Javier Bardem Gossip

Following two Oscar wins for Best Foreign Language Film (A Separation and The Salesman, for which he did not accept his Oscar in person, in protest of Donald Trump’s travel ban), Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi takes us to a small, drama-drenched Spanish village for his latest film, Everybody Knows. Full Story

Whoo boy are we in for a fight over mother!. Firstly because the trailers and marketing are MASSIVELY misleading—it isn’t a horror film or a riff on Rosemary’s Baby. And secondly because it’s the kind of film designed to be upsetting and polarizing, and is open to many interpretations. Full Story

Some people have called Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet the Brange of France. If you are French and you want to dispute this, let me know, I’m not here to debate you. What I’m getting at is whether or not there’s an equivalent in Spain. Full Story

A teaser for the highly anticipated Mother!, the collaboration between Darren Aronofsky and Jennifer Lawrence Full Story

There were a number of people at the show last night (and one who wasn’t at the show. So much power to you, Natalie Portman), who knew they had absolutely no chance of winning.  None. Sometimes Oscar races are legitimate-ish races, and there’s more and less likely contenders, but this year the lineups in the acting categories were like baseball divisions the week before the postseason. Full Story

So many movie trailers during the Super Bowl, including a new one for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, aka Johnny Depp needs money. It’s not that expectations were never high for Pirates 5 given how much money it cost to make. Full Story

You know a celebrity is in the doghouse when they don’t appear in their own trailer. The teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: This Again Yarrr was released last night and it does not feature Johnny Depp Full Story

The two most approachable actors in Hollywood arrived together at LAX yesterday. That was probably a warm flight, non? Having said that, Sean Penn has kinda softened the last few months…I guess? It’s amazing the standard we have when it comes to him. That just because he’s not putting his fist into someone’s face, it means he’s nice now. Full Story

It's been so long since we've seen her on a carpet and seeing her here now... Look at her. I have missed her. She is glorious. A vision! Here's Penelope Cruz at a London screening of The Counselor with Javier Bardem and Michael Fassbender. Ordinarily, I'd maaayyyybe wonder if the floor length gown is kinda over the top buuuuuut. Full Story

There are a total of four people featured in these 3 clips from The Counselor which were released yesterday in advance of the trailer which is coming out some time today which means, f-ck, do I have to write about this twice? Of the four people featured, two of them are awesome and the other two, at least in these scenes, I find intolerable. Full Story

How would you rank that cast in order of “importance”? Fassbender, on history, given that he’s only been famous (and he’s not THAT famous, considering the rest) for 3 or 4 years or so, would have to come last, right? Alphabetical seems most fair. The film is Ridley Scott’s The Counselor. Full Story