BFFs Ava DuVernay: Team Chalamet? Full disclosure: I’m just here to please in this post, total obsequiousness. Because I know how you feel about Timothee Chalamet. And you know what? Ava DuVernay feels the same way. Ava and Timmy were both at the Academy’s Governors Awards on Sunday and here’s what she By Lainey • Nov 20, 2018 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Hugh Jackman Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s rivalry is fast approaching Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon status. It’s slightly less mainstream, but these two have been “sparring” online for years, conveniently timed around the promotion of their respective projects. And after Hugh cozily posed with Emily Blunt at Variety’s Actors on By Joanna • Nov 20, 2018 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa and Michael as Bianca and Adonis When our site manager Emily emailed over the new Entertainment Weekly cover featuring Michael Bae Jordan and Tessa Thompson, she wrote, “K, you’re not okay, I can feel it.” She was right. I am NOT OKAY. Look at these two perfect alien angel models. I was not okay from By Kathleen • Nov 20, 2018 11:37 am
Music Dolly leads Team Dumplin’! She told us. Dolly Parton told us she wants an Oscar nomination and she told us she would be “politickin’” for one and here she is, on the cover of the Thanksgiving issue of PEOPLE Magazine talking about her marriage, about growing up poor, about not having children, and about By Lainey • Nov 20, 2018 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ at the Governors Awards The Black Panther cast was mostly present and accounted for at the Governors Awards reminding me how much I love them all but I’m going to focus on my man Michael Bae Jordan. He wore an impeccably tailored white suit jacket that he can wear to our wedding if By Kathleen • Nov 19, 2018 03:54 pm
TV Updates Claire Foy works her odds Claire Foy co-hosted the Evening Standard Theater Awards over the weekend, showing up in a McQueen that I wish was either not off the shoulder, or had shorter sleeves, one or the other, because right now the sleeves are doing too much. Foy is enjoying the last days of her By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek and Lucy Boynton: Team Bohemian Rhapsody at the Governors Awards It’s a one-person team, really. Bohemian Rhapsody continues to perform very well at the box office. Right now it’s approaching $400 million worldwide and could make as much as $500 globally by the end of its theatrical run. Despite the problems that many critics – including Sarah – had with By Lainey • Nov 19, 2018 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga and Sam Elliott: Team ASIB at the Governors Awards Martin Levy was one of the honorary Oscar recipients at the Governors Awards last night. Martin is a publicist and the Academy was formally acknowledging the work of publicity on a night when, as you know, Oscar strategists were working hard to position their candidates in the best possible light By Lainey • Nov 19, 2018 09:49 am
Harry Potter The Crimes of Grindelwald are many, and great In my review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, I wrote, “A movie where Newt does a silly mating dance with a glowy rhinoceros does not also need to contain a bleak storyline about an abusive orphanage matron who whips the closeted wizard in her care. They’re By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 09:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Mantzoukas gets his due Almost two years ago I wrote, “[Jason Mantzoukas] is WAY overdue for his own starring vehicle.” The everywhere That Guy of comedy, Mantzoukas has popped up on sitcoms like The League, Parks & Rec, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place,Transparent, and Big Mouth, and in movies like The Night Before By Sarah • Nov 16, 2018 02:23 pm
Quiveration Taron and Sofia out for dinner Taron Egerton is currently promoting Robin Hood. This movie was shot a while ago. The release date was pushed back at least once. There were all kinds of rumours about production being a mess. I’m not sure how it’s going to do a week after Fantastic Beasts and By Lainey • Nov 16, 2018 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sad Clown Dumbo Disney’s quest to remake all their classic animated films into live action money grabs continues with Dumbo, Tim Burton’s reimagining of the timeless tale of animal cruelty in the circus. Want to see a baby elephant ripped from its mother? Go see Dumbo! Want to see large animals By Sarah • Nov 16, 2018 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Florence Pugh is everywhere Florence Pugh broke out with Lady Macbeth in 2016, and now, as is wont to happen, she is everywhere. She is currently on Netflix, being underutilized in Outlaw King. She will next be seen in The Little Drummer Girl with Alexander Skarsgard, and she is filming Greta Gerwig’s new By Sarah • Nov 15, 2018 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Favourite begins campaigning The Favourite is one of my favorite films of the year—yes, I see that, too—and it will be rolling out starting next week, beginning a hopeful Oscar charge. Leading the way on that is a cover feature in The Hollywood Reporter with its trio of stars, Olivia Colman, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2018 01:10 pm
Quiveration Creed II premieres in NYC Michael B Jordan is in Toronto today promoting Creed II. He is not coming on our show and I have to be at work instead of casually showing up where he’ll be and initiating my 9-step “Casual Run-in With MBJ, Make Him Fall in Love with Me” plan so By Kathleen • Nov 15, 2018 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Rami challenge Bradley? Critics’ reactions to Bohemian Rhapsody have been mixed – click here to read Sarah’s thoughts on the film if you missed it – but it is definitely a crowd-pleaser with the box office to match, already crossing the $100 million mark in the US and bringing in strong numbers internationally for By Lainey • Nov 15, 2018 10:39 am
