Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale in Knight of Cups In the 1970s, writer/director Terrence Malick made two legit masterpieces. In a decade dominated by the first wave of American independent cinema and blockbusters—everything sharks and wars amongst the stars and godfathers—Malick delivered two of the most important pieces of American cinema in the post-studio age. His By Sarah • Mar 22, 2016 02:27 pm
Media Manipulation Christian Bale makes out and drops out Christian Bale called it a “make out” last night during the Critics’ Choice Awards when he was named Best Actor in a Comedy and kissed Adam McKay and other producers at the table on the mouth before getting up on stage to collect his trophy. He also looked great in By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 12:09 pm
Golden Globes 2016 Christian Bale: Globes low key I don’t think Christian Bale hates these events as much as, say, Tom Hardy does. But he never looks entirely comfortable either. Last night was probably as relaxed as I’ve seen him though. And that likely has a lot to do with the fact that he’s not By Lainey • Jan 11, 2016 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brange opens and closes AFI It was announced a few weeks ago that Angelina Jolie’s By The Sea, also starring Brad Pitt, will open AFI Fest in November. Click here for a refresher. It was announced today that The Big Short, starring Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling will close the By Lainey • Sep 22, 2015 01:12 pm
Ben Affleck Leading Men at The Fight If you have social media, you’ve used it to show off. Come on. How do you resist the temptation? Are you on holiday somewhere awesome? Are you posing on the beach? Are you at that concert that everyone wants to go to? Did you get into a super exclusive By Lainey • May 04, 2015 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pitt, Gosling, and Bale team up for Sploosh: The Movie In news first dreamed up by the Minivan Majority’s collective vagina, Variety reported yesterday that Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, and Christian Bale will appear in a movie together. The movie, titled Sploosh: The Movie, is about three brothers on a road trip. After losing all their cash during a By Sarah • Jan 14, 2015 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale looks hot for Malick A trailer for Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups was released yesterday. It’s expected to be screened in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in February. Knight Of Cups was filmed concurrently with another Malick project – the one with Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, and Rooney Mara about love and By Lainey • Dec 16, 2014 09:49 am
Media Manipulation Diversity in Film: The audience speaks Previously we’ve talked about the problem of diversity in film from the perspective of the executives making the movies and the media covering them. This week we’re going to delve into the audience’s role in the equation. It’s perfect timing, too, because whitewashed Exodus: Gods & By Sarah • Dec 15, 2014 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Diversity in Film: The media reacts Last week we talked about Hollywood’s (ongoing) diversity problem in context to Rupert Murdoch’s and Ridley Scott’s outright offensive attitudes regarding the whitewashing controversy surrounded Exodus: Gods & Guyliner. This week, we’re taking a look how the media covers stories like this. I don’t want By Sarah • Dec 08, 2014 11:49 am
Media Manipulation Bale quits Jobs Christian Bale has cut ties with the Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and being directed by Danny Boyle—I refuse to make any Bale/bails puns. This is the same project that potentially has Seth Rogen in to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (a really nice piece of By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin has written a Steve Jobs movie screenplay. It was reported last week that Christian Bale was negotiating to play Jobs. Sorkin confirmed this week that Bale has indeed been cast. He also revealed that he didn’t have to audition and that it would be “an extremely difficult By Lainey • Oct 24, 2014 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesus Bale is back! One of my favorite things ever is Jesus Bale, or what happens when Christian Bale gets particularly hirsute. How can you not love this? It cracks me up every time. So I’m really excited to see in the new Exodus: Gods & Guyliner trailer that Jesus Bale is making By Sarah • Oct 01, 2014 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Exodus: the trailer The first trailer for Exodus: Gods and Kings was released yesterday. Or Gladiator 2 by Ridley Scott. Christian Bale stars as Moses. Joel Edgerton is Ramses. They were brothers. Now they’re adversaries. God’s picking sides. Or you could say Moses is Jon Snow. Except Robb Stark didn’t By Lainey • Jul 09, 2014 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 2, 2014 Dear Gossips, Not sure where I’ve been but I had no idea Christian Bale was playing Moses for Ridley Scott in Exodus: Gods and Kings, scheduled for release on December 12, until Entertainment Weekly posted exclusive images from the film yesterday. Ridley Scott, by the way, also brought you By Lainey • Jul 02, 2014 09:33 am
Pitt Porn Pitt Porn on Oscar weekend It’s been a drought for over a year. So this weekend they made up for it. I don’t want to follow the chronological timeline for the Spirit Awards and then the Oscars. Let’s start with what happened on Sunday when they arrived on the carpet. As always, By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 05:59 pm
Christian Bale American Hustle Halloween We had a meeting yesterday at etalk and The Social about what we’re dressing up as for Halloween. What someone wants to be for Halloween says a lot about who they are – agree or disagree? There are people I know who will only be “pretty” for Halloween. And there By Lainey • Oct 04, 2013 03:08 pm