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 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, 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- 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’ By Sarah • Jul 18, 2016 02:16 pm
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 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
