Movie Reviews and Previews The Jack Reacher promotional strategy Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher sequel opens next week. Which isn’t too far away. And I feel like it’s been pretty quiet, as Tom Cruise promotional tours go. Normally, when Tom Cruise is promoting a movie, you can’t avoid him jumping out of airplanes and hitting 8 By Lainey • Oct 12, 2016 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation At this point there is no separating art from artist in the case of Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation, his debut feature film as a writer and director. He also stars in the movie and produced it, so this is unquestionably his movie. The Birth of a By Sarah • Oct 11, 2016 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train Did you like Gone Girl? Didn’t you think Amazing Amy was just THE WORST, but also kind of cool? Do you like mysteries but not like, actually hard to solve or uncomfortable ones, but where the people you want to have done it, did it, and you don’t By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 04:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey is touching a tiger Matthew McConaughey has fallen into making two kinds of movies: 1) Serious award-baity fare, and 2) whatever the hell he was doing in Wolf of Wall Street. The first trailer for his new movie, Gold, was released yesterday and it definitely looks like it’s from the second category. McConaughey By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult is the perfect Tesla The Current War, the Nikola Tesla movie that is somehow not about Nikola Tesla, has finally cast Nikola Tesla. At least we know he’s in this movie for sure. In a rather brilliant piece of casting, Nicholas Hoult will be playing Tesla, the genius inventor caught between two litigious By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenny Slate in My Blind Brother Nick Kroll of The Kroll Show fame stars as Bill, a sort of schlubby, vaguely depressed guy who, at the beginning of the movie, is completing a marathon with his athletic brother, Robbie (Adam Scott, Parks and Recreation). There’s a catch, though—Robbie is blind. And there’s another By Sarah • Oct 06, 2016 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman’s Jackie trailer Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, was one of the major (few?) acquisitions at TIFF this year. Joanna screened and reviewed it at the festival and she enjoyed it. The film was sold to Fox Searchlight which is also distributing The Birth Of A Nation. Perhaps they needed another property to build By Lainey • Oct 06, 2016 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg: Patriotic Hero Lainey calls Mark Wahlberg the “Hollywood enforcer” because he’s always playing super-jacked heroes and talking a big game about how he would have single-handedly stopped 9/11 if only he’d been on a plane that day. Well, the latest in Wahlberg’s Patriotic Hero series is Patriots Day, By Sarah • Oct 06, 2016 12:36 pm
Friday Night Lights Riggins in London Did you know that Friday Night Lights premiered 10 years ago this week? For some of us it’s been a decade of Clear Eyes and Full Hearts. For others, ahem, those of you who ignored my nagging and only just gave in recently, it’s been a couple of By Lainey • Oct 05, 2016 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck’s schedule It was confirmed today that Ben Affleck’s Live By Night will open in limited release Christmas Day. Which is no surprise. As soon as they announced that the film would premiere in January, there was always the assumption that this mean that the studio would drop it in theatres By Lainey • Oct 05, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Garner’s Gossip Genie Jennifer Garner was out the other day with a friend when the paps showed up. She was in a cheeky mood, because when they started pestering her about her love life, she joked that she’s with Brad Pitt, now that he’s available (via PopSugar): I mean, it’s By Lainey • Oct 05, 2016 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meg’s Major Apartment Steeze Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Johnny Depp’s apartment/expensive torture chamber. It’s a lot of sharp corners, cracks and brightly painted walls, basically my nightmare. The antidote to that? Meg Ryan’s New York loft, featured in November’s Architectural Digest (via PEOPLE). At first glance, I immediately thought By Maria • Oct 04, 2016 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews FKA twigs and Robert Pattinson leave LA FKA twigs and Robert Pattinson arrived in LA last week. They were seen at Drake’s after-party a couple of days later and yesterday they were back at LAX to return to London. Twigs and RP hadn’t been seen together publicly in a while prior to just recently, not By Lainey • Oct 04, 2016 12:59 pm
Break Ups Kristen Stewart & St Vincent Kristen Stewart going full Brigitte Nielsen at the Certain Women premiere at the New York Film Festival last night. It’s a great look on her, even though I’m not big on the colour of this suit. Sarah reviewed Certain Women at TIFF – the breakout star of the film By Lainey • Oct 04, 2016 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarjo’s headband Scarlett Johansson is shooting Rock That Body at JFK airport in New York. It’s about a group of female friends on a stag weekend and sh-t goes sideways. If I had to guess I’d say this is the scene where Scarjo, presumably the bride, is saying goodbye to By Lainey • Oct 03, 2016 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp is omitted from his own movie You know a celebrity is in the doghouse when they don’t appear in their own trailer. The teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: This Again Yarrr was released last night and it does not feature Johnny Depp nor does it mention his name by word or title card. By Sarah • Oct 03, 2016 12:19 pm
