Style Gabrielle’s Momentum As mentioned earlier this week after the Governors Awards, it’s a tight race for the Oscars this year across so many categories, including Best Picture and all the acting categories. In particular, there’s a large field of contenders in the Best Supporting Actress category – at least eleven, if By Lainey • Nov 23, 2022 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Leo became Jack James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is opening in three weeks. Promotion for the movie is now underway. He was just featured in a GQ profile that called him the “Box Office King” and also did an interview with them to break down his most iconic films. The By Lainey • Nov 23, 2022 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A very Grammer Christmas Kelsey Grammer and his daughter Spencer are thanking Lifetime for the “therapy”, saying filming 12 Days of Christmas Eve helped heal the strained relationship between them. He admitted that his relationship with Spencer became strained over the years. He pointed to the split from her mom, Doreen Alderman, during her By Stephanie • Nov 22, 2022 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2’s big question The final trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water dropped last night during Monday Night Football. It continues to look very pretty. I continue to be unable to tell the blue cat people apart, but I don’t know. Maybe that’s just me? Is anyone else having a little By Sarah • Nov 22, 2022 11:24 am
Style Margot, Damien, and the Babylon Hype All year, as we approached award season, Babylon was the one people were leaving room for. This happens often – a film set for a Christmas release, by an award-winning director, with a star-studded cast… there were expectations, there were predictions. Now that Babylon has started screening, first in By Lainey • Nov 22, 2022 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Last Unicorn at 40 The Last Unicorn turned forty on November 19, marking its milestone release in 1982. Peter S. Beagle adapted his own fantasy novel for the film, which is directed by the legendary animation team of Arthur Rankin, Jr., and Jules Bass. Rankin and Bass are best known today for the 1977 By Sarah • Nov 21, 2022 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Let Bill Nighy have his moment The Best Actor hopefuls gathered over the weekend at the Governors Awards, but don’t forget about Bill Nighy, the dark horse of the race. He appeared via video at a For Your Consideration event hosted by Baz Bamigboye for the Deadline Contenders series over the weekend (also present was By Sarah • Nov 21, 2022 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews So Many Supporting Actresses As mentioned earlier in the post about the competitive race for Best Actress Oscar, at this stage in the race, this might be one of the tightest Best Supporting Actress Oscar seasons we’ve had in a long time. For starters, if there’s a frontrunner, I don’t see By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Actresses Show Up To Campaign Unlike the Best Actor category which I posted about earlier, the Best Actress category for Oscar this year is much more competitive. We have our frontrunners, no doubt, but there are several other women with legitimate claims to the few remaining spots. And it’s looking like it’s a By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin, Brendan, Colin, and the wide-open race As Sarah noted in today’s open, the Oscar Academy’s Governors Awards took place this weekend recognising Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir, and Euzhan Palcy who all received honourary Oscars. This year’s Oscar race, however, is heating up. Which is why so many of the contenders By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews First look at Indiana Jones “5” Empire magazine is touting the first look at a movie they are calling Indiana Jones 5, which is strange, because there are only three Indiana Jones movies. Everyone knows that. There are only three Indy movies, no other Indy movies have ever been made, just Raiders of the Lost Ark, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2022 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in The Menu Director Mark Mylod’s last feature film credit is, incredibly, the rather sexist and misogynistic Chris Evans/Anna Faris “rom-com” What’s Your Number in 2011. Since then, though, he has been directing for TV shows like Game of Thrones, Shameless, and Succession, and now he’s roaring back By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan in She Said Given the subject matter, it pains me to report that She Said is not very good. Adapted from the book of the same name by journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said recounts the months of investigation and work that went into Kantor and Twohey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spielberg and BCoop’s Fast & Furious Today in But Is It About Family News, Bradley Cooper will reportedly star in a Bullitt reboot(ish) to be directed by Steven Spielberg. Bullitt is the classic 1968 Steve McQueen film that features one of the greatest car chases in cinema history. In the film, McQueen stars as a By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser is not a hypocrite Brendan Fraser covers the December issue of GQ, four years after it was GQ that put him back in the spotlight via Zach Baron’s massively viral profile that asked, What ever happened to Brendan Fraser? Back in 2018, Fraser was talking about where he’d gone, how years of By Sarah • Nov 17, 2022 09:24 am
Quiveration MBJ supports Jonathan Majors Back in September at TIFF, I wrote about my new favourite bromance: Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell. Their film, Devotion, opens next week and the LA premiere was last night. But someone else showed up to support and this might be an even better bromance. Michael B Jordan was also By Lainey • Nov 16, 2022 02:24 pm
