Book Review Buying Katniss Here’s Jennifer Lawrence all over New York the last couple days on a final hard push for The Hunger Games which, as mentioned yesterday, could open as high as $120 million but probably no lower than $80 million which is, obviously, massive. As a result, shares in Lionsgate are By Lainey • Mar 21, 2012 02:35 pm
Style Buying Katniss Here’s Jennifer Lawrence all over New York the last couple days on a final hard push for The Hunger Games which, as mentioned yesterday, could open as high as $120 million but probably no lower than $80 million which is, obviously, massive. As a result, shares in Lionsgate are By Lainey • Mar 21, 2012 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hunger Games movie review This post will be spoiler heavy. If you would like to avoid spoilers, click away now, but promise you’ll come back after you’ve seen the movie. ...................................................... ...................................................... ...................................................... ...................................................... FINAL SPOILER CAUTION. There’s a lot they get right in The Hunger Games. Most of it is right. Almost all of By Lainey • Mar 20, 2012 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JK grown up and more on books and movies Big news in the publishing world today: JK Rowling will release a new novel for adults with a different publisher and not with Bloomsbury which published all the Potters. That’s the only thing we know. More details are coming later this year including exactly when the book will come By Lainey • Feb 23, 2012 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 50 days and the 2nd trailer I was just actively trying not to think about a new teaser trailer the other day. Oh look! Here it is! With 50 days to go until The Hunger Games opens, we now have another preview. I love it when she pleads with Gale to make sure her family doesn’ By Lainey • Feb 02, 2012 03:01 pm
Books Emma’s voice in your head? The paps are trying to tell me that this is her new boyfriend having broken up with Johnny Simmons. I dunno. I mean she’s studying at Oxford, she’s meeting new people, I’m not sure a guy she goes shopping with, who spends the night and doesn’t By Lainey • Jan 09, 2012 02:51 pm
Book Review Best of 2011: Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest My favourite book of the year. Forrest is an awesomely gifted writer. It’s not just the story, but the way she tells it, the words that describe it, so that you can feel so acutely her joy and her sadness and her gratefulness for the person who helped her By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 03:07 pm
Books Best of 2011: Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest My favourite book of the year. Forrest is an awesomely gifted writer. It’s not just the story, but the way she tells it, the words that describe it, so that you can feel so acutely her joy and her sadness and her gratefulness for the person who helped her By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 03:03 pm
Books Shailene Woodley is my Jessica Darling Have you seen The Descendants? I’m not as hard for The Descendants as everyone else. Clooney wasn’t believable to me. And that voiceover was the worst. And why was it so obvious? From the father-in-law to the punk kid who turns out to be not so punk to By Lainey • Dec 08, 2011 10:59 am
Book Review Film or Television: the Ewan McGregor edition One day I’d like to get a liveblog going with Duana and Sarah to discuss or debate the whole Movies vs TV argument. The quality is on television these days, no doubt. But the prestige, the prestige is still, always, in film. They ALL want to be in film. By Lainey • Nov 23, 2011 01:30 pm
Books Film or Television: the Ewan McGregor edition One day I’d like to get a liveblog going with Duana and Sarah to discuss or debate the whole Movies vs TV argument. The quality is on television these days, no doubt. But the prestige, the prestige is still, always, in film. They ALL want to be in film. By Lainey • Nov 23, 2011 01:07 pm
Book Review Professional Geeks Unite Book Review: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling With this, it becomes official. It has been whispered in the hallways of your work or school, you have remarked on it over drinks. But with the publication of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And By Duana • Nov 07, 2011 02:20 pm
Books Professional Geeks Unite Book Review: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling With this, it becomes official. It has been whispered in the hallways of your work or school, you have remarked on it over drinks. But with the publication of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And By Duana • Nov 07, 2011 02:18 pm
Book Review Going to The Night Circus Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern I’ve been thinking here in the Maldives how much I would have enjoyed The Night Circus on the beach. How I would have ripped through it the way a beach book should read. How it would have possibly cost me a By Lainey • Nov 04, 2011 12:19 pm
Books Going to The Night Circus Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern I’ve been thinking here in the Maldives how much I would have enjoyed The Night Circus on the beach. How I would have ripped through it the way a beach book should read. How it would have possibly cost me a By Lainey • Nov 04, 2011 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s not a romantic comedy So why is Kate Hudson in it? Fair question. But finally, right? Here’s Kate Hudson with Riz Ahmed in New York and brown hair shooting outside the Met yesterday. It’s called The Reluctant Fundamentalist based on the book by Mohsin Hamid which made the Booker Prize shortlist a By Lainey • Oct 12, 2011 09:51 am
