Movie Reviews and Previews BCoop will now make a fake Army movie With American Sniper and Aloha, Bradley Cooper is on an Army movie run, which he will now cap off by making a movie about a fake Army. He’s going to play a guy pretending to be in the Army, pretending to be in the Army—kind of. Based on By Sarah • Jun 16, 2015 02:00 pm
TV Updates Kerry as Anita Hill Check out Kerry Washington as Anita Hill in the upcoming HBO biopic Confirmation about Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court senate hearings. This was almost 25 years ago. I was 17, in my last year of high school. It was all over the TV. It would be another year before I By Lainey • Jun 16, 2015 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anna Kendrick: a capella is her superhero? Pitch Perfect 2 made a lot of money. It’s an established movie franchise now. So it’s no surprise that they’re moving ahead with the third installment. Kay Cannon is back as the writer. Elizabeth Banks will produce again though it’s not clear whether she’ll direct. By Lainey • Jun 16, 2015 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 16, 2015 Dear Gossips, It’s official. Jurassic World has surpassed the first Avengers movie for biggest opening weekend ever, earning almost $209 million so Chris Pratt + Dinosaurs took out a team of superheroes. Chris Pratt. You go, Chris Pratt. Other than Chris Pratt, who else is going to be the Sexiest By Lainey • Jun 16, 2015 09:00 am
Style Alexander Skarsgard’s really bad hair Alexander Skarsgard was in LA this weekend promoting The Diary Of A Teenage Girl. The film received excellent reviews after Sundance and the LA Times just called it “exhilarating” ...even though, um, it’s about statutory rape. Bel Powley’s mother, Kristen Wiig, is dating Skarsgard. Teen Bel and Skarsgard By Lainey • Jun 15, 2015 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World made crazy Avengers money Literally, it banked the second-biggest opening weekend of all time with an estimated $204 million debut, knocking Avengers: Age of Ultron down to number three. By the time the actuals come in, Jurassic World could actually take down The Avengers’ 2012 record of $207.4 million for the biggest opening By Sarah • Jun 15, 2015 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ellen Page on Freeheld Freeheld opens on October 2. That’s perfect timing for TIFF. And they’re saying it could make an award season run given the cast (Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell, Michael Shannon, Josh Charles) and its subject matter. Which is the true story of a woman who, when dying By Lainey • Jun 12, 2015 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley, Emma, and Rachel in Aloha (Lainey: given the way it’s performing and that dinosaurs are taking over, this might be your last chance to see Aloha... if you want to.) One of the threads that emerged last year during the Sony Hack was that the Hawaiian-set “Untitled Cameron Crowe” project was a disaster, testing By Sarah • Jun 12, 2015 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews They need this A new trailer for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (all the periods in this title are annoying, can I please skip them next time?) was released last night. The movie comes out on August 14. And both Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer need the momentum. This preview By Lainey • Jun 12, 2015 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange just keeps getting better Following the most improbable superhero movie casting news ever, yesterday Deadline confirmed that Chiwetel Ejiofor will co-star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange as Baron Mordo, Stephen Strange’s frenemy turned arch-nemesis. Marvel is just lousy with Barons (see also: Barons Zemo and von Strucker, respectively), and By Sarah • Jun 12, 2015 10:12 am
Sports Ben Foster as Lance Armstrong I was one of those dumb f-cking c-nts. I was a believer. I kept believing, right up to the very, very end. Right up until USADA charged him in October 2012. I’ve written about it before. How much I wanted to hang on to the idea that Lance Armstrong By Lainey • Jun 12, 2015 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Yet more NOPE: Emma Watson’s creepy cult movie This is becoming a thing, apparently, trailers for movies that make me go NOPE. First it was Everest (NOPE), then it was The Martian (NOOOOPE), and now it’s the trailer for Alejandro Amenabar’s new thriller Regression, starring Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke. Amenabar made the most excellent The By Sarah • Jun 11, 2015 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor answers phones for the Ghostbusters The female-lead Ghostbusters movie is slated to start filming this summer, and as such, casting is underway. Last night, director Paul Feig announced on Twitter that Chris Hemsworth will appear in the movie in the “Janine” role, playing the Ghostbusters’ receptionist. Our receptionist. #whoyougonnacall pic.twitter.com/wGTzs8KdUs— Paul Feig By Sarah • Jun 11, 2015 11:52 am
Media Manipulation Guy Ritchie for Charlie Hunnam This is why I creep Guy Ritchie’s Instagram. Because that’s the only way we’re getting any shots of Charlie Hunnam. He’s directing him in Knights Of The Round Table. And who’s complaining about new shots of Charlie Hunnam? A photo posted by Guy Ritchie (@guyritchie) By Lainey • Jun 10, 2015 05:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock makes everything better San Andreas is exactly as advertised on the tin—The Rock fights an earthquake, and The Rock wins. Hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people die in the process, but the important thing is that if you go see San Andreas, that movie will hold up its end of By Sarah • Jun 10, 2015 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Bond in a tactleneck There’s a new TV spot for Spectre, the next installment in the Bond franchise. (Every time someone asks me when superhero movies will be over, I remind them that Bond has been going strong for fifty-three years and watch the light die in their eyes.) It’s mostly recycled By Sarah • Jun 10, 2015 11:48 am
