Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Coogler for Grownups While Sly Stallone was celebrating his Oscar nomination, his director, Ryan Coogler, who was not recognised by the Academy, was at the AARP Awards as Creed was named Best Intergenerational Movie. How’s that for diversity? He not only gave us a new Rocky, with a black future, but also By Lainey • Feb 09, 2016 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rocky & Alicia You’re looking at what could be the Best Supporting Actor and Actress at the Oscars on February 28th. Sylvester Stallone and Alicia Vikander were both at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon yesterday and then at The Hollywood Reporter party afterwards. Sly seems to be in the lead right now in By Lainey • Feb 09, 2016 01:39 pm
Maple Leaf Rachel’s award season It was a busy weekend for Rachel McAdams. She was at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on Friday. On Saturday she was with Spotlight director Tom McCarthy at the Directors Guild Awards. And then yesterday she was at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon to celebrate her first nomination. This is not By Lainey • Feb 09, 2016 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Forget Revenant Bear, now we have Bill Murray Bear And isn’t that the best of all fake computer movie bears? A new trailer for Jon Favreau’s update of The Jungle Book was released as part of the Super Bowl Trailer Apocalypse, and goddamn this movie looks gorgeous. Watch the new trailer and keep in mind two things: By Sarah • Feb 09, 2016 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Teasing and torturing Leonardo DiCaprio It was decided weeks and weeks ago – Leonardo DiCaprio will win Best Actor for being cold in The Revenant. Everybody knows this. Everyone in his category knows this. Even science knows this. Have you seen the Best Actor analysis on FiveThirtyEight? There’s basically no way he can lose at By Lainey • Feb 09, 2016 11:28 am
Maple Leaf Ryan & Blake for Deadpool Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool opens on Friday. Reviews so far have been pretty good. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago – click here for a refresher – I’m not sure he’s worked as hard at promotion as he has on this press tour. It feels like there’s By Lainey • Feb 09, 2016 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years How well do you know your partner? How well do you think you would—or could—know them, if given forty-five years together? Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is a film about marriage but concerned with knowing, and it is a devastating, slow-motion vivisection of a marriage shaken by knowledge. By Sarah • Feb 09, 2016 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t forget about the X-Men! Sunday’s Super Bowl Trailer Apocalypse also included a new TV spot for X-Men: Apocalypse, the superhero movie I can never seem to remember is coming out this summer. I’m sure this movie will be fine and that it will make a bunch of money, but doesn’t it By Sarah • Feb 09, 2016 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Bourne’s Fight Club The Super Bowl Trailer Apocalypse continues with the first look at Matt Damon’s return as Jason Bourne, in a movie creatively titled Jason Bourne. That is a seriously sh*t title, but I suppose after making an off-brand Bourne movie without Jason, they need to remind everyone that THIS By Sarah • Feb 08, 2016 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Josh Brolin in Hail, Caesar! After my review of The Choice, which I hated, I got a slew of “why do you even review movies if you hate everything” emails, including one from a person who suggested that I just “try and put a positive spin” on my reviews. Well, to make up for my By Sarah • Feb 08, 2016 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews New Captain Ameri—He shot Tony Stark IN THE FACE! I’m just assuming Lainey is Team Iron Man because Tony Stark is her favorite Avenger, so she’s probably not going to be Team Winter Soldier at all because the new Captain America: Civil War Super Bowl TV spot shows Bucky Barnes firing a gun point-blank in Tony Stark’ By Sarah • Feb 08, 2016 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Nicholas Sparks White People Experience Have you ever seen a beer commercial and looked at all the happy, smiling white people of above-average attractiveness and apparently unlimited income frolicking on a beach or at a barbecue and thought, Gosh, I wish that was my life? Well now you can! Yes, it’s true, YOU can By Sarah • Feb 05, 2016 10:41 am
Xenu Is Xenu coming for Cuba Gooding Jr? Cuba Gooding Jr is currently promoting The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story. Did you watch it on Tuesday? Ratings were big. Anyway, Cuba was on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last night and was asked about Tom Cruise, with whom he worked in A Few Good By Lainey • Feb 05, 2016 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine and Casey Affleck in The Finest Hours The second maritime disaster movie in as many months, following December’s In the Heart of the Sea, The Finest Hours, like that other movie, did not have a terribly impressive opening weekend. That’s consistent with Sea, suggesting that people don’t really have an appetite for boat movies By Sarah • Feb 04, 2016 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Millennials: The Movie A trailer was just released for a movie starring Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick called Get A Job. It’s about a couple of college grads struggling to get by in a dicey job market and with a crushing burden of student loan debt, but with a rom-com spin. There’ By Sarah • Feb 03, 2016 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt’s calisthenics This is Brad Pitt, a few days ago, shooting War Machine in Paris. His character is going for a run. This film is for Netflix and has been described as a “satirical comedy”. These are the first photos I’ve seen that suggest it. Brad Pitt has a great gait. By Lainey • Feb 03, 2016 01:26 pm
