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
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandra Bullock’s Ocean’s Ocho Last November it was confirmed that Sandra Bullock would be heading up a female version of Oceans Eleven. Will the men protest this like they have been the Ghostbusters movie? Interestingly, TIME posits that those protests are one of the reasons Ghostbusters is the most anticipated upcoming movie release. Excellent. By Lainey • Jun 10, 2016 11:16 am
Amazingness Liam is not Chris Liam Hemsworth is starting promotion for Independence Day: Resurgence. I have a lot of affection for Independence Day. That’s why I can’t be mad at this movie even though it’s probably stupid – most Roland Emmerich movies are. Anyway, Roland, Liam, and Jeff Goldblum were in Berlin today. By Lainey • Jun 09, 2016 05:09 pm
Dumbass Leonardo DiCaprio, please be smarter than this In an interview with The Guardian, screenwriter David Franzoni (best known for co-writing Gladiator) talked up a film he’s writing about the Persian poet and scholar Rumi, one of the most often translated and widely read poets in history. He’s sometimes called the “Shakespeare of the Middle By Sarah • Jun 09, 2016 11:17 am
Style Lizzy Caplan deserves better Lizzy Caplan was out the other night, at the premiere of Now You See Me 2, which seems destined to be the latest in summer’s brutal string of failure sequels. A few of you have confessed to enjoying Now You See Me, but even you must admit that a By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 01:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny in Love & Friendship Lady Susan, an early Jane Austen manuscript that apparently never made it to the rewriting stage and was published over fifty years after Austen’s death as an unfinished novella, is the unlikely source of Whit Stillman’s new film, Love & Friendship. Reuniting with this Last Days of Disco By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 12:35 pm
TV Updates Do you have a Dominic Cooper Problem yet? I’m getting there. I DEFINITELY have a Jesse Custer problem. I wasn’t quite sold on Jesse after the Preacher pilot, but episode two hooked me and I’m in 100%. Usually a show comes on strong in the pilot and then kind of backs off, to spend some By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The NuGhostbusters are cover stars Elle is debuting their first women in comedy issue, and the NuGhostbusters are their first funny-lady cover stars. I kind of don’t care about Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy—they’ve covered magazines before, and will again—but I’m SUPER into Leslie Jones’s cover. I love By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Boyega takes over for Charlie Hunnam Do you remember Pacific Rim? It’s Guillermo Del Toro’s kaiju vs. robots movie that stars Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba as the guy who cancelled the apocalypse. It is not a great movie, and did only mediocre at the box office, but Universal has decided to take a By Sarah • Jun 07, 2016 04:06 pm
Gorgessity Tarzan at the CFDAs Alexander Skarsgard was at the CFDAs last night. So was Alexa Chung, though they didn’t walk the red carpet together. I thought, initially, that that was why he showed up. And then, just as I was starting to write this post, I decided to google him. Apparently a new By Lainey • Jun 07, 2016 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is not as bad as you think Don’t get me wrong—it’s bad. It’s just that you probably think it’s a blazing inferno chemical disaster fire, and it’s not. It’s more like a mildly alarming dumpster fire. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is not a good movie, and By Sarah • Jun 06, 2016 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alicia & Michael go bowling A few weeks ago, photos from what was purported to be the set of Alien: Covenant were released – click here to see. And this weekend, Michael Fassbender was papped in Sydney, clean-shaven, presumably, for his character. I also saw Prometheus once but I’m pretty sure he was a By Lainey • Jun 06, 2016 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lonely Island in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Since 1984, This Is Spinal Tap has been the gold standard of film satires, a flawless movie that uses the mockumentary format to lampoon pop culture and music in the 1980s. In the years since there have been worthy mockumentary successors—Drop Dead Gorgeous, What We Do in the Shadows— By Sarah • Jun 03, 2016 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ’s free summer Michael B Jordan was out yesterday for lunch in LA. The last post about MBJ was Kathleen’s – he’s confirmed to be in Black Panther, perhaps as the villain, directed by the Scorsese to his De Niro, Ryan Coogler. Assuming we’ve all seen Captain America: Civil War now, By Lainey • Jun 03, 2016 01:24 pm
