Helen Mirren A lot of women in entertainment As previously mentioned, The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event brought out a lot of people, as every red carpet has since the end of the actors’ strike. Besides Lily Gladstone and Adele, the event brought out members of Team Barbie including Alexandra Shipp, Dua Lipa wearing a belt By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbies, Kens, and Humans Barbie, the movie, is coming for our Tuesday. Warner Bros just dropped over a dozen character posters for their expected summer blockbuster and it’s perhaps our best indication of what the story might be…sort of. Margot Robbie is Barbie. “Barbie is everything” is how her poster is described. By Lainey • Apr 04, 2023 11:27 am
Royals The Queen at her Jubilee do Queen Elizabeth II is ninety-six years old and celebrating her seventieth year on the British throne with a platinum jubilee. She is the longest reigning monarch in British history, and the longest reigning queen regnant in history, period. To mark the occasion, she attended an event last night called “A By Sarah • May 16, 2022 11:06 am
SAG Awards 2022 The Cox-Mirren Master Class To the surprise of no one, Succession won Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the SAGs. It was their first nomination, coming after their third season, when the show is a legitimate smash hit. Irascible series star Brian Cox took the stage in a mask that By Sarah • Feb 28, 2022 02:20 pm
Business of Hollywood Celebrities and the D&G Comeback As mentioned in the previous Bennifer post, JLo wasn’t the only celebrity in Venice this weekend for the Dolce & Gabbana show. A gallery of the high-profile guest list is attached including Anna Wintour, Helen Mirren, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, Bebe Rexha, and more. So the comeback of the By Lainey • Aug 30, 2021 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews F9: The Return of Han F9 first began advertising in January 2020 for what was supposed to be a May 2020 release date, only to get pushed back multiple times due to the pandemic. Currently, it is slated to come out on May 28, but the Super Bowl TV spot ends with “In theaters soon” By Sarah • Feb 08, 2021 02:15 pm
Style Oh Look! A Red (Blue) Carpet! There haven’t been a lot of red carpets, or carpets of any colour, over the last six months. And certainly not very many gala style carpets. Last week was the Emmys which would definitely qualify as a gala but, as we saw, it was virtual. Not really much of By Lainey • Sep 25, 2020 11:38 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Fast 9: Will the women get to stand up this time? Fast 9, the latest entry in the most improbable franchise in cinema, is currently filming in the UK. Vin Diesel took to Instagram to drop some casting news, confirming that Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren are returning for this installment. Theron was the villain in F8te of the Furious—still By Sarah • Jul 09, 2019 09:50 am
Golden Globes 2018 Viola Davis & Helen Mirren: Globes Best Duo Viola Davis and Helen Mirren hadn’t even started reading the teleprompter yet and Twitter was already writing their buddy cop comedy. Viola and Helen together is a pairing I didn’t expect but in hindsight, it’s perfect. They’re both legends. They both can give a singular look By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 06:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Imperator F*cking Furiosa doesn’t drive ONCE Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson star in the eighth installment of the Fast/Furious franchise, a movie which is infuriatingly still not called F8 of the Furious. (They have two scenes together, one in which they’re in separate cars and another in which they never talk or look directly By Sarah • Apr 13, 2017 11:11 am
Will Smith Helen Mirren wants a “hey hey” A reader called Sharon set this Daily Beast link over to me this morning about Helen Mirren’s Christmas message on the Graham Norton Show while she was on with Will Smith and Naomie Harris to promote Collateral Beauty – Sarah just reviewed the movie and said it was bananas. Anyway, By Lainey • Dec 22, 2016 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Love, Death, Time I like to say that I don't appreciate being emotionally manipulated by movies but I'm pretty sure I often get emotionally manipulated by movies and make that a point in posts about being emotionally manipulated by movies so...maybe I do actually enjoy being emotionally manipulated By Lainey • Nov 10, 2016 02:49 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Helen’s perfect black suit A beautifully tailored black suit will never not be exciting for me. This is a perfect black suit. The jacket sits perfectly on the shoulders, tapers perfectly at the waist, and hangs perfectly along her hips. The pants fall perfectly at the ankle. The bag is the perfect size to By Lainey • Oct 17, 2016 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarjo’s headband Scarlett Johansson is shooting Rock That Body at JFK airport in New York. It’s about a group of female friends on a stag weekend and sh-t goes sideways. If I had to guess I’d say this is the scene where Scarjo, presumably the bride, is saying goodbye to By Lainey • Oct 03, 2016 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Helen Mirren is going to class up Fast & Furious Today in Your Dreams Are Coming True, Helen Mirren Edition, Helen Mirren told Elle magazine that she will, in fact, be appearing in Fast 8, the eighth Fast/Furious movie that is somehow not called F8. Last year she went on the record with her admiration of Vin Diesel, and By Sarah • Jun 16, 2016 03:19 pm
Golden Globes 2016 Helen Mirren didn’t need Gerard Butler at the Globes In general I found the presenter choices kind of frustrating last night. Sure, you can’t stack the deck only with actors from the nominated material, but I wouldn’t have minded seeing, say, Patrick Wilson in slightly-less-scripted action. Or Joshua Jackson. Even give me Heidi Klum up there making By Duana • Jan 11, 2016 04:00 am
