Movie Reviews and Previews Matt Damon’s co-pro Matt Damon has been on promotion the last couple of weeks for his new movie, The Instigators. It’s a star-studded cast: Hong Chau, Ving Rhames, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alfred Molina, Jack Harlow, Ron Perlman, Paul Walter Hauser, and Casey Affleck and his fiancée Caylee Cowan. So once again we find By Lainey • Aug 01, 2024 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s alien movie By this point, either Wes Anderson’s twee little dioramas work for you, or they don’t. They almost always work for me, I like the dark streak at the heart of all his stories, the human messiness juxtaposed with his strict papercraft sensibility. I also don’t mind his By Sarah • Mar 30, 2023 11:17 am
Award Season Campaigning Everyone was in Palm Springs yesterday The Palm Springs International Film Awards were last night as part of the Palm Springs Film Festival. We’re getting into the thick of awards season now, and with most of the categories either wide open or in a three-way split, everyone who is remotely a contender was out in By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews So Many Supporting Actresses As mentioned earlier in the post about the competitive race for Best Actress Oscar, at this stage in the race, this might be one of the tightest Best Supporting Actress Oscar seasons we’ve had in a long time. For starters, if there’s a frontrunner, I don’t see By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in The Menu Director Mark Mylod’s last feature film credit is, incredibly, the rather sexist and misogynistic Chris Evans/Anna Faris “rom-com” What’s Your Number in 2011. Since then, though, he has been directing for TV shows like Game of Thrones, Shameless, and Succession, and now he’s roaring back into By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy is in (on?) The Menu With The Bear becoming the breakout hit series of the summer, it’s the perfect time for a darkly comic horror movie about a chef torturing the guests at an elaborate dinner. It’s an ideal pairing, a series using the restaurant world to tell a family drama, and a By Sarah • Aug 11, 2022 02:16 pm
TV Updates Homecoming Is For Right Now Every time I’m on a Zoom call, in an effort to counteract the general awkwardness that is people who are often having their only human interaction for the week, there’s some small talk about what people are watching – that happens regardless of whether it’s a TV industry By Duana • Jun 26, 2020 04:03 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: The villain (probably) enters the scene Even though episode four, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own”, adds another new character to the Watchmen pile, several threads also start coming together. The cold open introduces a nice childless farming couple who live next door to a giant and mysterious clock that is under By Sarah • Nov 12, 2019 03:45 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Hong’s blue jumpsuit The shape of this jumpsuit on Hong Chau is great. The material though… I hate this material. It makes an otherwise really great design look cheap. A better outfit on Hong is this one, from a few days ago. Get ready for it because it’s the sh-t: Right? That By Lainey • Feb 21, 2018 12:38 pm
Golden Globes 2018 Hong Chau at the Golden Globes Let us now have a summary of Hong Chau’s night at the Golden Globes, shall we? She was nominated for her role in Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, which is kind of notable on its own, because the movie is…not considered to be that great. As in 51% ‘Rotten’ By Duana • Jan 08, 2018 04:06 am
Hong Chau Hong Chau’s first award season As mentioned in the Matt Damon post earlier today, he was not at the LA premiere of Downsizing last night. He was supposed to be though. He is, after all, the lead of the film. He gets top billing. You’ll recall, however, that when Sarah reviewed the film at By Lainey • Dec 19, 2017 03:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Downsizing Alexander Payne follows up his pair of family dramas with Downsizing, a movie that doesn’t quite know what it is. I would like to ask Payne if the attraction of Downsizing was REALLY the material, or was it playing around with the various technology required to make it, from By Sarah • Sep 12, 2017 11:12 am
TIFF 2017 Coverage Intro for September 11, 2017 Dear Gossips, Downsizing opened to strong reviews at the Venice Film Festival and screened here at TIFF over the weekend. Sarah’s review will be posted later today. Downsizing is directed by Alexander Payne, with Matt Damon as the big name star. But it’s Hong Chau’s performance that’ By Lainey • Sep 11, 2017 07:35 am
