Movie Reviews and Previews Tom does Tom What’s more Tom Cruise than Tom Cruise on a motorcycle? Highway to the danger zone. Tom Cruise on a motorcycle was introduced to us over 20 years ago in Top Gun. At this point, yes, it’s fair to call that an iconic image. And he won’t let By Lainey • Apr 12, 2017 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s time we knew Set during the 1967 riots, Kathryn Bigelow’s next film, Detroit, assembled a tremendous ensemble including Anthony Mackie, John Boyega, John Krasinski, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Jack Reynor, and Will Poulter, but the trailer is focused on Boyega, playing a young security guard in Detroit. His dilemma is compelling—he’ By Sarah • Apr 12, 2017 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Panther Cast Gets Out Have you seen Get Out yet? By now, you have no excuse. Sarah called it “OUTSTANDING” in all caps. Do you know how rare it is for Sarah to use all caps when she’s not eviscerating something? I haven’t seen a horror movie in a decade and I By Kathleen • Apr 12, 2017 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Stiletto, weapon Kathleen came into my office earlier because she’s producing an upcoming segment and she wanted my spring movie pick. My immediate answer was Atomic Blonde. But she said I had to save that for my summer movie pick as it doesn’t come out until July 28th. Fine. But By Lainey • Apr 11, 2017 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sonoya Mizuno is Araminta Lee If you have no idea who Araminta Lee is, it means you haven’t read Crazy Rich Asians. And if you haven’t read Crazy Rich Asians, I’m yelling at you to read Crazy Rich Asians. THR reported yesterday that Sonoya Mizuno has joined the cast of Crazy Rich By Lainey • Apr 11, 2017 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans in Gifted You know those dramatic reenactments that feature in murder mystery shows where it’s like watching aliens pretend to be people because while everything looks normal enough, the interactions are just ever so slightly stiff and unnatural, like everyone is super aware of the camera on them? And do you By Sarah • Apr 11, 2017 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intense Face in Paris Production is officially underway on Mission: Impossible 6 in Paris. Right now, the working title is “Gemini”. So… are we dealing with twins? Tom Cruise was photographed this weekend on set as they shot a car chase scene with him driving an old BMW. I’m assuming he busted out By Lainey • Apr 10, 2017 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews He’s a friend from work The first trailer for Thor: Ragnarok—Taika Waititi’s new and improved Thor—is here, and if you still need any convincing that Waititi is the right person to save Thor, let it be the moment that Thor sees the Hulk in a gladiator’s arena, pure delight spreading across By Sarah • Apr 10, 2017 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale to Method Dick Cheney Few actors are as committed to Method by way of body transformation as Christian Bale, who will, as his next trick, transform himself into a peeled egg in order to play Dick Cheney. Adam McKay and his Big Short producers at Plan B—including Brad Pitt—are putting together a By Sarah • Apr 07, 2017 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tupac’s platform Later today, Tupac Shakur will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 20 years after his death. Snoop Dogg will give his induction speech. TMZ reported that there’s a California Love tribute in the works featuring Snoop and Dr. Dre but Rolling Stone says that’s By Kathleen • Apr 07, 2017 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad & Charlie Back in January, Brad Pitt and Charlie Hunnam were both at the same event but didn’t pose together and I mentioned at that time that I wanted to see it, not only because Brad Pitt produced The Lost City Of Z but also because the two have known each By Lainey • Apr 06, 2017 03:40 pm
Douchebags Mel & Marky Mark For some reason they’re making a sequel to Daddy’s Home. Sarah reviewed the first movie. She didn’t care for it. In fact, she wrote at the time that actually preferred the Point Break remake. I’m with Sarah but apparently we are a minority because people wanted By Lainey • Apr 06, 2017 11:47 am
BFFs Jenny & Mae The premiere of Gifted last night. And of course all the intrigue here is that Jenny Slate and Chris Evans were on the red carpet together and they’re not together anymore, more often than not a good starting place to find good gossip. Doesn’t always work out that By Lainey • Apr 05, 2017 05:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kiernan Shipka and Emma Roberts in The Blackcoat’s Daughter Here’s a little gem for you: The Blackcoat’s Daughter, a thoroughly creepy horror movie that has slid by largely unnoticed this spring. It originally played festivals in 2015 under the less evocative title February, and then sat on the shelf while the director wrote and completed a second By Sarah • Apr 05, 2017 04:02 pm
Style Crazy Rich Asians: Astrid and Fashion Porn Crazy Rich Asians, they’re coming! Last week it was announced that Henry Golding has been cast as Nick, the lead male character in the film adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians, joining Constance Wu who’s playing Rachel, and Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Young. As I mentioned last week, after By Lainey • Apr 04, 2017 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell The live-action Ghost in the Shell, starring celebrated Asian actress Scarlett Johansson, totally bit it over the weekend. It did not meet even the softest expectations of a $20 million opening, and since the foreign markets failed to bail it out, it’s destined to go down as yet another By Sarah • Apr 04, 2017 01:54 pm
