TV Updates The Crown cracks in season three In its third season, The Crown experiences a reset, with a new cast coming in to play the royal family at a later stage in life. The Queen, now played by Olivia Colman, is in her middle life, older and no wiser as she navigates a changing world. The transition By Sarah • Nov 21, 2019 04:21 pm
TV Updates The Crown Cometh The Crown season 3 drops this Sunday on Netflix. Early reviews are really good. It’s not like I expect a drop in quality, not from one of the most lavish and meticulously crafted dramas on television. I just wonder whether or not the issues currently surrounding the real Windsors By Sarah • Nov 14, 2019 03:49 pm
TV Updates Mid-life Crisis Crown The Crown season three is dropping at an interesting time. Peter Morgan, Netflix, everyone involved with The Crown could not have known that, of course, but as it happens, The Crown arrives at an existential crisis at the same moment that the British royal family is knee-deep in another kind By Sarah • Oct 21, 2019 01:28 pm
TV Updates The Crown gets on with it Season three of The Crown is coming in November, and there is now a teaser to show off Olivia Colman in action as Queen Elizabeth II. We’ve already seen a photo of Colman suited up as QEII, but now we can hear her accent and see some of her By Sarah • Sep 20, 2019 01:52 pm
TV Updates Is The Crown tainted? Netflix’s royal soap opera, The Crown, returns on November 17. To date, it has been one of Netflix’s biggest success stories, though probably more for awards than ratings. (The Crown’s audience is comparable to traditional cable hits like Big Little Lies. season It’s nothing to sneeze By Sarah • Aug 12, 2019 03:53 pm
Top Reads We Don’t Deserve Best Actress Olivia Colman I really don’t understand Twitter sometimes. I know a statement like that makes me sound too young, naïve, sheltered and privileged to be allowed chocolate milk, let alone unaccompanied access to one of the internet’s most reliable joke factories that sometimes doubles as a dumpster fire. But look, By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 06:51 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTA Favourite Roma and The Favourite have the most Oscar nominations (10) this year. And, since it’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, The Favourite was always expected to do well at the BAFTAs. Roma took Best Picture, maintaining its position as the frontrunner with two weeks now to By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:50 am
Assy Style Lady Gaga: Worst Dressed at the Globes If I’m not here tomorrow it’s because I’ve been taken out by the Little Monsters. Please know I LOVED Lady Gaga in A Star is Born, more than Bradley Cooper, actually. I just can’t get behind Lady Gaga at the Golden Globes, dress and all. By By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colman, Weisz, and Stone in The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos is not interested in teaching a history lesson, so The Favourite is an historical drama heavier on drama than historicity. Telling the story of Queen Anne, Sarah Marlborough, and Abigail Hill, The Favourite takes a series of events and bends and twists them into a tale of power, By Sarah • Nov 23, 2018 03:12 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
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s not all Gaga A Star is Born is a big movie. It has emerged as the Oscar Best Picture frontrunner – for now. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will receive multiple nominations. But that doesn’t mean that they’re running away with it. And they shouldn’t run away with it. Anybody running By Lainey • Oct 19, 2018 10:57 am
