Movie Reviews and Previews The Lightyear conspiracy goes all the way to the top! In the content arms race brought about by the streaming revolution, Disney has been treating Pixar like cannon fodder. Unquestionably, Pixar is their most top-shelf marquee brand, not only a consistent producer of hits, but a winner of awards, too (to the extent that I call the Best Animated Feature By Sarah • Feb 09, 2022 01:49 pm
Top Reads Bennifer’s First 2022 Red Carpet I’d been wondering about it for weeks – would Ben Affleck show up on the Marry Me red carpet with Jennifer Lopez the way she showed up for him on The Last Duel and The Tender Bar red carpets? The answer is yes. He didn’t just show up, they By Lainey • Feb 09, 2022 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland: No Oscar, but Uncharted One of the sidebar conversations ahead of the Oscar nominations today was whether or not Spider-Man: No Way Home would make the cut, particularly in the Best Picture category. The movie did receive one nomination for special effects, but they put a significant budget into getting a nomination in the By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper, Nominee As Sarah just wrote in the previous post about today’s Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper did not make the cut in the Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor categories for his performances in Nightmare Alley and Licorice Pizza. It was his part in Licorice Pizza that was the highest possibly By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 12:27 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Oscar nominations: No chaos Unlike the BAFTA nominations, which are pure chaos, the Oscar nominations this morning are much more in line with expectations. The Power of the Dog, an awards favorite since last fall, leads all nominations with twelve. Craft-friendly Dune follows with ten. West Side Story and Belfast follow with seven apiece. By Sarah • Feb 08, 2022 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Actress Nominations Sarah will be posting an overview of this morning’s Oscar nominations later but we’ll start with what’s trending: Lady Gaga. Because she was not nominated for her performance as Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci. This is considered a snub because Gaga has so far this award By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 10:30 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, Oscar nominations are happening today – announced by Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan, an inspired and adorable combination. This post was written before the livestream, and we’ll be covering the Academy’s final list later on. But as I wrote to Sarah yesterday, for some reason I’ By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 08:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson suits up Bolstered by the back-to-back success of Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home, Sony continues to expand their non-MCU Spider-verse, adding Dakota Johnson to the roster in a Madame Web movie. This will be Sony’s first female-fronted superhero movie, and the film is set to be By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix shows off new mov—KNIVES OUT 2! THERE IS KNIVES OUT 2! Every movie this year comes with an asterisk in my head: Not Knives Out 2. Even stuff I’m super looking forward to, like The Northman, has that asterisk in my mind, because my A #1 most anticipated film of the year is Knives Out 2. So, it is with By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 02:48 pm
Award Season Campaigning Andrew Garfield: Tennis and Costumes As Sarah wrote earlier today, it’s been one of the most unpredictable award seasons ever, because the usual metrics used by industry experts to predict how award season will look have been all over the place. No one could have predicted how the BAFTA nominations turned out which means By Lainey • Feb 04, 2022 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Notable BAFTA Snubs: KStew and Kidman We’ve discussed the chaotic nature of the BAFTA nominations this year, but now let’s talk about two specific snubs: Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman for Best Actress. They are two of the leading contenders for the Oscars, and have been all awards season, but they were excluded by By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 11:38 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTAs are CHAOTIC The British Academy of Film and Television Arts woke up yesterday and chose CHAOS, announcing their nominations and throwing several spanners into several works as we move deeper into awards season. The BAFTAs don’t have a ton to do with the Oscars, nominations for which already closed earlier this By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Friday Keanu It was Lunar New Year this week, and the tiger is already a LOT. This week has been one million years long and the snow gods sh-t on a lot of us, which is exhausting on top of everything else, so here is some Keanu to carry you into the By Sarah • Feb 04, 2022 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bennifer in Manhattan Jennifer Lopez was in New York City yesterday promoting Marry Me, and I’ve been wondering the last couple of weeks whether or not Ben Affleck would join her during the press tour. She was at his side last fall when he was pushing The Last Duel and The Tender By Lainey • Feb 04, 2022 09:55 am
Business of Hollywood JLo, a pro Jennifer Lopez is in New York kicking off the press blitz for her movie Marry Me, which comes out next week. This morning she was on The TODAY Show, interviewed by Hoda Kotb, who she’s friends with, and Savannah Guthrie; it’s a showcase for just how experienced she By Lainey • Feb 03, 2022 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews CTates is BACK Somehow, in the brain drain of the last couple years, I didn’t even notice that Channing Tatum went on hiatus. But he did, he didn’t appear on screen after his 2017 double whammy of Logan Lucky and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. He’s done some voice roles over By Sarah • Feb 03, 2022 09:44 am
