Style The Gucci Tiger Gucci kicked off Milan Fashion Week and its new brand direction under Demna last night with a short film screening instead of a runway to showcase his first collection for the house. Demna, of course, is coming from Balenciaga where he was for a decade, and credited with huge growth By Lainey • Sep 24, 2025 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wake Up Dead Man is the creepy one As I write this, it is my final night in Toronto for TIFF and Wake Up Dead Man did not fit into my schedule. I am bereft, I am bothered, I am bemused, I am bereaved(?), I am exhausted and running out of b-synonyms. The teaser for Wake Up Dead By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in A Complete Unknown Walk Hard lampooned music biopics so thoroughly we should probably abandon the whole genre for a while, and yet, Hollywood persists in cranking out music biopics, the cinematic equivalent of a jukebox musical. A Complete Unknown is the latest, directed by James Mangold (who also directed Walk the Line, one By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Missing Timmy Last week I mentioned in a couple of posts that the first screenings for A Complete Unknown were taking place and that we should be hearing initial reactions. And indeed the ones right out the gate were overwhelmingly positive. There have since been a few that are more mixed and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2024 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Questioning A Complete Unknown When the teaser for the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, dropped, I said it would be my dad’s favorite movie of the year, because he loves folk music, and Pete Seeger is his favorite folk guy, and Joan Baez is one of his favorite folk gals, and the By Sarah • Oct 09, 2024 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy-Bob on set Timothée Chalamet is currently at work on James Mangold’s latest music biopic, A Complete Unknown. The film is adapted from Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric! and depicts the moment in Bob Dylan’s career when the young folk singer switched from acoustic to electric guitars. Mangold has By Sarah • May 29, 2024 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Glass Onion The devil is in the details in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the follow-up to 2019’s whodunit, Knives Out. Rian Johnson is once again writing and directing, and Daniel Craig reprises his role as the gentleman sleuth, Benoit Blanc, but otherwise Glass Onion features a new cast of By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benoit Blanc is BACK Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (aka Knives Out 2) premieres at TIFF Saturday evening. I know there are World Events happening right now, but the Glass Onion teaser was my day in between TIFF screenings. We already knew the latest Benoit Blanc mystery takes place on a Greek island, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2022 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glass Onion peels back one layer Y’all know that I am excited for Glass Onion, aka Knives Out 2. I LOVE Knives Out, I have seen it at least ten times at this point, since it came out in 2019, it has been one of my go-to comfort movies (it got a lot of play By Sarah • Aug 24, 2022 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson’s meticulous, highly stylized worlds are particularly suited to stop-motion animation, the most meticulous and stylized form of animation. It’s no coincidence that one of Anderson’s best films is The Fantastic Mr. Fox, his first attempt at stop-motion, and now he follows up Fox with another By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Collateral Beauty SPOILERS because this movie is INSANE Based on the trailers, you probably think Collateral Beauty, aka Will Smith’s holiday movie, is some kind of twenty-first century It’s A Wonderful Life, where the universe conspires to convince a sad schmuck that he’s better off being a sad schmuck, By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 11:44 am
Edward Norton When Edward saved Leo Edward Norton is currently promoting Collateral Beauty. Last week he was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. I missed it. But a reader called Sarah sent me the video yesterday - thank you Sarah! - because during the interview Edward is asked about Leonardo DiCaprio. And delivers some good By Lainey • Dec 13, 2016 12:50 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, Friday October 2, 2015 Dude in the glasses is so stoked. He’s texted this photo to his entire contact list. About last night...Thank you to @Casamigos, @RandeGerber and George for helping me celebrate the launch of #BecomingCindy in London! A photo posted by Cindy Crawford (@cindycrawford) onOct 2, 2015 at 8:01am By Maria • Oct 02, 2015 03:16 pm
TV Updates SNL40: The Bad And now for everything that reminds us that Saturday Night Live is never quite as good as we want it to be. Actors impersonating characters During the “Weekend Update” bit several actors appeared as famous SNL characters. Emma Stone impersonated Gilda Radner’s “Roseanne Roseannadanna”, Melissa McCarthy attempted to take By Sarah • Feb 17, 2015 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews CIFF Review: Birdman Birdman is a tremendous film. There’s no other way to put it. It’s an ASTOUNDING technical accomplishment and a genuinely affecting film that is funny, absurd, moving, and sad. The performances are fantastic, the score is terrific, and where Clouds of Sils Maria gets bogged down in the By Sarah • Oct 20, 2014 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Birdman on the way Venice. Birdman opens the festival tonight. Here’s the cast with director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu at the photo call today…already looking triumphant? Everyone is watching Birdman as one of the expected contenders for Oscar. They’ve been talking like Michael Keaton is a lock. Unless, of course, the film By Lainey • Aug 27, 2014 11:58 am
