BFFs Jessica Biel is good at charades Jessica Biel’s series, The Sinner, premieres on USA Network on August 2nd. Am so curious to see how it does, whether or not The Sinner will be spoken of as Peak TV, and if, a year from now, Jessica Biel will be part of an Emmys conversation. To promote By Lainey • Jul 26, 2017 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jon Hamm’s Black Mirror Movie A few years ago Jon Hamm starred in an episode of Black Mirror (“White Christmas”), and now he is taking the creepy technology act on the road, as it were, with Marjorie Prime, a Sundance favorite and possible Oscar contender. The first full trailer has been released, and now you, By Sarah • Jul 26, 2017 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Hudson shaves her head Kate Hudson is shooting a new film called Sister, written by Sia who is also directing. Not much is known about the project other than the fact that it’s based on a short story that Sia wrote about 10 years ago and that, like most of Sia’s work, By Lainey • Jul 26, 2017 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain covers ELLE Canada No surprise here: Jessica Chastain will premiere (at least) one of her three upcoming projects, Woman Walks Ahead, at TIFF this September. A Jessica Chastain movie is always an all-caps event for me and so is her new ELLE Canada cover, timed perfectly to coincide with the launch of her By Joanna • Jul 26, 2017 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond & Bond Girl coming to TIFF Halle Berry is currently promoting a movie called Kidnap, opening on August 4th. She plays a mother desperately chasing down the people who’ve kidnapped her son. The movie was shot almost three years ago but it got caught up in the Relativity drama and was only recently acquired for By Lainey • Jul 26, 2017 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 26, 2017 Dear Gossips, Not that I'm in any rush for the summer to be over but film festival season started yesterday which always means that fall is near. The Toronto International Film Festival made its first announcements on Tuesday, revealing an impressive list featuring some of the biggest names By Lainey • Jul 26, 2017 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp as Richard Johnny Depp is shooting a new movie called Richard Says Goodbye in Vancouver. To mark the start of production, they’ve released a photo of him in character. It’s so much better when other people dress him, non? He looks like how people want to remember Johnny Depp. Or, By Lainey • Jul 25, 2017 03:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie in The Little Hours A loosely-derived mash-up of a couple stories from Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron—the first and second tales from Day Three—The Little Hours is a raunchy sex comedy by way of a fourteenth century Italian convent. Written and directed by Jeff Baena (Life After Beth), and starring a cohort By Sarah • Jul 25, 2017 03:16 pm
Maple Leaf Kristen Stewart, wedding crasher Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, and Diane Kruger are currently in Winnipeg, MB, Canada shooting JT Leroy. Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about my obsession with the JT Leroy story and the Jeff Feuerzeig documentary about how Laura Albert pulled off the scam. Back then it was a major By Lainey • Jul 25, 2017 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hulk talks, Taika’s style, and Michelle Pfeiffer joins the MCU…what? Every year people are like, Who “won” Comic Con? And every year the answer is: Marvel. No one puts on a better show, and you know they’ve got the magic touch when they don’t actually have to release anything online and they STILL get the most hype. They By Sarah • Jul 24, 2017 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck: What if the Batphone doesn’t ring? As predicted, the report that Ben Affleck could be “phased out” as Batman put a dent in in the DC Films presentation at Comic-Con on Saturday. They were on the defensive, Affleck forced to answer again and again that he loves playing Batman and isn’t going anywhere any time By Sarah • Jul 24, 2017 09:58 am
Amazingness Ben Affleck isn’t in good enough shape for Batman In what can only be described as a “PR nightmare”, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Ben Affleck’s tenure as Batman is coming to a premature end and he will be phased out of the DC Extended Universe. We’ll talk more about it next week, in the context By Sarah • Jul 21, 2017 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence: Mother!, VOGUE, Flu It was confirmed yesterday that Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, originally scheduled to be released October 13th, will now come out a month earlier, on September 15th. No reason was given for the change. And some are speculating that Mother! could be hitting the festival By Lainey • Jul 21, 2017 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith: WAND COP Earlier this year we saw a teaser trailer for Bright, the Netflix movie directed by David Ayer and starring Will Smith. It looked sort of interesting, with Smith playing an LAPD officer in a world where trolls and fairies are real, and seemed like a decent-ish rebound chance for both By Sarah • Jul 21, 2017 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 21, 2017 Dear Gossips, Are you going to the movies this weekend? Are you going to see Girls Trip? Duana and I podcast Show Your Work on Friday nights. Tonight, after we tape, we’re meeting up with Kathleen and a couple of other friends for an 11pm showing. Kathleen, as mentioned By Lainey • Jul 21, 2017 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in A Ghost Story Filmmaker David Lowery’s last two feature films, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Pete’s Dragon, could not be more different. Saints is a crime drama infused with Southern Romantic flare, and Pete’s Dragon is a live-action remake of the Disney cartoon. They do have something in common, By Sarah • Jul 20, 2017 03:41 pm
