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 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, 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t blame the Third Best Joker As Sarah just wrote, Suicide Squad opened big this weekend despite sh-tty reviews but they’re already forecasting a possible 60% drop-off next weekend. Whoever you want to blame for that though, do not point the finger at Jared Leto, the Third Best Joker. Because he’s not By Lainey • Aug 08, 2016 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Suicide Squad and the Hollywood double standard Suicide Squad shattered the August box office records, raking in $135 million for the biggest August opening weekend, breaking Guardians of the Galaxy’s previous record of $94.1 million. (And oh, is everyone at Warner Brothers ecstatic to take down a Marvel record.) Box office numbers can mean anything By Sarah • Aug 08, 2016 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Patsy and Edina in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie If you’re a fan of the British TV series Absolutely Fabulous, about the trials and misadventures of boozy London publicist Edina and her enabling editor friend, Patsy, then sweetie darling do I have the movie for you. Almost twenty-four years after debuting on the BBC, Ab Fab comes By Sarah • Aug 05, 2016 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma before festival season The Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its grants banquet in Beverly Hills last night and there were some big names who showed up in the name of charity but with the side benefit (or maybe main benefit) of Golden Globes. Come on, now. Please don’t try to tell me By Lainey • Aug 05, 2016 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Not Pictured: Harry Styles Christopher Nolan’s next film is a World War II drama called Dunkirk, and while it features the usual suspects when it comes to Nolan—Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy—it also marks the feature film debut of Harry Styles. I do not like One Direction, and I resent having the By Sarah • Aug 05, 2016 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Roberts and Dave Franco in Nerve Here’s a surprise—I really like Nerve! The trailer made this movie look dumb as sh*t, and it IS dumb, but it’s also really fun and actually pretty thrilling. Based on a novel by Jeanne Ryan (adapted by Jessica Sharzer, Speak), and directed by Henry Joost and By Sarah • Aug 04, 2016 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Batfleck pulls up his pants for Suicide Squad Big star turnout at the London premiere of Suicide Squad tonight with members of the Justice League (Batman Ben Affleck, Superman Henry Cavill, Aquaman Jason Momoa, and The Flash Ezra Miller) also showing up to support WB and DC. As you can see, Jared Leto, the Third Best Joker (I By Lainey • Aug 03, 2016 05:33 pm
