Media Manipulation Now this is how you tease a movie with Matt Damon & Jessica Chastain Yesterday I expressed annoyance with Zoolander 2 for wasting everyone’s time (and Paramount’s money) with a teaser trailer that was nothing. If you can’t illuminate some aspect of the film itself, don’t bother—wait until you actually have something to say about your movie before opening By Sarah • Aug 05, 2015 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Photos of Brange By The Sea Brange’s By The Sea, written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt and starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, opens in November. We were hoping the film would hit the festival circuits, giving us some Pitt Porn in Venice and Toronto. That’s not happening. They’re just going to By Lainey • Aug 05, 2015 10:22 am
Maple Leaf Deadpool: Ryan Reynolds might actually have pulled this off No one has had worse luck with superhero movies than Ryan Reynolds. He’s been in three superhero movies of varying levels of bad—Blade: Trinity, hilariously awful; Wolverine: Origins, spectacularly bad; Green Lantern, disastrous—and if you add the completely misguided R.I.P.D., a non-superhero comic book By Sarah • Aug 05, 2015 10:11 am
Quiveration This man is not Bond and no one understands Needed this on a sh-tty day… Idris Elba covers Maxim. And they point out that he probably won’t be the next James Bond – right now it’s looking like it could be Damian Lewis because…I don’t know why. I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t think By Lainey • Aug 04, 2015 04:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum’s Gambit is happening for sure Despite recent reports that Channing Tatum’s negotiations to play Gambit in an X-Men spin-off movie were falling apart, The Hollywood Reporter states that he’s closed his deal and will not only produce Gambit but will star in it, too, as was the intention all along. The news that By Sarah • Aug 04, 2015 04:11 pm
Media Manipulation “The Living Manifestation of Destiny” Have you seen Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation yet? I’ve seen it twice now – went again yesterday. And it’s just as fun the second time. That’s not an original statement either. The movie is critically acclaimed and it exceeded box office projections, by all accounts a major success By Lainey • Aug 04, 2015 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoolander 2 (2oolander?) has a teaser that is nothing Zoolander 2 is currently slated for release on February 12, 2016, which is a little over six months away. A burial in the February boneyard of cinematic crap is not a confidence builder, but then, the new teaser trailer for Zoolander II doesn’t commit to that date, instead saying By Sarah • Aug 04, 2015 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp is too exhausting to sustain interest in Black Mass The downside of Johnny Depp always doing weird voices and wearing elaborate makeup for his film roles is that it has killed the magic of his performances. I LOVED Johnny Depp for years and years—he was one of my favorites when I started writing for this site—but he By Sarah • Jul 31, 2015 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart before Ultra Kristen Stewart’s new movie, American Ultra, opens in a few weeks, which means she will shortly be hitting the road to promote it—with Jesse Eisenberg. If ever there was a press tour with a high probability of going off the rails, it’s this one. (“Finally! Someone else’ By Sarah • Jul 30, 2015 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Room the movie Have you read Emma Donoghue’s Room? I reviewed the book a few years ago – click here to read that post. I met Emma Donoghue. Heard her speak at an event at my alma mater, Western University. She was asked to talk for 7 minutes about creativity. She ended up By Lainey • Jul 30, 2015 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spotlight at the top We must be approaching award season because the fall festivals have announced their lineups, led by TIFF, and now we’re starting to get trailers for the Oscar baity movies we’ll be watching in the fall. There’s a lot of good-looking stuff coming up, but the one film By Sarah • Jul 29, 2015 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Woody Allen made the same movie again Woody Allen makes basically two movies: Annie Hall, and Crimes and Misdemeanors. When he’s on his game, you get, well, Annie Hall and Crimes and Misdemeanors. When he’s not, you get Magic in the Moonlight and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. His latest movie—his forty-fifth, which By Sarah • Jul 29, 2015 01:08 pm
Amazingness Tom Cruise waited As mentioned the other day, I interviewed Tom Cruise at the Toronto premiere of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation on Monday night for etalk. Am breaking up the analysis of the interview into different parts because there’s so much to say. For this post in particular, following the Cara Delevingne By Lainey • Jul 29, 2015 11:24 am
Cringe Cara Delevingne’s cringey interview Cara Delevingne was interviewed by Good Morning Sacramento recently to promote Paper Towns. I interviewed Cara last year at TIFF. I found her beguiling and sweet and real. None of that showed up this time though, with this particular outlet. But there were problems on both sides. First of all, By Lainey • Jul 29, 2015 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen’s other f*ck-off holiday movie Last holiday season’s movie talk was dominated by The Interview, the Seth Rogen movie that may or may not have prompted the Sony Hack. Sony famously dumped The Interview’s release, fearing further action from the hackers—they were already on their knees, it wasn’t an unreasonable thought— By Sarah • Jul 28, 2015 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hemsworth Vacation Chris Hemsworth is in Vacation. The Hollywood premiere happened Monday night. His two actor brothers, Liam and Luke, showed up to support. The last time I wrote about the Hemsworths was the first time Duana’s ever been interested in them. It’s the sibling thing. Liam was at Comic-Con. By Lainey • Jul 28, 2015 12:58 pm
