Baby and Bump Obsession Brangeless Oscars Some people were wondering whether or not Brad Pitt would be at the Oscars since he’s a producer on The Big Short. It was a Brangeless Oscars. And many of you have written to say that this year’s Oscars were short on big glamour, big excitement. Did that By Lainey • Mar 03, 2016 03:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who you gonna call? NuGhostbusters! After what feels like a long wait—but really, they’re right on schedule, it’s just that we’re paying SO MUCH attention to this movie—the first trailer for the all-lady Ghostbusters is here, and it’s pretty great. Just watched the trailer for Bridesmaidsbusters. For the By Sarah • Mar 03, 2016 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman in Eddie the Eagle The second of three Olympic-themed movies coming down the pipe—sandwiched in between Race and The Bronze—Eddie the Eagle is a charming crowd-pleaser about a perpetual loser who games the system to become an Olympian. It’s too loosey-goosey with the facts to count as a By Sarah • Mar 03, 2016 10:40 am
Media Manipulation Michael Keaton goes for 3 in a row Spotlight won Best Picture on Sunday at the Oscars. It was one of my top films coming out of TIFF. Yes for Spotlight. Last year Birdman was Best Picture. So that's two in a row for Michael Keaton. Will it be three? Michael's next major role By Lainey • Mar 02, 2016 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Exclusive - Gwyneth Paltrow NOT in Captain America: Civil War Last week Empire magazine ran their Captain America: Civil War issue and it included the news that Gwyneth Paltrow had filmed a “small but key role” as Pepper Potts during the additional photography in January and would be included in the movie. However, I have since heard that she is By Sarah • Mar 02, 2016 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in the ridiculous Gods of Egypt Director Alex Proyas recently posted a screed on Facebook in which he rails against film critics and film criticism, saying things like, “…contrary to what a critic should probably be they have no personal taste or opinion, because they are basing their views on the status quo.” Proyas is unhappy By Sarah • Mar 02, 2016 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey win The Dark Tower lottery Stephen King’s Gunslinger series—which spans books, short stories, and comic books—is finally coming to the big screen after a long and convoluted development process that saw it pass through JJ Abrams and Ron Howard, who wanted to do a film franchise/TV series combo to tell the By Sarah • Mar 01, 2016 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Katie Holmes serves ice cream Katie Holmes was photographed backstage at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday serving Breyer’s ice cream in a blue wrap dress for reasons unknown. Seriously. Take a look at these photos and explain to me how they make any sense. This is a night that celebrates the best in By Joanna • Mar 01, 2016 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Gritty Cop Drama Boasting an impressive cast that includes Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, and Kate Winslet, Gritty Cop Drama is exactly the kind of gritty cop drama you get sucked into watching on cable on a Saturday afternoon. It’s got just enough going on under the By Sarah • Feb 26, 2016 02:00 pm
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 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
