Rebel Wilson Gossip

Isn’t It Romantic has a slightly tortured concept, with a meta romantic comedy tucked inside a regular, straightforward romantic comedy. It’s part of the recently resurgent “brain damage leads to fantasy scenario” sub-genre of romantic movies (see also: Yesterday Full Story

Yesterday, MGM released a trailer for The Hustle starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. It’s a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and the trailer looks smart and entertaining. Rebel is coming hot off Isn’t It Romantic, opening today. While the movie itself has received lukewarm critical reviews Full Story

Yesterday, I wrote about the trailer for Rebel Wilson’s new movie Isn’t It Romantic?. A couple hours later, I saw this quote by Rebel from her appearance on Ellen:  "I’m proud to be the first-ever plus-sized girl to be the star of a romantic comedy. Full Story

The romantic comedy is back. As you know from the numerous posts we’ve devoted to every movie of the current rom-com resurgence, we think it’s about damn time. There was a point in time when you could look at the box office options on any given weekend and the romantic misadventures of Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts or Kate Hudson or Katherine Heigl etc would be waiting for you. Full Story

Look. Pitch Perfect 3 is not good. Not by any reasonable metric of filmmaking. There are no character arcs, there is no narrative arc—there is BARELY a narrative. Pitch Perfect was a nice little surprise, a college comedy wrapped up in a capella/girl band trimmings, and as a one-and-done, it’s great. Full Story

Are you excited for Pitch Perfect 3? Did you forget about Pitch Perfect 3? I did. Since Pitch Perfect 2 basically ruined the franchise for me by being an overall mess of a movie that wasn’t fun or funny, I’ve been all “aca-no thanks” about the third installment. After the disappointing trailers Full Story

Have you been following the Rebel Wilson defamation case in Australia? I have because I find it super interesting that she is asserting damages to her reputation over a series of stories in a tabloid. Full Story

Teenage love. Sigh.   ❤️❤️ Full Story

This looks like a parody of a Coachella photo, but then I remembered how many assholes sincerely dress like this.   MY GROUP. ❤️😚 #coachella Full Story

How to Be Single is a romantic comedy so bad I’m shocked it doesn’t star Chris Evans. This movie’s idea of romance is only appealing to narcissists, and it’s sex-positive attitude is mere lipstick on a heteronormative ideal where every woman secretly wants babies and marriage no matter what she says and dum-dum ladies are incapable of knowing what they want and only form their identities around men and how they can attract them. Full Story

Jennifer Lopez kicked off her Vegas residency All I Have last night. Many celebrities in attendance including Justin Bieber, Rebel Wilson, Kelly Osbourne, Ryan Seacrest, etc etc etc. But, really, as always, the star of the show is JLO. Or, I should say, JLO’s costumes. All kinds of sheerness and sequins and ass. Full Story