Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asian Moms If you weren’t already going into Crazy Rich Asians obsessed with Michelle Yeoh, you will definitely be leaving the movie obsessed with Michelle Yeoh. She is a legend. And for many, many years, she was one of the few, if not only, Asian women repping the side internationally. I By Lainey • Aug 15, 2018 11:24 am
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2018 Dear Gossips, Last week the initial projections for the Crazy Rich Asians opening box office had it between $18-20 million. I said I thought we could do better. Yesterday afternoon, the number moved up to $26 million. Now we’re hearing it could be $30 million, which would make back By Lainey • Aug 15, 2018 09:06 am
Douchebags Marky Mark vs the Asians As I noted this morning in the open, they were projecting a five-day total of $20 million, on the high side, for Crazy Rich Asians. That number has now been adjusted. According to Variety, it’s now climbed to $26 million and its fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes has gotten By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 04:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians review As the first predominately Asian film Hollywood has produced since The Joy Luck Club twenty-five years ago, Crazy Rich Asians has many eyes on it for many reasons, and it has the unenviable task of being everything to everybody. Adapted by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim from Kevin Kwan’s By Sarah • Aug 14, 2018 04:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 14, 2018 Dear Gossips, Oh did you think I wasn’t going to be mentioning Crazy Rich Asians this week? There was no CRA content yesterday because I’m hitting you up with so much of it today, tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday for its five-day opening weekend. Not only because, as director By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 09:03 am
Girlcrushes Gemma Chan: your new Girl Crush That sounded really bossy, like I’m ordering you to make Gemma Chan your new girl crush. It’s not an order. It’s a prediction. She will be, once you see Crazy Rich Asians. Everyone I know who has seen it has come out of there with a beast By Lainey • Aug 10, 2018 10:52 am
Crazy Rich Asians Intro for August 10, 2018 Dear Gossips, Last summer, The Big Sick was called “the best romantic comedy in years”, becoming one of the highest grossing independent films of 2017, and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V Gordon. The Verge called The Big Sick a “culturally specific By Lainey • Aug 10, 2018 09:03 am
Quiveration Henry & Liv: a new obsession Oh hi. I’m here to talk at you about Crazy Rich Asians again. Did I mention the Crazy Hot Asian Dudes in the movie? One those hot dudes, the main hot dude, is Henry Golding, who plays the “Prince Charming” in the story, because CRA is a rom-com, which By Lainey • Aug 09, 2018 04:09 pm
Girlcrushes Gabrielle steps back Gabrielle Union is one of our favourites here at LG. She is one of our faves because she is unfiltered but thoughtful and candid but careful. Gabrielle Union was at the Blogher Creators Summit and she proved once again why she’s a fave. Gabrielle revealed that she turned down By Kathleen • Aug 09, 2018 02:04 pm
What Else What Else? There is still so much more to say about the Crazy Rich Asians Hollywood premiere last night that I’m spacing out for the rest of the week. Because, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m bombarding you with the coverage every day until the movie comes out. Like By Lainey • Aug 08, 2018 05:16 pm
Gorgessity Constance Wu: leading lady Crazy Rich Asians is Constance Wu’s first role in a studio film. First! And she’s the leading lady. She is The Star. This is her character’s story. Which means that at last night’s premiere, she was the Julia Roberts of the event. I’m making a By Lainey • Aug 08, 2018 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 8, 2018 Dear Gossips, It’s August 8, 2018. 8.8.18 8 is the luckiest number in Chinese numerology. So you could say, numerologically, it might be the luckiest day of the year. Last night, August 7, was the Hollywood premiere of Crazy Rich Asians. But given the time difference, when By Lainey • Aug 08, 2018 09:27 am
Quiveration Crazy Rich Hot Asian Guys Crazy Rich Asians in Vanity Fair!!! Have you seen this yet? Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Henry Golding, Chris Pang, and Sonoya Mizuno, all-Asian actors featured in a fashion editorial ahead of the release of the film next Wednesday, August 15 – again, not something you see every day and certainly not By Lainey • Aug 07, 2018 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 7, 2018 Dear Gossips, Tonight is the Hollywood premiere of Crazy Rich Asians. I’m getting emotional just anticipating this carpet, what that carpet will look like, seeing the arrival of Asian actor after Asian actor, repping the first all-Asian English-language film by a major Hollywood studio in 25 years. I was By Lainey • Aug 07, 2018 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Constance Wu’s: swearing and obligation Constance Wu covers the new issue of FASHION. I’m sorry if this is getting old for you if you’re a regular visitor of this site but it’s not often that we see an Asian-American actress on the cover of a fashion magazine in North America. It’s By Lainey • Aug 03, 2018 10:25 am
Style Gemma Chan: meet your new obsession Everyone I know who’s seen Crazy Rich Asians came out of there obsessed with Gemma Chan. It was inevitable. This is why when I wrote about the trailer back in April, I noted that it was low on Astrid, her character, deliberately. Rachel Chu, played by Constance Wu, is By Lainey • Aug 01, 2018 12:08 pm
