9 posts tagged ‘carey mulligan’
Critics Choice Awards 2024 Red Carpet: Yes, There Was Another Awards Show This Weekend
Jezebel,
The Emmys were on Monday night (after being rescheduled from September due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike), and the red carpet was, I’d say, a solid B minus. Perhaps those in attendance were a little pooped from the awards show they’d been at the night before: the Critics Choice Awards, which was held Sunday night. Read more...
Golden Globes 2024: The Red Carpet Matches the Drapes
The Golden Globes returned for the 81st time Sunday night with a new network and without its very controversial and super problematic founding organization. So, before we get to the dresses, here’s a quick recap of all the drama the Globes—which is supposed to be the fun, drunk, carefree awards show—went through in… Read more...
How the Golden Globe nominations could shape the Oscar race this year
AV Club,
Like it or not, as the first big awards show of the year, the Golden Globes set the tone for everything that comes after. Even with their complicated backstory and the fraught history of the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes remain a valuable marketing tool for studios. Their strategic… Read more...
Carey Mulligan’s most pressing question for Michael Fassbender: How did he do those Killer push-ups?
At the beginning of David Fincher’s The Killer, Michael Fassbender’s assassin character goes about his daily routine while waiting to line up a perfect sniper shot on his target, and in addition to eating McDonald’s and overhyping his own abilities in his supremely confident, omnipresent narration, Fassbender does… Read more...
Maestro Is a Masterful Reconstruction That Remains Just That
Vulture,
The Leonard Bernstein biopic somehow proves that Bradley Cooper is a director of genuine vision, even though it’s not a particularly successful movie.
Maestro review: Bradley Cooper’s passionate, unruly ode to Leonard Bernstein
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is an inspired ode to the late, great Leonard Bernstein. It’s also a thorny deconstruction of the man-as-tortured-genius trope, replete with a compassionate focus on his put-upon wife and the bond the two shared for close to three decades. Ambitious in scope and featuring two powerhouse… Read more...
15 Best Actress contenders for the 2024 Oscars
We’ve already identified 22 films competing for a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, and 15 actors in the running for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Now, we’re turning our attention to the actresses whose names could be called when nominations are announced in January. As with the actors list, we’ve narrowed… Read more...
Saltburn review: Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi seek racy thrills
The darkly comedic and corrupt whims of the wealthy are on full display in filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s racy thriller Saltburn. The cheeky provocateur’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning directorial debut, Promising Young Woman, Saltburn wages war on the stuffy British elite by way of a lower-class scholarship student,… Read more...