Movie Reviews and Previews Delivering The Post Not unlike P.T. Anderson’s Phantom Thread, when it comes to Oscar odds, everyone left room for Steven Spielberg’s latest, The Post. It features a heavyweight ensemble led by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, and it’s about the Washington Post going up against Nixon’s administration over By Sarah • Nov 10, 2017 10:07 am
Quiveration Sexy Bae Jordan I would like to take a minute to apologize to Michael Bae Jordan on behalf of Elaine Lui. She did not include MBaeJ in her Sexiest Man Alive predictions yesterday and I can only assume this was a mistake because LOOK AT HIM. He is the sexiest man alive every By Kathleen • Nov 09, 2017 04:09 pm
Douchebags Up next: Louis C.K. Louis C.K.’s new movie, I Love You, Daddy, opens next week. The premiere was supposed to be tonight. I say “supposed to be”, because it was abruptly cancelled today, apparently because the New York Times is about to run an expose on C.K., about all those rumors, By Sarah • Nov 09, 2017 03:53 pm
Media Manipulation Ben Affleck’s PR angles Justice League is a week away. So the North American press push for the movie should be underway. Here’s Ben Affleck arriving in New York, all smiles with Lindsay Shookus. Back in September, before the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal broke, I had been anticipating that Ben and Lindsay By Lainey • Nov 09, 2017 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deleting Kevin Spacey As the allegations against Kevin Spacey have mounted, companies affiliated with him have started cutting ties. Netflix is moving forward without him in what is now House of Cards' final season, and they dumped a biopic of Gore Vidal in which he was set to star. And now, in By Sarah • Nov 09, 2017 11:30 am
TV Updates More for Gina Gina Rodriguez is promoting an animated movie called The Star, in which she voices the Virgin Mary. Aside from Annihilation, an ensemble fantasy adventure co-starring my girl Tessa Thompson and Oscar Isaac that I am SO excited for, she’s got three voice roles on the docket. And that’s By Kathleen • Nov 07, 2017 03:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fifty Shades: Lifestyle Porn Remember when Fifty Shades of Grey was described as “mommy porn”? And then, I guess, “let down porn” because despite talking a big game about being a 21st century Last Tango In Paris, the Fifty Shades movies have been, so far, mildly horny at best. (My theory is that Dakota By Sarah • Nov 07, 2017 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gorgeous Joe for Prada Joe Alwyn is the new face of Prada’s Ascension campaign. Aptly named, non? A year ago Joe was the rising star lead of Ang Lee’s overhyped and underwhelming Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk which was supposed to be an Oscar contender with new technology and camera work, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer & Margot: one hairstyle, two campaigns Did you see mother!? The movie with the dumbest punctuation of the year? It was meant to be Darren Aronofsky’s big deep artistic mindf-ck. Whatever. I thought it was a film student’s first film. And I found all the conversations around it, about how profound it all was, By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively, the B-movie queen I must apologize to Blake Lively. In my review of Age of Adaline, I said, “[Blake Lively] is almost unwatchable as a leading lady.” Dear Blake Lively: I take it back. You’re not unwatchable. You just need to be in movies as bat sh*t insane as All I By Sarah • Nov 06, 2017 12:10 pm
Style Angelina’s campaign weekend Angelina Jolie made two stops on the Oscar campaign trail this weekend – she and Loung Ung attended the Deadline Contenders event on Saturday and they accepted the Hollywood Foreign Language Film Award at the Hollywood Film Awards last night. As mentioned several times over the last few weeks, First They By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck wants to be “part of the solution” Sarah just posted about the imminent release of Justice League and how it might do at the box office after Thor just became everyone’s favourite Avenger. Justice League, of course, is DC’s version of the Avengers. And Batman is the sort of leader of the Justice League. At By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Here comes the Justice League The big question mark in November’s box office is what is going to happen with Justice League. We’ve already seen the numbers Thor: Ragnarok put up, and now the question is, how much more can one month support? The story of 2017 at the box office—and previous By Sarah • Nov 06, 2017 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor smash First Thor: Ragnarok got hugely positive reviews—including mine— making it one of the highest-rated superhero movies ever. And then it opened to huge box office, raking in an estimated $121 million over the weekend (and don’t be surprised if the actuals are a little higher). Going into the By Sarah • Nov 06, 2017 08:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 6, 2017 Dear Gossips, Oscar campaigning is officially underway as there were several events this weekend in Hollywood, featuring many expected award season contenders trying to build as much awareness around their projects and performances before the holiday break. We are now just 5 weeks away from the Hollywood Foreign Press announcing By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 08:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Put Zendaya in everything I emailed Sarah to remind me why I'm not supposed to be excited for The Greatest Showman because as of this morning, when two songs from the film’s soundtrack were released, I was really excited. It's a musical. I love musicals. It's Zendaya By Kathleen • Nov 03, 2017 03:48 pm
