Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t forget about Ant-Man With Avengers: Age of Ultron less than a month from opening—and now screening for critics, who are almost universally singing its praises—Marvel isn’t focusing much yet on their other movie this year, Ant-Man. That’ll change soon enough, but for now Ant-Man is quietly going about re-shoots, By Sarah • Apr 10, 2015 10:57 am
Media Manipulation Thor arrives for promotion Chris Hemsworth arrived at LAX yesterday. The reason: the Avengers: Age Of Ultron junket is this weekend. And that leads right into the Hollywood premiere on Monday. All of them are expected. And they’re all supposedly going to be on Good Morning America and Jimmy Kimmel Live in the By Lainey • Apr 10, 2015 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt is the best part, as usual As Avengers: Age of Ultron ramps up in high gear, the press machine for another summer blockbuster, Jurassic World, is getting into motion. Last night Universal released the first clip from the movie and it features Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and no dinosaurs. As always, Pratt is the By Sarah • Apr 09, 2015 10:45 am
Amazingness The Most Festive Christmas Movie Ever Way back in 2012, Dean’s first post was about… well… Mimi of course. And, specifically, it was about how Mimi has basically trademarked Christmas. Like it BELONGS to her. Click here to read the rules of a Mimi Christmas. So why did it take this long for a Mimi By Lainey • Apr 08, 2015 05:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad’s grey beard Brad Pitt was in New Orleans yesterday working on The Big Short. He has a supporting role in the film with Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling and he’s also producing. Check him out arriving to set, his beard as grey as we’ve ever seen it. Greyer than ever By Lainey • Apr 08, 2015 04:22 pm
Maple Leaf Gosling’s Lost River in Paris Ryan Gosling has been in Paris the last couple of days promoting Lost River. Eleven months ago, in France, he presented his film at the Cannes Film Festival to pretty sh-tty reviews. The critics seemed to take it so personally that Gosling’s directorial debut wasn’t as impressive as By Lainey • Apr 08, 2015 12:06 pm
Maple Leaf R-Rated Deadpool Lainey will tell you, I’ve been very reluctant to get sucked into the orbit of the Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynolds. Fox has already botched this character once, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and I don’t trust them not to f*ck it up again. But a recent spate By Sarah • Apr 08, 2015 11:24 am
Music Idris: no Bond yet Here’s an early Wednesday bonus – new photos of Idris Elba. I need this. Because the week, it’s just draggggging. Idris was in London last night at the premiere screening and Q&A for his documentary Mandela, My Dad, and Me. During the session, he was asked about By Lainey • Apr 08, 2015 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JGL’s Snowden Have you seen Citizenfour? It won the Oscar for Best Documentary. Anyway, while I was watching it last year, I spent half the time trying to decide whether or not I’m attracted to Edward Snowden. Sometimes it was like, f-ck no. And then the camera would catch him at By Lainey • Apr 07, 2015 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart is proof that civilization is working Kristen Stewart has a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter online and in it, she sounds more grounded and confident than she has since before Twilight came along and made her one of the most famous people in the world. She’s twenty-four now, so she’s grown up some, By Sarah • Apr 07, 2015 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews She’s with the Avengers With just under a month until it opens on May 1, Marvel has released the final trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Despite a steady stream of trailers, TV spots, and featurettes, they’ve done a really good job recycling footage so that they haven’t given the whole movie By Sarah • Apr 07, 2015 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scott Eastwood makes that face I’ll say it again… I am not a believer in Scott Eastwood. To me he’s like the Iggy Azalea of heartthrobs. It’s been like this from the very beginning, when everyone got hard over him because of some photo shoot. Not interested. And then a few weeks By Lainey • Apr 07, 2015 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Furious 7’s first weekend $147 million domestically over the weekend… I want to like Furious 7, I really do, because in theory this is the kind of dumb fun action movie I cut my teeth on. But Furious 7, though wildly successful and spurring the franchise to new heights, actually shows exactly what’s By Sarah • Apr 06, 2015 03:34 pm
Bad Style Justin Theroux’s short sleeves Justin Theroux has been in Rome with Ben Stiller working on Zoolander 2. He wrote the screenplay. So if it’s more Tropic Thunder than Rock Of Ages, can we continue to be optimistic? Anyway… Arms, right? All you’re seeing here is arms. This is helped by the fact By Lainey • Apr 06, 2015 11:27 am
Xenu Hey La Luh La, it’s Tom Cruise Tom Cruise and son Connor were in Tampa, Florida last night watching the NCAA Women’s Final Four Semi featuring Maryland and Connecticut. Tom’s been in London for several months working on Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. The movie opens July 31st. So I hope they’re done shooting. Because By Lainey • Apr 06, 2015 09:51 am
Media Manipulation Michael & Alicia Easter in New York It’s been a while since we’ve had any new pap shots of Michael Fassbender. When he shows up though, he doesn’t disappoint. Here he is in New York on Saturday with Alicia Vikander. They fell in love last year in Australia while shooting The Light Between Oceans. By Lainey • Apr 06, 2015 08:35 am