Movie Reviews and Previews Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk At one point in The Walk, as Philippe Petit steps onto a high wire strung between the towers of the World Trade Center, clouds roll in and obscure the view of New York City, leaving only Petit’s foot in frame as he steps onto the wire, which seems to By Sarah • Sep 29, 2015 10:51 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Leo holds hands without a dumpster Leonardo DiCaprio spent the weekend in New York. On Sunday he was papped walking down the street with current bonafide, Kelly Rohrbach. He made no attempt to cover his face. He didn’t run around looking for a trash bin to jump into to avoid being photographed. Instead, he just By Lainey • Sep 29, 2015 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews London Fields London Fields is one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year, and I’ll get to sh*tting on it in a second, but first, an odd thing happened TIFF with this movie. I saw it at a press screening at the festival—Joanna and I were both By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Stonewall A lot of bricks are being thrown at Stonewall, and with good reason. The film has been savagely attacked by critics for whitewashing the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a pivotal turning point for the LGBTQ rights movement in the U.S. Beyond that, it’s been hit by several boycotts and By Joanna • Sep 28, 2015 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t think too hard about Anne Hathaway in The Intern Nancy Meyers’s latest Upper East Side White People With Problems movie, The Intern, follows the likes of It’s Complicated and Something’s Gotta Give, except The Intern has been liberally doused with hipster flavor in an attempt to appeal to The Youths. Manhattan has been traded for Brooklyn— By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 10:46 am
Media Manipulation Leo’s campaign is coming Leonardo DiCaprio spoke at the 2015 Global Citizen Festival on Saturday in New York. These are probably the best pictures we’ve seen of him in, well, in years. This is the version of Leo we’ll be seeing for the next several months as he campaigns toward his first By Lainey • Sep 28, 2015 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Neither Benedict Cumberbatch nor Jake G are playing Nikola Tesla That’s my takeaway from the news that Benedict Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks to star in a movie called The Current War, based on the nineteenth century patents arms race between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse for control of the budding electric industry. At the heart of By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 09:56 am
Quiveration Happy Birthday to me... with Idris! Idris Elba flew to Vancouver after promoting Beasts Of No Nation to work on the new Star Trek. He left yesterday, just in time to give me new photos for my birthday. What a sexy gift. Thank you. Have a great weekend! By Lainey • Sep 25, 2015 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G in Everest Actually, I should say that it’s Jason Clarke in Everest because Jake Gyllenhaal has a relatively small role and disappears from the film for long stretches, but he’s being treated in the publicity materials like he’s the star, and I don’t know how many of you By Sarah • Sep 25, 2015 01:53 pm
Style The Martian & James McAvoy The cast of The Martian, led by Matt Damon, was in London tonight for the UK premiere. So far the reviews for The Martian have been quite strong. Sarah saw it at TIFF and liked it a lot and Sarah’s hard to please. But when I saw her after By Lainey • Sep 24, 2015 05:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy ain’t got time for primadonna directors Tom Hardy gave an interview, via Skype, to Vulture and in it he sh*ts all over the idea of directors and basically says they contribute nothing to film. I laughed for a solid five minutes, because cinema is a culture that worships directors and also because Tom Hardy basically By Sarah • Sep 24, 2015 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hero Boy, Girl, Cool Girl, and Littlefinger Once again, I went into the second entry in a YA dystopia franchise totally blind—I have not read the Maze Runner books nor have I seen the first Maze Runner movie. Like Divergent: Insurgent, this is an exercise in “Can Sarah figure out what is going on without any By Sarah • Sep 24, 2015 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Perfect Guy There is nothing in The Perfect Guy as mind-blowingly ludicrous as a teenager handing his older lover a first edition copy of The Iliad, but oh, how I wish there was. The Perfect Guy is a “romantic” thriller so devoid of romance—or passion, or any emotion, really—that it By Sarah • Sep 24, 2015 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews David Beckham, actor and “outlaw” Victoria and David Beckham, along with son Brooklyn, attended a party last night to celebrate the one year anniversary of Victoria’s flagship store. I’m kinda into the fact that Posh didn’t overdress for this. Tank top, skinny pants, a sparkly jacket on the way in, no jacket By Lainey • Sep 23, 2015 04:15 pm
Media Manipulation The smooth, calculated Michael B. Jordan Michael B. Jordan is one of three cover profiles in October’s GQ, alongside Ryan Reynolds and Rob Lowe. The interview itself is a good read, especially as Jordan has maintained a pretty low profile on his way up these past few years. It’s possible to know him as By Sarah • Sep 23, 2015 03:45 pm
Maple Leaf “The actor from Ontario” I interviewed Josh Brolin for Gangster Squad a couple of years ago. Half our interview was about Ryan Gosling’s balls…which wasn’t actually what I was asking. All I did was throw Josh a question about Ryan, what's he like to work with, their chemistry, etc. By Lainey • Sep 23, 2015 12:35 pm
