Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie’s quiet campaign Eddie Redmayne is back on the Oscar circuit this year for playing transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. His performance - which is really a textured portrayal of two different characters (Einar and Lili) who share the same internal pain - is a professional gamechanger for him. Yes, this part, By Joanna • Nov 20, 2015 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Creed era Creed opens on Wednesday just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday box office in the United States. The early reviews are solid. Actually, more than solid. Some are saying this is the best installment in the Rocky franchise since the original. Um. EXCUSE ME. Better than Rocky IV? When Rocky By Lainey • Nov 20, 2015 11:48 am
Faux Gossip Jennifer Lawrence’s big weekend There have been several big movies this year. But the movie to open “in 87 foreign territories and 33,000 screens for the largest global launch” of 2015 is Mockingjay Part 2, starring Jennifer Lawrence. Right now Mockingjay 2 is projected to bring in $125 million from North American audiences By Lainey • Nov 20, 2015 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Yes, Idris is sexy Idris Elba is in New York. Check him out, fine as f-ck, walking around in a red beanie yesterday. Earlier this week, Idris, Abraham Attah, and Cary Fukunaga were promoting Beasts Of No Nation at TimesTalks. Netflix is doing whatever they can to make these nominations happen. What didn’ By Lainey • Nov 19, 2015 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Check out Noted Satirist Jesse Eisenberg in Now You See Me 2 Yesterday Lainey wrote about Jesse Eisenberg’s, um, satirical take on film critics in The New Yorker. I recognize the type of critic he’s lampooning, so I find it halfway funny, but I also think this is how he sees all film critics, not just that particular type, and By Sarah • Nov 19, 2015 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard from the arctic to the beach Have you watched the Funny Or Die videos of Alexander Skarsgard and Jack McBrayer? It was part of Greenpeace’s Save The Arctic campaign and it’s pretty cute – and informational! Also, it’s the most I’ve been attracted to Alexander in a long, long time. The feeling is By Lainey • Nov 19, 2015 12:50 pm
Amazingness Mimi’s office space Occasionally there will be someone who emails me all huffy about my posts on Mimi, accusing me of exaggerating the Mimi. There is no exaggeration. This is a woman who travels exclusively by Rolls Royce, wheelchair, cherry picker, or the arms of her bodyguard. This is a woman who will By Lainey • Nov 18, 2015 05:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kung Fu Keanu Keanu Reeves was shooting John Wick 2 in New York last night. Have you seen John Wick? It’s SO good. It’s funny, and not in the way that Jesse Eisenberg tries to be funny in Clevertown, where the password is an inside joke and inclusivity is an infectious By Lainey • Nov 18, 2015 04:51 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy The future of the SMA If PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive brand is not attracting the high level movie stars that it used to then what is the future of the SMA? May I present…. Scott Eastwood. You know, the guy who said that he wasn’t interested in Fifty Shades Of Grey because script By Lainey • Nov 18, 2015 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Okay, I’m on board with Zoolander 2 The first teaser for Zoolander 2 did not get me excited, but a proper trailer has arrived and it’s hilarious. I’m sold. Zoolander 2 was not a movie I knew I wanted, but now that I have seen this trailer, I totally want this movie right now. Fourteen By Sarah • Nov 18, 2015 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Coulda been Jakey Here’s Jake Gyllenhaal shooting Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals yesterday in Manhattan Beach, California and looking pissy in the rain in one scene. We’ve been talking today about the Sexiest Man Alive announcement and whether or not David Beckham was always the first and only choice. By now By Lainey • Nov 18, 2015 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Very Murray Christmas, indeed On December 4, Bill Murray will attempt to revive the tradition of the celebrity Christmas special with his Netflix special, A Very Murray Christmas. The first trailer has just been released, and it is delightful. Directed by Sofia Coppola, the special stars Murray and a slew of celebrity guests, including By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ridley Scott can’t let Michael Fassbender go Prometheus was the kinda sorta dancing around the face-hugger in the room prequel to Alien, but with the sequel to Prometheus, Ridley Scott is dropping all pretense of this not being a shared universe and is retitling Prometheus 2 as Alien: Covenant. (For a second it was called Alien: By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Check out Emily Blunt as Evil Elsa The sequel-prequel-whatever no one asked for, The Huntsman, has an official title, an official release date, and official character posters, including Emily Blunt as the Ice Queen. This thing is now called The Huntsman: Winter’s War, it will open on April 22, 2016, and you can check By Sarah • Nov 16, 2015 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aziz Ansari is the Master of None Serious question: What’s your preferred way of talking about Netflix TV shows? I generally don’t cater to spoiler babies—you have a weekend to see a new movie and one day to watch a new TV episode—but what about Netflix shows, where you have all ten episodes By Sarah • Nov 16, 2015 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah Silverman in I Smile Back Every few months it seems like you guys hit a threshold and need to tell me, all at once, that negative movie reviews bum you out. But if you think you’re bummed out, try it from my side. By the end of the year, I will have reviewed upwards By Sarah • Nov 13, 2015 01:20 pm
