Movie Reviews and Previews X-Men: Apocalypse, what have you done to Oscar Isaac? The final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse is here, and I ask this sincerely as someone who has mostly enjoyed the X-Men movies: Is ANYONE pumped for this movie? I keep forgetting it’s even coming out, and when I do remember, it’s only in the context of, “They’re By Sarah • Apr 25, 2016 04:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg: Woody Allen’s perfect muse As we’ve seen through the decades, Woody Allen has his muses. But now? Forget Diane Keaton, Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone, forget the actresses, because he’s finally found The One, the one he’s been looking for all this time: Jesse Eisenberg. Jesse stars in Woody’s latest film, By Lainey • Apr 25, 2016 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth is not a Movie Star The Huntsman: Winter’s War opened over the weekend to a resounding, “No thanks,” from audiences with an estimated $20 million opening. For comparison, Snow White and the Huntsman opened in 2012 with $56 million. Given its reported budget of $115 million (haha, yeah RIGHT) and an aggressive ad campaign, By Sarah • Apr 25, 2016 03:18 pm
TV Updates My Obsession’s next move My Obsession, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, were in New York last night for the 40th anniversary of Taxi Driver at the Tribeca Film Festival. His hair is lighter now, right? It looks lighter to me. And he looks SO hot to me. In other Obsession news, Sam is confirmed for By Lainey • Apr 22, 2016 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Costner in Criminal Somehow, incredibly, in the span of less than one year, Ryan Reynolds appears in the same bad movie, twice. Last summer I had to sit through the mind-numbingly bad Self/Less, in which Reynold stars as a body-swapped action hero, and I just sat through the soul-crushing nothing of Criminal, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 01:33 pm
TV Updates Tom Hiddleston is no longer the internet’s boyfriend Tom Hiddleston has been promoting things for the last few months, from I Saw the Light to The Night Manager—which is good—to High Rise, premiering on demand at the end of the month. I commented earlier this year that it seems like, on his current promotional run, we’ By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Huntsman: Winter’s War is so bad it’s weird I don’t think anyone actually expected The Huntsman: Winter’s War to be good, and it isn’t, so I’m not going to demand anyone spend money on this movie. But if you’re the curious type and/or you remember the charmingly bad sword-and-sorcery movies of yesterday, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ will be in Spider-Man: Homecoming because that’s the whole point Spider-Man 3.0 is set to start filming in a couple months and the film is officially titled Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is overtly a nod to Spider-Man’s high school roots but also seems to be a meta commentary on his joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Zendaya was the first By Sarah • Apr 21, 2016 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews You know who Jason Bourne is The first full trailer for the fourth Bourne movie—fifth if you count Jeremy Renner’s Bourne Legacy, which no one does—was just released and it’s got lots and lots of sweaty, glowering Matt Damon throwing punches and shooting people in the face. Sadly, this one does not By Sarah • Apr 21, 2016 01:29 pm
Media Manipulation George Clooney, character actor Money Monster is coming out next month. It’ll be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. George Clooney is now starting to promote it with his 9th Esquire cover. And at the beginning of this interview, he’s actually credited with the magazine’s resurgence for the first time he By Lainey • Apr 21, 2016 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kanye and The Girl On The Train Did you read it? Some of you must have. It sold 3 million copies in the US alone and set a record for the most weeks at #1 in the UK. I’ve read The Girl On The Train several times. Last fall I interviewed Paula Hawkins, literally, 4 times By Lainey • Apr 20, 2016 05:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Aniston is the Most Beautiful Last year it was Sandra Bullock at 50. This year..... Jennifer Aniston. It's the second time PEOPLE has named her their Most Beautiful. Last time was in 2004. And she has a new movie opening just in time. Mother's Day comes out next week. Which is By Lainey • Apr 20, 2016 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Iron Man goes shopping Robert Downey Jr and Team Iron Man were in Paris earlier this week promoting Captain America: Civil War, technically the third Captain America movie but really the third Avengers movie. He’s now in Berlin for promotion and went shopping for his kid before meeting up for lunch with Daniel By Lainey • Apr 20, 2016 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 21st century Magnificent Seven Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is one of the most referenced films in cinematic history, and already has an American remake, The Magnificent Seven starring Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner. Well now there’s a remake of the remake, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, and By Sarah • Apr 20, 2016 10:56 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Ryan Gosling parenting story It was revealed last week that Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling are expecting their second child together. US Weekly broke the story. Click here for a refresher. Does that explain why PEOPLE.com posted the stupidest headline yesterday? Here’s how it read: Because, typically, expectant parents want their children By Lainey • Apr 19, 2016 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ice Cube in Barbershop: The Next Cut Living in a city where you regularly wake up to headlines tallying how many people got shot over the weekend wears on you after a while. No matter how much you love your home, you inevitably end up having “why am I still here” conversations with yourself. This is the By Sarah • Apr 18, 2016 03:28 pm
