Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina + Halle! Deadline had the exclusive yesterday - Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie have signed on to do a movie together…and it’s an ACTION movie. Multiple studios apparently wanted in on this and Warner Bros came out with the rights after a bidding war and that tracks, because these are By Lainey • Apr 19, 2023 01:41 pm
Top Reads Michelle and Halle: History and History You know what Sarah wrote earlier about Angela Bassett wanting the Oscar and being disappointed about not winning the Oscar? And not hiding the fact that she was disappointed, which is her right? Well Michelle Yeoh wanted it too and she wasn’t hiding it either. Moments before the Best By Lainey • Mar 13, 2023 03:01 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, Halle Berry received the SeeHer Award last night at the Critics Choice Awards. During her acceptance speech, she talked about starring in and directing Bruised, and asking someone she knew about what he thought of the film afterwards, honestly. He told her that he felt uncomfortable “seeing a By Lainey • Mar 14, 2022 08:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry in Bruised Halle Berry makes her directorial debut with Bruised, a film that is half comeback-story sports drama, half family drama, and all cliché. Berry also stars in Bruised, as disgraced MMA fighter Jackie Justice, whose career is ended after she climbs out of the octagonal cage during a bout she is By Sarah • Nov 25, 2021 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crush me, moon daddy! Moonfall, the dumbest movie of 2022, is here with a new trailer about the moon obliterating Earth. Or maybe it’s really the secret aliens—robots?—that have been hiding inside the moon trying to kill us. Either way, the moon is the harbinger of our doom, which is slanderous By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry’s Bruised debut Halle Berry’s directorial debut, Bruised, is coming to Netflix in November. It’s a film about a washed-up MMA fighter working her way back to the top while also trying to reconnect with her estranged son. The trailer is appropriately intense, if a little cliched. All the fight movie By Sarah • Oct 15, 2021 10:17 am
Award Season Campaigning The Stars at the Academy Museum: A Pre-Oscar Fashion Show The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka the Oscar Academy, has been working on the Academy Museum for several years now. The Museum officially opens on September 30 and this weekend the opening gala was a star-studded event, with multiple Oscar winners in attendance, and members of the By Lainey • Sep 27, 2021 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Moonfall: The dumbest movie of 2022 When Moonfall was first announced, I hoped that the movie about the moon crashing into Earth would be the dumbest movie of 2021. Thanks to COVID delays, though, it won’t be coming out until 2022, so now I hope it’s the dumbest movie of 2022. The teaser dropped By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 11:03 am
Relationship Assumption Halle Berry’s Boyfriend Identified Back in August, when Halle Berry celebrated her birthday, she posted a photo of her feet entangled in bed with another pair of feet but at the time nobody knew who her boyfriend was. In my post about it, I wondered how long it would take for the internet to By Lainey • Sep 18, 2020 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry gets a deal As expected when she was photographed in LA a few weeks ago, Halle Berry was the Variety cover story last week ahead of TIFF and the premiere of her directorial debut Bruised. The piece is a profile of Halle’s ambition as a director and her passion for the film, By Lainey • Sep 14, 2020 11:19 am
Gorgessity Countdown to Director Berry Halle Berry was seen in downtown LA yesterday apparently doing a photo shoot for Variety. I assume that the shoot will be for an upcoming feature promoting her directorial debut. She produces and directs herself in Bruised about an MMA fighter trying to make a comeback, not just in the By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 02:21 pm
Gorgessity Countdown to Director Berry Halle Berry was seen in downtown LA yesterday apparently doing a photo shoot for Variety. I assume that the shoot will be for an upcoming feature promoting her directorial debut. She produces and directs herself in Bruised about an MMA fighter trying to make a comeback, not just in the By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 02:21 pm
Gorgessity Countdown to Director Berry Halle Berry was seen in downtown LA yesterday apparently doing a photo shoot for Variety. I assume that the shoot will be for an upcoming feature promoting her directorial debut. She produces and directs herself in Bruised about an MMA fighter trying to make a comeback, not just in the By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry’s Geostorm Geostorm (GEOSTOOOOOOORM) is one of the great dumb movies of the 2010s—maybe THE great dumb movie of the 2010s—but if you’ve ever said to yourself, “What I’d REALLY like is Geostorm but with a hot lady,” then boy, have I got the movie for you. Halle By Sarah • May 20, 2020 11:18 am
Storm Reid Intro for October 7, 2019 Dear Gossips, It seems like most of Black Hollywood was in Atlanta this weekend for the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios. Oprah and Stedman walked the carpet together. Halle Berry and Whoopi Goldberg shared a moment on the red carpet. Samuel L Jackson, Viola Davis, and Tiffany Haddish were By Lainey • Oct 07, 2019 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey is the real Ariel On the heels of the so-so news about Melissa McCarthy playing Ursula in the live-action Little Mermaid comes the GLORIOUS news that Halle Bailey, of Chloe x Halle fame, will play Ariel. There was some initial confusion that Halle Berry is playing Ariel, which Halley-mark-Berry set straight on Twitter: In By Sarah • Jul 04, 2019 10:19 am