Movie Reviews and Previews Inside Out is amazing At one point in Inside Out, Pixar’s latest after a two year hiatus, the anthropomorphized emotions inside a little girl’s head spill boxes of fact and opinions and, unable to tell them apart, jumble them up while putting them back. “Don’t worry,” says the little girl’s By Sarah • Jun 22, 2015 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay bagged a Marvel gig Say what you want about Marvel movies, but directing them is a landmark career moment for filmmakers. Marvel can’t guarantee A List status for its stars, but it can transform a director’s career. So it is very, VERY exciting that Ava DuVernay has signed on to direct Black By Sarah • Jun 22, 2015 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daddy’s Home—ugh, can we change that title? When I first wrote about Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg reteaming to make a comedy about a father and stepdad competing for the (dubious, bribe-susceptible) affections of crotch fruit, I mentioned that the title, Daddy’s Home, is creepy and ought to be changed. Well Paramount declined to take my By Sarah • Jun 22, 2015 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mia Wasikowska as Madame Bovary Emma Bovary is never anything less than frustrating, so it’s fitting that the latest screen adaptation of Flaubert’s novel, Madame Bovary, should also be frustrating. Directed by Sophie Barthes and co-written by Barthes and Felipe Marino, Madame Bovary is a gorgeous film that is sometimes inspired and sometimes By Sarah • Jun 19, 2015 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Spoilers, but also like, the title Like Whiplash before it, one film won both the Audience Award and the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Whiplash went on to bag five Oscar nominations, winning three of them. I don’t By Sarah • Jun 19, 2015 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sicario looks SICK and YES Emily Blunt Coming out of Cannes, Denis Villeneuve’s latest film, Sicario, received very positive reviews, with many singling out Emily Blunt’s performance as a possible awards contender. Since breaking out with the Oscar-nominated Incendies in 2010, Villeneuve has established himself as a consistently compelling director of thrillers, and many think By Sarah • Jun 19, 2015 10:37 am
Maple Leaf Allison & Ellen back together Allison Janney and Ellen Page are back together, seen here yesterday on the set of Tallulah in New York. Coincidentally, it’s another movie about a baby. The baby’s mother is evidently a f-ck up. So Ellen rescues her and pretends she’s the mother instead, helped by her By Lainey • Jun 18, 2015 04:05 pm
Amazingness Fan Bingbing’s cats and hearts Fan Bingbing at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Did you hear about the social media fight she got into with Wang Sicong this week? Wang Sicong is the 27 year old son of the richest man in China. He recently posted a photo of his dog wearing two Apple watches, By Lainey • Jun 18, 2015 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Behold, a Lady Ghostbuster Kristen Wiig was photographed on the set of the new Ghostbusters movie, looking rather dowdy in her costume. I’m into this—one of the best parts of OG Ghostbusters is that the guys aren’t hero-types. They’re awkward nerds who get excited about science, and Wiig’s costume By Sarah • Jun 18, 2015 01:57 pm
Hook Ups Jake’s British date Jake Gyllenhaal was in London this week accompanied by a woman he met recently that British gossips have identified as Anna Liban. They went out for lunch. It looked like a flirty lunch. He had his hand in her hair. And they dressed the same. So I guess we have By Lainey • Jun 18, 2015 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Cusack and Paul Dano in Love & Mercy Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) By Sarah • Jun 18, 2015 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cupping Zac Efron Zac Efron’s been shooting Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates in Hawaii. On Tuesday he was on set in a wrestling suit, cupping himself. This is more for you than it is for me because Zac is not my flavour, although he’s been trying so hard to make By Lainey • Jun 18, 2015 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews David Oyelowo and Kate Mara go on the lam Relief—a movie trailer that doesn’t make me want to crawl under my bed and hide! After a series of trailers that I had to watch with one hand over my eyes because the events depicted are pants-sh*tting scary, the trailer for the upcoming thriller Captive is a By Sarah • Jun 17, 2015 02:54 pm
Media Manipulation Manic Pixie Emma Emma Stone is featured in the new issue of WSJ Magazine to promote Irrational Man. It’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl…the interview. At one point she pops a sugar cube in her mouth, just because it’s a cute thing that she does. And she tells a story about By Lainey • Jun 17, 2015 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt get paid Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, two of the biggest and most well-liked movie stars in the world right now, have been attached to a sci-fi movie called Passengers for a while. The movie is about a deep space voyage in which a passenger wakes up early and then wakes up By Sarah • Jun 17, 2015 01:38 pm
TV Updates The Brenda Years The first thing I want you to do is not reflexively roll your eyes at the idea of “Lifetime movie”. Did you learn nothing from Taraji P. Henson last week, who was so proud of the breakthrough she accomplished and the Emmy nomination that resulted on her last Lifetime movie? By Duana • Jun 17, 2015 10:24 am
