Music Surprise! Scarlett Johansson can freestyle. Kind of. Scarlett Johansson surprised everyone with an unannounced appearance at the Vice 20 party in Brooklyn over the weekend. She wasn’t on the lineup, but Jonah Hill was… A photo posted by cheyenne319 (@cheyenne319) onDec 12, 2014 at 7:06pm PST …and he sang a cover of Drake’s track By Joanna • Dec 08, 2014 03:16 pm
Media Manipulation Jennifer Aniston tries to build Oscar momentum with Cake trailer Jennifer Aniston didn’t earn an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her role as a grieving pill-popper in Cake, but this doesn’t mean her awards momentum is slowing down. Yesterday, Lainey wrote about how Jimmy Kimmel was excitedly praising Jen’s performance in the film (click here for a By Joanna • Nov 26, 2014 12:01 pm
Media Manipulation The Battle for Fifth Place Much like Jake Gyllenhaal (for Nightcrawler), Bradley Cooper is currently off the conventional Oscar circuit (for American Sniper) and is making a starring turn on Broadway in The Elephant Man until February. I saw The Elephant Man last week – B. Coops was incredible in it. His scene partner Patricia Clarkson By Joanna • Nov 25, 2014 12:48 pm
Media Manipulation Angelina Jolie & Jack O’Connell cover Entertainment Weekly Angelina Jolie gets nervous, too. That’s the big takeaway from the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly, which features both herself and her Unbroken star Jack O’Connell on the cover, in another warm embrace. Inside these new pages, she’s stewing. Not only did Angelina have to claw her By Joanna • Nov 25, 2014 09:53 am
Media Manipulation Jennifer Lawrence: no Dumb & Dumber to and next moves Jennifer Lawrence's interviews with David Letterman are always must-see TV. Brimming with confidence - sometimes with the help of a blanket - J.Law typically drops truth bombs on the show. Last night, she clearly identified Nicholas Hoult as her ex in a story about ghosts. But with By Joanna • Nov 13, 2014 12:11 pm
BFFs Eddie Redmayne and all his friends Eddie Redmayne is Mr. Congeniality. In the past week, he's had his Les Miserables co-star Hugh Jackman by his side at a premiere for The Theory of Everything … A photo posted by Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) onNov 11, 2014 at 3:16pm PST … and on Monday night? His plus By Joanna • Nov 05, 2014 01:33 pm
Media Manipulation Jennifer Aniston: not Oscar but maybe a Globe? Jennifer Aniston is playing catch up when it comes to the Oscar race. Nearly two months after its premiere in Toronto, her film Cake finally has a distributor and is slated to make a one-week awards season campaign run later this year before it hits theatres in January. Deadline breaks By Joanna • Oct 28, 2014 11:01 am
Thinnification Mark Wahlberg lost 60 lbs Somewhere between bulking up with The Rock and running away from giant (extinct) Hasbro toys, Mark Wahlberg lost 60 pounds. Did you notice? He wanted you to notice. In a new interview with USA Today, Mark makes sure you do. It's all for his upcoming role in the By Joanna • Oct 08, 2014 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sienna during award season? Get ready to see Sienna Miller on the Oscar red carpet again. No, really. Last time around, it was February 2004. She was on Jude Law's arm as a shining ingenue - gorgeous in an emerald green Matthew Williamson dress she reportedly co-designed. He was nominated for Cold By Joanna • Oct 03, 2014 01:05 pm
Ben Affleck Jennifer Garner on head lice and George Clooney Unlike Bill Murray or Matt Damon, we know Ben Affleck wasn’t on the VIP guest list at George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin’s wedding. He was in New York, having just attended the world premiere of Gone Girl the night before, to kick off the New York Film Festival. By Joanna • Oct 02, 2014 05:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Laggies: TIFF review Keira Knightley, one of the most interesting stars of the year. She charmed up a storm in Begin Again, and will soon chase her second Oscar nomination for the over-hyped The Imitation Game, but makes her biggest star turn as an American twentysomething in crisis in Laggies. Knightley's By Joanna • Sep 15, 2014 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Aniston in Cake: TIFF review Over-medicated, "bitchy," and sans-makeup: it's Jennifer Aniston like you've never seen her before. In Cake, Aniston plays Claire, a wealthy L.A. woman struggling with the loss of her son. She soon joins a chronic pain support group, and becomes obsessed with the suicide By Joanna • Sep 15, 2014 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in The Voices: TIFF Review Remember Ryan Reynolds, the movie star? The star of The Green Lantern, R.I.P.D., and The Change Up? What about Buried and Adventureland? Torn between his cash-in commercial gambits and his independent spirits, Reynolds' rocky road to the top of the A-list continues in The Voices, the By Joanna • Sep 12, 2014 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Imitation Game: TIFF Review In the eyes of his "Cumberbitches" online, Benedict Cumberbatch is a hero. In The Imitation Game, he cracks the code of his hype and fandom, and finally gets to play one. How? It's elementary. As WWII codebreaker Alan Turing, Cumberbatch is a mathematical genius who also By Joanna • Sep 12, 2014 10:20 am
Maple Leaf Xavier Dolan in Elephant Song: TIFF Review Xavier Dolan's duelling enfant terrible and wunderkind personas have become his trademark, often overshadowing his immense talent. Remember, this 25-year-old won the Cannes Jury Prize for his fifth film, Mommy, in May, but barely eight months earlier, he bit back at an unflattering review in The Hollywood Reporter, By Joanna • Sep 11, 2014 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Last Five Years: TIFF Review In the last five years, Anna Kendrick "type[d] with purpose" to an Oscar nomination for Up in the Air, carried the a cappella Bellas to a national championship and shook off her role in the Twilight franchise to become a bona-fide star in her own right. But By Joanna • Sep 11, 2014 11:09 am
