Movie Reviews and Previews Suicide Squad, no Joker Nerd Herd orgasms all weekend. Sarah’s already covered the Star Wars panel, and the Justice League, and then the dorks got all horny about the Suicide Squad appearance. Minus one. I don’t have a PhD in Geek so I’m not here to tell you what character is By Lainey • Jul 13, 2015 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben & Henry: do you want to hang out with the Justice League? A big part of Marvel’s success has been that the Avengers are the coolest club in Hollywood. If Hollywood is a high school cafeteria—and it is—then the Avengers are the kids everyone wants to sit with. Playing catch up at Comic-Con this weekend, Warner Brothers tried to By Sarah • Jul 13, 2015 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Forget Batman and Superman, just give me Wonder Woman (A separate post about how the cast interacted on the panel will follow.) On Saturday at Comic-Con, Warner Brothers released a three and a half minute trailer for Superhero Face Punch. Non-nerds who would normally skip this, please do me a favor and just watch the trailer, then let me By Sarah • Jul 13, 2015 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews New New Star Wars takes Comic Con by storm(trooper) On Friday at Comic-Con, JJ Abrams took the stage along with LucasFilm chief Kathleen Kennedy and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and proceeded to blow the doors off the place. As promised, they did not show new footage, not exactly. Instead Abrams had a sizzle reel that had 6,500 hundred nerds By Sarah • Jul 13, 2015 09:42 am
Shoes Emma Stone’s pretty shoes Emma Stone at the Irrational Man premiere in Hollywood last night. It opens in limited release next week. Reviews aren’t great. I mean they’re not terrible, but for the second summer in a row she’s in a Woody Allen movie and no one’s going to see By Lainey • Jul 10, 2015 03:53 pm
Media Manipulation Jennifer Lawrence karaoke Jennifer Lawrence and her Hunger Games co-stars were on Conan last night at Comic-Con. As noted yesterday – click here for a refresher – Jennifer went to San Diego with her best sell game. This is the candid lovable goof with no filter who became one of the biggest movie stars in By Lainey • Jul 10, 2015 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Saoirse Ronan break your heart in Brooklyn? One of the things I’m pretty sure is a universal experience of children of immigrants is you hear all of the stories of how it was, back home. How different it is here. And the same way Canadians have a running tally of all famous people who are Canadian By Duana • Jul 10, 2015 01:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sienna in Wimbledon white Check out Sienna Miller in a white jumpsuit at Wimbledon today for the men’s semi-final. You remember the other day when I was fighting for the right of the middle part? Sienna Miller in a middle part. Forever. Conveniently I was just namechecking Sienna in a post this morning. By Lainey • Jul 10, 2015 01:08 pm
Girlcrushes Lady Ghostbusters dressed for action The last time we saw the new Ghostbusters they were dressed in civilian clothes. Thanks to more on location filming this week, we now have photos of the whole team in their new ghostbusting suits. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon are in the familiar jumpsuits, but By Sarah • Jul 10, 2015 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal in Southpaw: the review Southpaw may look like a rental, but you should see it in theatres. Yes, it relies way too heavily on clichés, but seeing Jake Gyllenhaal transform into Billy Hope is worth the price of admission. It’s joy to see Rachel McAdams in this sexy, supportive part, too. But this By Joanna • Jul 10, 2015 11:11 am
Maple Leaf Rachel & Jake in Toronto It’s so much fun to watch movie stars be movie stars. It’s electric. That’s the best way to describe what it felt like at the Southpaw premiere in Toronto last night with Rachel McAdams and Jake Gyllenhaal. The biggest takeaway? Not only is the movie great, but By Joanna • Jul 10, 2015 10:38 am
Break Ups Ben Affleck’s plan and more Gone Girl insight The plan, as I’ve been telling you all along, was to let Batman take over. To give the divorce gossip its due time before crushing it with work talk and superhero excitement. And now we’re seeing the rollout. Warner Bros announced yesterday that Ben Affleck will begin directing By Lainey • Jul 10, 2015 10:07 am
Bad Style Katniss’s last Comic-Con The Mockingjay 2 panel just wrapped not too long ago at Comic-Con. The big 3 were all there – Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. But, really, the story is Katniss. Always Katniss. Always JLaw. According to the tweets I’ve been reading, she really delivered for the fans. Which means By Lainey • Jul 09, 2015 06:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson is cold porridge A while back a request came in for a career prospectus on Robert Pattinson, which was completely baffling because, despite being the human equivalent of a bowl of cold porridge—the English dude version of Oatmeal Amanda Seyfried, if you will—he’s working consistently and with very good filmmakers. By Sarah • Jul 09, 2015 05:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Dornan’s tongue Jamie Dornan was in Prague today promoting Anthropoid. He looks GOOD. I quite like this shot of him sticking his tongue out. On the subject of tongues… Grey, the book. You read it? Click here if you missed Maria’s review. I’ve stopped at 20%. Which means it’s By Lainey • Jul 09, 2015 05:17 pm
Aging Gorgessity Time Bandit Paul Rudd and some ants in London Paul Rudd is stealing time. That is the only explanation. I have considered every possible option for how he has not aged in the last twenty years, and I have deduced that Paul Rudd is a time bandit. It’s the only thing that makes sense. He can’t be By Sarah • Jul 08, 2015 04:20 pm
