Idris Elba Elba not Bond There was a random UK paper last week that reported that Idris Elba was being considered to take over James Bond after Daniel Craig is done with Bond 25. As I wrote at the time, I didn’t believe it. Not because the source was weak – and it was very By Lainey • Aug 22, 2018 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fast Idris Hobbs and Shaw is the spinoff franchise partly responsible for my favourite Boy Sh-t of 2016/2017. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Vin “Difficult To Work With” Diesel could barely stand each other enough to be on set or on a red carpet together. Their Boy Sh-t led to some By Kathleen • Jul 06, 2018 09:44 am
Royal Wedding 2018 Oprah and Idris at the Royal Wedding We were told this morning on an embargo until they arrived that Oprah would be showing up. There have been rumours that Oprah is doing an interview with Doria Ragland. Those rumours haven’t been confirmed but, clearly, there’s some kind of relationship. Note Oprah and Idris’s arrival By Lainey • May 19, 2018 05:31 am
Idris Elba Idris Elba: front row engaged Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre are engaged. They’re based in London. It was London Fashion Week this past weekend. So they attended a couple of fashion week events together, making the social rounds for the first time as an engaged couple. And definitely acting like an engaged couple. You By Lainey • Feb 20, 2018 01:34 pm
Idris Elba Idris’s public proposal Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre are engaged. It happened on Saturday in London at a screening for his film Yardie at the Rio Cinema. Yardie is Idris’s directorial debut. So he must have been all into his feelings, with a major career achievement, and his love by his side. By Lainey • Feb 12, 2018 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2018: 10 to Watch The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, during an uncertain period in the industry. Theatrical exhibition is dying, Fox is disappearing into the Disney fold—indie arm Fox Searchlight is operating “business as usual” this year, but it could very well be their last—and Netflix, driver of big deals By Sarah • Jan 18, 2018 10:00 am
Sexiest Man Alive 2008 Idris Elba: Runner-up SMA 2017 Odds Arguments for: - Every single f-cking one you can think of. - Molly’s Game will be in limited release at Christmas and will open wide in January. That’s an award season schedule. Most of that awards attention will be on Jessica Chastain but as Sarah wrote in her By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 04:55 pm
Quiveration Idris for my birthday I’m that asshole who forces her birthday onto people. Today is my birthday. You’re actually lucky though, because this is only the first time I’ve mentioned on the site while all my colleagues have been enduring it for 24 hours. Through the press release I personally delivered By Lainey • Sep 26, 2017 04:00 pm
Quiveration Idris in a white sweater After promoting two films at TIFF this weekend and introducing us to his “girlfriend” Sabrina, Idris Elba was in New York yesterday, photographed outside The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. The Mountain Between Us opens on October 6th. So he’s promoting it beyond the festivals now, trying to generate By Lainey • Sep 12, 2017 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris and his “beautiful girlfriend” Last night Devon Soltendieck and I were hosting a Facebook Live from the etalk studios, recapping weekend TIFF coverage and also throwing to our colleagues in the field who were reporting from the red carpets. Traci Melchor was at the premiere of The Mountain Between Us and we went to By Lainey • Sep 11, 2017 04:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Molly’s Game Molly’s Game is Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, but it’s Jessica Chastain’s movie from start to finish. Written by Sorkin, adapted from Molly Bloom’s memoir as the mastermind of the world’s most exclusive poker game, unsurprisingly Molly’s Game is mostly a series of flashy By Sarah • Sep 11, 2017 11:33 am
Quiveration Birthday Idris Today is Idris Elba’s birthday. He’s 45 years hot as f-ck. Last night he pre-celebrated at the GQ Men of the Year party in London where he hung out with Pele. Oh and Rita Ora. That’s the only way Rita Ora makes it onto the site now By Lainey • Sep 06, 2017 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris: still limping Idris Elba DJed at a music festival in Manchester this weekend. He was seen at Manchester airport yesterday, presumably heading back to London. Last time we checked in on Idris he was on crutches, limping out of a restaurant. He’s still limping but the crutches are gone and he’ By Lainey • Aug 29, 2017 03:26 pm
Quiveration Idris on crutches Idris Elba stepped out last night in London in crutches. Do you know how hard it is to look good in crutches? And not just look good but look sexy? This man is walking in crutches and there’s been no change to his sexy meter. None. Idris’s Dark By Lainey • Aug 18, 2017 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain’s Game Jessica Chastain does not have an Oscar. I have to double-check this CONSTANTLY. Because it seems like she should have one, yes? Surely she won for The Help? No? Well then she HAD to have gotten one for Zero Dark Thirty. Also no. She has not yet recorded a W By Sarah • Aug 15, 2017 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in The Dark Tower Based on Stephen King’s sprawling Gunslinger series, The Dark Tower takes thousands of pages of mythology that spans centuries and dimensions and pares it down to a spare ninety-five minute movie that encompasses a thimble’s worth of all that original King storytelling. Fans of the books will have By Sarah • Aug 03, 2017 10:32 am
