Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch IS Doctor Strange Back in December we got our first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in costume as Stephen Strange for Doctor Strange. It was a really good look. And now, thanks to outdoors, on location filming in New York City over the weekend, we can see Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor in full costume, By Sarah • Apr 04, 2016 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Face Punch is crashing Batman v Superman is still making a ton of dough, crossing $680 million worldwide, but at the rate it’s dropping, it really might not break the much-needed $1 billion. Superhero Face Punch was expected to suffer a big drop in its second week in release, and it landed By Sarah • Apr 04, 2016 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Huntsman people stand next to magnificent owl Look at this gorgeous and magnificent snowy owl, so wise, so still. It sits peaceably, suffering the presence of these peasanty humans who dare stand near it. It even bears the hand of Chris Hemsworth, human peasant, who reaches toward its majesty and splendor with his dull human hand. No By Sarah • Mar 31, 2016 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Still a knucklehead? Buzzfeed’s Anne Helen Petersen wrote a great piece about How Jennifer Garner Went Full MiniVan Majority tracking her career from Alias to Miracles From Heaven. Thank you, Anne, for the LaineyGossip mentions in the article. I came up with that expression almost 10 years ago and, at the time, By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Five Seconds with Brad and Marion Brange has been living in London lately because Brad Pitt is shooting a film there with Marion Cotillard. Seems they’ve finally decided on a title: Five Seconds Of Silence which is, um, exactly the same letters as Five Seconds Of Summer – 5SOS. You know, the boy band. Oh, sorry, By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 09:59 am
Media Manipulation Reese Witherspoon bails, Kristen Wiig jumps in Before she was a lifestyle guru—or whatever the hell she’s doing with Draper James—before she was a Minivan maven, and before she was Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon was Tracy Flick. For some, despite the popularity of Elle and the romance of Annette in Cruel Intentions, this is By Sarah • Mar 30, 2016 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum’s Gambit movie is off (again) One of the more beleaguered superhero projects in development is Channing Tatum’s solo Gambit movie, a Deadpool-like spin-off of Fox’s X-Men universe. I’m on the record thinking this is a terrible idea because Gambit is a dumb f*cking superhero, and it would seem By Sarah • Mar 30, 2016 09:45 am
Media Manipulation Tom Hiddleston making the rounds Tom Hiddleston’s new movie, I Saw the Light, opened last weekend but hardly anyone noticed amidst the bat-noise of Superhero Face Punch. But Hiddleston did his duty and promoted the movie, making several talk show appearances and being visible. As I noted before, this is not the same By Sarah • Mar 29, 2016 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beefcake Ezra Miller Ezra Miller is about to get to work on The Justice League Part One, in which he stars as The Flash. If you saw Superhero Face Punch over the weekend, you saw him in a cameo as out-of-costume Barry Allen, as well as a super-confusing dream sequence By Sarah • Mar 28, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone’s quiet work La La Land, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, was recently pushed back to December, making it a possible awards season contender. By the time it comes out then, it’ll have been 18 months since we’ve seen Emma Stone in theatres. It’s been 6 months now that By Lainey • Mar 28, 2016 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Face Punch gets it done It wasn’t pretty and it will be debated forever, but Superhero Face Punch hauled in $424.1 million worldwide this weekend, with an estimated $170.1 million coming domestically, breaking The Hunger Games’ pre-summer record. If the movie paces like The Dark Knight Rises did in 2012, it By Sarah • Mar 28, 2016 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay to direct epic 70s fashion film When Ava DuVernay books a new job, I swell with pride like I know her personally. I don’t. She’s just my imaginary mentor/ bestie. So when news broke this week that Ava would be directing The Battle of Versailles, a film about the real-life epic fashion showdown By Kathleen • Mar 24, 2016 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Wonder Woman’s three moms There is a brief feature on Wonder Woman in Entertainment Weekly this week, since she is one of the best parts of Superhero Face Punch—and the only element that successfully generates excitement for a future movie. So let’s take a look at Wonder Woman along with the three By Sarah • Mar 24, 2016 01:44 pm
Amazingness Chris Pratt being Chris Pratt A reader named Catherine sent us a link to Chris Pratt’s Facebook with the subject line “Pratt being Pratt”. He’s auctioning off a chance to win a trip to the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 set through Omaze—you can find out more here if you’re By Sarah • Mar 24, 2016 11:40 am
Style Don Cheadle & Ewan McGregor Ewan McGregor at the Miles Ahead premiere in New York. This is Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis passion project and directorial debut. Sarah wrote about the trailer a few weeks ago – click here for a refresher. The film opens next week. But is it the film that Don wanted to By Lainey • Mar 24, 2016 10:09 am
Quiveration Jakey’s 90s boyband hair How many actors in Hollywood have Jake Gyllenhaal hair envy right now? Did you see him on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week though? They did this (too long) sketch where they spat at each other the whole time and his hair, which has grown quite a By Lainey • Mar 23, 2016 05:21 pm
