Movie Reviews and Previews Is Daisy Ridley a giant? Star Wars: The Force Awakens won Best Movie of 2015 + Deadpool at the MTV Movie Awards last night, which is unsurprising. It’s a popularity contest and that was the biggest movie last year. JJ Abrams and Daisy Ridley, taking a break from shooting Episode VIII, were on hand to By Sarah • Apr 11, 2016 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews MTV Meatballs Dwayne The Rock Johnson’s body isn’t what attracts me to him. That kind of brawn has never been my thing. What I like about The Rock is his sense of humour. He knows what you think of him. He doesn’t pretend to be anything else. Also, he By Lainey • Apr 11, 2016 12:35 pm
Quiveration Ryan Reynolds is MTV Hot Dad Ryan Reynolds showed up at the MTV Movie Awards to collect an award for Best Comedic Performance and Best Fight (with Ed Skrein) for Deadpool, which apparently now counts as a 2015 movie. He got a very hype entrance with a bunch of dancing Deadpools and Salt-N-Pepa performing By Sarah • Apr 11, 2016 11:51 am
Harry Potter I want to go to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Eddie Redmayne, the human equivalent of the puppy who most wants to be adopted, also turned up at the MTV Movie Awards, to debut the first trailer from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Holy sh*t, you guys. It looks GREAT. It’s not like we had any By Sarah • Apr 11, 2016 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Chrises give advice The Captain America: Civil War junket happened this weekend which means it was screened for press. Early reviews have been very, very strong. The comparisons to Batman v Superman have been inevitable. The Avengers are fighting each other, just like Batman and Superman fought each other. So it’s worthwhile By Lainey • Apr 11, 2016 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! If I could ask Richard Linklater one question, it would be: Why two exclamation points? Not one, not three—two. That’s weirdly specific, and Linklater is a filmmaker of deliberate choices, so I’d like to know why two exclamation points? The curiously punctuated Everybody Wants Some!! is Linklater’ By Sarah • Apr 08, 2016 01:50 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Melissa McCarthy will return to Gilmore Girls Or Stars Hollow… is that what it’s called? I can hear Duana making sounds from wherever she is, getting ready to puff up and school me. Because, no, I haven’t started watching it yet, OK? I’m sorry. I was supposed to over the Christmas holidays but Making By Lainey • Apr 08, 2016 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rogue One …and Rey’s mom? The first trailer for Rogue One, the first “Star Wars Story” spin-off of the rebooted universe, is here and it’s pretty f*cking metal. From the piano breakdown of the Star Wars’ theme to the shots of the Death Star, Stormtroopers, AT-ATs, and those familiar orange flight By Sarah • Apr 07, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Shannon in Midnight Special Midnight Special has something in common with 10 Cloverfield Lane—you don’t want to know too much about this movie going in. The whole narrative is structured for discovery, and it unfolds with a real sense of wonder we don’t get to feel much at the movies anymore. By Sarah • Apr 07, 2016 10:01 am
Media Manipulation Ben’s next climb Ben Affleck stepped out yesterday. Some photo agencies are saying he was leaving the therapist’s. Gives me a great excuse to write about how he’s going to heal his latest cycle of shame. Sarah posted in the previous article about Warner Bros’ plans and that there’s been By Lainey • Apr 06, 2016 03:49 pm
Media Manipulation And so the Warner Bros. shuffle begins After the antipathetic public reaction to Superhero Face Punch, it seemed inevitable that Warner Brothers would have to make some changes to their plans for the DC Extended Universe, which is what they’re calling their cinematic universe. But they stuck with Zack Snyder as the director of The Justice By Sarah • Apr 06, 2016 03:06 pm
Xenu Tom’s Mummy Tom Cruise has started working on The Mummy reboot. Check him out on set in London last night with Annabelle Wallis. He looks intense, as usual. Question: are you getting a Kelly McGillis vibe from her here? I ask this because you could have seen it once, right? Maybe you By Lainey • Apr 06, 2016 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Dano and DanRad’s farting corpse Swiss Army Man screened at Sundance to mixed reviews. It stars Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe as two guys stranded on an island, except one of them is dead. People who love it, really love it; people who hate it can’t seem to get past the fart jokes. The By Sarah • Apr 05, 2016 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alec & Scott It was reported yesterday that Alec Baldwin and Scott Eastwood will be starring together in an independent film called Crown Vic. They’ll play cops in LA dealing with sh-t in their personal lives while investigating a couple of cop killers. Lethal Weapon 3? Right. So Scott Eastwood. Is By Lainey • Apr 05, 2016 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Marky or Jakey? Who would you rather watch on the big screen: Mark Wahlberg or Jake Gyllenhaal? It does not need to be a mutually exclusive choice, but it's worth noting the two are both shooting separate movies relating to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings in Massachusetts. Mark's movie By Joanna • Apr 05, 2016 10:40 am
Amazingness Melissa’s moves Melissa McCarthy is currently promoting The Boss. The movie opens this weekend. I’ve attached the restricted trailer below. Did you see Spy last summer? I hope so. Spy is a great comedy. It gets funnier every time you watch it. And the reason it works so well is on By Lainey • Apr 05, 2016 09:59 am
