Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie Redmayne looks PHENOMENAL in The Danish Girl The Theory of Everything was so calculated and mercenary in its intentions it might as well have been titled GIVE US OSCARS NOW PLEASE. It was unsubtle, and while yes, Eddie Redmayne was physically convincing as Stephen Hawking as ALS wrecked his body, there was no nuance anywhere in that By Sarah • Sep 01, 2015 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith takes on the NFL to get an Oscar Yesterday the trailer for Will Smith’s football/head injury movie, creatively titled Concussion, dropped its first trailer, marking its entry into award season. Smith stars as Dr. Bennet Omalu, the man who discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, which is the brain disease that sets in after repetitive concussions By Sarah • Sep 01, 2015 01:24 pm
Quiveration Oh hi Mark Ruffalo! I didn’t know there would be new photos of Mark Ruffalo when I namechecked Mark Ruffalo just now in the previous post about Timothy Olyphant but look, here he is arriving in Venice today looking scruffy and rumpled and…delicious. Mark is there because Spotlight is screening out of By Lainey • Sep 01, 2015 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Aniston…by request The last time I posted photos of Jennifer Aniston on the set of Mother’s Day, mentioning that Timothy Olyphant is playing her ex-husband in the movie, I got yelled at. Some of you were pissed that I didn’t include photos of him. OK but there were no By Lainey • Sep 01, 2015 12:02 pm
Dumbass “Too street” to be Bond After #BackToHogwarts, Idris Elba is currently the biggest trending topic on Twitter at post time. It’s because Anthony Horowitz who wrote the new Bond book, Trigger Mortis, has offered his opinion to the Daily Mail on whether or not Idris Elba would be a good James Bond: “Idris Elba By Lainey • Sep 01, 2015 11:14 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Emma & Andrew go for lunch Emma Stone’s been shooting La La Land with Ryan Gosling. And there have been all kinds of rumours that she and Ryan are going to happen. If they didn’t happen the two previous times, I’m thinking it’s unlikely to happen now. Also, she’s still with By Lainey • Aug 31, 2015 03:28 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Brad & Knox at the race track Brad Pitt was in England yesterday at the MotoGP British Grand Prix. He narrated the documentary Hitting The Apex about motorcycle racing that comes out this week. While I think Brad is totally underrated as an actor (he lets everyone else around him be their best, which is an often By Lainey • Aug 31, 2015 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron is definitely not your friend We Are Your Friends, aka “the Zac Efron DJ movie”, is basically a remake of Saturday Night Fever with EDM substituting for disco and the San Fernando Valley for pre-hipster Brooklyn, and a vast, sucking void where its box office should have been. This is another blow to the By Sarah • Aug 31, 2015 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alicia Vikander & Michael Fassbender status update STAR Magazine apparently reported in their issue this week that Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender might not be together anymore because he parties too much. I only learned of this from Gossip Cop because they’ve published a counter story calling STAR out on the claim. According to Gossip Cop, By Lainey • Aug 28, 2015 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The blue lightsaber I’m going to go ahead and put a SPOILER warning on this, even though I don’t think anything released by a movie studio as part of marketing counts as a spoiler. But I get tired of spoiler babies crying in my inbox, so SPOILERS, if you’re trying By Sarah • Aug 27, 2015 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brange gets a festival We were hoping that Brange would be on the festival circuit with By The Sea. Then both Venice and TIFF announced their lineups and … no Brange. Turns out the Jolie was saving it for AFI Fest. AFI Fest announced today that By The Sea, written and directed by Angelina Jolie, By Lainey • Aug 27, 2015 03:12 pm
Media Manipulation Jennifer Aniston’s newlywed Mother’s Day Fresh off her wedding and honeymoon, Jennifer Aniston is back at work, seen here in Atlanta on the set of Mother’s Day, directed by Garry Marshall. You’ll recall, Garry Marshall also directed Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve. It’s almost like he doesn’t know By Lainey • Aug 27, 2015 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Gerwig in Mistress America I don’t really get Greta Gerwig. She’s not untalented, but she doesn’t really rock my face off, either. Yet people keep flipping out over her (Lainey: I used to flip over her), and I just want to ask—you’ve seen Chloe Sevigny, right? You do know By Sarah • Aug 27, 2015 01:17 pm
Style Emma’s Regression before the festival Emma Watson is in Madrid today promoting Regression with director Alejandro Amenabar. Emma stars with Ethan Hawke and David Thewlis, aka Remus Lupin, and the film may or may not be about a cult. Sarah wrote about the trailer a few weeks ago – click here for a refresher. Regression was By Lainey • Aug 27, 2015 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mothers, Daughters, Rebels Today is Women’s Equality Day in the United States, marking the 95th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the US constitution, confirming women’s right to vote. So it makes sense that a new poster for Suffragette has just been released via EW.com. And here’s a new By Lainey • Aug 26, 2015 01:52 pm
BFFs Your imaginary best friends are writing a movie together In incredibly meaningless and frivolous news today, the internet’s pretend best friends, Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence, are writing a movie together. Make no mistake, their friendship is real, as JLaw says they were “creatively made for each other” and that writing a screenplay with Schumer has been the By Sarah • Aug 26, 2015 12:49 pm
