Movie Reviews and Previews Moana is just delightful I saw Moana Monday night and have not stopped listening to the songs since. All the songs are credited to Mark Mancina, who also composed the score; Opetaia Foa’i, of the Oceanic band Te Vaka; and Broadway star and alleged heartthrob Lin-Manuel Miranda, and as much as I hate By Sarah • Nov 23, 2016 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Ang Lee’s $40 million camera test, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, ate it hardcore at the box office this past weekend, which is maybe unfair because the movie isn’t THAT bad. Based on a novel by Ben Fountain—adapted by Jean-Christophe Castelli—Billy Lynn is a time-jumping By Sarah • Nov 22, 2016 04:10 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Ben & Jen for Live By Night Live By Night has started screening for industry. The film will open in limited release in December to qualify for Oscar consideration before going wide in January. And while Warner Bros is trying to seem like they’re playing it low key for a campaign, the scheduling makes it obvious By Lainey • Nov 21, 2016 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Justin Timberlake is a terrible voice actor Here’s Justin Timberlake promoting Trolls in Australia this weekend. Here’s my review of Trolls. Reviving the soul-sucking demon-toys, Trolls is set inside an acid flashback at a rave you went to in 1997. It’s bright, it’s BRIGHT, it’s so bright your retinas will sting and By Sarah • Nov 21, 2016 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews DDL Dumbledore? This post contains spoilers for Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. Please be warned if you’ve not yet seen the movie. As you know, it’s been confirmed that Johnny Depp will play Gellert Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts sequel. He was revealed near the end of the By Lainey • Nov 21, 2016 12:00 pm
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: let the beasts be free Lainey can’t believe I’m Gryffindor. We had a whole conversation about it—she thinks I should be Ravenclaw-but if you need proof, Lainey is a loud and proud Slytherin, and Gryffindors live to cockblock Slytherins, which will explain my review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2016 11:31 am
Media Manipulation Brad & Marion: Allied in Paris Last week, Brad Pitt promoted Allied in China, leaving Marion Cotillard to sell the film in the US and answer all the questions. This weekend they were both in Paris for the French premiere, where they spent time with fans and posed for pictures, safely protected from reporters. But what By Lainey • Nov 21, 2016 10:02 am
Quiveration Checking in briefly on My Obsession A quick post on Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, aka My Obsession, in New York last night at the premiere of Nocturnal Animals. Sam is wearing Tom Ford, obviously, and while I never ever want to challenge Tom Ford who, I'm assuming, approved of Sam's styling, I& By Lainey • Nov 18, 2016 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller in Bleed For This Have you ever seen a boxing movie? Then congratulations, you’ve seen Miles Teller’s new movie, Bleed For This. Based on real events surrounding boxer Vinny Pazienza, Bleed For This is one of those biopics that, despite being essentially true, seems too cliché to be anything but a Hollywood By Sarah • Nov 18, 2016 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews “My gals are ready. We can do the work.” A new trailer for Hidden Figures was released this week. Kathleen wrote about the film back in August, calling it #BlackGirlMath. Hidden Figures opens in limited Christmas Day and wide on January 6, in time for an Oscar qualifying run. And the Oscar buzz, it is building. The film screened By Lainey • Nov 17, 2016 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain keeps wearing them down The first trailer for The Zookeeper’s Wife, Jessica Chastain’s next movie—after Miss Sloane, which comes out in December—has just been released and it’s given me a whole new anxiety. And that is: What happens to zoo animals during war?! This is not the point of By Sarah • Nov 17, 2016 02:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston in a gorilla suit Tom Hiddleston made his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, to promote the new trailer for Kong: Skull Island, and he did it in a gorilla suit. So the new Tom Hiddleston formula is Dancing = Bad, Gorilla Suit = Good. Okay. Obviously, this is the kind of any-means-necessary capital-T Try By Sarah • Nov 17, 2016 01:32 pm
Faux Gossip Eddie Redmayne, Taylor Swift, and Les Miserables Eddie Redmayne was on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last night. And someone called in to ask him about whether or not it was true that he dated Taylor Swift. It’s a visit to the Gossip Archives! Here’s how Eddie responded: That is a lot of By Lainey • Nov 17, 2016 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman, Hollywood’s den mother Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban walked the red carpet together at the premiere of Lion at the MoMA in New York last night. They were coy, playful and affectionate, and gave photographers several options of loved up photos to use and service to the press in service of Lion. In By Joanna • Nov 17, 2016 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston vs James Franco I watched the new red-band trailer for Why Him? starring Bryan Cranston and James Franco the other day. It’s the first footage I’ve seen of the movie ever. Why Him? opens at Christmas, when you might need to get out of the house, away from your family, and By Lainey • Nov 17, 2016 11:16 am
TV Updates Tom hails the king Tom Hiddleston arrived in LA yesterday from London. He’ll be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight to promote the release of the new Kong: Skull Island trailer. They’ve been teasing footage all week. The highlight here is that we’re going to see King Kong himself, being mad and crushing By Lainey • Nov 16, 2016 04:24 pm
