Gabourey Sidibe

Lee Daniels gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd - Los Angeles, California, United States - Friday 2nd December 2016

Lee Daniels gets a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at Hollywood Blvd - Los Angeles, California, United States - Friday 2nd December 2016

Gabourey Sidibe at the 2016 Glamour Women of The Year Awards - Los Angeles, California, United States - Tuesday 15th November 2016

Grimsby Trailer

Nobby is a good ol' northern lad who loves nothing more than spending time with his family and mates down at the local pub but there's something missing from his life - his brother. When Nobby and his brother were young boys, they were separated and the two haven't seen one another since.

Being separated for so many years has led the two grown men down very different lives. Nobby has multiple children and lives with the love of his life whilst his brother, Sebastian is a loner who doesn't have a personal life at the cost of his job, a professional spy.

When Nobby manages to track down his brother, the two are reunited and it instantly leads to Noddy making costly mistakes for his brother. The spy's mission is ruined and he must go into hiding and re-evaluated his plan. Ever the thinker, Noddy comes up with the perfect place for Sebastian to lay low. Grimsby - the boys home town.

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Grimsby - Red Band Teaser Trailer

Nobby and Sebastian are long lost brothers who live completely different lives. Sebastian is a highly skilled MI6 assassin whilst his brother, Norman Grimsby - affectionately known as Nobby - leads a much simpler life.

Football loving Nobby lives in North England with the love of his life Lindsey and their eleven children. Their life is good and they're all very happy together - yet Nobby longs to reconnect with his brother. When Nobby's search finally returns a positive result, he doesn't realise how much danger he's putting both himself and his brother in.

The brothers are finally reunited but unbeknownst to Nobby, Sebastian has exposed a deadly plot that could scale to a global disaster. With both brothers on the run, Nobby must put some of his northern traits to one side and help his brother protect the world.

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Trai Byers, Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels, Ta'Rhonda Jones, Grace Gealey, Kaitlin Doubleday , Terrence Howard - 'Empire' Curated Collection Unveiling at Saks Fifth Avenue at Saks Fifth Avenue - New York, New York, United States - Saturday 12th September 2015

Trai Byers, Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels, Ta'rhonda Jones, Grace Gealey, Kaitlin Doubleday and Terrence Howard

Top Five Review

By Rich Cline

Very Good

Chris Rock has essentially written and directed a film based on one of his own standup routines, and the result is as hilarious as we'd expect. It's also a clever skewering of show business, from the difficulty of changing a public image to the never-ending intrusion of the press. But while the film is consistently smart and funny, it's also a bit of an inside joke, taking on an industry that's so absurd that ridiculing it might be too easy.

Rock plays Andre Allen, a former comic who found international fame playing a furry police officer in three Hammy The Bear movies. But now he wants some respect as an actor, so he has produced a serious period drama called Uprize!, about the 18th century Haitian revolution. On the day of the film's gala premiere, Andre grants an interview to New York Times journalist Chelsea (Rosario Dawson), who follows him around town as he runs errands both promoting the film and preparing for his heavily publicised wedding to reality TV star Erica (Gabrielle Union). Against his better judgement, he begins to drop his guard with Chelsea, introducing her to members of his family and inviting her to his bachelor party, which is being staged for Erica's show.

The film's one false note is the whiff of a romantic-comedy as Andre and Chelsea begin to open up to each other. Fortunately, Rock allows this to merely simmer in the background as he gets on with his wicked commentary about life in the entertainment industry. The dialogue is packed with pithy observations, sarcastic gags and knowing jabs that could only come from someone who has lived (and survived) this crazy lifestyle. Even more interesting are the darker undercurrents. Andre is a recovering alcoholic who isn't sure he can still be funny now that he's sober.

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White Bird In A Blizzard Review

By Rich Cline

Very Good

There's an unusual honesty to this film, which is an odyssey into the inner life of a teen girl. Gregg Araki has made a career out of understanding the often tortured inner workings of the adolescent mind, and this is one of his most beautifully crafted films yet, artfully circling around a central mystery while digging deeply into each of the characters. And while it seems a bit straightforward for an Araki movie, it's packed with his usual darker corners, especially in the surprising final act.

It's set in the autumn of 1988, when Kat (Shailene Woodley) feels her life fall apart. She's just 17, on the verge of womanhood when her mother (Eva Green) inexplicably vanishes, leaving her dad (Christopher Meloni) struggling to help her through puberty. Her best pals (Mark Indelicato and Gabourey Sidibe) are some help, but at the same time she begins to feel a growing distance from her boyfriend Phil (Shiloh Fernandez). Is all of this connected, or is this because of Phil's own family issues? As she plays through the various clues in her mind, the answers are also eluding the local tough-guy detective (Thomas Jane). A few years later, Kat returns home from her studies at Berkeley to visit her dad. And maybe this time she'll finally find out what happened.

The film is a beautiful depiction of the awkwardness of being a teenager, when everything seems wrong but feelings are so strong. Araki fills the screen with sumptuous imagery including dreamy sequences set in a snowy landscape where Kat mentally searches for her mother. And flashbacks offer more earthy glimpses into this difficult mother-daughter relationship, especially as Kat and her once-glamorous mother begin to shift in their roles. Clearly, Kat suspects that her mother ran away after seducing Phil, but the truth isn't quite this obvious.

