Movie Reviews and Previews Saldaña, Gomez, and Gascón in Emilia Pérez My dislike of musicals is well documented and sometimes people will ask why I dislike musicals, and I now have a succinct answer to that question: Emilia Pérez is why I dislike musicals. Jacques Audiard’s award-winning cinematic musical embodies everything that I don’t like about the form. Musicals By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 03:52 pm
TV Updates Nicole and Zoe: Lionesses contending together A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Nicole Kidman that was titled “Nicole Kidman doesn’t stop” and in that post I included a tweet that made me laugh. As I wrote at the time, “some people were offended by it but I understand the spirit because it By Lainey • Oct 24, 2024 10:48 am
Style Emilia Perez again The press tour for Emilia Pérez has entered its hundredth year as the film celebrated its Los Angeles premiere last night. It feels like this film has been on a never-ending publicity tour since Cannes, giving Wicked a run for its money as the most over-advertised film of the year. By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 09:15 am
Style Actress Contenders at the Museum Gala As Sarah just wrote in the post previous to this one about the actors who showed up at the Academy Museum Gala this weekend, at this stage in the season, it’s looking like it’s pretty wide open across the board in most of the major categories for the By Lainey • Oct 21, 2024 11:50 am
Style Outfits of the Week: Emilia Pérez Emilia Pérez has been an Oscar contender since its world premiere in Cannes back in May. Jacques Audiard is already considered a cinematic legend, and all four women of the cast were named Best Actress at that festival. The film was then screened at TIFF last month, reigniting momentum for By Lainey • Oct 11, 2024 12:14 pm
Cannes 2024 Karla, Zoe, Selena, Adriana: The Best Cannes Actresses There’s been a lot of eyerolling at all the standing ovations in Cannes and how many minutes the ovations last for – so many and so often that the ovations have, arguably, become meaningless. That, however, is not the case for Jacques Audiard’s film Emilia Pérez which received a By Lainey • May 27, 2024 12:54 pm
Matt Damon Not the most fascinating dinner There’s been this commercial playing in front of my maritime disaster videos on Youtube for Stella Artois featuring Matt Damon, Ludacris, Jeremy Allen White, and Zoe Saldaña. They sit around a table and pretend they’ve met before and talk about who they would have dinner with if they By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guardians have to pass the test Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 comes out in just two weeks. Chris Pratt is still riding high from the bonanza success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which is only a week or so away from hitting one billion dollars. But he’s already onto the next blockbuster, promoting By Sarah • Apr 25, 2023 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James Cameron returns with Avatar: The Way of Water “Never bet against James Cameron” is how the old adage goes, and anyone foolish enough to think that his latest film, Avatar: The Way of Water, won’t make a truckload of cash is wasting their breath. At this point, no one delivers large-scale spectacle quite like Cameron, and we By Sarah • Dec 14, 2022 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Every Marvel thing is epic now The Comic Con Experience is happening now in Sao Paolo, Brazil. It’s a massive fan event that throws even San Diego Comic Con in the shade. In 2019, Comic Con attracted 135,000 people, while in the same year, CCXP drew 280,000. So CCXP has become a major By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 11:26 am
Style Zoe post-Scratch Zoe Saldana is now making the media rounds to promote Avatar: The Way of Water. I didn’t see the first movie, I don’t feel any cultural FOMO from it, so I can’t say I’m at all interested in the second movie. But if I do see By Lainey • Nov 28, 2022 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar almost solves the water problem (but maybe not the movie problem) Avatar: The Way of Water is the big holiday movie this year. It’s due December 16, in all its three-hour glory, and will undoubtedly dominate cinemas through the end of the year. There is no question in my mind this movie will make a TON of money. Maybe all By Sarah • Nov 03, 2022 12:12 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, I’ve been listening to Rihanna’s new song, “Lift Me Up”, from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack all morning. Like driving to work, crying. Does it hit this hard only because I’ve seen the movie? Or does it work the same even if you haven’ By Lainey • Oct 28, 2022 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dammit, David O. Russell Dammit, David O. Russell, every time I am ready to quit you—or remember that time you cursed out national treasure Lily Tomlin—you reel me back in, or at least make me forget how convinced I am that you’re a raging asshole. I mean, I am CONVINCED, but By Sarah • Jul 07, 2022 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar Again Finally, after over a solid decade of false starts and delays of various natures, the sequel to Avatar, officially titled Avatar: The Way of Water, is due out this December. And to prove that it is really, 100%, no take-backs happening, a teaser trailer was released yesterday. It’s…fine. By Sarah • May 10, 2022 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Garner’s Best Black Dress Jennifer Garner has been in New York the last couple of days to promote The Adam Project which releases on Netflix next Friday, March 11. The premiere happened on Monday night and this Alexandre Vauthier that she’s wearing might the best black dress I’ve ever seen on her. By Lainey • Mar 01, 2022 09:47 am
