TV Updates Amazon’s traffic jam upfront I used to think the biannual television upfronts, in which TV networks hawk their wares for advertisers, were a relic of a bygone era, but then every streaming service started introducing user tiers that include ads, so now I guess the upfronts are more relevant than ever. To that end, By Sarah • May 15, 2024 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell get Scrooged Three years ago, before Apple TV+ even launched, we heard about one of their first big deals, to make a new, musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. At the time, I wasn’t into it, largely because A Muppets Christmas Carol already exists and By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Witches - Anne Hathaway's Triumph? It's been an unexpected pleasure of the past few years to have several of our most beloved stars find The Roles They Were Born To Play. Jennifer Aniston's Alex in The Morning Show, Reese Witherspoon in Big Little Lies. Hell, I'm very late to By Duana • Oct 02, 2020 03:10 pm
BFFs Can’t get enough of Keanu I wrote yesterday that it’s the Summer of Keanu Reeves as he continues to dominate all quadrants with John Wick 3, Always Be My Maybe, E3, and the upcoming Toy Story 4, in which he plays Duke Caboom, “Canada’s #1 stuntman”, no matter how hard Drake tries (I By Lainey • Jun 11, 2019 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Octavia Spencer in Ma When discussing the trailer for Ma, the horror movie starring Octavia Spencer, I said, “Even if this turns out more camp than high art—a real possibility with a Blumhouse production—I’m cool with it.” Well, guess what. Ma is not camp. It’s certainly not high art. It By Sarah • May 29, 2019 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Octavia Spencer’s horror moment It’s an unspoken rule of entertainment that the horror genre can deliver great roles to actresses in a way traditional dramatic often doesn’t. Consider Toni Collette in Hereditary, or Lupita Nyong’o in Us, or Jamie Lee Curtis’s resurgence thanks to Halloween—horror often comes through when By Sarah • Apr 04, 2019 02:04 pm
Top Reads Green Book is America’s Best Picture It’s not like we didn’t know it was coming. Awards season has been preparing us for the inevitable: Green Book as the 2019 Best Picture winner. America, and its almost comically disrespectful Black History Month of bad news, has been preparing us for this too. Since it won By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 04:54 am
Top Reads Mahershala Ali wins, Green Book solves racism The Golden Globes achieved something I thought I wouldn’t see in my lifetime. My parents never dared to believe their kids would get to see this day. My grandparents fought for this day. My children will remember this day in history. Sunday, January 6th, 2019 was the day that By Kathleen • Jan 07, 2019 03:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews There’s something about Green Book A Star is Born did not earn the coveted TIFF Grolsch People’s Choice Award over the weekend, like Lainey and so many predicted it could. Instead, the Oscar bellwether — which has previously been awarded to Best Picture winners like 12 Years a Slave, Slumdog Millionaire, and The King’s By Joanna • Sep 17, 2018 11:51 am
Sally Hawkins The Oscar Nominees Luncheon You know who wasn’t at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon yesterday? Frances McDormand. At least I don’t see her in any of the photos. And maybe this isn’t surprising. Remember at the SAGs when Frances won for Best Actress and got up on stage all like, hey, younger By Lainey • Feb 06, 2018 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Octavia Spencer & Jessica Chastain show their work Octavia Spencer told a really great Show Your Work story at Sundance this week. Octavia and Jessica Chastain are good friends. Over a year ago, Jessica reached out to Octavia because she wanted them to do a movie together. During those discussions, they talked about pay equity and how men By Lainey • Jan 25, 2018 10:14 am
Octavia Spencer Intro for January 12, 2018 Dear Gossips, The Critics’ Choice Awards happened last night in Hollywood and the all-black mandate was lifted and we’ll get to that on the main page and on the LifeStyle page today. Let’s start though with Octavia Spencer who was at the event with The Shape Of Water, By Lainey • Jan 12, 2018 08:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Shape of Water If you ask me to describe Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water, the short answer is: Amelie f*cks a fish monster. The long answer, though, is that The Shape of Water is a beautiful, tender, sweet, sincere, sorta funny, definitely weird, deeply romantic film about love and By Sarah • Sep 12, 2017 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Guillermo, Sally, and Octavia in Venice Ethan Hawke, subject of an earlier post today, starred in a film that was released earlier this year called Maudie. We posted an exclusive first look at Maudie a few months ago. You can also read Joanna’s review here. When Jacek first saw the preview, based on just a By Lainey • Aug 31, 2017 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans in Gifted You know those dramatic reenactments that feature in murder mystery shows where it’s like watching aliens pretend to be people because while everything looks normal enough, the interactions are just ever so slightly stiff and unnatural, like everyone is super aware of the camera on them? And do you By Sarah • Apr 11, 2017 12:23 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, March 7, 2017 According to TMZ things are calming down in Robin Thicke and Paula Patton’s custody war. King Julian watching King Julian. Happy Sunday A post shared by Robin Thicke (@robinthicke) onMar 5, 2017 at 9:19am PST Her robe IS better than ours. how I woke up feeling after my By Maria • Mar 07, 2017 03:16 pm
