What Else Awkwafina’s Snowsuit I don’t know if this is actually a snowsuit but it’s giving snowsuit, right? If you grew up in the 70s and 80s, the white and green that’s happening here is very much what our snow clothing looked like back in the day. Awkwafina’s fit here By Lainey • Feb 20, 2025 04:00 pm
Golden Globes 2025 The Golden Globes stay messy Usually, Duana would write this post and critique the Golden Globes as a telecast, with her expertise as a television writer, directress, and producer in her own right, but this year, the Golden Globes telecast was so f-cking janky even we peons with our untrained, non-professional eyes could see there By Sarah • Jan 06, 2025 06:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid, Disney’s latest live-action reboot of a classic animated film, begins with a quote from Hans Christian Andersen about suffering. It really sets the stage for what comes next. The Little Mermaid, in this incarnation written by David Magee and directed by Rob Marshall, is neither the By Sarah • May 26, 2023 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage in Renfield Renfield, from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and director Chris McKay, the man behind the phenomenal The LEGO Batman Movie and the horrible Tomorrow War, imagines Dracula in the modern day, dealing with modern problems such as: his assistant, Renfield, has discovered self-help. Nicolas Cage stars as Dracula—as By Sarah • Apr 14, 2023 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ready for Renfield With John Wick: Chapter 4 opening this weekend, and Dungeons & Dragons and Tetris next weekend, we are rolling toward the absolute car crash that is the film release calendar for the rest of 2023. Things start picking up steam in April, and the film I am most excited about By Sarah • Mar 23, 2023 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Goth Rock Dracula and his sad-sack silly boy I am sure that 2023 will bring us a group of thoughtful, emotional, provoking films to make us think and feel and cry, but you know? All I care about, right now, is the silly sh-t. Fill my veins with M3gan and Barbie and Renfield, I don’t need anything By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 11:53 am
Top Reads Awkwafina doesn’t apologise Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina, for years has been criticised for appropriating AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and using what’s called a blaccent, and specifically speaking with a blaccent as part of her comedic persona and in her comedic roles, only to take it off for her dramatic roles, which By Lainey • Feb 07, 2022 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Awkwafina will fight vampires After crashing and burning spectacularly with the so-called “Dark Universe” cinematic universe of classic movie monsters, Universal is trying again with a filmmaker-driven approach to reimagining their classic monsters in the modern era. The first movie of their second effort to reboot the classic monsters was Leigh Whannell’s very By Sarah • Dec 02, 2021 01:15 pm
BFFs Thanksgiving with Elliot and Awkwafina As I’ve often said, celebrity friendships are often more interesting than celebrity romances. And here’s a new celebrity friendship that we’re just find out about – Elliot Page and Awkwafina were photographed hanging out yesterday in New York. Awkwafina is from New York so it looks like she’ By Lainey • Nov 25, 2021 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu and Tony Leung in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings may be Marvel’s first film centered on an East Asian hero, but it is also yet another origin story for a Marvel hero, though one that benefits from the ten or so origin stories that came before it. In almost every By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 12:34 pm
Style Ten Rings and Sandra Oh Simu Liu and the cast of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings are in London tonight for the UK premiere. Michelle Yeoh missed the Hollywood premiere ten days ago because she’s working in London, so it’s great to see her here, with Awkwafina and also Sandra By Lainey • Aug 26, 2021 04:13 pm
Style Awkwafina’s All-Asian Parties As promised, our coverage of the Shang-Chi world premiere in Hollywood continues – this is Awkwafina on the red carpet last night in a gorgeous red trimmed oversized suit, also belted Asian styles like her co-star Simu Liu. She mentioned on her IG stories that it was her first carpet “in By Lainey • Aug 17, 2021 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is Shang-Chi’s “Destiny”? Assuming nothing changes—which is starting to feel like a big assumption—Shang-Chi is set for release in one month. As such, Marvel is ramping up the publicity machine, bringing us a new featurette titled “Destiny”. It shows off more of the action of the film, and features Simu Liu, By Sarah • Aug 03, 2021 01:41 pm
Style Sandra and Nora go shopping We’re taking a break from the couples updates to spotlight a couple of a different kind. Sandra Oh and Awkwafina aren’t romantically involved but this might be the couple I’m most excited about today. Sandra and Awkwafina! Together in London! It was announced last year that Sandra By Lainey • Jul 05, 2021 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tony Leung is Shang-Chi’s bad dad A new trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here, this one showing off even more Tony Leung—inject that man’s presence into my veins, please—and Michelle Yeoh, but less Awkwafina. The first trailer was the introduction to the style of Shang-Chi, and this By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu has fists of fury as Shang-Chi The teaser trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here and it is a short, beautiful pastiche of homages to classic Asian cinema ranging from Bruce Lee to Keanu. This is our first glimpse of Simu Liu in action as Shang-Chi and I am an even By Sarah • Apr 19, 2021 01:06 pm
