Quiveration Bomer & Gosling Matt Bomer and Ryan Gosling are in New York promoting The Nice Guys. This is a post with photos of Matt Bomer. Do you really need words? OK fine, I’ll give you some words. Matt Bomer, the angel, is wearing white, the colour of angels. And it makes him By Lainey • May 12, 2016 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Being asked about Woody As Sarah wrote in her post about Woody Allen earlier today, Ronan Farrow aimed to criticise the media for not raising the Woody Allen issue in a situation involving Woody Allen, for not addressing the allegations against him so as not to compromise celebrity access and future coverage around other By Lainey • May 12, 2016 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Assassin’s Creed certainly looks like something The first trailer for Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed came out last night and it is certainly something. Parts of it are gorgeous. Other parts of it are f*cking horrendous. Fassbender does look very cool as a medieval assassin. Marion Cotillard is delivering lines like she just had By Sarah • May 12, 2016 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Those Movie Star smiles Julia Roberts, George Clooney, and Jodie Foster were at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes today for the Money Monster press conference. The carpet is tonight, prime time Cannes Thursday, ensuring that the pictures and the buzz is out there ahead of the movie opening tomorrow. But with Civil War By Lainey • May 12, 2016 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Woody Allen Problem A reader named Regina emailed me and asked, “Why are we not ready for Mel Gibson to come back but we’ll still embrace Woody Allen’s films?” Turns out Regina has something in common with Ronan Farrow, because he’s asking the same question. The Hollywood Reporter provided Farrow By Sarah • May 12, 2016 10:14 am
Music Lin-Manuel Miranda: the answer? Yesterday I posted about Justin Timberlake, Trolls, and Can’t Stop The Feeling, whether or not the song would be his Oscar. And then a reader called Stefanie wrote to remind me that Lin-Manuel Miranda is writing the music for Disney’s Moana, opening in November, just a couple of By Lainey • May 11, 2016 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita on screen Last week Kathleen wrote about Lupita Nyong’o’s defense of her (perfectly reasonable) decision to do a Broadway play—for which she’s Tony-nominated—instead of taking more film roles after winning an Oscar. In that piece, Kathleen mentioned that it’s been two years since we’ve seen By Sarah • May 11, 2016 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In Cannes: Kristen Stewart & Blake’s silence Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, Corey Stoll, and Jesse Eisenberg with Woody Allen at the photo call for Café Society in Cannes today. Let’s begin with an upliftingly gross quote from 80 year old Woody: Woody Allen: "I’m 80. I can’t believe it. I’m so youthful, By Lainey • May 11, 2016 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amal’s first Cannes Amal and George Clooney have arrived in the South of France, ahead of the Cannes Film Festival opening tomorrow night. George is there for Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster, co-starring Julia Roberts. So it’ll be Amal’s first time on the tapis rouge at the Palais. What are By Lainey • May 10, 2016 03:20 pm
Music JT trolls for Oscar? Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick are in Berlin today for Trolls. As I mentioned yesterday, the movie doesn’t come out until November so I didn’t understand why we were being told to care about it now. But then I realised they’re on their way to Cannes. And By Lainey • May 10, 2016 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Goop Update: Still not in Civil War Lainey was disappointed in my gloating over being right about Gwyneth Paltrow not being in Captain America: Civil War, so let me reiterate that I was right about Goop not being in Civil War. Being right is nice! It’s fun! But also super stressful because people sling a lot By Sarah • May 10, 2016 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes Preview 2016 It’s that time of year again, with the Cannes Film Festival kicking off on Wednesday amidst unprecedented security measures. Usually the pre-Cannes stories are all about yachts, parties, prostitutes, and producers (the 3 Ps), but this year it’s all about the crazy security in place. That’s a By Sarah • May 10, 2016 10:40 am
Media Manipulation Kristen Stewart covers Variety before Cannes Late last year, Kristen Stewart made a late campaign push for an Oscar nomination for her work in Clouds Of Sils Maria. As I wrote in January, I liked the move. I liked the strategy. I liked that she was being led by ambition instead of being carried away, airy By Lainey • May 10, 2016 10:10 am
Quiveration I saw him first… in London It’s not often we get pictures of Oscar Isaac who I saw first. So, even though I don’t have much to say, I’m posting these pictures anyway. Because he’s wearing a bomber and his hair is perfect and sometimes he has on his thinking face and By Lainey • May 09, 2016 04:11 pm
Royals Prince Harry denied Did you watch the Invictus Games Opening Ceremony last night? Even I got emotional. These athletes are true HEART. And the presentation of the entire event really speaks to how passionate and engaged Prince Harry has been behind the scenes, making this happen, raising awareness for the efforts of servicemen By Lainey • May 09, 2016 03:52 pm
Style Fruitvale reunion Octavia Spencer and Michael B Jordan were together again this weekend at the City Year LA Spring Break event where over a million dollars was raised for educational programs. As you know, they worked together on Fruitvale Station with Ryan Coogler, a film many people believe was overlooked for awards By Lainey • May 09, 2016 03:26 pm
