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
Dumbass So much for that Freddie Mercury movie A Freddie Mercury biopic has been percolating for literally a decade, when rumors that Sacha Baron Cohen would play Freddie Mercury on the big screen began emerging. Then, in 2010, came confirmation that Baron Cohen would indeed play Mercury, only for that deal to fall apart a few years later By Sarah • Jul 20, 2017 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Suki & Diego in New York After Rogue One, Diego Luna became our boyfriend. Is he still your boyfriend? He’s definitely Suki Waterhouse’s boyfriend. They were last seen together at the beginning of the year, in January. Here they are in New York yesterday clearly still on. As previously mentioned, Suki and Diego worked By Lainey • Jul 20, 2017 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barfing and fainting on Broadway Page Six reported today that Jennifer Lawrence went to see 1984 on Broadway (starring Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge) on Monday and was sick during the performance. Apparently this show is so intense that audience members have been fainting midway through. Jennifer didn’t faint. But she vomited: But on By Lainey • Jul 19, 2017 05:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2017: The Dork Knight Returns Last year in my Comic-Con preview I wrote, “Comic-Con’s dominance as an industry event is definitely waning.” That is blatantly apparent this year, as four studios—Paramount, Universal, Lionsgate, and Sony—are sitting out the festivities in Hall H, and an increasing number of studios and networks are cutting By Sarah • Jul 19, 2017 09:38 am
Style Rihanna in pink I went to the movies last weekend and there was a preview for Valerian before it started. It was mostly Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan talking, not very compellingly to be honest, about why people should go see it. And then something about how Valerian is Star Wars before Star By Lainey • Jul 18, 2017 03:43 pm
Amazingness Enter The Room I’ll never forget the first time I saw The Room, arguably the worst movie ever made. (It’s up against Manos: The Hands of Fate, a spectacularly bad movie.) I was in college and a friend was talking about this terrible movie playing at a theater in Fairfax, going By Sarah • Jul 18, 2017 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner at war A new trailer for Blade Runner 2049 has just been released, and in case you’re wondering, yes this movie continues to look f*cking awesome. (Blade Runner is at Comic-Con on Saturday, so we might be getting even more to look at soon.) This trailer shows more of Jared By Sarah • Jul 17, 2017 12:48 pm
