Movie Reviews and Previews My next favourite high school movie? That’s pretty much the quickest way to get me interested in a movie. Tell me it’s about high school. It’s been a long, long f-cking time. And I’m still obsessed with high school and teen life. No matter what changes, the basic dramas and emotions of By Lainey • Jul 15, 2016 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston in The Infiltrator Bryan Cranston excels at playing dangerous liars, and The Infiltrator gives him another chance to play a dangerous liar, doing Walter White: Variation on a Theme. Cranston stars as Robert Mazur, a US Customs agent who goes undercover with Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel in an effort to bust up By Sarah • Jul 15, 2016 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 15, 2016 Dear Gossips, Ghostbusters opens today. Are you going this weekend? I can’t remember the last time my friends and I scrambled to rearrange schedules like we’ve been doing the last few days. One friend is in the middle of a move and is living in suitcases and in By Lainey • Jul 15, 2016 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes movie is probably not Citizen Kane Warren Beatty has being trying to get a movie about Howard Hughes made for as long as I’ve cared about movies. I have never known a time when the “Warren Beatty/Howard Hughes movie” wasn’t some mystical idea of the next Citizen Kane. Well, the “Warren Beatty/Howard By Sarah • Jul 14, 2016 01:10 pm
Style Alex & Alexa in animal prints Alexander Skarsgard was in Sweden this week to promote Tarzan. He looks great in that cheetah print shirt. Alexa Chung, his girlfriend, was also there and she too walked the carpet, but they didn’t pose together. Maybe dressing together is better than posing together? Because she too wore animal By Lainey • Jul 13, 2016 04:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone moodily fall in love The first trailer for La La Land is out, and it manages to look simultaneously twee and melancholy. It’s a musical starring everyone’s favorite fake couple Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, and is from the writer/director of Whiplash, so it’s got a serious pedigree, which is By Sarah • Jul 13, 2016 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Four Funny Women in Ghostbusters Ghostbusters starts with a laugh, as an historical mansion tour guide—Silicon Valley’s Zach Woods, doing more in five minutes than many can do in an entire film—gives his spiel about the supposed haunting of the “Aldridge Mansion”, describing a murderous daughter entombed in her home’s basement By Sarah • Jul 13, 2016 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Loving the trailer Richard and Mildred Loving were married. There was a time, not too long ago, when that wasn’t allowed. Loving is the true story of their right to love each other and be husband and wife. In fighting for that right they made it possible for others to do the By Lainey • Jul 12, 2016 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 50 Shades on the beach Production on the Fifty Shades Of Grey sequels wrapped in Vancouver last week. Filming is now happening in the South of France, on the beach in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat where either Bono or Adam Clayton have a villa. Or maybe Bono’s is in Eze. Anyway, Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are By Lainey • Jul 12, 2016 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople Sometimes you go into a movie with fairly high expectations, and based on previous work, you feel pretty good about those expectations being met. And sometimes, even expecting something good, your expectations are blown out of the water and you walk away from something great. Such is the case with By Sarah • Jul 12, 2016 12:36 pm
BFFs Leslie Jones finds a dress Leslie Jones in red at the Ghostbusters premiere. As expected, after she tweeted her disappointment over not being able to find a designer to dress her, Christian Siriano came through with this custom gown. And Christian Siriano is not a major fashion house. That’s not a knock on him By Lainey • Jul 11, 2016 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron is tired in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates The movie poster for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates promises the movie is full of "hot messes," and boy does it deliver as advertised. Mike and Dave is full of hot air, with some real laughs but a pretty thin premise. It really wants to be the By Joanna • Jul 11, 2016 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Louis CK and Jenny Slate in The Secret Life of Pets Louis CK is not an obvious choice to headline an animated children’s film in the Toy Story mold about what our pets do all day while we’re not home. But his is the leading voice in The Secret Life of Pets, in which he portrays Max, a little By Sarah • Jul 08, 2016 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey in Free State of Jones A Confederate soldier, played by Matthew McConaughey with a scraggly History Beard, navigates a Civil War battlefield. He’s a medic, more interested in alleviating whatever suffering he can than inflicting it on anyone else, and he’s dazed by the sheer scale of pain and misery surrounding him. War By Sarah • Jul 07, 2016 04:05 pm
Quiveration I’ll just get out of the way Look… That’s what you want to do: look. I mean, I have things to say about this interview, and I will, tomorrow. Because, f-ck it, you’re not paying attention anyway. Part of my job is to use words. Part of my job is to get the f-ck out By Lainey • Jul 07, 2016 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Woody Allen Cycle continues Woody Allen makes a movie every year—he’s got Café Society coming out later this month, and a movie due in 2017. There are no details about that movie yet, but Kate Winslet will star, along with Jim Belushi, and The Hollywood Reporter says that Juno Temple and Justin By Sarah • Jul 07, 2016 01:55 pm
