Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg on the Ted 2 tour Check out Mark Wahlberg in Berlin today promoting Ted 2, opening on June 26. This press tour is just beginning but if you’ve seen the Entourage movie, that was basically what he showed up for. To namecheck his other movie and get paid for this one. Entourage did not By Lainey • Jun 09, 2015 12:10 pm
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt ushers in the future Netflix made a trip to Cannes’ Marche du Film, as the streaming service is looking to expand into the feature film market. They’ve already picked up Idris Elba’s Beasts of No Nation for distribution, and they have a deal to make and distribute Adam Sandler’s turds that By Sarah • Jun 09, 2015 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 9, 2015 Dear Gossips, Today is Johnny Depp’s 52nd birthday. Do you think he thinks about the number? Conveniently a new poster for his upcoming film, in which he plays Whitey Bulger, has been released. Meanwhile he continues to work on Pirates 5 in Australia, monitored by drones. TMZ has the By Lainey • Jun 09, 2015 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy in Spy I was nervous about this one going in because though I think Melissa McCarthy is very talented, she has also made a lot of bad movies since breaking out in Bridesmaids. But Spy reunites her with her Bridesmaids and The Heat director, Paul Feig—who also wrote the script—and By Sarah • Jun 08, 2015 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rachel presents to Jake Spike TV’s Guy’s Choice Awards happened this weekend. The show will air on June 18th. Jake was honoured with the Guy Con award, presented to him by his Southpaw co-star, friend, and rumoured girlfriend, Rachel McAdams. Let’s play reverse psychology here: If there was really something between By Lainey • Jun 08, 2015 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Martian: Also NOPE I called Everest a big bag of NOPE after watching the first trailer, and after sitting through Fox’s three minute-plus first trailer for The Martian, I am adding this movie to the NOPE bag, too. Directed by Ridley Scott, The Martian is based on Andy Weir’s novel (adapted By Sarah • Jun 08, 2015 12:49 pm
BFFs Amy, Maya, Tina Since I just pissed you off with those Gerard Butler pictures in the previous post, let me make it up to you. These are photos that, guaranteed, no one will object to. Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Tina Fey all together last night at the Steve Martin AFI Lifetime Award By Lainey • Jun 05, 2015 04:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mission: Impossible 5 looks like a blast After the back-to-back highs of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Mad Max: Fury Road, I’m kind of in a blockbuster hangover zone where I’ve lost interest in seeing more blockbusters. Like despite Chris Pratt’s charm offensive, Jurassic World is off my radar entirely. But a new trailer By Sarah • Jun 05, 2015 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 5, 2015 Dear Gossips, Melissa McCarthy’s Spy opens this weekend. So far, the reviews are excellent. At post time, Spy is rated 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is expected to take the box office. That’s amazing and it’s important. Because finally Melissa McCarthy is in a feature that’ By Lainey • Jun 05, 2015 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everest: A big bag of NOPE Jake Gyllenhaal is going for the gold this year, first with Southpaw and then Everest, which is due in September—wouldn’t surprise me to see this one premiere at TIFF. Everest is based on Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, about the 1996 climbing disaster in which eight By Sarah • Jun 04, 2015 03:19 pm
Media Manipulation Shaking hands and kissing babies Johnny Depp has cranked up the charm dial in Australia. For a few consecutive days now he’s given Australian fans waiting for him on the set of Pirates 5 the full Movie Star Treatment, as the unit publicist doesn’t seem to mind that paps are on site to By Lainey • Jun 04, 2015 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham Carter: #squadgoals The hashtag #squadgoals often appears in wanderlust Instagram captions about a power posse, but it’s best paired with the two new Suffragette trailers. Carey! Meryl! The HBC! They're the HBICs fighting for a vote for women in the film – I’m all in. "We break windows, By Joanna • Jun 04, 2015 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews “We’ll not fail” Following its well-received premiere in Cannes a couple weeks ago, the first teaser trailer for Macbeth was released today. It’s good. Really good. A lot better, to me at least, than those clips that were released during the festival. Michael Fassbender is convincingly unhinged. You can almost see the By Lainey • Jun 04, 2015 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Britney Ninja Turtle Oh look. It’s Megan Fox on the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in New York and you’re thinking of Britney Spears. Me, I’m thinking of Michael Bay. And whether or not this is the Michael Bay Women’s Team uniform. After all, this is a By Lainey • Jun 03, 2015 11:52 am
Harry Potter Eddie is Newt Eddie Redmayne has joined the Harry Potter family. It was confirmed yesterday that Eddie will play Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. The first film of the planned trilogy will be released November 2016 and is being written by JK Rowling herself. In case you didn’ By Lainey • Jun 02, 2015 04:43 pm
Media Manipulation Lady Ghostbusters are the only interesting kind of Ghostbusters So says Paul Feig, the director of the all-female Ghostbusters reboot. In an interview with AlloCine while promoting Spy, Feig said the only way he can see to remake Ghostbusters is to reimagine it with women. I love that he says this, that the only way it makes sense to By Sarah • Jun 02, 2015 01:22 pm
