Maple Leaf Emma & Ryan on a date Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are working on Damien Chazelle’s La La Land. I think these are the first shots we’ve gotten of them in the same frame, so I’m attaching for you to look at, even though there’s nothing new to say. It’s a By Lainey • Aug 20, 2015 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Salma Hayek presents Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet Salma Hayek has worked hard as a producer to get Lebanese philosopher Khalil Gibran’s seminal collection of poem-essays, The Prophet, to the big screen, and she’s finally succeeded, in the form of an animated film. The book, one of the most popular in the world, is a collection By Sarah • Aug 20, 2015 12:49 pm
Media Manipulation Zac Efron working hard Last Friday I showed up at the theatre for the Straight Outta Compton matinee. There were 13 year old girls lined up, in folding chairs, waiting. For what? Eazy-E? Turns out Zac Efron was showing up for the Toronto premiere later that night. So I’m curious about his movie, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2015 01:33 pm
BFFs Matt Damon is alone in The Martian A new trailer for The Martian has just been released. Normally I’m not big on space movies, like Gravity. Because all that open …space-ness? Scares the sh-t out of me. But then again, I can’t “science the sh-t” out of anything so being helpless and useless is basically By Lainey • Aug 19, 2015 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James McAvoy and DanRad are my new favorite onscreen couple James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe have a new movie together, Victor Frankenstein, that comes out this November, for which the first trailer has just arrived. I was expecting something dark and dour, but Victor Frankenstein is written by Max Landis, who generally writes genre movies with strong humor impulses (like By Sarah • Aug 18, 2015 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Hudson to play Aretha Franklin? Following its way-higher-than-expected $60.2-million opening bow, Straight Outta Compton will hit even more theatre screens this coming weekend. But the film’s pop culture ripple effect isn’t limited to box office success or think pieces — it may also help Jennifer Hudson land one of the most coveted roles By Joanna • Aug 18, 2015 10:39 am
BFFs Jennifer Lawrence looks up for Joy The official poster for David O Russell’s upcoming Joy, starring Jennifer Lawrence, was released today. Look up for Joy? Is that the idea here? Wasn’t my train of thought. My train of thought was that I wanted to write about Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone today and then By Lainey • Aug 17, 2015 03:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shaun the Sheep: The Mad Max of kids’ movies Inevitably when I review a movie meant for children and come down on it the least little bit, some huffy parent emails to tell me off for sh*tting on harmless whizz-bangs meant to distract the children for ninety minutes or so. I say the same thing every time—it’ By Sarah • Aug 17, 2015 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Film Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Guy Ritchie’s take on retro-pop espionage flicks, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. did not have a very good opening weekend, landing in third place behind the surprisingly (TRIUMPHANTLY) strong Straight Outta Compton and Tom Cruise’s take on retro-pop espionage flicks, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. It By Sarah • Aug 17, 2015 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Straight Outta Compton …to the Oscars? As you know now, Straight Outta Compton took the box office this weekend, handily. A $57 million opening…in August. It’s an achievement. And now it’s generating some very loud Oscar buzz. First you need the money. They brought in the money. Then you court the Academy. Well, By Lainey • Aug 17, 2015 01:21 pm
Bad Style Johnny Depp: the rocker, the Sparrow, and the Mouse Johnny Depp showed up at Disney’s D23 this weekend to promote Pirates 5. On Friday he wore regular clothes, and by regular clothes, I mean a shirt and a vest and some necklaces – but not too many – and a jacket on top and, to me, he’s starting to By Lainey • Aug 17, 2015 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans wears tight sweater for Civil War at D23 SOME SPOILERS Disney’s in-house fan convention, D23, was this past weekend, and after skipping out on Comic-Con, Marvel showed up with both barrels loaded. After a video message from Benedict Cumberbatch and a teaser for Dr. Strange unveiling some psychedelic concept art, Marvel chief Kevin Feige moved right along By Sarah • Aug 17, 2015 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joel Edgerton’s The Gift So you know how I was just recently saying that actor-directors are usually bad? Well, funny thing, Joel Edgerton just released his directorial debut, The Gift, and it’s really good. So while yes, fewer actors should become directors, Joel Edgerton gets a pass because he is actually good at By Sarah • Aug 14, 2015 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Segel is gunning for Oscar in The End of the Tour And he is the best part of The End of the Tour, a movie that would have been better served as a play. Based on David Lipskey’s aborted Rolling Stone interview of David Foster Wallace just after Infinite Jest was published—which Lipskey later turned into the book Although By Sarah • Aug 14, 2015 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Black Panther has finally arrived Captain America: Civil War has moved to Berlin for the last bit of filming, and as they are shooting outside in public, the inevitable has happened and we’ve finally got our first look at the Black Panther. Yesterday while filming a stunt sequence, the Black Panther’s costume was By Sarah • Aug 13, 2015 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cowboy Loki Entertainment Weekly has more first-look photos from movies coming out this fall, including the first official image of Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw the Light. I emailed the photo to my dad, because this is probably the only movie this year we’ll be able By Sarah • Aug 13, 2015 12:27 pm
