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 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 By Sarah • Dec 01, 2016 11:04 am
BFFs Amy and her friends Sarah texted me the other night all confused and annoyed about Nocturnal Animals NOT being part of the awards circuit, not really in the Oscar conversation. The film was well-reviewed out of the festivals. It’s an all-star cast. But it feels like it’s almost being ignored. By Lainey • Nov 30, 2016 04:20 pm
TV Updates Lin-Manuel Miranda is a hardcore fantasy nerd We’re going deep into the Dork Forest for this one. Lin-Manuel Miranda, human sunbeam and creator of Hamilton, is going to produce an adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle, a fantasy novel series by Patrick Rothfuss. Sounds kind of badass, right? “Kingkiller” kind of sounds like “Kingslayer”, so maybe By Sarah • Nov 30, 2016 02:05 pm
TV Updates Matt & Ben’s great timing Good Will Hunting came out 19 years ago this week. That was the beginning of Matt and Ben. Damon and Affleck. And all the hysteria that followed and now the nostalgia that’s replaced it. Will there be some kind of 20 year anniversary celebration next year? Matt and Ben By Lainey • Nov 30, 2016 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck is fine Critical status update report—Casey Affleck, actor and Oscar hopeful, continues to be absolutely, totally, 100% okay despite serious allegations of sexual harassment. The latest pit stop on the Casey Affleck Is Doing Just Fine Tour is the National Board of Review, where he won Best Actor for his performance By Sarah • Nov 30, 2016 12:06 pm
Media Manipulation Brad’s lonely island Just before US Thanksgiving PEOPLE reported that Brad Pitt would not be seeing his children over the holiday and that he was, understandably, very sad about it. But that was also the point. That you would be sad that he was sad and then not look too far for someone By Lainey • Nov 29, 2016 05:17 pm
TV Updates Taraji P. Henson talks auditions with Ryan Reynolds Most headlines I’ve read today about the Taraji P. Henson and Ryan Reynolds chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors series focus on a story Ryan tells about his audition for the Cohen brothers. It was terrible. Whatever. I care more about Taraji’s reveal that she was almost By Kathleen • Nov 29, 2016 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Jennifer Lawrence Chris Pratt rom-com Passengers, or as I like to call it, The Movie Star Survival Test, is coming out at Christmas. Now that Thanksgiving is over, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are on the hard sell, and they’ll be pushing the movie as charmingly and charismatically as they can until just before By Lainey • Nov 29, 2016 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman’s alien answers Last night Natalie Portman showed up at the Gotham Awards, wearing a homeschooler’s home ec project, where she was a Best Actress nominee for Jackie. In something of an upset, she lost to Isabelle Huppert (Elle), because film voters have a hard time resisting Icons. The Gothams are not By Sarah • Nov 29, 2016 10:23 am
