Movie Reviews and Previews The Barack and Michelle Obama presidential rom-com In the grand tradition of Dave and The American President comes Southside With You, a fictionalization of the first date of Barack and Michelle Obama. It premiered earlier this year at Sundance, where it got good reviews, and the first trailer was released yesterday. It looks cute as hell. It By Sarah • Apr 29, 2016 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Young Jakey Jake Gyllenhaal is currently shooting Stronger, based on Jeff Bauman’s story, one of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Here he is in character and costume on set yesterday…. SO young, right? With the hair and no beard, he’s easily 10 years younger than he actually is. By Lainey • Apr 28, 2016 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Understatement: Sarah didn’t like Mother’s Day I am not a mother. I am not qualified to speak to the joys, trials, and triumphs of motherhood. But I have seen the movie Mother’s Day, so I know all about pain, desperation, despair, and the deep abiding shame that comes from watching silently as another human being By Sarah • Apr 28, 2016 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoe Saldana in Nina About halfway through the Nina Simone biopic, titled simply Nina, you start to feel really bad for everyone involved because there is a lot of earnestness on display. Zoe Saldana, heavily criticized for her involvement, is obviously trying very hard as Simone, and David Oyelowo, starring as Simone’s late- By Sarah • Apr 27, 2016 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep’s annual nomination is here Few things in our universe are more inevitable than Meryl Streep receiving Oscar nominations whenever she uses an accent in a film. Death, taxes, Meryl Streep accent Oscars—these are the immutable forces of our universe. And now Streep is back with her latest accent, which is a combination of By Sarah • Apr 27, 2016 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A lot of Kate Does it feel to you like Kate Hudson has been on a non-stop promotional tour the entire year? She’s never not everywhere. And yesterday she was at Kimmel. When I saw these pictures of her my first thought was… What now? The book was out a month ago. By Lainey • Apr 27, 2016 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews “Suit up” It’s such a cheesy f-cking expression, “Suit up”. And I LOVE IT SO MUCH. But that’s probably because I love the Avengers. If skeevy Superman Henry Cavill were saying it to skeevy Batman Ben Affleck, I’d probably feel differently. Captain America: (the Avengers) Civil War opens By Lainey • Apr 26, 2016 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt & Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins I cannot tell you how much this casting delights me. I never think of Emily Blunt as being super-British, which is ridiculous because of course she’s British and also how do you gauge the Brit-ness of someone? But I guess, as opposed to Adele or Stella McCartney By Duana • Apr 26, 2016 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elizabeth Banks is a pretty weed Elizabeth Banks is currently filming the Power Rangers movie, because we live in a world where a big-budget Power Rangers movie exists. Here she is on set as the villain, Rita Repulsa. She looks like a pretty, pretty weed, the very prettiest of all the weeds in the flower By Sarah • Apr 26, 2016 11:03 am
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, 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 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 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 By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 11:05 am
