Media Manipulation Tom Hiddleston is letting it all hang out Earlier this year it was noted that Tom Hiddleston’s public persona has shifted from “internet’s boyfriend” to a more closed off, grown up persona. Saint Tom the Huge Dork is dead, and in his place we have…Tom Hiddleston: Sears Catalog Underwear Model. In a new profile in By Sarah • Jun 20, 2016 02:53 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Blake’s Shark Week Shark Week begins on Discovery next Sunday, June 26th. It’s one of the network’s biggest events, if not the biggest event. Blake Lively’s The Shallows opens just in time for Shark Week, on Friday. And she’s out in New York on promotion today, photographed this morning By Lainey • Jun 20, 2016 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tupac biopic – first look Yesterday would have been Tupac Shakur’s 45th birthday. To mark the occasion, the teaser trailer for the upcoming biopic All Eyez on Me was released. When Lainey and I saw Straight Outta Compton for the first time in theatres, we couldn’t get over how much the dude playing By Kathleen • Jun 17, 2016 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emilia Clarke in Me Before You Movies about people falling in love when one of them is dying is a particular sub-genre of romantic drama, and the latest entry into the field is Me Before You, a tearjerker adapted by Jojo Moyes from her novel of the same name, and directed by Thea Sharrock, a By Sarah • Jun 17, 2016 01:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Dory Well here’s a sequel guaranteed to break summer 2016’s case of sequelitis. Thirteen years after Finding Nemo, Finding Dory is a nearly equal companion piece. Though it doesn’t reach the ecstatic highs of Pixar at their best (Inside Out, Wall-E, Toy Story 3, Up), Finding Dory By Sarah • Jun 17, 2016 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Helen Mirren is going to class up Fast & Furious Today in Your Dreams Are Coming True, Helen Mirren Edition, Helen Mirren told Elle magazine that she will, in fact, be appearing in Fast 8, the eighth Fast/Furious movie that is somehow not called F8. Last year she went on the record with her admiration of Vin Diesel, and By Sarah • Jun 16, 2016 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in The Nice Guys (Lainey: fell behind last month and didn’t get to posting Sarah’s review of The Nice Guys. Then, the next week, there were no more new photos of Ryan Gosling. He showed up for his friend Nicolas Winding Refn in LA yesterday at The Neon Demon premiere though. So By Sarah • Jun 16, 2016 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise hopes to face-punch the sequel curse It’s a bad year for sequels. The summer box office is down 22% from last year, mostly because sequel after sequel has failed. Naturally, this has everyone clutching their pearls and wondering what’s gone wrong, whether or not Finding Dory and Suicide Squad will be enough to save By Sarah • Jun 16, 2016 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Margot Robbie really the best Tonya Harding? Margot Robbie has had a rapid ascent ever since breaking out in Wolf of Wall Street, and now she’s putting some of her juice into developing projects. She has started a production shingle, LuckyChap Entertainment, and she’s already got some solid projects lined up, including a Harley Quinn By Sarah • Jun 15, 2016 02:27 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Blake takes the honey butter Blake Lively covers the new issue of Marie Claire. The Shallows is coming out. Sony actually moved it up from June 29th to open on June 24th. And Scott Mendelson at Forbes thinks this might be a good bet because the summer of 2016 has been all about tentpoles and, By Lainey • Jun 15, 2016 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miley & Liam hold hands in New York Liam Hemsworth has been in New York promoting Independence Day: Resurgence. It opens June 24th and they’ve been pushing it pretty hard. They’ve been pushing Liam pretty hard putting him front and centre on the press circuit, clearly hoping that this movie will (finally) be his moment. And By Lainey • Jun 15, 2016 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Renee’s airport kisses Renee Zellweger covers the July issue of British VOGUE, have you seen it yet? Bridget Jones’s Baby comes out in September (I wonder if it’ll be at TIFF) so I feel like it’s a little early to start promotion for it but they may have had to By Lainey • Jun 15, 2016 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Donald Glover is officially Spider-Man adjacent Years after fans shouted into the ether of the internet, campaigning for Donald Glover to play Spider-Man—they went with Andrew Garfield, instead—Glover, of Community and Childish Gambino fame, is finally living the dream. Kind of. He’s the latest person to join the cast of Spider-Man: By Sarah • Jun 15, 2016 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Ruffalo in Now You See Me 2 At their best, movies can be wonderful escapes into worlds outside of our own, where, for two hours, we can put real problems aside and exist in a kind of suspended animation. For those hours spent in a darkened room, surrounded by strangers, we’re united by the trials and By Sarah • Jun 14, 2016 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Katie in Toronto…but why is Jamie? Katie Holmes is in Toronto shooting The Kennedys After Camelot. She was seen on set yesterday with Matthew Perry who is playing Ted Kennedy. Katie, of course, is Jacqueline Kennedy …soon to be Onassis? She was also photographed in character with an obvious Aristotle (Alexander Siddig, or Doran Martell to By Lainey • Jun 14, 2016 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Just give Lin-Manuel Miranda the Oscar now Following the surprise billion-dollar success of Zootopia—and the inevitable domination of Pixar’s Finding Dory—Disney will cap their (outrageous box office bonanza) year in animation with a new princess movie, Moana. It’s about a Polynesian princess, Moana, it features a mythical Maori figure, Maui, and it’ By Sarah • Jun 14, 2016 10:52 am
