Cannes 2025 Mia Threapleton’s Cannes moment Cannes is in full swing, but it seems like it’s an unusually muted year, at least on the business side of things. Beyond the festival, Cannes is also a film market, but like Sundance earlier this year, blockbuster deals are not really happening—a recession indicator. Everyone is nervous By Sarah • May 20, 2025 12:45 pm
Amazingness Reese Witherspoon gives good gossip January 2025 is almost over and this month has been a F-CK. Monsters in power, disasters and destruction, and a lot of celebrity gossip but, like, not really the fun kind – sorry but sexual harassment and counter lawsuits that set off right-wing pile-ons and wild and crazy conspiracy theories that By Lainey • Jan 31, 2025 09:51 am
BFFs A Campaign of Friends It’s the final award season push of 2024 for the next three weeks as we get closer to the holidays when Hollywood temporarily shuts down before coming back to business for the Golden Globes on January 5. This means premieres and parties almost every single night and it also By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet in Lee Cinematographer Ellen Kuras has lensed films for Spike Lee, Rebecca Miller, Mary Harron, Michel Gondry, and Sam Mendes, so it tracks that Lee, her debut as a solo feature film director, is a very handsome film. Even the most gruesome moments are artful, which also tracks, as Lee is a By Sarah • Sep 26, 2024 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg’s unlikely partnership Last week I mentioned Kate Winslet’s upcoming war biopic of photographer Lee Miller, titled Lee, mostly in reference to how hot Andy Samberg looks in this movie. Now there is a full trailer for Lee, though, so let’s talk about Winslet and Lee Miller, who was a very By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 02:40 pm
TV Updates Let Kate Winslet be fun Kate Winslet is one of the most admired actors of her generation, but she has never been “above TV”, as many of her peers insisted they were, at least until the prestige revolution of the 2010s. She starred in a miniseries adaptation of Mildred Pierce all the way back in By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2: Important notes The world premiere of Avatar: The Way of the Water was last night in London. I also saw the movie last night, I’ll have a full review next week closer to the actual release, but this seems like a good time to note a couple things that won’t By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 11:00 am
Emmy Awards 2021 The Emmys Category Grab Bag Once upon a time, the ‘limited series’ category at the Emmys was known as “TV Movies and Miniseries” and it was code for ‘get a snack’, because almost nobody got the channels where said miniseries were, nobody saw them, and they were generally stultifying. Now ‘limited series’ create some of By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ammonite: yearning, lust, healing Two trailers were released today that are getting some attention on social media: Sarah just posted about Enola Holmes and now there’s also Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. I never knew that an ammonite is called an ammonite until today. I mean I know what it’s By Lainey • Aug 25, 2020 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet can’t save Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel Woody Allen’s latest film, Wonder Wheel, is the sixteenth “wonder” movie of the year, and it has everything you’ve come to expect from a Woody Allen film: New York locations, relationships complicated by suppressed misery, uncomfortable dialogue about an uncomfortable father/daughter relationship, and a legendary actress going By Sarah • Dec 07, 2017 10:35 am
Douchebags It’s not just his wife Oh look. It’s Justin Timberlake on a red carpet. Oh look. It’s Justin Timberlake on a red carpet with Kate Winslet, at the premiere of Wonder Wheel, jumping in front of Kate Winslet like a jackass because….he needs to make sure you see him. CAN YOU SEE By Lainey • Oct 16, 2017 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justin Timberlake makes Woody Allen worse Just in case you’re not over Woody Allen yet, here is the first trailer for Wonder Wheel, his latest movie, which stars Kate Winslet but also Justin Timberlake. That’s right, Justin Timberlake. Justin Timberlake is in a Woody Allen movie, co-starring with Kate Winslet. (That’s like putting By Sarah • Oct 05, 2017 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “Some guy named Justin” Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel will be the closing night film at the New York Film Festival in October. It opens December 1, which means that it could be an Oscar contender, not just because of the director and the date but also because of the star, Kate Winslet. Kate By Lainey • Aug 11, 2017 11:53 am
BFFs Jack & Rose together again The annual Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation gala happened last night in St Tropez. This is when Leo invites some very wealthy people to his party and encourages them to make a donation by seating them with models and a few of his celebrity friends. This year, those celebrity friends, in addition By Lainey • Jul 27, 2017 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris kissing Kate This is not going to be a long post. There's really not that much to say. Other than... Idris Elba and Kate Winslet were on the set of The Mountain Between Us in Vancouver today and the script called for a kiss. So they're kissing. And By Lainey • Feb 21, 2017 03:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Collateral Beauty SPOILERS because this movie is INSANE Based on the trailers, you probably think Collateral Beauty, aka Will Smith’s holiday movie, is some kind of twenty-first century It’s A Wonderful Life, where the universe conspires to convince a sad schmuck that he’s better off being a sad schmuck, By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 11:44 am