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White Bird In A Blizzard Trailer

It is a time for sexual awakening for Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley). The 17-year-old is born again into a new world of desire and pleasure when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, her mother, Eve (Eva Green) mysteriously vanishes. Kat tries to ignore it, and continue enjoying the moment that she has created for herself, although she steadily discovers that her mother's disappearance has affected her more deeply than she originally thought. Thinking that her mother, a stunningly beautiful yet clearly haunted woman, left the family to pursue an affair, Kat finds herself seducing her way to the truth, in an attempt to find out if her mother is still out there, somewhere.

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Gabourey Sidibe "Proud" Following Her Gloria Awards Speech

By Elinor Cosgrave in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 04 May 2014

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Gabourey Sidibe's speech at the Gloria Awards on Thursday (1st May) has received a healthy response from social media and the internet at large. Sidibe described how her self-worth results from cookies, cruel classmates, her parents inability to vocalise their feelings and being an "a**hole".

Gabourey Sidibe's speech at the annual Gloria Awards on Thursday (1st May) was certainly impressive with the American Horror Story actress directly dealing with issues which plague many of us whether we're famous or not. Sidibe's speech considered confidence and how cruel comments can undermine or encourage a healthy sense of self worth.

Gabourey Sidibe made her speech at the Gloria Awards.

Cookies formed the basis of her speech, as EW reports, and she described being inspired having made them at school. She claimed she realised she didn't want to limit herself, joking that she considering becoming the first black female president or a celebrity chef. She then discussed how her fellow school mates treated her stating "I really got so excited to bake that I had forgotten that everyone hated my guts. Why didn't they like me? I was fat, yes. I had darker skin and weird hair, yes. But the truth is, this isn't a story about bullying, or colour, or weight. They hated me because. I was an a**hole!"

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AHS Coven Recap: "Go To Hell" Or The One Where Everybody Died.

By Victoria Pavlova in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23 January 2014

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If you're looking for some light, relaxing entertainment, keep looking.

Besides being the most aptly named episode of American Horror Story so far – several characters literally went to hell – last night's Go To Hell also finally laid out some of this season’s mechanics, like those infamous Seven Wonders we’ve been hearing so much about. And do we even need to say it? Spoilers ahead. So many spoilers.

Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange
With Fiona (Jessica Lange) and three other characters biting the dust in this episode, things are hitting the fan.

"Every generation needs its leader, the Supreme. No simple test could ever determine the sovereign among us. We rely upon seven,” we learn from a handy witchcraft tutorial. Those seven turn out to be telekinesis, concilium (controlling someone else’s mind), transmutation (transporting oneself to another location), divination (to see the future), vitalum vitalis (to bring a person back from the dead), descensum (to move between life and the afterlife) and pyrokinesis (to control fire with the mind). This means that whoever gets to be the Supreme (Fiona was betting on Queenie in this episode) will have to perform all three during a ceremony in the next and final episode.

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Champion Of Positive Body Image Lena Dunham Responds To Vogue Cover Controversy

By Victoria Pavlova in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18 January 2014

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Lena Dunham has gone for the Mindy Kaling approach to criticism.

More and more attention has been brought to magazines’ rampant retouching of stars on their covers – Melissa McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, Mindy Kaling and even Jennifer Lawrence have been retouched beyond recognition in recent months. The most recent victim of this trend is Lena Dunham, who graces the cover of this month’s Vogue.

Lena Dunham, Girls UK Premiere
The creator of Girls was confused by the backlash against her Vogue shots.

The situation is made even more complicated by the fact that Dunham advocates and writes about body positivity and self acceptance. It’s no surprise then, that her edited cover made a big splash online.

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The Golden Globe For Best Comeback Goes To Gabourey Sidibe

By Victoria Pavlova in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15 January 2014

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On Sunday, people made snide comments about Gabourey Sidibe. The actress wasn't having any of it.

Award show red carpets are often an occasion for harsh criticism of every part of actresses’ looks – from dresses to hairstyles to whether or not that particular shade of lipstick matches the overall theme of the night. In the case of Gabourey Sidibe, Twitter critics lashed out at the actress for daring to wear a dress/exist, while being overweight.

Gabourey Sidibe, Golden Globes 2014
Gabourey Sidibe's Golden Globes look became cause for unexpected controversy.

Sidibe walked the red carpet in a a floor-length ivory-colored gown by Michael Costello Couture. She had her hair in a stylish updo - as you do at these things - and generally looked very starlet-y. Even so, a few Twitter users felt the need to bash the look and Sidibe’s stylist. At least that's what some claimed to be criticising, after being called out by Sidibe's loyal fanbase.

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Gabourey Sidibe Blasts Twitter Critics Over Her Weight And Dress At The Golden Globes

By Nick Hill in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15 January 2014

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Gabourey Sidibe fires back to twitter haters, who insulted her weight and Golden Globes dress, and is clearly not bothered by the mean-spirited comments.

Although Gabourey Sidibe wasn't nominated for any Golden Globe award at last Sunday's ceremony (Jan 12th), she still garnered a lot of attention.

The 30 year-old fell victim to internet-bullying after twitter users targeted her weight and dress in mean-spirited jibes.

The 'Precious' actress stepped onto the red carpet wearing a cream coloured gown designed by her own stylist, Daniel Musto, with fashion designer Michael Costello Couture, E!News reports.

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