TV Updates Mahershala Ali: True Detective The summer TCA—the biannual meeting of television critics and industry in which networks tout their wares—is going on right now, and one piece of news to come from the HBO presentation is that Mahershala Ali is locked in for the third season of True Detective. We’re all By Sarah • Jul 27, 2017 10:14 am
Music Mahershala after Moonlight…and Jay Z I haven’t written about Mahershala Ali since a couple of weeks after he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Moonlight. It was a long award season. He’d just become a father. He took a break, to be with his family, to process the milestone year he’ By Lainey • Jun 19, 2017 01:18 pm
Style Oscar winner Mahershala Ali That’s one of the privileges of winning an Oscar. That’s how you are introduced – as an Oscar winner. It becomes associated with your name. Speaking of names, and because I can hold a grudge forever, because I am a bitter c-nt, I’m still mad at Jimmy Kimmel By Lainey • Mar 15, 2017 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Moonlight + La La Land Forever Thanks to the craziest Oscars ending in history, Moonlight and La La Land, two separate films, became Moonlight + La La Land, one cultural monolith. There are historic wins on both sides. Damien Chazelle, at 32, is the youngest Best Director winner ever. And Moonlight is the first LGBTQ film to By Sarah • Mar 02, 2017 11:22 am
Mahershala Ali Mahershala in his Calvins Moonlight won the Oscar for Best Picture. Mahershala Ali won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He’s now starring in a new underwear campaign for Calvin Klein. Resonant: “Even after the performance is over, I realize that you still have to service it. I’ll be in a coffee By Lainey • Mar 01, 2017 09:22 am
Oscars 2017 Mahershala Ali’s Oscar first Every year, I watch the Oscars with my friend Liz. Every year, she makes fun of me for getting too emotional. This year, she decided to keep a running tally of how many times I cried. The first tears shed were for Mahershala Ali. I actually let out a dramatic By Kathleen • Feb 27, 2017 10:26 am
Award Season Campaigning Dev’s big weekend? Many of you have been asking for a post on Dev Patel. More posts on Dev Patel. It’s been a great week for Dev so far. On Monday he was at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon as a proper nominee for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Lion. And By Lainey • Feb 09, 2017 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Moonlight at the Nominees Luncheon Have you seen Moonlight yet? Moonlight is challenging La La Land for Best Picture. It’s an underdog though, especially since La La Land just took the Directors Guild and the Producers Guild award before that. There is, however, some backlash about La La Land. I liked La La Land. By Lainey • Feb 07, 2017 10:13 am
SAG Awards 2017 Mahershala Ali’s moving speech Describing something as “moving” always feels a little bit like Emma Woodhouse dropping an “elegant”—a blank descriptor to be used when you can’t think of anything truly nice to say. But Mahershala Ali’s speech at the SAG Awards IS moving—he’s visibly emotional, speaking from the By Sarah • Jan 30, 2017 07:52 am
Golden Globes 2017 Barry Jenkins, Mahershala Ali and Moonlight at the Globes Moonlight was the best film of 2016. Moonlight was the best film of 2016. Moonlight was the best film of 2016. If I could fill a whole page with that statement I would. F-ck, it was one of the best films of the past decade. Moonlight is a masterpiece but By Kathleen • Jan 09, 2017 05:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 5, 2016 Dear Gossips, The LA Film Critics Association named Moonlight the Best Picture of the year yesterday, followed by La La Land as runner-up. Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, won Best Director. He also won Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle last week while La La Land was By Lainey • Dec 05, 2016 08:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Weightlifting: The Actors Roundtable Last week it was the Actresses Roundtable. This week The Hollywood Reporter is featuring the Actors. I briefly mentioned this yesterday in the post about what Andrew Garfield said about Emma Stone. Now that I’ve read through the whole piece and watched all the videos… well…I’m not By Lainey • Dec 02, 2016 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Moonlight Moonlight, the second film from writer/director Barry Jenkins, poses a lot of questions about race, class, identity, sexuality, masculinity, what it means to be black in America, to be gay in America, to be black and gay in America, and whether or not we’re ready to admit that By Sarah • Sep 12, 2016 05:22 pm
