Maple Leaf When what makes sense doesn’t actually work In a certain celebrity matchmaking universe, Ellen Page + Jesse Eisenberg would constitute a duh, oh yeah, totally slamdunk. Look at those quirky hipsters with their weird ticks, and the way they both speedtalk, and he hasn’t watched tv or a movie since 1988 and neither has she because they By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bad trailer but it offers a glimpse When you woke up today, did you think I’d compliment Robert Pattinson OVER Colin Firth? I am about to. So, in our ongoing review of new trailers I may have missed over the last week or so due to sh-tty wireless at Comic-Con, this is the one they’ve By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 08:27 am
Dead Showrunning Walking Written byDuana Oh boy. So the showrunner of The Walking Dead, Frank Darabont, has stepped down. All the usual caveats apply. Don’t know him, never worked with, etc. I’m not surprised. The first season was six episodes. Which were based on a comic book, and Darabont wrote them, By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 07:46 am
Maple Leaf Bad movies people will see More trailer analysis... I don’t actually know how a movie like New Year’s Eve keeps making itself. But now you know why Ashton Kutcher went back to television. Even he couldn’t stand this sh-t anymore. Let’s put the tall guy and the short girl together and By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 05:54 am
Break Ups Kate & Alex: it’s done On his part, anyway. For her... well... she doesn’t let go easily. Here’s another thing all gossips agree on, and what we discussed one night during dinner: this bitch is crazy. So Us Weekly is reporting that after two years, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard are done. According By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 04:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Un-Hear! Un-Hear! Remember when Halle Berry won her Oscar and then made a piece of sh-t called Catwoman? Well, Main Street isn’t Catwoman, not quite, but, um, as Laura wrote to me yesterday, “I think that Colin Firth made a big, big mistake.” This trailer... it’s horrifying. More specifically, the By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 03:51 am
Blind Riddles Three Weeks & a Friend’s Couch Two separate riddles here... 1. It was instant attraction when they started rehearsals, despite the fact that he’s supposed to be happily married. On set flirtation, some touching in the trailer, soon became after work “prep time”, and heavy petting in the car, and before long it was a By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 03:32 am
Quiveration Two halves of handsome The same day that George Clooney’s The Ides of March was confirmed for the Toronto International Film Festival, they also released the first poster. Thoughts? I’m all over it. Totally into it. Is it a copy of something? I’m sure you know-it-alls will tell me. But even By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 03:22 am
Baby and Bump Obsession SJP through Asia Sarah Jessica Parker is currently travelling through Asia for Artistry on Ice. So at first I thought Artistry on Ice, like, it couldn’t be figure skating, right? What could SJP possibly be doing on a figure skating tour? Probably jewellery, has to be jewellery. No. Turns out it really By Lainey • Jul 27, 2011 03:09 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Orly’s face on a baby I was flipping through photo thumbnails on the database and as I passed these, seeing the baby very quickly, I thought to myself, that really is Orlando Bloom’s face on an infant’s body! The infant, of course, is his son Flynn, with his wife Miranda Kerr, arriving in By Lainey • Jul 26, 2011 12:18 pm
Lainey Interviews On Ron, Charlie, SoA Like I said re: Game of Thrones, there’s less than a page of Sons of Anarchy panel photos from Comic-Con. And maybe 2 full body shots of Charlie Hunnam. As opposed of course to Twilight which takes up at least 30 pages between all its castmembers including, like, Ashley By Lainey • Jul 26, 2011 09:59 am
Hook Ups Who will Justin blame this time? Friends With Benefits was a big hit at the box office this weekend... Not! Look, it wasn’t a disaster but it was barely better if not worse than a Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy and, at just over $18 million, it did NOT out-earn its doppelganger No Strings Attached which By Lainey • Jul 26, 2011 08:36 am
Emma Stone Endearing Andrew Garfield By now you’ve all heard about Andrew Garfield at Comic-Con right? At the Spider-Man panel, he dressed up in a store bought Spidey suit and took to the mic with a rather geeky little speech about how much Spidey means to him. He was breathless and nervous, there was By Lainey • Jul 26, 2011 07:17 am
Royals Prisoner Bride & Prince Warden to sue Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene and her husband Prince Albert of Monaco don’t appreciate that we keep thinking that she’s being held prisoner in a white castle. They insist that Charlene did not try to escape three times before her wedding and eventually had her passport confiscated and By Lainey • Jul 26, 2011 04:45 am
George Clooney Big. TIFF. The Toronto International Film Festival has just announced its initial line-up and it’s a blockbuster. This year will be a blockbuster. What? You want some names? How about these names: George Clooney Brad Pitt Madonna U2 – the opening night gala And SO many more. I’m just trying to By Lainey • Jul 26, 2011 04:30 am
Dumbass Tom Cruise could totally do Nessun Dorma As we all know, Tom got really into the singing for Rock of Ages. And they keep trying to tell us that he can actually sing for real. That we will be amazed by his vocal abilities. That his voice will complete you. Was this part of the contract? Because By Lainey • Jul 26, 2011 03:49 am
