Adam Driver Gossip

I just wrote about the potential importance of BlacKkKlansman. Adam Driver is in Cannes in support of Spike Lee’s film. I want to establish that I know the serious subject matter of BlacKkKlansman and that I respect it before I go low classy and turn this into a conversation about Adam Driver’s attractiveness. Full Story

Spike Lee was back at Cannes for the first time since 1991 for Jungle Fever. For his return, Spike premiered his latest joint BlacKkKlansman. The film was received with a 10-minute standing ovation. Critics are calling it Spike’s best film in years. Full Story

Proving that it actually exists, a trailer for Terry Gilliam’s eons-in-the-making The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was released the other day. It’s real! He did it this time! I remember seeing a documentary about Gilliam’s previous—failed—attempt at making this movie (with Johnny Depp) AT LEAST fifteen years ago, that’s how long Gilliam has been trying to make this movie. Full Story

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver were photographed in New York on Friday working on Noah Baumbach’s new film. A Noah Baumbach film is a good reset for Scarlett. I’d like to see her in a smaller, quieter film. But my first thought when I saw these pictures was that if I were Scarlett Johansson, who’s been josting Full Story

After an original trilogy, a prequel trilogy, a spin-off, and the first installment in a sequel trilogy, it didn’t seem that Star Wars could still surprise. They could create new creatures and amaze with effects, be they practical or elaborate CGI, and they could give us new versions of beloved archetypes, but after The Force Awakens re-hashed Episode IV Full Story

That’s an actual joke in the movie, that the heist at the center of the film is “Ocean’s 7-11”. And it’s appropriate, because Logan Lucky, a perfectly delightful heist flick from one of the best crafters of heist flicks, is a beat-for-beat remake of 2001’s Ocean’s 11 remake. Full Story

The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky was released yesterday and it’s one of those automatic, Three Billboards Full Story

Many were hoping that Paterson would have a chance at the Oscars and that there would be a surprise nomination yesterday, while acknowledging that the chances weren’t great. It certainly wasn’t the biggest snub, but most critics agree that Adam Driver Full Story

Many are considering Silence to be an Oscar snub after nominations were announced. It took Martin Scorsese nearly thirty years to bring his adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel to the big screen. Full Story

Whenever Martin Scorsese directs a movie, it’s a foregone conclusion that it will be considered an Oscar contender. And so here we have the first trailer for his latest film, Silence, starring Andrew Garfield Full Story

Girls Season 5 Episode 8 recap  Empathy, revulsion. Empathy, revulsion. It’s such a perfectly balanced equation—you can’t have Hannah or Marnie or even Jessa or Shoshanna without both in equal measure. Empathy, revulsion. Just when I’m feeling one, I cycle rapidly toward the other – more in this episode than in any for at least a season. Full Story