Cannes 2025 Angelina, Natalie, Emma – Oscar winners on Cannes Friday PROGRAMMING NOTE: Monday is a stat holiday in Canada so we will be dark and returning to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday. One of the most highly anticipated films of the year is screening in Cannes tonight – Ari Aster’s Eddington opens wide and it’s an ambitious move because By Lainey • May 16, 2025 04:47 pm
Style Dudes at the Academy Museum Gala Dudes showed up to the 4th annual Academy Museum Gala and we HAVE to start by talking about the ABOSLUTE GOSSIP GIFT of Joaquin Phoenix showing up to the same event as Danny Ramirez, who was supposed to star with Phoenix in Todd Haynes’ now-toast queer romantic drama. Do you By Sarah • Oct 21, 2024 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker’s pratfall The writing was on the wall as the box office tracking went into freefall a couple weeks before the film even opened, but Joker: Folie à Deux tanked over the weekend, opening with just $40 million. For comparison, The Marvels, last year’s widely derided superhero bomb, opened with $46 By Sarah • Oct 07, 2024 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux Joker: Folie à Deux is the sequel to Todd Phillips's billion-dollar and Oscar winning 2019 hit, Joker. Much of the first film’s creative team has returned, with Phillips once again directing and co-writing with Scott Silver, and cinematographer Lawrence Sher, editor Jeff Growth, and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 11:16 am
Douchebags Joaquin is asked The press conference for Joker: Folie à Deux happened today in Venice ahead of its world premiere with director Todd Phillips, Lady Gaga, and Joaquin Phoenix in attendance. This is the role for which Joaquin won his Best Actor Oscar and anticipation is high for the sequel, especially with Gaga’ By Lainey • Sep 04, 2024 12:30 pm
Joaquin Phoenix Here Comes Gaga Back in July, when the Venice Film Festival schedule was taking shape, I wrote a post about the Queens of Venice and how it would be the actresses dominating on the Lido. All of the queens I mentioned in that article have showed up and delivered – save one. And it’ By Lainey • Sep 03, 2024 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Todd Phillips won’t call his musical murder clown movie a musical We’re two weeks out from Joker: Folie à Deux premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Given the billion-dollar, Oscar-winning success of the first film, the expectations are high for Folie à Deux. There’s really no reason to expect the sequel won’t deliver, I think Folie à Deux By Sarah • Aug 21, 2024 11:41 am
Douchebags Hold Joaquin Phoenix accountable On Friday, news broke that Joaquin Phoenix left the set of Todd Haynes’ upcoming, untitled film. The film, which was five days away from starting production, was the brainchild of Phoenix, who brought his original idea to Todd Haynes and his producers. Haynes then co-wrote the script with writer Jonathan By Sarah • Aug 12, 2024 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Joker all a dream? The Venice Film Festival starts in just about a month, and one of the biggest premieres it will host is for Joker: Folie à Deux. A new trailer has been released, and I like this one less than I did the first one. It definitely looks like Folie àDeux IS By Sarah • Jul 24, 2024 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin and Todd before Folie à Deux I keep forgetting, partly because time has no meaning and partly because of dread, but Joker: Folie à Deux is coming out this October. Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Phillips were seen having dinner in LA this week, while a new trailer for the film debuted at CineEurope, the European By Sarah • Jun 21, 2024 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker: Folie a here we go again The trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux has arrived, and much like the first trailer for Joker, it’s pretty great. There’s Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, an inmate at Arkham Asylum, and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, who also appears to be an inmate at Arkham. There is By Sarah • Apr 10, 2024 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourself for the Joker 2 discourse Joker was one of the most discussed films of 2019, setting itself up as a controversial, daring piece of art that took silly superhero sh-t and, supposedly, did something Important with it. Except for how star Joaquin Phoenix wasn’t prepared to have the exact conversation the film, or at By Sarah • Apr 03, 2024 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby in Napoleon Two popular images of Napoleon Bonaparte survive 200 years after his death: 1) Napoleon the bold military strategist who nonetheless ran into the insurmountable wall of a Russian winter, and 2) Napoleon the weird little guy who was led around by his dick by his older, promiscuous wife. Smash these By Sarah • Nov 22, 2023 01:59 pm
Gorgessity Fake and real Bonapartes Napoleon comes out next week, so it is cramming in as much press tour as possible between the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike and the day before US Thanksgiving. Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, and Ridley Scott were in London last night for the UK premiere. Joaquin showed up in the By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Napoleon is a weird little guy Yesterday, Lainey pointed out the rather lacking chemistry in the trailer for Anyone But You, the sexy rom-com starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney. It’s surprising that the trailer is so bland, given how hot Glen and Sydney were all over Sydney, Australia earlier this year. Well, another trailer By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Napoleon, but make it Josephine Last week, when assessing Bradley Cooper’s potential Oscar competition this year, I namechecked Ridley Scott and his upcoming historical biopic Napoleon, and said Scott would “have to sh-t the bed” to miss being part of the Oscar conversation. The first trailer for Napoleon dropped yesterday, and would it surprise By Sarah • Jul 11, 2023 01:53 pm
