Movie Reviews and Previews Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, and no one else(!) in Crisis In the vein of Steven Soderbergh’s narcotics opus Traffic, Nicholas Jarecki’s Crisis follows three different storylines attacking the opioid epidemic from different angles: big pharma, law enforcement, and street user. Someday, someone will make a definitive film about the opioid epidemic in America, but Crisis is not that By Sarah • Mar 05, 2021 03:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Crisis an Armie Hammer biopic? In the wake of his sexts and cannibal DMs, Armie Hammer has been largely silent. The one statement he issued was a rebuke that also covered his withdrawal from an upcoming project with Jennifer Lopez (Josh Duhamel is in talks to replace him). But some movies are already made starring By Sarah • Jan 28, 2021 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried in Mank David Fincher is too technically proficient as a director to make a really bad movie. Even his less interesting efforts will have something worth looking at, and Mank is certainly one such case. A biopic of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Mank is an odd Fincher misfire. It’s based on a By Sarah • Dec 08, 2020 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews David Fincher worships at the altar of Mank and Welles David Fincher’s latest film is for Netflix, as is becoming the way for top-tier directors who can’t get the funding they want from traditional studios. Titled Mank, it is a biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who co-wrote Citizen Kane, among other things (including an uncredited draft of By Sarah • Oct 08, 2020 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Laundromat of smugness So far, The Laundromat is my biggest TIFF disappointment. I was looking forward to this film for a few reasons, but only one of them proved out—Meryl Streep’s bucket hat is very jaunty, indeed. Every other element of the film is either miscalculated or confusing. The Laundromat is By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl’s bucket hat Meryl Streep is receiving the TIFF Tribute Actor Award at this year’s film festival, to go along with the North American premiere of her new film, The Laundromat, directed by Steven Soderbergh. I’m not going to lie, when I first heard Soderbergh made a movie starring Meryl Streep By Sarah • Aug 29, 2019 11:05 am
Golden Globes 2018 Will Gary be Casey? Casey Affleck is Oscar’s current reigning Best Actor. Would Casey Affleck, alleged sexual harasser, have won that Oscar this year? Last year, during award season, I kept linking to Amy Zimmerman’s excellent piece in The Daily Beast about Casey Affleck’s past. About that lawsuit that he settled By Lainey • Jan 08, 2018 04:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gary Oldman goes for Oscar in Darkest Hour Darkest Hour begins as Neville Chamberlain is forced to resign as Prime Minister on the eve of World War II, and Winston Churchill is selected as his replacement after the more popular Lord Halifax—also a supporter of appeasement—passes up the opportunity. It’s a bit of political maneuvering By Sarah • Sep 14, 2017 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Costner in Criminal Somehow, incredibly, in the span of less than one year, Ryan Reynolds appears in the same bad movie, twice. Last summer I had to sit through the mind-numbingly bad Self/Less, in which Reynold stars as a body-swapped action hero, and I just sat through the soul-crushing nothing of Criminal, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 01:33 pm
Media Manipulation Intro for June 26, 2014 Dear Gossips, How many chances do you get to get an apology right? Robin Thicke’s been trying for months. And his most recent attempt, that creepy gross video, isn’t a great effort. But then again, monetising your contrition, and attaching it to your career, doesn’t exactly smell By Lainey • Jun 26, 2014 09:18 am
Dumbass Gary Oldman apologises So you’ve heard about this Gary Oldman Playboy interview, right? Oldman’s defenders tried to make it sound like he was taken out of context. How could he be taken out of context when the magazine posted the transcript? Others are saying that Oldman was simply “illustrating the absurd By Lainey • Jun 25, 2014 09:52 am
Music Punk is not going to Punk Could Iman have pulled off Anna Wintour’s floral Chanel at the MET Gala on Monday? How is what you’re wearing Punk, Iman? It’s not. I married David Bowie. If you’ve not seen this yet, you’re about to experience a love explosion. It’s Bowie’s By Lainey • May 08, 2013 12:14 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Gary Oldman’s animal print scarf Please let’s stop to admire the badassness of Gary Oldman, always, but especially when he’s in his favourite leather jacket/animal print scarf combination looking impossibly cool, particularly when his son is embracing him. By Lainey • Dec 24, 2012 10:50 am
Gary Oldman Christian Bale’s emotions Um, Christian Bale and Natalie Portman look SUPER HOT as a couple, right? I’m so excited to see him look like himself in a movie - not scowling, not dying, not drug-addicted and emaciated but ordinary, and smiling. Anyway, about last night at the Movie Awards - in case By Lainey • Jun 04, 2012 04:00 pm
BFFs Goodbye Award Season Gary And Sirius Black too. But hopefully it won’t be the last time he’s nominated for an Oscar. Hopefully next time he wins. For now, enjoy Gary on the carpet with his wife Alexandra and being delightful and awesome with Janet McTeer and Glenn Close at Vanity Fair afterwards, By Lainey • Feb 27, 2012 01:17 pm
Gorgessity The Longshot If Gary Oldman was to build any momentum at all for Oscar as Sarah’s prediction, he really needed the BAFTA for Best Actor. This did not happen. Not to say he’s out of it entirely, but his chances are even smaller now. Like, microscopic. But that’s why By Lainey • Feb 13, 2012 06:17 pm
