Movie Reviews and Previews Carey Mulligan is Just.So.Good. We studied Thomas Hardy for a few weeks in one of my elective Fem-Lit university classes one year. I was not great with attendance at the time. There was a casino that had just opened two hours away. My parents were out of the country. For several months, I made By Lainey • Feb 19, 2015 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews When Julia cries Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor were papped while shooting an emotional scene from The Secret In Their Eyes yesterday in LA. At some point, her husband, Danny Moder, who is also working on the film, came over to give her some instruction, likely technical. Because she doesn’t need any By Lainey • Feb 18, 2015 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kingsman: The Secret Service review There’s a scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service (why the subtitle? It’s dumb) in which Colin Firth, as dapper gentleman spy Harry and Samuel L. Jackson as megalomaniac Valentine, talk about their love of old spy movies, bemoaning that modern spy thrillers have “grown too serious”. It’s By Sarah • Feb 18, 2015 02:01 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Sandy’s happy Mardi Gras Sandra Bullock was in New Orleans last night celebrating Mardi Gras with her son and some friends, including Anthony Mackie, Chelsea Handler, Whitney Cummings, and comedian Michael McDonald. She and McDonald have been friends for a while. They worked together on The Heat and appear to be quite close. Sandy’ By Lainey • Feb 18, 2015 10:00 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Will Scarjo walk? Scarlett Johansson hasn’t been at the Oscars since 2011. This year, the Academy has invited her to present. It’s a good selection. Because, as previously mentioned, with the exception of Reese Witherspoon and Bradley Cooper, this year’s nominees aren’t marquee names for the MiniVan Majority. And By Lainey • Feb 17, 2015 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beware of Crimson Peak There’s a steadily growing swell of hype surrounding Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak, which released its first trailer today (spurred on by a bootleg copy making the rounds after it debuted in front of Fifty Shades of Grey last night—when will studios learn that they cannot stop By Sarah • Feb 13, 2015 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinderella steeze Cinderella is screening at the Berlinale, and the cast appeared at a photocall and press conference today in Berlin to begin promoting the movie. (There’s also a new trailer featuring some serious horse porn, if you like big Baroque horses, like me.) It’s official—I have a Robb By Sarah • Feb 13, 2015 01:32 pm
Bad Style My Obsession’s style London premiere of Fifty Shades Of Grey. You going tonight, or what? Don’t pretend you’re not. Last night the movie set an R-rated record with $8.6 million at the box office. Entertainment Weekly is projecting $93 million for the four day weekend. That includes many of you. By Lainey • Feb 13, 2015 12:11 pm
Media Manipulation Michael Keaton’s last minute push This Best Actor race is the tightest category face-off in years. Like Lainey wrote yesterday, it might be too close to call. But since Oscar voting ends on Tuesday, the top three contenders — Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton and Bradley Cooper — are now in the final phase of campaigning, which means By Joanna • Feb 13, 2015 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aloha! Jerry Maguire and Elizabethtown had a baby The new Cameron Crowe movie… For a while there it had no title. Now that it has a trailer, it has to have a title: Aloha. So. Yeah. The name is sh-t. But the cast. This cast! Bradley Cooper Emma Stone Rachel McAdams John Krasinski Bill Murray Alec Baldwin Jay By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 03:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Man from U.N.C.L.E. trailer is vintage porn It’s all kinds of porny—suit porny, handsome-guy-porny, spy porny—but mostly it’s straight vintage porn. The first trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is here and it looks amazing. I mean literally, it LOOKS amazing. Ritchie has always been a By Sarah • Feb 12, 2015 11:12 am
Quiveration My Obsession in Berlin I would have liked to see the Sam Taylor-Johnson’s version of Fifty Shades Of Grey without the EL James interference. I would have liked to see her make the movie that was her complete vision. Because you can actually see the internal struggles unfold on film. For starters, it’ By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson’s giggle – Fifty Shades Of Grey movie review Like I’ve been saying for weeks, I went in there hoping for the rubs, hoping to see a movie that would get me off. I think we all were – Cynthia Loyst, Jessica Allen, and I went together, with no expectations but with also with no hate. Rather, we were By Lainey • Feb 12, 2015 09:47 am
Amazingness Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck looks terrific Remember when Bridesmaids was a huge hit and we thought it would kick-start a trend of comedies made for grown-ups that happened to feature smart, funny women? Yeah, that…didn’t happen. Instead we got Melissa McCarthy Falls Down and Melissa McCarthy Falls Down 2: Mall Falls. Basically, instead of By Sarah • Feb 11, 2015 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fifty Shades of bush Here are Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan “in character” for W Magazine. Two days. Are you ready? Are you ready to get horny?!!??? Don’t front like you’re not going. They’re projecting $60 million on the low end and $90 million on the high end. That means more By Lainey • Feb 11, 2015 03:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seventh Son review I felt bad going after Jupiter Ascending because while it’s a deeply flawed film, at least the Wachowskis showed some ambition and sincerity in making it. Click here for my review. I don’t feel bad at all about crapping on Seventh Son because it’s a cynical piece By Sarah • Feb 11, 2015 01:57 pm
