:35 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
