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
Movie Reviews and Previews Kogonada returns Kogonada, the video essayist turned filmmaker, follows up his spectacular and melancholy feature debut, Columbus, with After Yang, a science fiction film about a family coping with the loss of a robotic family member, Yang. After Yang premiered at Cannes and just played Sundance, where it won the Alfred P. By Sarah • Feb 02, 2022 01:19 pm
Relationship Assumption Robert, Suki, and “total freaks” It’s 2022, and it’s now the Year of the Tiger, Robert Pattinson is a Tiger, and he and Suki Waterhouse are still together. There’s your romance update. Suki, by the way, was born under the sign of the Goat – and is a good example of how just By Lainey • Feb 01, 2022 11:28 am
Top Reads Jennifer Lopez Promotes Love Jennifer Lopez’s new movie, Marry Me, co-starring Owen Wilson, comes out February 11. It’s about a global popstar who’s supposed to marry another big star (played by Maluma) until she finds he’s been cheating on her and she picks a guy holding a sign (Owen) in By Lainey • Feb 01, 2022 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney: On Ben, Brad, and Julia When George Clooney returned to LA a couple of weeks ago after the COVID situation in Australia shut down production on his latest film, Ticket to Paradise, I wrote that it could be an opportunity to campaign behind the scenes for Ben Affleck’s performance in The Tender Bar. Indeed By Lainey • Jan 31, 2022 01:23 pm
