Movie Reviews and Previews #BlackGirlMath If you've been watching the Olympics, you know how much the past 10 days have been an epic display of #BlackGirlMagic. Fittingly, the trailer for Hidden Figures was released last night during Sunday's Olympic coverage. It's the story of three brilliant African American women, By Kathleen • Aug 15, 2016 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman pre-festival Natalie Portman is out hustling for her directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, once again. After spending nearly 16 months hitting Cannes, TIFF, and other festivals to promote the film — which she also stars in — this morning, she popped by Good Morning America for a new one-on-one. Oh, By Joanna • Aug 15, 2016 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are inhumanly beautiful I don’t want to stir sh*t up, but the teaser for Allied, the World War II movie starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, is out and Pitt & Cotillard look unbelievably gorgeous in it. It’s shades of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, when you couldn’t believe two By Sarah • Aug 15, 2016 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Problem with Nate Parker There are a few of them, actually. Some really unsettling, uncomfortable problems. Nate Parker is the writer, star and director of The Birth of a Nation, a film that is already garnering deafening Oscar buzz. We’ve written about our excitement and the importance of The Birth of a Nation By Kathleen • Aug 15, 2016 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Warner Brothers Open Letter Late last week Pajiba published an open letter, penned by an alleged former Warner Brothers staffer using the pseudonym “Gracie Law” (a character name from Big Trouble in Little China). Presumably this was done to protect someone still working in the industry, or with hopes of returning to the industry, By Sarah • Aug 15, 2016 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What does Charlize think? Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey have an animated movie coming out in a week or so called Kubo And The Two Strings. They cover the new issue of Parade and tell the magazine about mentoring youth through their respective foundations. It’s a good read about their work outside of By Lainey • Aug 12, 2016 12:20 pm
Photo Assumption An award season film with Kristen Stewart …and Vin Diesel? Here’s Kristen Stewart yesterday in LA with Alicia Cargile. Pap photos are not necessarily reliable indicators of celebrity happiness but it’s hard to ignore the fact that Kristen has looked really, really happy this whole year through the pap lens. Kristen’s last film in theatres was Woody By Lainey • Aug 12, 2016 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Rogue One the next blockbuster disaster? It’s been a bad year for blockbusters. With but few exceptions—pretty much just Deadpool and Captain America: Civil War—blockbusters have disappointed and underperformed, with the carcasses of more than one disaster strewn behind summer’s unforgiving wake (see also: Warcraft, Independence Day: Resurgence). We’re about to By Sarah • Aug 12, 2016 10:46 am
Douchebags Boy Sh-t on Instagram The Rock called out Vin Diesel on Instagram earlier this week. Then they had a man summit on the set of Fast 8. Apparently nothing was resolved. And now both of them are trying to get their versions of the story out there so that we can all take sides. By Lainey • Aug 11, 2016 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George & Amal’s summer fundraiser The Clooneys spent their summer at their estate in Lake Como. This week they hosted a Darfur fundraiser at a nearby villa. John Prendergast, George’s friend and philanthropic partner, and his wife Sia Sanneh were also there. As mentioned last year, Sia is also an esteemed lawyer specialising in By Lainey • Aug 11, 2016 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo and The Godmother Have you watched Cocaine Cowboys? It is one of those documentaries you have to watch twice because the first time some jerk (like me) keeps saying things like “it was how much money?” or “they hid how much cocaine?”. The numbers are so ginormous it is mind boggling, especially when By Maria • Aug 11, 2016 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen in Sausage Party There’s no real preparing yourself for Sausage Party. You can watch the trailers, you can read reviews, but you’re not going to be ready. The closest comparison is the early days of South Park, when you just couldn’t believe these things were being said on TV, let By Sarah • Aug 10, 2016 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ocean’s Eight is looking GOOD Ocean’s Eight is the female spin-off of Ocean’s Eleven, led by Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett in the George Clooney-Brad Pitt positions. Deadline reports today that shooting is scheduled to start in October in New York (as previously noted, it’ll be themed around the MET Gala) and By Lainey • Aug 10, 2016 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hell Lives Inside Me: I Saw Nine Lives The ordeal began with a trip to the ticket window. The movie in question, Nine Lives, had not screened for critics, so I had to pay actual money to see the movie in which Kevin Spacey gets turned into a cat. As I was paying to see the movie in By Sarah • Aug 09, 2016 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t worry, the McConaissance was already over A new trailer for Matthew McConaughey’s latest movie, Sea of Trees, came out yesterday. Sea of Trees premiered at Cannes last year, where it did not go over well, and while that audience can be a bit boo-happy, in this case, the ensuing reviews were pretty uniformly terrible, too. By Sarah • Aug 09, 2016 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who are the Chicken Sh-t Candy Asses? Dwayne The Rock Johnson posted a message to Instagram yesterday. Basically a blind item. This is my final week of shooting #FastAndFurious8. There's no other franchise that gets my blood boiling more than this one. An incredible hard working crew. UNIVERSAL has been great partners as well. My By Lainey • Aug 09, 2016 10:29 am
