Movie Reviews and Previews Task without the accent Last year, we saw Chris Hemsworth (the largest man) on set with Halle Berry working on Crime 101, a heist thriller that also stars Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, and Nick Nolte. Well, now we have a trailer, and I am SUPER into it. Crime 101 is By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 01:55 pm
Cannes 2025 Cannes 2025: The Final Carpet And that’s it for Cannes 2025 as the festival wrapped up last night with the traditional award ceremony celebrating this year’s honourees. The Palme d’Or went to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident. He's been sent to prison twice in Iran for criticising By Lainey • May 26, 2025 11:40 am
Cannes 2025 Mia Threapleton’s Cannes moment Cannes is in full swing, but it seems like it’s an unusually muted year, at least on the business side of things. Beyond the festival, Cannes is also a film market, but like Sundance earlier this year, blockbuster deals are not really happening—a recession indicator. Everyone is nervous By Sarah • May 20, 2025 12:45 pm
What Else Halle Berry: A sleepy dress Halle Berry made headlines earlier this week at the Cannes jury press conference when she revealed that she had to make a last minute wardrobe change to accommodate the new dress code that discouraged big ballgowns. Here she is last night at the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning gala in By Lainey • May 15, 2025 04:44 pm
Cannes 2025 Cannes begins The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival is underway, and already, we’ve seen fallout from the new dress code banning “nudity and voluminous outfits” on the Croisette. During yesterday’s jury press conference, Halle Berry said she had to change her dress, from designer Guarav Gupta, because it had a By Sarah • May 14, 2025 11:24 am
Top Reads Halle Berry’s travel item Halle Berry is on the Cannes jury this year and she arrived a few days ago. Here she is at the Hotel Martinez yesterday, one of the festival hotspots and where jury members often stay because of its location on the Croisette and its proximity to the Palais where they By Lainey • May 13, 2025 11:22 am
Top Reads Adrien Brody: A Case for Speechwriters If there was another bad speech at the Oscars, I don’t remember it, because Adrien Brody decided to take so much time near the end of a show that was already running long – he erased all recollection of anyone else who was annoying up on that stage with a By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 08:59 am
Gorgessity Intro for November 14, 2024 Dear Gossips, What’s the most famous Oscar dress of all time? Near the top of that list has to be Halle Berry in Elie Saab. She made history in that dress, becoming the first Black women to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Monster’s Ball. By Lainey • Nov 14, 2024 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle AND Chris on set Earlier this week, Halle Berry was seen on set, filming Bart Layton’s new heist thriller, Crime 101. Yesterday, she was back at work but this time with co-star with Chris Hemsworth, the largest man. You know intellectually that Chris Hemsworth is a big dude, but then you see him By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle stressed on set Crime writer Don Winslow is about to have a moment. Sony is building a franchise around Austin Butler with his series City on Fire, and there is already an adaptation of his novella Crime 101 in production in Los Angeles. Halle Berry was seen filming on Venice Beach yesterday, sporting By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 02:43 pm
Gorgessity Halle Berry’s pre-Birthday Premiere Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg are in a new Netflix movie together called The Union that’s releasing on Friday. His name comes before her in the credits in the trailer. I just made a face writing that line. In addition to Halle and Mark, JK Simmons and Lorraine Bracco By Lainey • Aug 13, 2024 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry’s post-apocalyptic kids There is no worse person to be stuck in an apocalypse with than a child. Show me a kid in an apocalypse movie, and I will show you an adult standing next to that kid who is about to die. An interesting apocalypse movie might be one in which a By Sarah • May 17, 2024 02:22 pm
Relationship Assumption Ali Wong’s BDE: Big Divorce Energy Stephanie writes often about how celebrities, particularly female celebrities, are perceived after divorce, and how we culturally talk about women when they end their relationships/marriages. There is no one way to feel when a marriage ends, all feelings are valid. Kinda like … perimenopause, lol. Menopause is the end of By Lainey • May 17, 2024 11:58 am
Equality Issues Halle Berry's Unreasonable Conversation Superstar Halle Berry recently shared how she discovered she had entered into perimenopause during a conversation with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the fourth annual “Day of Unreasonable Conversation”. Halle described her doctor taking her symptoms as an indication she had herpes and flat out told her she’d By Stephanie • Mar 27, 2024 10:36 am
BFFs Angelina & Halle: The Enemies to Lovers Trope I just wrote in the previous post about Joshua Jackson and Lupita Nyong’o and the Friends to Lovers trope. Now we have another trope happening – it’s the Enemies to Lovers trope, very popular, and while this isn’t about a conventional romance, friendships can function like romances. Falling By Lainey • Dec 07, 2023 10:22 am
Douchebags Halle Berry: A Royal Reminder Halle Berry’s been a headline for the last few days and if you missed it, here’s a quick summary of what happened. Drake and SZA released a new song called “Slime You Out”. Drake used an image of Halle Berry getting slimed at the 2012 Kids’ Choice Awards. By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 11:14 am
