Movie Reviews and Previews Sloppy Casting Written by Duana Sometimes the good just keeps on coming. I’m so happy for all of you who love Sloppy Firsts, who have been celebratey with us or who have discovered it for the first time. And now – now, there’s a movie in the works. If you haven’ By Lainey • Aug 30, 2011 05:14 am
Books Jessica Darling is 10 Those of you familiar with the Jessica Darling series, by Megan McCafferty, need no introduction. Those of you who’ve been through my book section will know that McCafferty’s Sloppy Firsts, and all that came after, is on the list of my All Time Reads. And this month, Sloppy By Lainey • Aug 22, 2011 02:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dragon Tattoo poster & the 7 lost Stiegs The other day, the first trailer for the film was bootlegged online. I like it more and more every time I watch. The clip is now legal, I’ve attached below. Now they’ve released an international poster. It hasn’t gone over as well as the video, at least By Lainey • Jun 02, 2011 09:25 am
Girlcrushes Funny Women Duana sent over the link yesterday with an excerpt from Mindy Kaling’s upcoming book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Duana’s note with the message read as follows: Funny, not revolutionary, but funny. Very true. It is funny. At times very funny. And smart but not smug and By Lainey • May 26, 2011 04:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This is Katniss So this is what happened when I was in flight yesterday. Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive first look at Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games. Thank you for your emails and your reactions. And my reaction? Medium. Does that count as a reaction? By Lainey • May 19, 2011 03:15 am
Books Dystopia is the new Vampire: DIVERGENT A book review Divergent by Veronica Roth For a while there, we were inundated with vampires. Pop culture everywhere. But The Hunger Games is now the new It franchise. And on its heels, it’s Dystopia everywhere. Is the future so bleak? Are we driving ourselves down into a sh-t By Lainey • Apr 25, 2011 02:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lisbeth in London Filming on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has moved to London. Here’s Rooney Mara on a smoke break yesterday in costume. Feeling more optimistic about the American imagining of the story? After the Oscars, where everyone thought David Fincher would take Best Director, I kinda feel bad that By Lainey • Mar 29, 2011 03:16 am
Exclusives The Katniss frontrunner: Jennifer Lawrence Exclusive It is currently the most coveted female role in Hollywood. The Hunger Games is expected to be the next major movie franchise and casting for Katniss has been an obsession for fans and pop culture pundits as we are just about a year away from the film’s theatrical By Lainey • Mar 02, 2011 01:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews One Day: the poster! We talked about this a lot just now on the liveblog – the poster for the One Day movie has just been released. For those of you who loved the book… Yes? I say yes. I say a thousand times yes! To me it captures so many things about the story By Lainey • Feb 15, 2011 08:37 am
Books Your Voice In My Head By Emma Forrest At 16 she was writing her own column for the Sunday Times. She was contributing to the Guardian by the age of 21. And Vogue, and Vanity Fair, and the Independent. At 22 she published her first book. It was very well received. Two more followed. Those By Lainey • Feb 07, 2011 07:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shirtless sipping water I Am Number Four opens in 3 weeks. Dreamworks is slowly cranking up the buzz for it. Click here if you missed my review. And as noted then, I think the movie will be better than the book. Because it was always supposed to be a movie, a giant James By Lainey • Jan 28, 2011 03:17 am
Style Gwyneth or Amy Chua? Who do you hate more, Judgy Moms? GOOP for her “A Day in the Life” working mom blog from a couple of weeks ago, or Amy Chua and the challenge to Western parenting that she threw down in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother? Have you read TIME By Lainey • Jan 27, 2011 05:12 am
Baby and Bump Obsession They look like their brother Sarah Jessica Parker brought her girls Marion and Tabitha along as she walked James Wilkie – not James, but James Wilkie – to school this morning. They’re cute, non? And they look like their brother. Nose and mouth especially. After several months of downtime, SJP will soon begin work on two By Lainey • Jan 11, 2011 09:30 am
Books Room By Emma Donoghue I tore through this book in a day. Then I thought about it for days. I am still thinking about it. Strangely, and not by design, three of my friends happened to read it at the same time. And we had to discuss it too. On the By Lainey • Dec 14, 2010 03:44 am
Books I Don’t Want to be Her Big Sister. Written by Duana I was a Brenda Walsh fan. I wanted to be her. She was sassy, stand-up-to-parents-y, super hair and didn’t take crap. Plus it wasn’t just Brenda, it was so clearly Shannen Doherty herself. They were one and the same, and the fact that Doherty was By Lainey • Nov 12, 2010 07:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews My Katniss Jodelle Ferland dressed up as Katniss Everdeen for Halloween and posted the photo up on Twitter the other day (click here to see) and everyone lost their sh-t wondering if she’d been cast as the heroine of The Hunger Games. I’m sure she’s a lovely girl, but By Lainey • Nov 02, 2010 07:51 am
