Award Season Campaigning The BAFTA Favourite Roma and The Favourite have the most Oscar nominations (10) this year. And, since it’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, The Favourite was always expected to do well at the BAFTAs. Roma took Best Picture, maintaining its position as the frontrunner with two weeks now to By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Glenn and Gaga: it’s a tie There were two ties at the Critics’ Choice Awards last night: Amy Adams and Patricia Arquette for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television and Glenn Close and Lady Gaga for Best Actress. The Critics also have a category for Best Actress in a Comedy – Olivia By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 09:19 am
Assy Style Lady Gaga: Worst Dressed at the Globes If I’m not here tomorrow it’s because I’ve been taken out by the Little Monsters. Please know I LOVED Lady Gaga in A Star is Born, more than Bradley Cooper, actually. I just can’t get behind Lady Gaga at the Golden Globes, dress and all. By By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s not all Gaga A Star is Born is a big movie. It has emerged as the Oscar Best Picture frontrunner – for now. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will receive multiple nominations. But that doesn’t mean that they’re running away with it. And they shouldn’t run away with it. Anybody running By Lainey • Oct 19, 2018 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Father Figures: Tulip Fever II When it comes to release date shuffling, Tulip Fever is the gold standard. But there is another movie that has quietly been shuffled on and off the release slate, and that is the Owen Wilson/Ed Helms comedy Father Figures (formerly titled Bastards). The movie, which languished at Paramount before By Sarah • Sep 29, 2017 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mediocre Bastards It’s fall, which means it’s time for trailers for award bait films, holiday-season tent poles, and the utter dreck that gets buried out back during January. This post is about a road-comedy movie starring Owen Wilson and Ed Helms—guess which category it falls into? The movie is By Sarah • Sep 23, 2016 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hooked on a feeling Guardians of the Galaxy has always been described as Marvel’s biggest risk to date, which is really saying something when you consider they bet their studio’s future against Iron Man’s success back when RDJ was still uninsurable. But making what amounts to the Marvel version of Spaceballs By Sarah • May 20, 2014 10:33 am
Leonardo DiCaprio Leo at the fashion show I was just saying yesterday that Leo wouldn’t leave Martin Scorsese hanging. But then again, it’s not like going to a fashion show isn’t Leo’s jam. Leonardo DiCaprio LIVES at a fashion show. That’s where he orders his girlfriends from. How much do you love By Lainey • Oct 25, 2013 03:26 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
John Leguizamo Make your move Glenn Close was surrounded by a rather eclectic group last night at a screening in New York for Albert Nobbs that included John Leguizamo and Sinead O’Connor along with Close’s Albert Nobbs co-star Mia Wasikowska. Also in New York, Meryl Streep with her husband Don Gummer at the By Lainey • Dec 14, 2011 02:20 pm
Brad Pitt Award season shaping The New York Film Critics Circle announced their winners today and the Spirit Awards also released their list of nominees which means the Oscar races are starting to take shape. The NBR will reveal on Thursday, and more and more critics circles will follow in the coming days and weeks, By Lainey • Nov 29, 2011 03:38 pm
Robin Williams Glenn & Robin: Garp 30 Half of you, maybe more, probably don’t know what I’m talking about. When did I get so old? Favourite John Irving book? Mine used to be A Prayer For Owen Meany. I read it when I was 18 and thought it was the best sh-t ever. I read By Lainey • Oct 07, 2011 11:20 am