Movie Reviews and Previews The awakening of John and Daisy Sarah is American and I feel bad asking her to write a Star Wars post on her Thanksgiving break so you’re stuck with me for this Star Wars article. Another TV spot was released yesterday. At first I was like, Jesus, does Star Wars really need to build all By Lainey • Nov 27, 2015 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Antonio Banderas in The 33 In 2010, the world was captivated by the real life drama of thirty-three Chilean miners trapped underground in a collapsed gold and copper mine. Sixty-nine days later a miracle was achieved when all thirty-three men were rescued, starved but alive. Interviews, television appearances, and books followed, and By Sarah • Nov 26, 2015 02:39 pm
Xenu Will Smith for President? Will Smith is promoting Concussion. He’s been featured in multiple interviews this week and, unfortunately, most of them don’t feature Samuel L Jackson. Concussion is the true story of neuropathologist Dr Bennet Omalu’s work exposing what playing American style football can do a player’s brain based By Lainey • Nov 26, 2015 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Why not Olivia Wilde? Olivia Wilde is not just underrated, her talents are undervalued. That's my takeaway from watching her latest indie, Meadowland, about a mother struggling with a cloud of grief and guilt one year after her son's abduction. Think Rabbit Hole, but less bougie and with a smaller By Joanna • Nov 26, 2015 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia Roberts in Secret in Their Eyes In 2010 Argentinian thriller El Secreto de Sus Ojos won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, beating out A Prophet and The White Ribbon. It also did very good business for a subtitled import, topping $6 million at the box office, which means it found a considerable audience in By Sarah • Nov 25, 2015 01:14 pm
Faux Gossip Tom Cruise vs. The Mummy We have a little bit of a trade war going on over Tom Cruise. Yesterday, Variety reported that Cruise was in talks to star in a reboot of the Brendan Fraser classic, The Mummy. Universal plans to use The Mummy reboot to launch a Marvel-style cinematic universe around their By Sarah • Nov 25, 2015 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America: Civil War – Whose side are you on? In a surprise move, Marvel dropped the first trailer for Captain America: Civil War last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live (thanks to some Grade-A studio f*ckery, expect to see a new trailer from DC soon, too). Trying to keep up with their bosses’ brinksmanship may drive everyone at By Sarah • Nov 25, 2015 10:28 am
Media Manipulation No one else is in the ring The Revenant has been screening in LA for Academy members the last few days and the response has been very, very positive. As you know, The Revenant is Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to Birdman, the reigning Best Picture. As you know, the shoot was difficult, it was delayed, By Lainey • Nov 25, 2015 09:54 am
Amazingness Mimi Regina George Whatever you do today, find a minute and a half to watch what I’m about to post. Please. I promise it’ll make the sh-t you’re dealing with go away, just for a while. Here are the facts, before we begin: 1.Mimi owns Christmas. 2.Mimi By Lainey • Nov 24, 2015 04:40 pm
Xenu How Will presents Will Have you read The Hollywood Reporter Actors Roundtable transcript that I mentioned this morning yet? Beyond the humour courtesy of Sam Jackson, there’s a lot of insight here, specifically from Will Smith, about Will Smith. It’s in his answer to being asked why he decided not to be By Lainey • Nov 24, 2015 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy is BANANAS in Legend Unfortunately, the movie does not live up to the totally insane bar that Tom Hardy is setting. In Legend Hardy stars as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, a pair of Cockney gangster twins in the London of the swinging 1960s. Reggie Kray is relatively straight-laced, the twin with the business By Sarah • Nov 24, 2015 03:19 pm
Bad Style Not the visual I had in mind Like many of you, I thought I’d want to see a photo of Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling side by side. At one time, I thought that might be photo I could add to my spank bank. Right now, my spank bank consists mostly of Charlie Hunnam. Sometimes a By Lainey • Nov 24, 2015 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Understated Alicia Vikander Alicia Vikander will be considered among the best actresses for contention at the Golden Globes even though the studio has been campaigning for her to be in the supporting actress category. While it's still not known whether or not the Academy will just go with whatever the studios By Lainey • Nov 23, 2015 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amber Heard's Oscar hopes Wait before you laugh. I'm not saying she's going to be nominated. But Johnny Depp is one of the favourites for a nomination this season for his performance in Black Mass. Which he claims he doesn't want to win. But the nomination? He' By Lainey • Nov 23, 2015 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Events with Irina Bradley Cooper’s Burnt was not well received by critics or at the box office. If he’s going to show up during award season then, it’ll be for David O Russell’s Joy. And he’s been nominated the two previous times that David O’Russell’s directed By Lainey • Nov 20, 2015 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scrooged…but with drugs Every year someone tries to make an insta-classic holiday comedy, and almost every year, they fail. We’ve already had one such failure this year, but the other attempt at making a long-lasting holiday comedy, The Night Before is actually the rare exception—a holiday comedy that not By Sarah • Nov 20, 2015 01:19 pm
