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
Movie Reviews and Previews The NuGhostbusters have names now A new website for Ghostbusters launched today, and it includes character portraits of the new, all-female team, and their hot male secretary. You can check out the photos below, and if anyone can explain how to make my hair be like Kate McKinnon’s, please do. I want to be By Sarah • Feb 03, 2016 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Guardians of the Galaxy gets the band back together Captain America: Civil War is entering the last stages of production, Doctor Strange is currently shooting in London, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has just gotten underway this week in Atlanta. Last year, the Marvel rank and file got a little downtime as they had a lull between By Sarah • Feb 03, 2016 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Constance heading to Alaska…then Sundance? Variety reported exclusively yesterday that Fresh Off The Boat’s Constance Wu will star in an independent film called You And Me Both, written and to be directed by Jennifer Cho Suhr, that will start shooting in the summer. “Wu will play a struggling addict who, along with her estranged By Lainey • Feb 03, 2016 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews How Don Cheadle spent his Iron Man money For years Don Cheadle has been working on a biopic of legendary musician Miles Davis, fighting not only to get the movie made—always an uphill battle—but to direct it himself. Finally, after slogging uphill through the snow both ways, Cheadle premiered his film, Miles Ahead, at Sundance. He By Sarah • Feb 02, 2016 12:56 pm
Quiveration Charlie in February Good start to the month, non? Especially since Charlie Hunnam doesn’t have anything to promote; he’s not scheduled for official appearances. Here he is yesterday with girlfriend Morgana out shopping in LA. Charlie has been in the headlines though. It was announced recently that he’s been cast By Lainey • Feb 01, 2016 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun After a famously troubled production capped off a bankruptcy-driven distributor shuffle, Jane Got a Gun, which Natalie Portman produced and stars in, has finally arrived in theaters, three years after The Troubles began (Michael Fassbender exiting the project in February 2013 turned out to be a harbinger of things to By Sarah • Feb 01, 2016 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie and Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda 3 I’m inclined to go easy on Kung Fu Panda 3 because Norm of the North is so f*cking bad, and indeed, it is better than that garbage movie. But despite some pretty flashy animation, Kung Fu Panda 3 is not especially good. It’s basically Kung Fu Panda, By Sarah • Feb 01, 2016 12:21 pm
Faux Gossip Naomi & Liev at the SAGs There’s been some noise around Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber lately. I think it’s STAR Magazine that’s been calling a breakup? No one’s paying attention, really, because it’s STAR Magazine. Naomi wasn’t with Liev at the Golden Globes. That, presumably, was why STAR decided By Lainey • Feb 01, 2016 11:34 am
TV Updates Idris Elba: “Welcome to diverse TV” Idris Elba won twice at the SAG Awards on Saturday, first for his performance in Beasts Of No Nation and then for his performance in Luther. He was also nominated, alongside his Beasts Of No Nation co-star Abraham Attah, for Best Ensemble. And while they were presenting the film together, By Lainey • Feb 01, 2016 07:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boy review: Continue waiting for The Witch I will say this for The Boy: Dolls are inherently creepy, and trees are not, so it’s already better than The Forest. I will also add this: It is not worse than Dirty Grandpa. So far, in the Annual January Movie Sh*tshow, The Boy is batting a thousand, By Sarah • Jan 29, 2016 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund in Mojave Part noir, part Western, part black comedy, part inside Hollywood drama, Mojave is a Frankenstein movie, a genre mash-up where not all parts are created equal. Garrett Hedlund stars as Tom, a filmmaker whose life and career seems to have hit rock bottom. Written and directed by William Monahan (the By Sarah • Jan 29, 2016 11:42 am
Maple Leaf Rachel & Ryan at the Oscars As mentioned earlier, Ryan Gosling was one on the Academy’s first list of presenters released yesterday. The Big Short might be making a late surge in the Oscar race. Ryan’s obviously going to support his film but also to get a head start on promoting The Nice Guys, By Lainey • Jan 29, 2016 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America gets his face kicked in Here are photos of Chris Evans and Chadwick Boseman on set for Captain America: Civil War reshoots in Los Angeles this week. Evans is sporting some serious fake bruises on his face, which means Cap is getting his ass handed to him at some point. Boseman looks fine because Black By Sarah • Jan 29, 2016 10:28 am
Douchebags Leo’s lawyers work fast Yesterday I wrote about Leonardo DiCaprio and Don’s Plum, the film he shot almost 20 years ago with his boys Tobey Maguire and Kevin Connolly that he and Tobey had blocked from North America. Click here for a refresher. As mentioned, the filmmaker decided to make Don’s Plum By Lainey • Jan 28, 2016 10:50 am
Media Manipulation Natalie Portman’s placeholder press? Natalie Portman wants you to know she’s “back,” and can also hold a tune with Sia and Jimmy Fallon. She’s doing US press for the first time since Thor: The Dark World in Nov. 2013, this time for the beleaguered, woman-centric western Jane Got a Gun that she By Joanna • Jan 28, 2016 10:23 am
