Movie Reviews and Previews Leo gains Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender, is not doing well at the box office. Variety published a piece this week analysing its underwhelming performance and one of the reasons might be that Michael Fassbender, while excellent in the role, doesn’t have the star power to draw the kind of audience By Lainey • Oct 28, 2015 06:13 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie travels + 4 Angelina Jolie arrived at LAX yesterday with her four oldest children, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh, after spending some time scouting locations in Cambodia for her upcoming Netflix project. Not that much luggage, right? Wondering if their bags travelled separately with assistants. If you’ve been reading this blog long By Lainey • Oct 28, 2015 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jem and the Holograms is an empty nothing of a non-movie Jem and the Holograms, the movie, has as much to do with the 1980s cartoon Jem and the Holograms as a Youtube video of housecats has to do with Thundercats. If you are a fan of the cartoon Jem, don’t bother with the movie as you will only make By Sarah • Oct 27, 2015 04:05 pm
Sit DOWN Jared Leto is ruining The Joker And not because he looks like a Juggalo or because I think he’ll do a bad job of it, but just because every time Jared Leto talks about ANYTHING, I want to punch him in the face. He’s so far up his own f*cking ass it’s By Sarah • Oct 27, 2015 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandra Bullock in Our Brand Is Crisis Full-disclosure: I produced an exclusive 30-minute special with Sandra Bullock and the cast of Our Brand is Crisis at TIFF, which you can watch here. Some behind-the-scenes details are below. Our Brand is Crisis may as well be retitled “Our Brand is Sandra (Bullock).” Much like The Martian and Matt By Joanna • Oct 27, 2015 01:22 pm
Shoes Michelle Williams: boots and bangs I miss Michelle Williams. It’s been a quiet couple of years of her, by choice. Her last film, Suite Francaise, was released only in Europe, not in North America, though it was reasonably well received. I guess they just couldn’t find a distributor who thought that audiences over By Lainey • Oct 27, 2015 12:12 pm
Royals Royal Bond The Bond premiere is happening right now in London. I’ll post photos of the cast tomorrow. Right now, we’ll focus on the royals, because the princes William and Harry were there along with Princess Catherine, all of them attending their second official engagement of the day. Click here By Lainey • Oct 26, 2015 05:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Murray in Rock the Kasbah Not even Bill Murray’s benevolent-wizard persona could save Rock the Kasbah, a movie so baffling, so bad—so bafflingly bad—that it evokes the specter of Ishtar more than once. This is such an ill-advised, tone deaf movie I don’t even know where to start. I guess with By Sarah • Oct 26, 2015 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley & Irina in Paris Bradley Cooper’s new film, Burnt, opens on Friday. So far the reviews have not been that good. It’s Halloween weekend too. Like if anyone’s going to the movies, I’m not sure that’s the movie they’re choosing, not when Steve Jobs continues to build buzz By Lainey • Oct 26, 2015 12:02 pm
Amazingness Ava DuVernay like a BOSS Ava DuVernay was honored this year as part of Elle’s annual Women In Hollywood awards, and she gave an AMAZING speech at their awards dinner. The whole thing is well worth a read, but there are a couple highlights that tie into some of the particular issues surrounding diversity By Sarah • Oct 26, 2015 10:12 am
Break Ups Trouble for Emma & Andrew? Everyone thought Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield broke up earlier this year when he was away in Asia shooting a movie for Martin Scorsese. Those rumours ended up being bullsh-t when he was seen with her as soon as he got home. They spent the summer together in LA. And By Lainey • Oct 26, 2015 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Vin Diesel in the hysterically awful The Last Witch Hunter Vin Diesel is, somewhat improbably, a huge fantasy dork. He’s a long-time player of Dungeons & Dragons—no, seriously— and he’s even written the foreword for a book about D&D. So it’s not surprising that he’s the star of a D&D knock-off By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 04:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell and Marky Mark are going to get KILLED by the Force As Lainey mentioned, I don’t think anything opening on December 18 or December 25—Christmas falls on a Friday this year, which means the holiday weekend will be extra-huge box office—has any chance of competing with New New Star Wars. The Oscar-bait movies have an out, though, because By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t forget about Batfleck Lainey said this week was supposed to be about the Brange, but then Adele said “Hello” and the takeover belongs to Adele. A similar thing happened for nerds this week, too, as we were set up for a big profile on Superhero Face Punch courtesy Total Film magazine, but then By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 01:36 pm
Maple Leaf George & Amal before Crisis Our Brand Is Crisis opens next week. The Hollywood premiere is on Monday. As you know, George Clooney is one of the producers. Check him out with Amal yesterday after lunch in Beverly Hills with David Milliband, a British politician. Do I have to care about this? Clooney told reporters By Lainey • Oct 23, 2015 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jane finally got a gun Two years ago Natalie Portman’s vanity project, Jane Got a Gun, ran into a lot of problems. After a hella troubled period that saw the original director, Lynn Ramsay, leave the project on the first day of production, followed by leading man Jude Law, and then a slew of By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 12:51 pm
