Movie Reviews and Previews Oscars 2021: Return of the Snubs I generally don’t like using the word “snub” to describe awards nominations because frequently it is not a case of willful exclusion but there being too many worthy films to include when there are a limited number of nominations to hand out. But THIS year? When MANK is the By Sarah • Mar 15, 2021 01:38 pm
Style The Golden Globe Triumphs of Regina King It is very late and lazy to be using “what can’t Regina King do?!” as a framework for a piece – I mean, late in the night, but especially late in her recent run of media domination, even if One Night in Miami didn’t get any recognition last night. By Duana • Mar 01, 2021 11:13 am
Award Season Campaigning Golden Globes: Three women more than before One bright spot in the Golden Globes film nominations is that for the first time, THREE women have been nominated for Best Director. Regina King (One Night in Miami), Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), and Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) all received directing nods. Previously, only five women have ever been nominated By Sarah • Feb 03, 2021 01:39 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations will be announced this morning and we’ll have more on which films and series and performers the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is recognising this year. Because it’s the HFPA though… expect some randomness and maybe (probably?) a little foolery. Like if Michaela By Lainey • Feb 03, 2021 08:57 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, If not for the pandemic, Oscar nominations would be announced around now. Everything has been pushed back, as we know, but the races are starting to shape up. The big question is how different voting will be now that award season campaigning isn’t happening the way we’ By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 09:06 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for January 19, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Critics’ Choice television nominations yesterday reminded me that we should talk about styling. Though they used to not admit to this, it’s undeniable now that for celebrities, a lot of marketing and promotional work, as well as award season campaign work, is done on a red By Lainey • Jan 19, 2021 09:12 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, One Night in Miami, directed by Regina King, premiered on Amazon this weekend. The film imagines conversations based on true events. On the night he defeated Sonny Liston to become the heavyweight champion of the world, Cassius Clay did indeed spend the night at the Hampton House Motel By Lainey • Jan 18, 2021 09:01 am
Award Season Campaigning Regina King’s potential Oscar year Regina King’s engaging, resonant historical biopic, One Night in Miami, is one of the early standouts of the Oscar race this year. It debuted at the Venice Film Festival, then played TIFF, kicking off a traditional Oscar campaign in a very non-traditional year (it will premiere on Christmas day By Sarah • Nov 20, 2020 12:41 pm
TV Updates Regina King and the Kingdom of Watchmen I’ve rewritten this sentence about nine times. What I want to say is “Watchmen deserved every Emmy it got and more” but that seems to discount the incredible Unbelievable and Unorthodox and others, and look – we just need to accept the fact that there’s too much that’s By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 08:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: One Night in Miami Adapted by Kemp Powers from his own play and directed by Regina King, One Night in Miami is a fictionalization of a night in February 1964 when Cassius Clay (Eli Goree, Riverdale and Ballers) becomes the heavyweight champion of the world after a surprise victory over Sonny Liston. After the By Sarah • Sep 11, 2020 10:40 am
Oscars 2020 Brad Pitt doesn’t have speechwriters, just friends One of the questions many of us were asking leading up to the Oscars had to do with Brad Pitt’s acceptance speeches; they were so sharp, the jokes so precise, that we wondered whether or not he’d hired a speechwriter – and there were some reports that his team By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 03:56 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: The Lone Ranger Cometh Spoilers Somehow, Watchmen keeps getting better, which should be impossible given this show’s high standard from the jump. But building off last week’s stellar episode, the latest Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”, ups the ante again, giving us an episode full of answers, yes, but also the strongest thematic By Sarah • Nov 25, 2019 03:25 pm
TV Updates Watchmen episode 4 preview Watchmen episode 4 preview In the last episode, Watchmen both brought us closer to the original graphic novel, and expanded the world of the show. Now that the show is not just about Angela Abar, but also Laurie Blake, the questions just keep mounting. We have to find out about By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 02:41 pm
TV Updates Watchmen piles it on There are many unanswered questions and mysterious premises in Watchmen, but one thing we can say for certain about this show is that it is super into Doctor Manhattan’s big blue dick. Last episode it was Adrian Veidt making his clone-slave hang dong in his play about Manhattan, and By Sarah • Nov 04, 2019 01:12 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: Who ARE these people? Watchmen, like Game of Thrones, invites theorizing. We’re two episodes in and this is already a richly detailed world, with big plot setups and seemingly minor background information that may or may not end up being relevant. Unlike Game of Thrones, however, book readers don’t really have an By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 03:10 pm
TV Updates Watchmen introduces the closet skeletons Spoilers The second episode of Watchmen, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”, deepens our understanding of this alternate America, while setting up the mystery of the show: Who is Will, and, Who is Angela, really? Building off the first episode, “Horsemanship” is also directed by Nicole Kassell, and it answers a By Sarah • Oct 28, 2019 02:24 pm
