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 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. 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 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, 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
Movie Reviews and Previews The longest Bond The world premiere of Spectre is on Monday in London. The movie will open in North America a couple of weeks later. The junkets and major press commitments are happening now. Here are shots of the cast at a photo call today. And Daniel Craig, James Bond himself, is smiling By Lainey • Oct 22, 2015 05:11 pm
Dumbass Yes, Black Panther needs a black director Continuing the theme of “it’s a bad day to be a Marvel marketing flak”, Anthony Mackie, who plays Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is out promoting Our Brand is Crisis, which means that people are asking him about Marvel. When you’re part of Marvel, all anyone ever By Sarah • Oct 22, 2015 04:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo’s first stop on The Revenant Oscar tour Leonardo DiCaprio, Badass has arrived, in the form of his first one-on-one interview about The Revenant. His feral press tour kicked off this week with Yahoo! - that’s where Leo explains why he grew that thing on his face for months and the many, many challenges he’s By Joanna • Oct 22, 2015 12:05 pm
Xenu Tom Cruise, father-in-law First pap shots of Tom Cruise since his daughter Isabella got married a few weeks ago in London and there was all that speculation about whether or not she quit the Xenu and then it came out that Tom actually paid for the wedding and that there were some Scientologists By Lainey • Oct 22, 2015 11:24 am
Quiveration Cary makes it difficult Oh hi, good morning. New York Times profile on Cary Fukunaga, are you still with me or have you just lost yourself in this photo? Cary continues to promote Beasts Of No Nation. The film has been strongly reviewed. Netflix is launching an Oscar campaign behind it. It’s currently By Lainey • Oct 22, 2015 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Getting better? Bradley Cooper is on the hustle promoting Burnt, in which he plays a comeback chef who’s an asshole for the art, art being food. Or something? The film opens October 30th. There were some who wondered if Burnt might bring Bradley back to the Oscars for the third year By Lainey • Oct 21, 2015 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence gets tough in Joy In the past, Jennifer Lawrence has done something that bugs me—she downplays her ambition. By her early twenties, she bagged two franchises and multiple Oscar nominations and became one of the most famous and successful young actresses in the world. None of that happens by accident. It takes considerable By Sarah • Oct 21, 2015 01:16 pm
