Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 8, 2023 Dear Gossips, There is too much stuff going on! Awards season is always chock-a-block with events, but it feels especially bad this year, with strike-delayed premieres finally happening, and films that would have done more promotion earlier in the year cramming it all now. It also feels like all the By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 08:53 am
Gorgessity The Actresses and The Fashion As I said earlier… the looks from last night’s Academy Museum Gala, if this is any indication of what we’re going to see when the awards really start up on January, they are going for it, making up for lost time in the most glamourous way. And especially By Lainey • Dec 04, 2023 03:28 pm
Award Season Campaigning Elle gets it right Elle’s annual Women In Hollywood issues are here, a collection of nine cover features that reads like potential ballots for the Oscars. Best Actress hopefuls Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, and Fantasia Barrino Taylor are among the featured profiles, as are Best Supporting Actress contenders Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson, By Sarah • Dec 01, 2023 12:32 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 1, 2023 Dear Gossips, Variety’s “Actors on Actors” conversation series returns on December 4, and they announced their full lineup for the year, and they went for it, going all-in on Barbenheimer and pairing Cillian Murphy with Margot Robbie. Once again, let’s take a moment to acknowledge Margot’s excellent By Sarah • Dec 01, 2023 09:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Gotham Awards, the first relevant awards of Oscar season, were last night in New York. A lot of the Oscar hopefuls were there, but because the Gothams focus on indie film (ostensibly, some recent rule changes opened the door to bigger films like Barbie), some of the By Sarah • Nov 28, 2023 08:58 am
BFFs Meghan Markle steps out Last night was Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles. Most of the top Best Actress and Supporting Actress contenders were there, including Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Margot Robbie, Greta Lee, and Fantasia Barrino (who is just kicking off her appearances for The Color Purple). There was a By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, The strikes this year were important, both for the people trying to have viable careers in the film industry, and as part of a larger labor movement in the US, but one of the sort-of bummers was that Lily Gladstone didn’t get her big moment when Killers By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 08:56 am
Gorgessity Half of Hollywood at the LACMA Gala While the SAG-AFTRA strike may be entering its final days—the guild is reviewing AMPTP’s “last, best, and final offer”, which is a vaguely threatening way to word labor negotiations, but also par for the course with AMPTP—some parts of the year-end calendar are continuing unabated. One event By Sarah • Nov 06, 2023 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese has long been interested in crime, America, and the intersections of greed, entitlement, and the American dream. In David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon he has a perfect subject, the conspiracy of the Osage Murders that occurred in Oklahoma in the early 20th By Sarah • Oct 23, 2023 02:43 pm
Quiveration An unimportant detail about Killers of the Flower Moon Killers of the Flower Moon finally arrives in theaters tomorrow—my full review will be up tomorrow, too—after what feels like one million years of buildup. Maybe that’s just me, since it filmed up the road from my family in Oklahoma, and I’ve been hearing detailed updates By Sarah • Oct 19, 2023 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flower Moon is coming The New York premiere for Killers of the Flower Moon was last night. Martin Scorsese turned up accompanied by journalist David Grann, who wrote the book, and prominent members of Osage Nation, including Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and his wife, Julie Standing Bear; artist Addie Roanhorse, who worked behind the By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, As Sarah has been saying for several months now, and as we approach the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, we are at the start of Lily Gladstone season. To be clear, Lily Gladstone won’t just be around for a season, of course, because she is By Lainey • Sep 20, 2023 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Five weeks until Flower Moon One film we are very excited for around LaineyGossip HQ is Killers of the Flower Moon, which was a notable absence during the film fest trifecta of Venice, Telluride, and TIFF. After premiering at Cannes in May, Flower Moon’s next stop is the BFI London Film Festival in October, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, Lily Gladstone season is almost upon us. Killers of the Flower Moon was already expected to be one of the touchstone films of the fall, but now it is getting a global wide release on October 20. The original plan was for Killers to have a limited release By Sarah • Aug 31, 2023 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone in The Unknown Country America’s roadways are lonely, bleak, beautiful, traversed by strangers going hither and yon, lives intersecting for brief moments over counters at diners, motels, convenience stores. Morrisa Maltz, making her feature directorial debut, extracts from her own experiences driving alone across America a story about loneliness, grief, and connection, enhanced By Sarah • Aug 18, 2023 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A true American story The first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon was solid, introducing the concept of the “two wolves” and Lily Gladstone as the film’s star. The new trailer more adroitly lays out the plot—the Osage have “the worst land possible” but it turns out, that By Sarah • Jul 06, 2023 11:46 am
