Cannes 2025 Cannes begins The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival is underway, and already, we’ve seen fallout from the new dress code banning “nudity and voluminous outfits” on the Croisette. During yesterday’s jury press conference, Halle Berry said she had to change her dress, from designer Guarav Gupta, because it had a By Sarah • May 14, 2025 11:24 am
TV Updates Angela Bassett (and some other people) Did you know Angela Bassett has a new series coming out? Probably not, because it’s on Netflix and they barely advertise anything. But she does, a limited series co-starring Robert De Niro called Zero Day. It’s on Netflix as of today. Here’s the trailer: The series also By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 02:39 pm
Oscars 2024 Just dudes being bros This year, the Oscars brought back the five-presenter format for the acting awards, in which previous winners personally introduced each of the five nominees. It’s a fun piece of living Oscar history, even if I would ALSO like to see clips of the nominated performances (make the show four By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 09:19 am
BFFs Robert De Niro’s A-list party Robert De Niro turned 80 yesterday, and his birthday party drew an A-list crowd. Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Paul McCartney, and Uma Thurman—along with her father Robert—among others, were all seen heading into the party at the Tribeca Grill (which he co-owns with restaurateur Drew By Sarah • Aug 18, 2023 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A true American story The first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon was solid, introducing the concept of the “two wolves” and Lily Gladstone as the film’s star. The new trailer more adroitly lays out the plot—the Osage have “the worst land possible” but it turns out, that By Sarah • Jul 06, 2023 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Irishman is Scorsese’s least glamourous gangster film Based on either a true story or an entertaining lie, depending on how hot your conspiracy thermometer runs, The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a union worker and alleged mob hitman who claimed at the end of his life to have assassinated Jimmy Hoffa (Al By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Irishman …video game? A couple months ago we got a teaser for Martin Scorsese’s mob passion project, The Irishman. This is the movie with extensive digital de-aging of its stars, and at the time I said, “They still have a few months to get it all fixed up”. Well, The Irishman is By Sarah • Sep 26, 2019 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scorsese’s Avengers Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating mob opus, The Irishman, is finally coming out later this year, thanks to Netflix. It stars Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman who claimed on his deathbed to have killed Jimmy Hoffa. Al Pacino stars in The Irishman as Hoffa, and Harvey Keitel By Sarah • Jul 31, 2019 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scorsese, De Niro, and Leo together again Deadline reported yesterday that Robert De Niro is negotiating to be in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio. People are excited. Scorsese and De Niro are a legendary team. Scorsese and Leo have a thing too. Now he’s working again with two of By Lainey • Jul 31, 2019 12:50 pm
Gorgessity Michelle Pfeiffer forever You know what I said in today’s site intro about weekend viewing, watching, reading, and listening lists? Well next weekend it’s going to be HBO’s The Wizard Of Lies, the story of Bernie Madoff. Back in February, Radiolab (probably my favourite podcast) did an episode on Bernie By Lainey • May 12, 2017 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez in Hands of Stone Knowing absolutely nothing about boxer Roberto Duran, I was intrigued going into his biopic, Hands of Stone. Biopics often work better the less you know about the subject—dramatic license is less distracting—but then, if the biopic is too broad and messy, you can feel even more lost because By Sarah • Sep 02, 2016 12:42 pm
Media Manipulation Tom Hiddleston and James Bond I’m going to follow up this post with one about Jake Gyllenhaal so please note that a comparison is coming. As we’ve seen, when Tom Hiddleston is promoting a movie, invited on talk shows, he’s the eager beaver… He becomes an exclamation point. Which I don’t By Lainey • Mar 23, 2016 04:14 pm
BFFs Leo & his best friend Kate I’ve written several times recently about Titanic nostalgia. The movie means a lot to people, I get that. Which is why you lose your sh-t every time Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet find themselves at the same event. And since they’re both award season participants this year, we’ By Lainey • Feb 11, 2016 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I saw Dirty Grandpa and a part of me died It is time for a reckoning. It is time to stare into the darkest depths of the void and ask a question fundamental to humanity’s future. And that question is: How many movies can Zac Efron make before he triggers the apocalypse? We Are Your Friends is a torment, By Sarah • Jan 25, 2016 10:12 am
Pitt Porn Brange Ballerina It’s Brange Week! Angelina Jolie was presented with the Wall Street Journal Innovator Award last night in New York. She and Brad Pitt attended the event and hung out with Robert De Niro and Anna Wintour. Tonight, as you know, By The Sea opens AFI Fest so they’ll By Lainey • Nov 05, 2015 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t think too hard about Anne Hathaway in The Intern Nancy Meyers’s latest Upper East Side White People With Problems movie, The Intern, follows the likes of It’s Complicated and Something’s Gotta Give, except The Intern has been liberally doused with hipster flavor in an attempt to appeal to The Youths. Manhattan has been traded for Brooklyn— By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 10:46 am
