Matthew McConaughey Gossip

It’s the one year anniversary of my relationship with Timothee Chalamet. This is a one-sided relationship. At least I can admit that, unlike Kathleen with Michael B Jordan. And Noah Centineo. And Chris Pine. Kathleen is a fantasy philanderer. Anyway, TIFF 2017 is when I saw Call Me By Your Name and interviewed Timothee twice and couldn’t look away from his face. Full Story

The timeline is thus: Matthew McConaughey broke out in A Time to Kill. Then he became a rom-com king, starred in the legendarily awful Tiptoes, turned into a self-parody, and then it was the McConaissance, in which he achieved his final form as the surprisingly versatile actor with the distinctive voice A Time to Kill signaled he could be. Full Story

If you read Instagram comments (as I often do – for research, OK?!) you know that “come to Brazil” will inevitable appear on a celebrity post. It’s both a command and an invitation that’s become a meme. John Mayer recently joked about it; Katy Perry commented “lol Full Story

Here is Matthew McConaughey out and about in New York, where he was in town to speak on behalf of the just keep livin Foundation (that punctuation drives me nuts). He looks good, and not at all like his movie bombed. Full Story

Based on Stephen King’s sprawling Gunslinger series, The Dark Tower takes thousands of pages of mythology that spans centuries and dimensions and pares it down to a spare ninety-five minute movie that encompasses a thimble’s worth of all that original King storytelling. Fans of the books will have plenty of Easter eggs to pick out and keep them moderately engaged with the movie, but everyone else will be completely alienated by this conventional and surprisingly boring would-be franchise that looks like it was shot on a dollar store budget in a high school gymnasium. Full Story

Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey are currently promoting The Dark Tower, opening this Friday. Full Story

The first trailer for The Dark Tower, the long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s “Gunslinger” series, has been released and it’s a lot of Idris Elba swaggering in leather, looking super f*cking hot and doing cool (computerized?) gun tricks. Full Story

If you’re looking for an option at the movies this weekend and you’re wondering about Matthew McConaughey in Gold… Based on a true story but featuring a fake person, McConaughey is Kenny Wells, a prospector down on his luck. Full Story

Is Brie Larson presenting an award to Casey Affleck becoming the Internet shorthand for side-eye? (And who is Gregg Sulkin you ask? He dated Bella Thorne. Not important.) pic.twitter.com/bi5QtIKCxT — Kevin O'Keeffe (@kevinpokeeffe) January 18, 2017 Full Story

Sometimes it’s impossible to dislike a movie. There are just some movies that, no matter how many problems they may have, are so winsome and entertaining that you—happily—overlook flaws because of the feelings. Sing is one such movie. Following up on the success of The Secret Life of Pets, Illumination has made a movie so exuberant it dares you not to like it. Full Story

The Hollywood Film Awards are about as significant as the People’s Choice Awards which is to say, not significant at all. The difference though is that, somehow, the Hollywood Film Awards actually attract talent and not just the cast of Big Bang Theory. That said, the award categories, every year, sound totally made up to me. Full Story