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 Kristen Stewart’s Hole-in-One Like I said in the previous post about Lady Gaga, Oscar nomination voting begins this Thursday so this is the time for contenders, especially the ones on the bubble, to get out there and make their case. Kristen Stewart, a few weeks ago, was not thought to be on the By Lainey • Jan 25, 2022 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard fulfills his destiny in The Northman Robert Eggers, auteur of the itchiest goddamn cinema, is back with a new film starring Alexander Skarsgard, The Northman. Skarsgard fulfills his destiny by playing Thor a Viking prince called Amleth. In medieval Scandi literature, Amleth is the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a boy whose father, the king, is By Sarah • Dec 21, 2021 11:15 am
Nicole Kidman Nicole & Keith in Sydney for the Holidays Last week, after the Hollywood premiere of Being the Ricardos, I wrote about Nicole Kidman and how Keith Urban hadn’t joined her on any of the red carpets for the film up to that point. As I said in that post though, it wasn’t about their relationship but By Lainey • Dec 15, 2021 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos Being the Ricardos, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, takes three things that happened in the lives of legendary entertainers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and compacts them into one fictitious week. While producing an episode of their hit show I Love Lucy, Walter Winchell outs Lucy (Nicole Kidman) as By Sarah • Dec 09, 2021 02:07 pm
Award Season Campaigning Nicole Kidman goes for the lead As Sarah and I have been saying, it’s a wide open Oscar race this year across almost all the major categories, including Best Actress. Nicole Kidman has been making a strong push right now with Being the Ricardos. Last week she was in New York, attending multiple screenings and By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:50 am
Bad Style Here comes Nicole Being The Ricardos comes out next week, and while reviews are still embargoed, Oscar buzz is building momentum for Nicole Kidman. Awards season remains extremely competitive, but Kidman is looking more and more like a solid pick for a nomination (along with Olivia Colman and Kristen Stewart). Here’s Kidman, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 10:21 am
Style Nicole, Kate, Reese & more: Sequins and Sparkles at InStyle We’re in the season now – carpet after carpet, night after night. From fashion events to screenings to award season campaign stops, it’s go time right now in Hollywood as celebrities are trying to get in front of the cameras as often as they can to promote their projects By Lainey • Nov 16, 2021 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Sorkin’s bad Ricardos takes A full trailer for Being the Ricardos has arrived, and it is…still not convincing. Seeing more of Nicole Kidman in motion as Lucille Ball isn’t making me feel better about the casting, it’s just doubling down on the initial impression that she’s the wrong type of By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman’s grape stomp Aaron Sorkin’s long-awaited biopic of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Being the Ricardos, is making its way to theaters and Amazon Prime this winter. In anticipation of that, the teaser trailer has arrived, and I am not feeling it. Not only does it have a flat look a la By Sarah • Oct 20, 2021 12:31 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Stars at the Academy Museum: A Pre-Oscar Fashion Show The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka the Oscar Academy, has been working on the Academy Museum for several years now. The Museum officially opens on September 30 and this weekend the opening gala was a star-studded event, with multiple Oscar winners in attendance, and members of the By Lainey • Sep 27, 2021 12:57 pm
TV Updates Nicole Kidman’s cult from hell Nicole Kidman is really flourishing in the current television landscape. She’s been in great films over the last decade, stuff like Paddington, The Beguiled, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Destroyer, the upcoming The Northman. But she’s also had a slew of killer television work, from Top of the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2021 03:19 pm
Golden Globes 2021 The Golden Globes Didn’t Bother To Make a Television Production What’s the most common critique of the Golden Globes? I mean, the overarching one (not the one that occurred this weekend when it became clear they have zero Black members to the point where they all remember the last person who applied, and was rejected, somewhere in the 2010s. By Duana • Mar 01, 2021 06:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lucy-Desi casting curse Back in 2015, which was both five years ago and a hundred years ago, we learned that Aaron Sorkin was writing a biopic of Lucille Ball which would star Cate Blanchett. Now Sorkin is finally realizing the project, though it will no longer star Blanchett. Titled Being the Ricardos, the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Famous People in The Prom Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Prom is a strange artifact from another time. Though it debuted in 2016 and hit Broadway in 2018, it feels like flotsam from the Obama-era, something from a less contentious, less overtly divisive time when “NYC Broadway liberals” versus “small-town By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 02:13 pm
Nicole Kidman Intro for October 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, My Halloween tradition here at LaineyGossip is to complain about Halloween. I hate it. That doesn’t mean I’m not good at it, because I’m actually very good at Halloween – I am a professional, goddamn it! – but it’s such a pain in the ass. Here’ By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 08:53 am
