Movie Reviews and Previews David Oyelowo and Kate Mara go on the lam Relief—a movie trailer that doesn’t make me want to crawl under my bed and hide! After a series of trailers that I had to watch with one hand over my eyes because the events depicted are pants-sh*tting scary, the trailer for the upcoming thriller Captive is a By Sarah • Jun 17, 2015 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews David Oyelowo and Kate Mara face off In the battle of the Rooney Sisters, where do we stand? For a while there, it seemed like Rooney Mara was ahead of elder sister Kate, and she did bag that Oscar nomination for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But recently she said that the English-language remake of the By Sarah • Mar 17, 2015 10:16 am
Style David Oyelowo: the Best Dressed Actor Marsala, the colour of the year. Now this is a sharp suit. With the waistcoat too. Proper. It’s Dolce & Gabbana. And so on point for how to show up at your first Oscars with a seat in front of Oprah Winfrey. They gave him a lot of camera By Lainey • Feb 23, 2015 02:50 pm
Dumbass “Brutally honest” Oscar ballots reveal that Oscar voters are as dumb as you think In the run-up to the Oscars The Hollywood Reporter has started doing this thing where they get select members of the Academy to fill out their Oscar ballot and explain why they’re voting the way they’re voting. So far they have three this year, which you can read By Sarah • Feb 20, 2015 12:24 pm
Top Reads The Vanity Fair Hollywood issue 2015 Well this says everything, doesn’t? Think about last year’s Vanity Fair Hollywood issue and who was on the cover. Or, better yet, look at this year’s cover featuring Amy Adams, Channing Tatum, and Reese Witherspoon and then compare it to last year’s here: Clearly 2014 is By Lainey • Feb 03, 2015 11:51 am
Smutty Roundup Smutty Roundup: DJ Idris, David is gracious, and Oscar’s Star Wars Idris Elba was in Berlin yesterday at the Jaguar presentation. Isn’t that a Bond car? Or a villain car? Aston Martin is the Bond car, right? Whatever. I needed to make a Bond connection there. And he says he’s not Bond…yet: “It’s really just a rumor— By Lainey • Jan 28, 2015 05:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What was unspoken at the Critics’ Choice Awards Could you sense it? You could sense it, right? There was an unspoken discomfort agitating underneath the Critics’ Choice Awards last night. Jessica Chastain, when accepting the first ever MVP Award, was the one who came closest to addressing it. She encouraged her peers to speak up about the lack By Lainey • Jan 16, 2015 11:09 am
Media Manipulation The Bad Joke Dad is available for birthdays and bar mitzvahs Brad Pitt presented this weekend at the Palm Springs Film Festival to David Oyelowo. He’s a producer on Selma. And Selma is coming on well as a contender for Best Film and Best Director (Ava DuVernay). Have you seen it yet? It’s coming to more theatres this weekend. By Lainey • Jan 05, 2015 09:13 am
