Movie Reviews and Previews Matt Damon’s co-pro Matt Damon has been on promotion the last couple of weeks for his new movie, The Instigators. It’s a star-studded cast: Hong Chau, Ving Rhames, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alfred Molina, Jack Harlow, Ron Perlman, Paul Walter Hauser, and Casey Affleck and his fiancée Caylee Cowan. So once again we By Lainey • Aug 01, 2024 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian and Matt before the finale Oppenheimer is one of the biggest movies of 2023, it’s a heavy favorite to win a lot of Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and star Cillian Murphy is in a heated competition with Paul Giamatti for Best Actor. But before all that, Cillian is at the Berlinale, By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 11:20 am
Golden Globes 2024 Bennifer’s First Golden Globes During Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s first era, they never attended the Golden Globes together. The Oscars, yes, but not the Golden Globes. Nearly a decade after they split though, they were at the Globes together but apart – in 2013 – and I bring this up because here’s what By Lainey • Jan 08, 2024 10:28 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 12, 2023 Dear Gossips, Is May December a comedy? I mean, I’m the kind of person who laughs in discomfort, in situations where laughter is totally inappropriate, which I guess tracks with this particular film. And I did laugh at some of Natalie Portman’s performance choices because she was so By Lainey • Dec 12, 2023 09:04 am
Matt Damon Not the most fascinating dinner There’s been this commercial playing in front of my maritime disaster videos on Youtube for Stella Artois featuring Matt Damon, Ludacris, Jeremy Allen White, and Zoe Saldaña. They sit around a table and pretend they’ve met before and talk about who they would have dinner with if they By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian Murphy and half of Hollywood in Oppenheimer Films about Great Men are usually acts of hagiography, and in many ways, Oppenheimer is no different. Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, is invested in Oppenheimer as a once-in-a-generation genius, a Great Man who literally moved the earth, By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 14, 2023 Dear Gossips, Oppenheimer’s UK premiere was yesterday in London, and as Lainey mentioned, they moved the start time up in order to officially begin before the SAG strike was called. That’s a shady as hell move, but the New York premiere is now cancelled, so this was Universal By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 09:39 am
Style Barbenheimer London: Flo joins the Bomb Squad We’ve been talking for weeks about the Barbie-Oppenheimer aka Barbenheimer double feature next Friday. We’ve been talking all day about the possible actors’ strike that could start at midnight. And now, just hours ahead of whatever might happen, the casts of both films are in London – what By Lainey • Jul 12, 2023 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer in Paris As we’ve mentioned a few times now in today’s posts, the deadline for the producers and the actors to reach a new deal is tonight. And if that doesn’t happen, the actors have already decided to join the writers on strike. Sarah just wrote in the previous By Lainey • Jul 12, 2023 10:47 am
Douchebags Bennifer: Carpet Kissing and a Trump F-U Let’s get the garbage out of the way first. Near the end of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, Air, Matt’s character, Sonny Vaccaro, delivers a monologue for Michael Jordan and his parents as he tries to persuade the Jordans to sign with Nike. It’s a By Lainey • Jun 13, 2023 12:48 pm
BFFs Air Bennifer The Air premiere was always going to be a high profile event, given that the film is directed and produced by Ben Affleck, alongside his best friend Matt Damon, and also stars Viola Davis, Chris Tucker, Jason Bateman, and more. But in addition to the ensemble, there were so many By Lainey • Mar 28, 2023 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck’s Big Air Ben Affleck’s film, Air, about how Nike’s relationship with Michael Jordan and his family produced the cultural phenomenon now known as Air Jordans, premiered at SXSW this weekend, and if the audience reaction is any indication, it’s a winner. The critics, so far, seem to agree. Not By Lainey • Mar 20, 2023 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Air but no Jordan Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s latest collaboration is Air, the story of how Sonny Vaccaro changed sports and marketing and sports marketing and shoes forever by signing a then-rookie Michael Jordan to an unprecedented contract that resulted in the Air Jordan—one of the most recognizable fashion brands By Sarah • Feb 10, 2023 01:23 pm
Tom Brady Intro for January 13, 2023 Dear Gossips, The bankruptcy of cryptocurrency firm FTX is ongoing, and this week included the release of documents that list the company’s biggest investors, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Patriots lost boy Tom Brady, and recent New England ex-pat Gisele Bündchen. Brady was a brand ambassador By Sarah • Jan 13, 2023 09:19 am
Weddings Bennifer Wedding: Guests and a No-Show As we all know by now, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s wedding reception weekend happened in Savannah and I’m hoping to get to the actual couple later because it was previously reported that Vogue was covering the event and I keep checking Vogue.com and their Instagram account By Lainey • Aug 22, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bennifer and Matt Damon Holiday Schedule While his best friend Ben Affleck was in Las Vegas marrying Jennifer Lopez – now and forever NOT known as Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck, LOL – Matt Damon was seen this weekend with his wife and their kids on holiday on the Amalfi Coast. They’ve actually been in Italy for at By Lainey • Jul 18, 2022 10:20 am
