Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in The Guilty Southpaw collaborators Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal reteam for The Guilty, an English-language remake of a Danish thriller about a cop who sucks at his job spending a shift at work, sucking at his job. The fact that the film was shot during the pandemic in 2020 is fairly cleverly By Sarah • Sep 15, 2021 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart and Gyllenhaals in Venice One of the most highly anticipated titles world premiering in Venice this week is Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana. I’ve not heard any feedback about the film from screenings so far but there’s been speculation for months that, on the strength of Pablo’ By Lainey • Sep 02, 2021 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal gets ready for the 2020s I was just thinking the other day how about ten years ago, Jake Gyllenhaal tried to be an action star and audiences were like, Nah, we’re good, and that the flop of The Prince of Persia led to one of the most interesting runs an American actor had in By Sarah • Aug 30, 2021 12:33 pm
Equality Issues The Rock and Jodie: Celebrities and Showers Just last Friday, in What Else?, I commented on the trend in celebrity shower talk and all these famous people talking about bathing or not bathing their children and/or themselves: Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, and also Jake Gyllenhaal. They’re the anti-shower demo. By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake is (fake) grey Here are Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez on the LA set of Ambulance, directed by Michael Bay. Because this is a Michael Bay movie, I am surprised that Eiza, who may be playing a paramedic, is not dressed in a bikini. But maybe Michael Bay is doing better by women By Lainey • Feb 04, 2021 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Makes Things Go Boom? When I hear the name “Jake” these days, I think of Jake Tapper, and not Jake Gyllenhaal because, for months, CNN has been the most-watched network in my home. My husband, Jacek, calls Jake Tapper his “news hero”. Mostly because he loves Jake’s varied expressions of disgust whenever the By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Armie Hammer and the horse head Today in But Why news, it has been reported that Armie Hammer will star in a limited series called The Offer, about the making of The Godfather. This is not to be confused with Francis and The Godfather, a movie which will star Oscar Isaac and Jake Gyllenhaal and is By Sarah • Dec 02, 2020 10:09 am
Quiveration Jake and his Sourdough Everybody is baking. Everybody’s into this sourdough thing. I have a few friends who are so obsessed with sourdough, it’s taken over their social media. They’re doing sourdough every day and meeting people online who are also sourdoughing. I get it. Not specifically about sourdough but about By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 10:02 am
Jake Gyllenhaal Jake G: Not the JK I was hoping for Yesterday in What Else?, I linked to an article about Tom Holland’s handstand t-shirt challenge and how he tagged Jake Gyllenhaal, and a couple of others, to do it next. Here, specifically, is what I wrote: “Is this a thing? I haven’t seen it on any of my By Lainey • Apr 03, 2020 10:52 am
BFFs Jake & Jeanne: red carpet official…sort of Last night was the Broadway opening of Sea Wall/A Life starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. Jake and Tom posed together on the red carpet and his MCU friends, Sebastian Stan and Tom Hiddleston, also showed up to support. He wore a grey suit over a t-shirt, no gold By Lainey • Aug 09, 2019 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal in Spider-Man: Far From Home Spider-Man: Homecoming works about as well as a “standalone” movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe can (none of these movies truly stand alone, but some pass better than others). Its sequel, Spider-Man: Far From Home, however, does not stand alone at all. It is well and truly a coda to By Sarah • Jul 03, 2019 01:15 pm
BFFs Spider-Man, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Sean Paul The Spider-Man: Far From Home premiere was last night. Previously on Behind the Scenes of Spider-Man, we were focused on whether or not Zendaya and Tom Holland are more than just friends. This time around, for this press tour, even though people keep trying to create some kind of Zendaya-Tom By Lainey • Jun 27, 2019 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendallandenhaal Everyone’s favorite young maybe-couple Hollywood, Tom Holland and Zendaya, are out and about, promoting Spider-Man: Far From Home. Jake Gyllenhaal is tagging along, making him the world’s handsomest third wheel. The three of them together are Zendallandenhaal, which sounds like a medieval province in Sweden. They’re doing By Sarah • Jun 20, 2019 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man is going through some stuff The spoiler buffer for Avengers: Endgame is officially over, because there is a new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home and it is straight up giving away major Endgame plot points. This trailer gives us a better view of Peter Parker post-re-snap, still reeling from That Thing That Happened and By Sarah • May 06, 2019 12:46 pm
Douchebags I know Jake’s face Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge met up with Adele for dinner last night. As already established earlier this week when Adele and Jennifer Lawrence hung out at Pieces, celebrity friendship is good for gossip. Adele does her friendships a lot less ostentatiously than, ahem, some other people but there are By Lainey • Mar 29, 2019 01:11 pm
BFFs Jake & Tom’s one afternoon walk Famous friendships seem to be theme of the day. We started with Princess Kate’s alleged friend drama. And Ginger and Scary Spices’ friendly sex. And Adele and JLaw at the club. So here are a few more quick picture posts of celebrity friends. There will be two or three By Lainey • Mar 25, 2019 12:35 pm
