Movie Reviews and Previews New Year Cary Let’s begin today with our first 2016 sighting of Cary Fukunaga who was in New York last night to receive the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression Award for Beasts Of No Nation. Not sure if Cary will be at the Golden Globes this weekend since Beasts By Lainey • Jan 06, 2016 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 6, 2016 Dear Gossips, I was just namechecking the Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Conan ride along yesterday! (Click here for a refresher!) And then they did another one! They just posted it last night – see below. Normally if I’m not high it’s not funny to me watching other people get By Lainey • Jan 06, 2016 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult pushes for Mad Max: Fury Road Mad Max: Fury Road is the film that keeps showing up on all the “best” lists from critics to guilds to industry associations. And it was a blockbuster, even though there was so much anxiety during production about overblown budgets and production issues. Most experts seem to agree that Mad By Lainey • Jan 05, 2016 04:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The PGA loves Compton Imagine if it was the other PGA I was referring to? No, no, the people who run the golf organisation don’t have anything to do with Compton. But the Producers Guild of America has included Straight Outta Compton among the list of 10 films contending for Outstanding Motion Picture By Lainey • Jan 05, 2016 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s nomination week Kristen Stewart collected her Best Supporting Actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle yesterday for her performance in Clouds Of Sils Maria. Her friend and co-star Julianne Moore presented to her. On stage, Kristen kept her remarks short, but cheeky: “I’ve received a lot of MTV By Lainey • Jan 05, 2016 01:09 pm
Quiveration Oscar Isaac is everywhere I wrote about this a few weeks ago – click here for a refresher. This is what I was afraid of. This is what I mean when I said that I SAW HIM FIRST. You know. If you’ve been reading my blog for a few years, you know that I By Lainey • Jan 05, 2016 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hateful Eight’s last-minute Oscar push Oscar nominations are due this Friday, so there’s a lot of activity all over the place as everyone makes their last-minute pitch to get their named called on January 14, when the nominations are announced. To that end, Samuel L. Jackson and Walton Goggins were in New York By Sarah • Jan 05, 2016 11:34 am
Break Ups Gain a job, lose a Leo It was confirmed today that Kelly Rohrbach, Leo DiCaprio’s 2015 bonafide, has been cast in the Pamela Anderson role in the Baywatch movie with The Rock. Check out The Rock giving her the initiation: For our #BAYWATCH and the iconic role of "CJ Parker" I had to By Lainey • Jan 04, 2016 04:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A new year for Alexa Chung and Alexander Skarsgard I was originally intending to lump this post in with the previous one on FKA twigs and Robert Pattinson and call it a Vampire Love Update. But then I decided that was lame. Is it still lame to tell you what I decided not to do because it was lame? By Lainey • Jan 04, 2016 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alicia Vikander & Michael Fassbender: Strong together, strong apart Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender each received awards at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Saturday, but while the two walked the red carpet separately and were not photographed together at the event, they are definitely still a couple. The two also staggered their arrivals to not distract from By Joanna • Jan 04, 2016 10:59 am
BFFs Matt Damon for Ridley Scott The director-actor partnership you’ve been hearing most about during this award season has been Inarritu-DiCaprio. Alejandro is the auteur who’d only shoot in natural daylight, or something like that, and, word is, made the shoot a “living hell”, to the point where some crew members walked By Lainey • Jan 04, 2016 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston sells the speech Before the New Year, most Oscar prediction experts were in agreement that it would be Leonardo DiCaprio winning Best Actor. He will most likely win Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes on Sunday, because those dicksuckers at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association love him. But By Lainey • Jan 04, 2016 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp & “Amanda” Heard in Palm Springs As mentioned earlier, several major Oscar contenders attended the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Saturday to accept awards but, mostly, to campaign for an Oscar nomination. Palm Springs has a great recent record of honouring those who go on to Oscar consideration so, even though they require their award By Lainey • Jan 04, 2016 08:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2015 Anomalisa This is Charlie Kaufman’s sophomore directorial effort, seven years in the making and with an assist by Duke Johnson, who directed Community’s animated episodes. Anomalisa is a flat-out astounding film, where stop-motion puppets peel their faces off but also enact realistic and intimate love scenes, By Sarah • Dec 31, 2015 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender is really going for it in Assassin’s Creed Just under a year from now, Michael Fassbender will attempt to break the video game curse with an adaptation of the video game Assassin’s Creed. The film wrapped principal photography just before Christmas, so we’re starting to see images from the movie, giving us some idea of what By Sarah • Dec 30, 2015 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marky Mark is the MOST MAN in Daddy’s Home I suppose it’s only fair, since Point Break turned out to be entertaining almost in spite of itself, that the other wide-release non-Star Wars option at the cineplex this holiday season, Daddy’s Home, is exactly as bad as you think it is. At least, it’s By Sarah • Dec 30, 2015 11:23 am
