Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Annihilation? We’ve seen a trailer for Annihilation, Alex Garland’s follow-up to Ex Machina, which stars Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Oscar Isaac. That was a promising trailer, and I was way into it. Now we have a second trailer, expanding on the plot and By Sarah • Dec 14, 2017 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman and sci-fi soap bubbles Yesterday we saw the first image from Natalie Portman’s upcoming film, Annihilation. It’s from Alex Garland, the filmmaker behind Ex Machina, and the first look features an albino alligator. Well we now have a teaser trailer, and it does not include the albino alligator. But it does have By Sarah • Sep 27, 2017 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman and an albino alligator The first image from Annihilation, Alex Garland’s follow-up to Ex Machina, has been released and it shows Natalie Portman rubbing a Q-tip on an albino alligator, so I’m sold. (I can just feel someone being like, “Actually, that’s a crocodile.”) You know what this reminds me of? By Sarah • Sep 26, 2017 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews First look at Xavier Dolan's John F Donovan is conspicuously timed... but very exciting With the Cannes Film Festival a week away, we finally get our first official photos from the set of Xavier Dolan's highly-anticipated The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. The film is not screening in Cannes because they’re not finished shooting but it does look fantastic By Joanna • May 12, 2017 11:59 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, March 29, 2017 David Beckham has a cameo in King Arthur and I get he’s supposed to be bloody and battered but it’s his teeth that are freaking me out the most. Rough day at the office @kingarthurmovie @guyritchie A post shared by David Beckham (@davidbeckham) onMar 28, 2017 at 6: By Maria • Mar 29, 2017 05:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A New Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Yesterday it was announced that Sony will finally make the sequel to their 2011 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake. Sony is skipping the other books in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, though, and going right to the new book, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, written by David Lagercrantz. By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 01:58 pm
Equality Issues Sarah nominates: Joanna on Natalie Portman Joanna is our resident Natalie Portman fan/defender/explainer. Sarah nominates her post from last August about Natalie Portman’s experience as a director and the “language that women use to disguise their assertiveness”. Last night, Natalie told Charlie Rose that before she started directing A Tale of Love and By Joanna • Mar 08, 2017 04:25 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Natalie Portman’s Pre-Oscar Baby A Early in the week of the Oscars, Natalie Portman released a statement saying she wouldn’t be attending either the big show or the Independent Spirit Awards, ‘on doctor’s orders’. Turns out that was because her daughter arrived on February 22nd, and I swear up and down that she By Duana • Mar 06, 2017 02:38 pm
SAG Awards 2017 Natalie Portman: SAG Whispers Let me say at the outset here that I think Natalie Portman is up against a relatively exhausting set of circumstances. She is quite, quite pregnant, and that only means exhausted because even if you got to sleep until seconds before it was time to go, you can’t sleep By Duana • Jan 30, 2017 03:09 pm
Natalie Portman The 2017 Vanity Fair Hollywood Portfolio They used to call this the Hollywood Issue, Vanity Fair’s annual February issue ahead of the Oscars featuring, primarily, the outstanding performers from the year that was. For whatever reason, the magazine has rebranded the name but the spirit is the same. In years past, Vanity Fair has been By Lainey • Jan 26, 2017 11:41 am
Award Season Campaigning The Icon and The Ingenue The most competitive category at the Oscars this year is Best Actress. It’s been this way since last fall. For several months, the race was defined as Emma Stone versus Natalie Portman. Back in November I wrote about their competition, and that despite Portman’s excellent work in Jackie, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2017 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Three Natalie Portmans = One Ashton Kutcher, and a Best Actress Update Natalie Portman covers the newest issue of Marie Claire UK. Inside, she talks about legalizing pot, her sense of humour, and, of course, Jackie. But she also reveals that as of 2010, Ashton Kutcher was worth roughly three times as much as she was in the eyes of Hollywood: “Ashton By Joanna • Jan 11, 2017 11:30 am
Assy Style Natalie Portman: Globes Worst Dressed (Duana) Natalie Portman didn’t make an appearance last night. That is, sometimes nominees are involved in other projects or sketches so you see them in a different capacity than just sitting in their seats, waiting…but that didn’t happen tonight, and I wonder how she feels about it. Maybe, By Duana • Jan 09, 2017 03:37 pm
Golden Globes 2017 Isabelle Huppert & Leonardo DiCaprio: Biggest Globes Upset Does this mean Emma Stone is back in the lead for Best Actress at the Oscars? Or does this mean nothing because, well, it’s the Hollywood Foreign Press? Isabelle Huppert upset Natalie Portman for Best Actress in a Drama at the Golden Globes last night. At my house, Emily, By Lainey • Jan 09, 2017 02:49 am
Award Season Campaigning C-nt and Lil C-nt Joanna wrote in the previous post about Reese Witherspoon’s support of Natalie Portman. I wrote on Tuesday about Tom Hanks’s support of Natalie Portman in Palm Springs and how, well, even though Emma Stone had the early momentum for Best Actress, you can’t mistake the signs now By Lainey • Jan 06, 2017 10:38 am
Award Season Campaigning Reese Witherspoon for Natalie Portman Emma Stone may have Jennifer Lawrence and Eddie Redmayne showing up to support her work in La La Land, but Reese Witherspoon was photographed a private screening of Jackie alongside Natalie Portman Wednesday night. @reesewitherspoon and Natalie Portman at a private screening of #JackieFilm ✨ A photo posted by JackieFilm (@jackiefilm) By Joanna • Jan 06, 2017 10:17 am
