Style Gaga’s grunge Harley Back in February we got a context-free look at Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux. That photo didn’t show anything of Gaga’s Harley look except smeared lipstick and an ecstatic expression, so it was hard to tell what her version of Harley will look By Sarah • Mar 27, 2023 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Please don’t make me: Joker 2 is a musical Given its billion-dollar and Oscar-winning success, a sequel to Joker, Todd Phillips’ 2019 Scorsese fanfic, was always inevitable. No one leaves that kind of money lying on the table. And indeed, last week Phillips teased the sequel on Instagram, revealing the title, Joker: Folieà Deux, and Joaquin Phoenix reading the By Sarah • Jun 14, 2022 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix plays just, like, a guy The “make up Oscar” is a real phenomenon, when an actor gives a great performance but doesn’t win a trophy, only to come back within the next few years and win for an obviously less interesting/challenging role, making up for the previous loss. The most obvious modern example By Sarah • Nov 10, 2021 01:55 pm
Oscars 2020 Joaquin Phoenix & Renee Zellweger: Arrested Award Winners? Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger have had the dubious distinctions, this awards season, of being the de facto winners in their categories almost as soon as the season started. Like, everyone sort of agrees on the Golden Globes being a pace setter, but other shows having the ability to move By Duana • Feb 10, 2020 03:19 pm
Oscars 2020 Olivia Colman: Oscars Best Blue Velvet Last year, Olivia Colman gave one of the best acceptance speeches of the night when she won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in The Favourite. She is also an excellent presenter. Last night she got up there and talked about her sex life which was adorable and delightful By Lainey • Feb 10, 2020 06:17 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 7, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s Oscar weekend! The overwhelming favourite as we get closer to the show is 1917 but… there are still some people who think that there could be an upset. Keep this in mind as you fill in our annual contest ballot – you’re playing for a gorgeous By Lainey • Feb 07, 2020 08:38 am
Equality Issues Joaquin Phoenix calls out #BAFTASoWhite Joaquin Phoenix is the undisputed Best Actor of the 2019/20 award season, cleaning up everywhere he goes, and the BAFTAs were no different. Since he is the undisputed champ, he actually prepared an acceptance speech in advance of his latest win. His Golden Globes speech was clearly unprepared, the By Sarah • Feb 03, 2020 10:08 am
Award Season Campaigning Joker is now 2019’s safest movie The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and somehow, in a year with a wealth of solid options that could provide a controversy-free Oscar month, the Academy still managed to irk and irritate. Lainey and Duana will have more on specific snubs and #OscarsSoMale on the next episode of Show By Sarah • Jan 13, 2020 12:06 pm
Golden Globes 2020 Eddie, Tom, Joaquin, Adam: the lead actors at the Globes My biggest interview last night was Eddie Murphy. I don’t think we really believed we would get him going into it. This is Eddie Murphy, he’s not the most accessible of celebrities and he’s never the celebrity who gives every outlet on the press line a few By Lainey • Jan 06, 2020 08:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker is an inevitable hit It’s official, Joker is a hit, setting a new October opening weekend record with a $96 million opening weekend. This is more than Justice League ($93.8 million). Joker is a hit, Justice League is a flop, and the difference lies mostly in their budgets and a little bit By Sarah • Oct 07, 2019 03:41 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for October 3, 2019 Dear Gossips, You know what award season is good for? Contrasts. People are campaigning, everyone has their own campaign strategy. So from October to the Oscars, we get to see these plans play out, side by side, in real time – an off-screen performance that supports the onscreen performance. Joker is By Lainey • Oct 03, 2019 09:19 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Joaquin Phoenix covers Vanity Fair That title in and of itself is newsworthy considering who we’re talking about: Joaquin Phoenix, one of the most press-averse actors in the business, willingly participating in an interview with Vanity Fair that covers his work life, his love life, his family life, including mentions of his late brother, By Lainey • Oct 02, 2019 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker is not dangerous, daring, or provocative If ever there was a movie that does not live up to its hype, it is Todd Phillips’ much debated Joker. A stripped down, deconstructed comic book movie, Joker is supposedly the most inflammatory, dangerous, provocative film of the year—of the era!—a movie that is maybe causing a By Sarah • Oct 02, 2019 11:13 am
Dumbass Joaquin Phoenix isn’t prepared Joaquin Phoenix is currently one of the frontrunners for Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Joker. We have seen him seemingly becoming more comfortable promoting the film and, perhaps, his campaign. I can’t imagine the studio would mind. It’s likely they’ll be putting resources into Joker’ By Lainey • Sep 24, 2019 03:58 pm
BFFs Bradley Cooper’s side-part shows up for Joaquin Phoenix Bradley Cooper was not on the list of expected attendees at last night’s TIFF premiere of Joker, which just won the Golden Lion in Venice and is now an Oscar contender in several categories, including Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. There are many layers to this Bradley Cooper relationship By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 03:46 pm
Photo Assumption Joaquin’s Joker Oscar? Following the Joker world premiere at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, Joaquin Phoenix is now officially a contender for Best Actor Oscar. Up to this point, which is early, but not as early as you think considering the Oscars are at the beginning of February in 2020 which By Lainey • Sep 04, 2019 09:58 am
