Ralph Fiennes Of monsters and men in 28 Years Later In 2002, 28 Days Later jumpstarted the zombie craze of the 2000s, introducing the world to the concept of fast zombies, a more intense and immediate threat than the lumbering zombies of George Romero’s imagination. In this universe, penned by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle, zombies are By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic Rebirth, 28 Years Later It’s summer movie season which means practically every week brings new blockbuster releases, especially this year, as summer 2025 is overcrowded. Someone is going to lose in this overstuffed environment, who’s it going to be? The casts of Jurassic World Rebirth and 28 Years Later hope it won’ By Sarah • Jun 17, 2025 10:32 am
Hook Ups Ralph & Chelsea…briefly? I wrote yesterday about Ralph Fiennes in the Adrien Brody post, how much fun he seemed to be having on the Oscars red carpet, how much time he seemed to have for the media, even though he had nothing to gain at that point from doing so many interviews. But By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 11:05 am
Top Reads Adrien Brody: A Case for Speechwriters If there was another bad speech at the Oscars, I don’t remember it, because Adrien Brody decided to take so much time near the end of a show that was already running long – he erased all recollection of anyone else who was annoying up on that stage with a By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 08:59 am
Award Season Campaigning The Nominees Dinner The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – aka the Oscar Academy – typically hosts an Oscar Nominees Luncheon every year to celebrate everyone a few weeks before the big night. This is where they also remind potential winners about keeping their speeches tight and right and gently ask them not By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 12:30 pm
Award Season Campaigning Last night at AFI Last night, the American Film Institute honored their top ten films and TV series for 2024. You can see the full list of honorees here, but it’s pretty much an Oscar/Emmy hit list, with such titles as Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, and Wicked in the mix By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 09:36 am
Break Ups Catching up with JLo Haven’t posted about Jennifer Lopez all week – how did we go nine days into 2025 without a mention?! This changes now because there’s actually been some news about her, but we’ll jump back and forth between timelines. First, the biggest headline, is that the first full week By Lainey • Jan 09, 2025 10:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ralph Fiennes in Conclave Edward Berger takes a break from the muddy battlefields of Europe to make a film set in a considerably more beautiful location—the Vatican. Conclave is Berger’s follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front, and it is a cinematic palette cleanser, a psychological thriller with a high quotient By Sarah • Oct 25, 2024 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in The Menu Director Mark Mylod’s last feature film credit is, incredibly, the rather sexist and misogynistic Chris Evans/Anna Faris “rom-com” What’s Your Number in 2011. Since then, though, he has been directing for TV shows like Game of Thrones, Shameless, and Succession, and now he’s roaring back into By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy is in (on?) The Menu With The Bear becoming the breakout hit series of the summer, it’s the perfect time for a darkly comic horror movie about a chef torturing the guests at an elaborate dinner. It’s an ideal pairing, a series using the restaurant world to tell a family drama, and a By Sarah • Aug 11, 2022 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes go into the desert Academy Award Winner Jessica Chastain™️ has a new film coming out, The Forgiven, that unites her with Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Abbott, and writer/director John Michael McDonagh. I am a big fan of McDonagh—and his brother, Martin McDonagh—he makes the kind of films that pop back into my By Sarah • May 20, 2022 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Here for The King’s Man, whenever it comes out Here’s another “we’ll see it when we see it” movie: The King’s Man, the prequel to the Kingsman movies, is supposed to come out this fall. To that end, a new trailer was released yesterday, touting that it will be “Only in theaters September 18”. You know By Sarah • Jun 23, 2020 03:02 pm
Dumbass Bond 25 actually tried it today Yesterday I got a marketing email that completely baffled me. It was a “media alert!” announcing that this morning there would be a “live launch” of Bond 25, and as I read the email, I legit laughed out loud. They’re trying it? This week? THIS week of ALL weeks? By Sarah • Apr 25, 2019 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes in A Bigger Splash Inspired by classic European cinema (specifically, La Piscine) and borrowing its title from a David Hockney painting, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash is simultaneously gorgeous and silly. Reuniting with Tilda Swinton, following 2009’s stellar I Am Love, Guadagnino takes on the kind of laissez faire erotic thriller we By Sarah • May 19, 2016 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond 24: Spectre I like Bond movies but I'm no Bond historian. Spectre, the title of Bond 24, just announced today, will mean something to Bond nerds though the way "alohomora" means something to Potterheads (me). For many, a Bond film is an Event. My best friend Fiona is By Lainey • Dec 04, 2014 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The joy of The Grand Budapest Hotel Those who don’t enjoy Wes Anderson’s films knock it for their preciousness and pretention. Sometimes, yes. But I will defend The Royal Tenenbaums every day. And how can you hate Bottle Rocket? Also, Moonrise Kingdom was one of my favourite movies of 2012. Maybe my favourite movie of By Lainey • Oct 17, 2013 04:33 pm
