TV Updates Watch Watchmen for Regina King (at first) A groundbreaking graphic novel in the 1980s, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen remains today one of the most influential pieces of 20th century speculative fiction. A deconstruction of superhero comics and the geopolitics of the Cold War, Watchmen is a kind of adaptation holy grail. Its rich iconography and By Sarah • Oct 22, 2019 12:52 pm
Emmy Awards 2019 Regina King begins her victory lap at the Emmys Regina King is the reigning Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner. When you win an Oscar, that’s how you are introduced wherever you go – Regina King, Oscar winner. She was at the Emmys last night, and she’s won a few Emmys, but even at the Emmys, the Oscar mention By Lainey • Sep 23, 2019 10:05 am
Oscars 2019 King Regina There were a lot of “Queens” in attendance last night. Queen, the band. Queen Latifah. Olivia Coleman and Helen Mirren in spirit. The Queen of Wakanda, Angela Bassett. Billy Porter if we’re still saying “yasss Queen!” And then there was Regina King. Lainey schooled me that “Regina” means “Queen” By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 10:27 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina King and the Beale Street 3 All of us who write on this site have written repeatedly about how much we love If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s so … much. This is a film that will hold up, there will never be a time, in 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, when it won’t By Lainey • Jan 22, 2019 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews When Regina King Talks That was my poor attempt at a play on If Beale Street Could Talk, but seriously, no one talks like Regina King. In an award season that refuses to give us a break from insufferable, worse-than-Hathaway twee speeches from Lady Gaga (I like Gaga but can she DO LESS please? By Kathleen • Jan 14, 2019 01:42 pm
Golden Globes 2019 Regina King’s Golden Globes promise We need to talk about Regina King. Specifically, we need to talk about what an epic display of Showing Your F-cking Work Regina King displayed at the Golden Globes. First, there’s her work in If Beale Street Could Talk. As Lainey told you a few days ago, Regina King By Kathleen • Jan 07, 2019 05:07 am
Style “It just feels good being Regina King” Last year Regina King did an interview with Variety and she was asked what it means to her, in this stage of her career, her 30 year career, to be getting the parts she’s getting, the nominations, the awards, the hype, and the SHINE. I loved her response: “It’ By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 13, 2018 Dear Gossips, As you may have heard, the Screen Actors Guild award nominations kicked off all kinds of talk and frustration about snubs and category fraud yesterday. There are actors and films that have been recognized and awarded for weeks that the guild ignored. There is also a film that By Lainey • Dec 13, 2018 09:31 am
Award Season Campaigning Amy & Regina do both Amy Adams received two acting Golden Globe nominations this morning, one for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series and another for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Vice. She’s now trending on Twitter. But don’t forget about Regina King. Regina has been nominated By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 10:59 am
Emmy Awards 2018 Leslie Jones: Emmys Best Reactions Leslie Jones was the Emmys’ Audience Surrogate. That’s the character in a movie or TV show that essentially acts as the proxy for the viewer. In other words, she was all of us. It’s my favourite thing about Leslie Jones. Whether she’s watching the Olympics or Game By Kathleen • Sep 18, 2018 05:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF REVIEW: If Beale Street Could Talk Prepare to be frustrated and heartbroken. Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk is a beautiful, melancholy, infuriating meditation on race in America. Jenkins both adapts and directs and he preserves Baldwin’s poetic fury and his own well of empathy, all while evoking By Sarah • Sep 12, 2018 10:54 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Regina King: Taffeta at the Emmys I will never not complain about taffeta at an award show. Unless it’s the People’s Choice Awards. And Kaley Cuoco is wearing it. Because that’s where taffeta belongs. But at the Emmys? On Regina King? Regina King, the winner for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series By Lainey • Sep 19, 2016 07:52 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Regina’s side cutouts A body-con dress is not my jam. I don’t look for cutouts either. That said, Regina King is wearing the sh-t out of this body-con dress with side cutouts. By Lainey • May 09, 2016 10:06 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Regina’s flirty white skirt She seems to be on a gold and white tip right now. And I love it, this even more than her Golden Globes outfit last week – click here for a refresher. The way the top is cropped is perfect, how it seems to dip slightly lower at the back. And By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 08:43 am
Golden Globes 2016 Regina King: Big gold Globe sequins You remember last week, Priyanka Chopra in that dress with the big sequins and I wasn’t sure about it? Click here for a refresher. Well I’m much more sure about Regina King’s big sequins: I love them. It could be the cape. You can always suck up By Lainey • Jan 11, 2016 04:28 am
