Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 12, 2016 Dear Gossips, HBO released a batch of new photos for the upcoming season of Game Of Thrones yesterday. I’ve attached a few below and to see more click here. Why does the Khaleesi look so hesitant and unsure of herself in all of these shots? This worries me. On By Lainey • Feb 12, 2016 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily James in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Well, I will give this credit to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the second adaptation of a Seth Grahame-Smith concept novel—it is not nearly as bad as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. That movie is a f*cking disaster. PPZ is just stupid and boring. It’s neither a By Sarah • Feb 11, 2016 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Batman v. Batman: Dawn of Batman We’re six weeks away from Superhero Face Punch finally hitting theaters, after what feels like a five-year build up, which means now is when the marketing kicks into high gear. We’ve been fed a steady diet of this movie, but now we’ve arrived at the buffet, By Sarah • Feb 11, 2016 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize in red Charlize Theron has kept a very low profile for months. You’ll recall, last year she broke up with Sean Penn, supposedly cutting him off abruptly. Then it was confirmed that she’d adopted daughter August. For the last few weeks she’s been in Europe shooting The Coldest City. By Lainey • Feb 10, 2016 04:04 pm
Break Ups Idris is single? Idris Elba did not attend the Golden Globes this year. Two years ago, however, he was there with Naiyana Garth and she was pregnant with their son. Idris took his daughter Isan to the SAGs a couple of weeks ago. And I guess that tipped off the UK tabloids because By Lainey • Feb 10, 2016 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nearly Naked Tom Hiddleston A new trailer for Tom Hiddleston’s next film, High Rise, came out yesterday and it expands on the previous glimpse of Nearly Naked Sunbathing Tom Hiddleston with Nearly Naked Standing & Talking Tom Hiddleston. This is what I mean about this movie baiting the super enthusiastic internet fandom surrounding By Sarah • Feb 10, 2016 01:32 pm
Bad Style Jen on the Sandy road to Oscar? Jennifer Aniston joined Justin Theroux at the NY premiere of Zoolander No 2 last night. He also walked down the red carpet runway in character as Evil DJ. As for Jen, it was announced recently that she’ll be producing and starring in a new movie called The Fixer, based By Lainey • Feb 10, 2016 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp to disappear in a pile of scarves Let’s start with a sidebar—this morning Funny Or Die posted a fifty-minute video called The Art of the Deal: The Movie, which is a “TV movie” from the 1980s based on Donald Trump’s book of the same name, which stars “Donald Trump” as played by a By Sarah • Feb 10, 2016 11:32 am
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds’s (singing) game Deadpool opens on Friday. So does Zoolander 2. Promotion has been heavy on both movies. Ryan Reynolds, in particular, has been hustling like we’ve never seen him hustle. And without being gross about it. He’s doing his job and he looks like he’s having a great time By Lainey • Feb 10, 2016 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominees talk about the importance of their nominations Award season roundtables are all the rage now, and Vulture is getting in on the action with a roundtable discussion featuring eight Oscar nominees, including Alicia Vikander, Bryan Cranston, and screenwriting nominees Phyllis Nagy (Carol) and Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton). During the discussion, the importance of nominations came up, By Sarah • Feb 10, 2016 10:00 am
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
