Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ “contract” speak Chris Evans is currently out there promoting Gifted and, therefore, promoting his “Gifted” persona. Most of the TV interviews I’ve seen of him lately are done with what I call a lot of “teeth smiling”. You know how cheesy former athletes-turned-sports-anchors pose in their headshots? So corny you almost By Lainey • Apr 04, 2017 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alec Baldwin in The Boss Baby I have seen Nine Lives, so no movie will ever really seem THAT bad to me again. In the eternal sh*t vs. diarrhea debate, Nine Lives is always the diarrhea, which means that The Boss Baby is just sh*t. Starring the vocal talent of one-time Capital One pitchman By Sarah • Mar 31, 2017 03:46 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession A Star Is Born… in the desert Bradley Cooper is directing and starring in a remake of A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga. This weekend they’re holding auditions for extras. And in a couple of weeks they’ll be shooting some footage for the film during the days between the two Coachella weekends, where Gaga By Lainey • Mar 31, 2017 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joss Whedon switches teams Duana noted earlier this week that it doesn’t seem like Buffy the Vampire Slayer got any real love from the entertainment press until Joss Whedon became The Man Who Launched The Avengers, which is maybe true—although I remember a lot of love for Buffy back in the day, By Sarah • Mar 31, 2017 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews “Use your lady mouth” Yesterday at CinemaCon, the cast of Girls Trip made an appearance to talk about the film and introduce new footage. If you don’t know about Girls Trip, it’s the female-led raunchy comedy starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish. In the post-Bridesmaids era, “female-led By Kathleen • Mar 30, 2017 04:01 pm
Bad Style Batman and Superman at CinemaCon As mentioned earlier, yesterday was Warner Bros’ turn to present at CinemaCon. And so they brought out the Justice League, without the superhero we care most about at this point: Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot gave birth recently so she’s not available which is why, I dunno, the whole vibe By Lainey • Mar 30, 2017 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain in The Zookeeper’s Wife Just in case you aren’t convinced Nazis are The Worst, here is a movie in which they slaughter helpless zoo animals, including an adorable baby camel and majestic great horned owl. If you can’t stand to see animals harmed in movies, then boy is The Zookeeper’s Wife By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 03:06 pm
Maple Leaf Rachel & Jamie on the move It’s been a while since we’ve seen Rachel McAdams. Here she is at LAX yesterday. Not pictured but present, Jamie Linden, her boyfriend. Since she and Jamie started dating, it feels to me like she’s been spending more time in Los Angeles. Before, if she didn’t By Lainey • Mar 30, 2017 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman in love As CinemaCon rolls on, it was Wonder Woman’s turn on center stage, with new footage debuted with Chris Pine and director Patty Jenkins on hand to promote the film (Gal Gadot just had a baby and was not there). The footage showed Diana and Steve Trevor (Pine) getting to By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 11:14 am
Music JT at the race Yesterday in Smutty Social Media Maria featured this photo that Pharrell posted on Instagram: ... A post shared by Pharrell Williams (@pharrell) onMar 28, 2017 at 7:46pm PDT Justin Timberlake has collaborated with Pharrell and Timbaland many times. And it’s no secret that the three have been working for By Lainey • Mar 30, 2017 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews F8: Beefcakes beefing Remember when The Rock was throwing Insta-shade at an “unnamed castmate” while making F8 of the Furious, and it turned out to be about Vin Diesel? Well, F8 had its CinemaCon presentation yesterday, and guess who wasn’t part of it? Dwayne Johnson (even though he was on hand to By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 10:12 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Clooneys in London and Vegas Amal Clooney stepped out in London today to give a speech on war crimes in Syria and Iraq at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, telling the room that: “Not one ISIS militant has faced trial for international crimes anywhere in the world… Why is it that nothing By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 03:20 pm
Thinnification Countdown to Young Johnny Less than two months to go now to the release of the next Pirates Of The Caribbean movie: Johnny Depp needs money. They screened it at CinemaCon in Vegas yesterday and, according to Variety, the movie was well-received by theatre owners – in particular Johnny Depp’s return as Captain Jack By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Good Jupiter Ascending When the first trailer for Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets debuted, I said it remained to be seen whether or not it’s more Guardians of the Galaxy or Jupiter Ascending. Well, a new trailer premiered at CinemaCon, and this one gives us more of a sense of the By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot Love CinemaCon continues in Vegas, and it was Paramount’s turn to give the ol’ razzle-dazzle yesterday. The best they could come up with was Transformers: The Last Knight and I don’t even have a joke for that. There to present a fifteen-minute sneak peek were Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews They found Nick According to The Hollywood Reporter, they found Nick! Henry Golding has been cast as Nick Young in the Crazy Rich Asians movie. Constance Wu and Michelle Yeoh were already attached to the project as Rachel Chu and Eleanor Young (Nick’s ma). So now they’ve got their two leads, By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 10:37 am
