Movie Reviews and Previews Remembering JT’s best years Lifetime is working on an unauthorised Britney Spears movie. It will most definitely be sh-t. But I think I might watch: Justin Timberlake. Specifically the fact that Britney Spears MADE Justin Timberlake. Also the way they’ve styled Justin Timberlake. In the role of Justin Timberlake is Nathan Keyes. By Lainey • Sep 29, 2016 10:53 am
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts has no owls But it does have a really cool golden bird. A new trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has come out and this one gives a better look at Newt Scamander’s many fantastic beasts, among them, a golden bird that is maybe a thunderbird. There are, however, By Sarah • Sep 28, 2016 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What we missed: Jakey’s bush We missed a lot when World War Brange took over the celebrity news cycle last week. This week’s tabloid are about to drop. I suspect we might be getting another round of Brange ugly very soon. Before that happens, let’s catch up on one of the most important By Lainey • Sep 27, 2016 02:56 pm
Media Manipulation Justin Theroux on World War Brange Justin Theroux is currently on promotion for The Girl On The Train. A reporter from Business Insider (via PEOPLE) asked him about World War Brange and instead of being thrown out of the room, they actually got an answer: "As a child of divorce all I can say is By Lainey • Sep 27, 2016 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Here come Viola & Denzel The first trailer for Fences was released today, based on the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson and directed by Denzel Washington. Both he and Viola Davis won Tony Awards themselves for their work on the stage production a few years ago. As you know, the By Lainey • Sep 27, 2016 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Molly Shannon and Jesse Plemons in Other People The “indie cancer dramedy” is a well-established sub-genre populated by films like 50/50, The Fault In Our Stars, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and of course the granddaddy of them all, Terms of Endearment. This is such a specific type of film that if you By Sarah • Sep 27, 2016 01:48 pm
Music Justin Timberlake shares the title Oh hey. I’m back from my procedure. It was fine at the time. But now I’m home and the freezing has worn off so this is where I find Justin Timberlake in the extended trailer for his concert film, Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids, premiering on Netflix October By Lainey • Sep 27, 2016 12:01 pm
Media Manipulation Jennifer Aniston post-Brange I was talking to a friend of mine this weekend and we played a game called “how long before Brad Pitt gets papped having a friendly lunch with Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux?” He thinks two months. I’m not sure what to think. You? Jennifer and Justin spent the By Lainey • Sep 26, 2016 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina Hall and Morris Chestnut in When the Bough Breaks If ever a movie needed to be rated R, it’s When the Bough Breaks, the evil-surrogate “thriller” from Screen Gems, the latest in what has become their annual fall tradition of releasing a bad genre movie aimed at black audiences (see also: The Perfect Guy, No Good Deed) By Sarah • Sep 26, 2016 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mediocre Bastards It’s fall, which means it’s time for trailers for award bait films, holiday-season tent poles, and the utter dreck that gets buried out back during January. This post is about a road-comedy movie starring Owen Wilson and Ed Helms—guess which category it falls into? The By Sarah • Sep 23, 2016 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson unplugs from the Matrix I know Ghost in the Shell comes from a super famous manga comic from the 1980s, but the teasers just released for the movie make it look like a knock-off Matrix. The teasers, which you can watch below in one video, are just a few seconds each and reveal By Sarah • Sep 23, 2016 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in The Magnificent Seven Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven—itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai—was the opening film at TIFF. I missed the press screening, so I had to wait a couple days to see it, and during that time everyone kept By Sarah • Sep 23, 2016 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks in Sully In 2009 airline pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed a passenger jet on the Hudson River, saving the lives of everyone on board. It was a truly amazing feat, and “Sully” became an overnight hero. The predictable media wave followed—interviews, book deal, and, now, a feature film directed by By Sarah • Sep 22, 2016 04:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jared Leto to ruin Andy Warhol next This week in “Of Course, Of F*cking COURSE” news, it’s been reported that obnoxious dickhead actor Jared Leto will portray Andy Warhol in a biopic of the artist titled simply Warhol. Leto will not be pissing out this performance as he did all his previous performances, since being By Sarah • Sep 22, 2016 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Conversation with Gabrielle Union Yesterday, Gabrielle Union tweeted out what she called, “One of [her] favorite interviews of [her] career.” She sat down with Zon D’Amour of xoNecole.com to talk about white privilege, sexuality, consent, The Birth of a Nation and her op-ed on the controversy surrounding her co-star alleged By Kathleen • Sep 21, 2016 09:42 am
Media Manipulation Capitalising on the end of Brange As you know, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in Allied, due out November 23. That’s around US Thanksgiving. That’s a favourable movie release date. It means they have some hopes for it at the box office and, perhaps, for awards consideration. Allied is about two spies who By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 09:13 am
