Movie Reviews and Previews Suicide Squad saves the day Comic-Con Saturday brought the two big dogs to Hall H, DC and Marvel. DC was up first, with a jam-packed panel that kicked off with Suicide Squad. They had a HUGE push for this movie at the convention, which only adds to the whispers that Suicide Squad, like Superhero Face By Sarah • Jul 25, 2016 08:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kong: Skull Island…or Tom Hiddleston is so pretty The first trailer for Kong: Skull Island was shown at Comic-Con. And I think it was well-received. People seem pretty excited about the special effects and the sound effects (it is indeed very loud) and the glimpses of King Kong who is ENORMOUS. I can’t, however, offer any agreement By Lainey • Jul 25, 2016 07:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 25, 2016 Dear Gossips, I’m not finished talking about Ghostbusters yet. My friend Lorella and her husband took their two sons, 12 and 8, to the movies this weekend. It was between The Secret Life Of Pets and Ghostbusters. When it was time for Lorella to vote, she told her kids By Lainey • Jul 25, 2016 06:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in Café Society Café Society is Woody Allen’s eleven-hundredth movie and it’s the thirty-seventh time he’s made Annie Hall and the second time he’s done Midnight in Paris. It stars Jesse Eisenberg asWoody AllenBobby Dorfman, a New Yorker who goes to Hollywood to find his fortune, and Kristen Stewart By Sarah • Jul 22, 2016 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Viggo Mortensen in Captain Fantastic Captain Fantastic is the third “people in the woods” movie I’ve seen in the last few weeks, following the ambitious and bonkers Swiss Army Man and the superb Hunt for the Wilderpeople I really enjoyed both of those movies, but I did not enjoy Captain Fantastic very much. Written By Sarah • Jul 22, 2016 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oliver Stone low-key wowed at Comic-Con Yesterday was the first full day of Comic-Con, and one of the “bigger” movie panels was for Oliver Stone’s Snowden. If you read my preview, you know I think the distributor is wasting their time and money on a Hall H presentation. But to be fair, Oliver Stone showed By Sarah • Jul 22, 2016 01:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Cho on Asian Representation and Sulu’s Husband A couple months ago, the Internet came to a collective agreement that John Cho deserves better than the bullsh-t sidekick roles he has been relegated to. That agreement was immortalized in the hashtag #StarringJohnCho, where famous movies starring mediocre white people were reimagined with John in the leading roles. Earlier By Kathleen • Jul 21, 2016 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kirsten Dunst will direct The Bell Jar Kirsten Dunst, fresh off an Emmy nomination for Fargo, was confirmed yesterday to be directing an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, which will star Dakota Fanning as the depressive heroine, Esther Greenwood. Dunst has already directed a couple short films, but this will be her feature film By Sarah • Jul 21, 2016 01:20 pm
Media Manipulation Mila Kunis’s very private casual sex Mila Kunis is currently out there promoting Bad Moms. As part of the media tour, she stopped by Howard Stern. And Howard asked her about her relationship with Ashton Kutcher, how they ended up married. Mila obliged. With all the answers. I’ve embedded the audio below but, briefly, if By Lainey • Jul 20, 2016 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2016: The Comic Conning It’s that time of year again, when nerds flock to San Diego for the annual mecca known as Comic-Con. This year will be interesting because in an effort to combat bootlegging, they’re killing WiFi in the convention center. It’ll be interesting to see which studios choose to By Sarah • Jul 20, 2016 01:17 pm
BFFs Matt and Ben… and Casey? Matt Damon is in the middle of his worldwide Jason Bourne promo tour and with that comes a stop on Reddit. He’s done an AMA (Ask Me Anything) before for The Monument’s Men, and gave pretty thorough answers then too. Except, this time around, Matt’s doing more By Joanna • Jul 20, 2016 10:41 am
Quiveration No drama for Idris There’s a lot of f-cking drama going on right now. Idris Elba is not bringing any drama. He is giving us new photos though. So it’s like a bonus to Gossip Christmas. Oh but wait. While I just said that Idris has no drama. He might, actually, be By Lainey • Jul 19, 2016 04:31 pm
Break Ups Gaga is single That’s what they’re all doing this week, getting under the nuclear gossip cloud created by Taylor Swift and Kanye West and his wife. Did that make sense? Whatever. My point is, since that story is dominating headlines and attention, if you’re a celebrity and you have some By Lainey • Jul 19, 2016 03:44 pm
Douchebags No Gossip Christmas for Leslie Jones While most of us on social media were opening the gossip gift that Kanye West’s wife dropped on us yesterday, it was not Gossip Christmas for Leslie Jones. For Leslie Jones, it was actually hell. Here’s an actor who’s enjoying the best year of her career, with By Lainey • Jul 19, 2016 08:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth returning to Star Trek, for some reason Hollywood has been trying to make Chris Hemsworth happen for years, but despite an SMA title and being part of Marvel’s stable of Chrises, he has never caught on quite the way you’d expect. I’ve always said it—twenty years ago The Greater Hemsworth is a slam-dunk By Sarah • Jul 18, 2016 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars Celebration and hope for Rogue One Star Wars Celebration, a sort of mini-Comic Con dedicated solely to all things Star Wars, was held in London over the weekend. (There won’t be a Hall H Star Wars presentation this year, and one wonders how long before Disney starts doing this for Marvel, too.) There wasn’t By Sarah • Jul 18, 2016 02:16 pm
