TV Updates You Were Just a Conquest How much did you love Cruel Intentions? It is the big sister to Gossip Girl – privilege, horny teens and backstabbing on the Upper East Side. And it had some pop culture lasting power – the coke in the crucifix, Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar’s kiss, the journal reveal. Also, By Maria • Feb 25, 2016 11:32 am
Amazingness The only honest Oscar ballot you need to care about Today is a gift that keeps on giving. First it was Mariah Carey’s DIY wheelchair situation, and now it’s one of those “honest Oscar voter” ballots that have become a cottage industry over the last few years in the industry trades. This one comes courtesy The Hollywood Reporter, By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 03:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay goes full-Disney None of this half-Disney Marvel sh*t, Ava DuVernay has decided that if she’s going work for a corporate machine, she’s going to work for Disney itself, the corporatiest, machiniest one of all. Yesterday Deadline reported that DuVernay will direct an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 10:22 am
Douchebags Casey Affleck went Joaquin Phoenix on Stephen Colbert I texted Lainey the other night after seeing Casey Affleck’s new movie, Triple 9, that I think he might have A Moment coming. She agreed, but then he went on Late Night with Stephen Colbert to promote the movie and had an awkward interview, and she was like, maybe By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan & Octavia Ryan Coogler was honoured by the American Black Film Festival the other night with the Rising Star Award. The award was presented to him by Octavia Spencer who he directed in Fruitvale Station. People keep saying that Ryan is an emerging talent. I feel like he’s kinda arrived now, By Lainey • Feb 23, 2016 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sacha Baron Cohen in underpants Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, Grimsby—unnecessarily retitled The Brothers Grimsby in the US—opens in the UK this weekend, a couple weeks before it opens here in North America. So there was a premiere in London and, as he is wont to do, SBC showed up in character By Sarah • Feb 23, 2016 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The First Monday In May What is it? One of the best nights in gossip – the MET Gala. And now it’s a film. The First Monday In May was shot last year leading up to and during the MET Gala, with Anna Wintour’s full cooperation, and will open the Tribeca Film Festival in By Lainey • Feb 23, 2016 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hunt for the Wilderpeople is on and Taika Waititi is here Taika Waititi’s last film, What We Do in the Shadows, was one of my favorites of last year—and goddamn, it just keeps getting better with re-watches—and this year he’s got a new movie that looks destined for future top ten lists, too. Hunt for the Wilderpeople By Sarah • Feb 22, 2016 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner 2 to be executed in January 2018 Last year it was announced that Blade Runner 2 is happening and Denis Villeneuve will be directing, with Harrison Ford set to return as Deckard, and now Ryan Gosling is in it, too. The film will shoot later this summer, and it was announced yesterday that it will be released By Sarah • Feb 19, 2016 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fulbright Scholar humiliated in cruel movie prank Fulbright Scholar and noted chemical engineer Dolph Lundgren is the victim of a recent prank in which a person is hired to star in a movie, and then that movie turns out to be Kindergarten Cop 2, a direct-to-digital sequel of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Kindergarten Cop. Lundgren, who By Sarah • Feb 18, 2016 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julianne Moore may be a lady-villain, too Last year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service was 99% of a good movie, which featured Colin Firth in a second-act makeover role as a suave English spy and action hero. The movie was successful enough to justify a sequel which is slated to shoot later this summer, but since Firth By Sarah • Feb 18, 2016 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson in How to Be Single How to Be Single is a romantic comedy so bad I’m shocked it doesn’t star Chris Evans. This movie’s idea of romance is only appealing to narcissists, and it’s sex-positive attitude is mere lipstick on a heteronormative ideal where every woman secretly wants babies and marriage By Sarah • Feb 18, 2016 11:49 am
Media Manipulation Katie Holmes & Ryan Reynolds: Together Again... Again.... There’s something to be said for talk show chemistry. Katie Holmes believes Joshua Jackson was a better kisser than James Van Der Beek, but we wouldn’t know this if not for Ryan Reynolds. Katie and Ryan were both on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night, By Joanna • Feb 18, 2016 10:55 am
Gorgessity Tessa Thompson for Rodarte I was so happy to see Tessa Thompson at the Rodarte show yesterday sitting front row. You know Tessa now because you’ve seen Creed, right? TELL ME YOU’VE SEEN CREED. I will also accept the answer, “I’ve not seen Creed but I saw Dear White People”. Tessa By Lainey • Feb 17, 2016 05:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in Zoolander 2 The first time I saw Zoolander I didn’t like it, but it grew on me after multiple viewings, so after I saw Zoolander 2 and did not like it, I actually went back the next day and tried it again. Maybe it just needed to grow on me so By Sarah • Feb 15, 2016 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rising Star gets back to work John Boyega won the BAFTA Rising Star Award last night. And he was dressed for it, looking sharp in a black velvet suit. I love his reaction when he got up to collect his trophy – a wide open-mouthed WHOA! as he was buttoning up his jacket. Understandable, non? He was By Lainey • Feb 15, 2016 11:52 am
