Movie Reviews and Previews Marion & Guillaume’s Rock’n Roll Does it seem like Marion Cotillard has spent the last 3 months promoting movies? There’s almost been no break for her. First it was Allied, with Brad Pitt. Then Assassin’s Creed, with Michael Fassbender. And now Rock’n Roll, written and directed by her partner, Guillaume Canet. They By Lainey • Jan 05, 2017 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck’s week of winning Casey Affleck started the week, and 2017, at the Palm Springs Film Festival where he received the Achievement Award. On Tuesday he was in New York to accept the Best Actor Award from the New York Film Critics Circle where he read aloud some of the worst reviews of his By Lainey • Jan 05, 2017 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The “unknowable” Natalie Portman In November Sarah wrote about Natalie Portman’s Oscar chances, noting that Natalie does indeed give a strong performance in Jackie and that, no doubt, Natalie knows how to campaign for an Oscar, but that the biggest obstacle to her getting another one this year is that she just won By Lainey • Jan 03, 2017 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone takes a sick day And misses the first campaign stop of the year. Emma Stone has strep throat, and could not attend the Palm Springs International Film Festival to receive her Vanguard Award - which she shares with Ryan Gosling - last night. It's her first sick day of awards season, as By Joanna • Jan 03, 2017 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews #HiddenFiguresParty + ticket giveaway The cast of Hidden Figures received the Best Ensemble Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival last night. The film opens everywhere Friday. We’ve been yelling at you for months to make plans to go see this movie. In August, I geeked out over the debut trailer’s blatant By Kathleen • Jan 03, 2017 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 3, 2017 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! Hope your holiday was restful. Because we are right back into it. Golden Globes on Sunday. Awards every weekend. And Hollywood divorce court all month too. Ready? Ben Affleck’s Live By Night opened in limited release at Christmas but will go wide a week By Lainey • Jan 03, 2017 08:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in Fences Denzel Washington directs his first film since 2007’s The Great Debaters with Fences, an adaptation of August Wilson’s play of the same title. He also stars as Troy Maxson, a garbage man stymied by life in 1950s Pittsburgh. Troy is expansive to the point of domineering and stern By Sarah • Dec 30, 2016 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Do you trust it? The first trailer—red band, so watch those volume levels if you’re at work—for Alien: Covenant was released over the weekend, just in case your holiday didn’t feel enough like a horror show. I don’t think this trailer is as effective as the Prometheus trailer, for By Sarah • Dec 28, 2016 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in Assassin’s Creed Capping off my week of ridiculous movies is Assassin’s Creed, Michael Fassbender’s adaptation of the popular video game series. Fassbender put a lot on the line with this one, not only starring in it but also producing through his DMC Film banner. In a “let’s see if By Sarah • Dec 23, 2016 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Men lost in the forest again The trailer for The Lost City of Z, aka, the movie where Charlie Hunnam ghosted his girlfriend for five months, has been released and it’s two minutes of white dudes wandering around in the woods. Again. The book it’s based on is a great read, but the trailer By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Collateral Beauty SPOILERS because this movie is INSANE Based on the trailers, you probably think Collateral Beauty, aka Will Smith’s holiday movie, is some kind of twenty-first century It’s A Wonderful Life, where the universe conspires to convince a sad schmuck that he’s better off being a sad schmuck, By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence Passengers, the best worst movie of the year SPOILERS because everything wrong with this movie is the plot Passengers starts out like it’s going to be an existential sci-fi horror movie, something along the lines of Ex Machina, perhaps, where the science fiction premise is used to examine questions of morals and ethics, and the plot revolves By Sarah • Dec 21, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick is TOTALLY that guy A new trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2, aka one of my favorite movies of 2017, was released yesterday and this movie continues to look completely f*cking rad. We actually get a little sense of the plot in this one, as John Wick turns down a job which results By Sarah • Dec 20, 2016 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner’s potential answer Blade Runner is one of the most influential sci-fi films of the last thirty years, building off the dirt-and-muck aesthetic of Star Wars and the headier, more philosophical engine of 2001: A Space Odyssey. So it’s only natural, in our current nostalgia-driven culture, that a beloved classic be revisited By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rogue One almost stands alone The first spin-off of the Star Wars cinematic universe, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, starts on a familiar path: Trouble comes to a remote farm, where the hero of the piece is left orphaned. Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is abandoned when the Empire comes calling, dragging her scientist father, By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer’s Terrible Vacation Earlier this year Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn shot a comedy together—you might remember it because of that ill-advised Formation “parody” that they made while on location. Remember how stupid and dumb that was? Well buckle up because the trailer for the movie they were making, Snatched, is out By Sarah • Dec 16, 2016 12:24 pm
