TV Updates Katie’s upcoming birthday Katie Holmes is promoting the film she directed, All We Had. The premiere was last night. She looks good in this dress, presumably it’s Zac Posen, but I’m still not feeling those bangs. While doing interviews in support of the film, Katie was asked about a Dawson’s By Lainey • Dec 07, 2016 01:50 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan’s “first day out” La La Land Hollywood premiere last night. La La Land, as you know, is a frontrunner for Best Picture, in a tight race right now with Moonlight and, maybe, Manchester By The Sea although I feel like Manchester’s big hope might be Casey Affleck, the alleged sexual harasser. I By Lainey • Dec 07, 2016 12:55 pm
Dumbass Matt Damon misses the point Matt Damon and the cast of The Great Wall were in Beijing yesterday to promote the film. As you know, when the trailer came out a few months ago, The Great Wall was added to the list of “whitewashed” projects coming out of Hollywood, including Ghost In The Shell and By Lainey • Dec 06, 2016 04:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Wahlberger Robot Nonsense I am trying desperately to remember anything about the last Transformers movie, but it’s giving me a headache, because the only thing I clearly remember about that movie was that it gave me a headache. Mark Wahlberg was in it, replacing Shia LaBeouf as the franchise lead, I remember By Sarah • Dec 06, 2016 01:16 pm
Maple Leaf Jessica Chastain in Toronto Jessica Chastain loves to work, and she’s amazing at her job. She constantly brings her A-game on-screen, but she also knows how to be a top tier celebrity, which Lainey and I saw firsthand last night at the Miss Sloane premiere in Toronto. Check out this tweet: Amazing experience By Joanna • Dec 06, 2016 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer is Imperfect Barbie Friday it was announced that Amy Schumer will star in a live-action Barbie movie, slated for 2018. A Barbie movie has been kicking around for a while, and the current treatment comes from Hilary Winston, a veteran of TV shows like My Name is Earl and Community, and who is By Sarah • Dec 05, 2016 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise Runs From The Mummy Do you remember when The Mummy was an Indiana Jones-ish action-adventure about a smart librarian outwitting a mummy? You know, back when Brendon Fraser looked like this and didn’t have weird freaky hands? Remember Rachel Weisz and how cute and spunky she was, and how she was a total By Sarah • Dec 05, 2016 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews We are all Baby Groot The first full trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 dropped over the weekend—thanks to a Comic Con event in Brazil—and jumping off that brag video from a couple months ago, it’s FANTASTIC. They’re still not giving us anything about the plot and we still By Sarah • Dec 05, 2016 08:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 5, 2016 Dear Gossips, The LA Film Critics Association named Moonlight the Best Picture of the year yesterday, followed by La La Land as runner-up. Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, won Best Director. He also won Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle last week while La La Land was By Lainey • Dec 05, 2016 08:05 am
TV Updates What Milo learned from Will Milo Ventimiglia is having a moment. Not only is he nailing his role as Jack, the hot dad of all hot dads, on This is Us, he’s also experiencing a renewed fandom after his Gilmore Girls character Jess Mariano showed up in the revival looking exactly how you don’ By Kathleen • Dec 02, 2016 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mile High Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Aniston is in Office Christmas Party. I think the junket is in New York this weekend. We’ll be seeing a lot more of her next week. This week, however, she was on Ellen helping Ellen give presents away to her audience – I love watching people go insane over By Lainey • Dec 02, 2016 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer & Chris’s week in Europe Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt have been in Europe this week promoting Passengers. Today they’re in Berlin. Tonight they’ll be on Graham Norton in the UK. And then it’s a final push to Christmas for the next two weeks before things start slowwwwwing down for the holiday By Lainey • Dec 02, 2016 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Weightlifting: The Actors Roundtable Last week it was the Actresses Roundtable. This week The Hollywood Reporter is featuring the Actors. I briefly mentioned this yesterday in the post about what Andrew Garfield said about Emma Stone. Now that I’ve read through the whole piece and watched all the videos… well…I’m not By Lainey • Dec 02, 2016 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Edge of Seventeen is a teen classic Today The Edge of Seventeen won the Best First Film Award from the New York Film Critics Circle. A great teen movie is timeless. The slang may change, fashions come and go, but the great teen movies never expire. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Clueless, Rebel Without By Sarah • Dec 01, 2016 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt’s potential We’ve been talking about Passengers as a Movie Star test since the first trailer. It’s now December and the movie opens in three weeks, so the test has officially begun. To that end, new interviews are rolling out, including Chris Pratt on the cover of British GQ. They’ By Sarah • Dec 01, 2016 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chronicle, but for magic What does it take to make magic cool? (David Blaine has been asking this question for years.) Is it daring, Houdini-esque escapes, or sleight of hand card tricks, or elaborate illusions? Or would it be cool if every trick—sorry, illusion—ended with Criss Angel burning down a Hot Topic? By Sarah • Dec 01, 2016 11:04 am