Style Michelle Yeoh: Globes Best Dressed (Duana) As Sandra Oh pointed out, this year’s Golden Globes – while still overwhelmingly Caucasian – had exponentially more Asian representation than ever before, due in part to the cast of Crazy Rich Asians, who really didn’t get enough play, but came out hard in the fashion game nonetheless. I could By Duana • Jan 07, 2019 01:34 pm
Award Season Campaigning Crazy Rich Golden Globes Crazy Rich Asians is going to the Golden Globes. It will not win any Golden Globes. But they’ll be at the party, at one of the most watched award shows, and the first major award show of the year, right after the New Year. This is visibility. And visibility By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 10:03 am
Crazy Rich Asians Intro for November 30, 2018 Dear Gossips, There are four different “Entertainer of the Year” Entertainment Weekly covers: Cardi B and Darren Criss are featured; Kathleen posted about the women of Black Panther yesterday; and there’s also the women of Crazy Rich Asians. EW calls them “the queens of summer”. Look at them. Look By Lainey • Nov 30, 2018 09:00 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for November 28, 2018 Dear Gossips, The National Board of Review announced its award winners yesterday. NBR isn’t always that great of an Oscar predictor; last year their Best Film was The Post, Best Actor and Best Actress were Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, Willem Dafoe and Laurie Metcalf won for supporting …AND By Lainey • Nov 28, 2018 09:09 am
Award Season Campaigning Constance, Michelle, and co: Team Crazy Rich Asians at the Governors Awards There aren’t usually this many Asians at Oscar events. Because there aren’t usually all-Asian casts in Hollywood. Crazy Rich Asians came out in August. It’s one of the most successful movies of the year. It does actually have an outside shot at a couple of nominations, including By Lainey • Nov 19, 2018 03:35 pm
Crazy Rich Asians Intro for November 5, 2018 Dear Gossips, The Hollywood Film Awards happened last night and, as I always say about the Hollywood Film Awards, they’re about as prestigious as the MTV Movie Awards, which is to say not all that prestigious, and the recipients are chosen ahead of time, and determined in cooperation with By Lainey • Nov 05, 2018 08:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asian Moms If you weren’t already going into Crazy Rich Asians obsessed with Michelle Yeoh, you will definitely be leaving the movie obsessed with Michelle Yeoh. She is a legend. And for many, many years, she was one of the few, if not only, Asian women repping the side internationally. I By Lainey • Aug 15, 2018 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians review As the first predominately Asian film Hollywood has produced since The Joy Luck Club twenty-five years ago, Crazy Rich Asians has many eyes on it for many reasons, and it has the unenviable task of being everything to everybody. Adapted by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim from Kevin Kwan’s By Sarah • Aug 14, 2018 04:21 pm
Quiveration Crazy Rich Hot Asian Guys Crazy Rich Asians in Vanity Fair!!! Have you seen this yet? Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Henry Golding, Chris Pang, and Sonoya Mizuno, all-Asian actors featured in a fashion editorial ahead of the release of the film next Wednesday, August 15 – again, not something you see every day and certainly not By Lainey • Aug 07, 2018 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 7, 2018 Dear Gossips, Tonight is the Hollywood premiere of Crazy Rich Asians. I’m getting emotional just anticipating this carpet, what that carpet will look like, seeing the arrival of Asian actor after Asian actor, repping the first all-Asian English-language film by a major Hollywood studio in 25 years. I was By Lainey • Aug 07, 2018 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians promises lavish romantic drama The trailer for Crazy Rich Asians has FINALLY dropped and OH MY GOD, how much have we missed movies like this? Romantic, funny, SOAPY DRAMA, lavish settings, cars, clothes. I feel like movies like this died with the recession a decade ago, and we’re only just coming back to By Sarah • Apr 23, 2018 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich…. TEASE! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. I need to do that some more, stand by: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! If you’re a regular visitor of this site, you know I’ve been waiting, for months now, for the first Crazy Rich Asians trailer. Every day I wake By Lainey • Apr 19, 2018 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alamak! CRA covers EW! I cried a little when I saw this on Instagram yesterday – the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, featuring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, the stars of Crazy Rich Asians, based on the first book in Kevin Kwan’s bestselling series. You know, the one I’ve been By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Michelle Yeoh Constance Wu was confirmed recently as the star of the upcoming film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians playing Rachel, who falls in love with Nick, and then finds out Nick is a member of Singapore’s richest craziest family. Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Michelle Yeoh By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 04:44 pm
Michelle Yeoh Jackie Chan gets his Oscar The Academy’s Governors Awards happened this weekend. Many actors who are contenders for this year’s Oscar race had to show up, out of respect for the Academy, to make sure to be noticed by the Academy, so as to be nominated by the Academy, but pretending to be By Lainey • Nov 14, 2016 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Mara in Morgan One of the all-time great good-bad movies is Deep Blue Sea, the movie about the super-shark that eats a bunch of people, and figures out how to turn an oven on in order to kill someone inside it. Deep Blue Sea is just the right amount of terrible, action oriented, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2016 04:22 pm
