Movie Reviews and Previews Post-divorce, Marvel’s Ant-Man looks GREAT After a bitter, public divorce from director Edgar Wright in May of 2014, Marvel’s Ant-Man started working out, got a new haircut, and bought a new wardrobe, and now it’s having athletic revenge sex with multiple flexible partners. In the wake of Wright’s messy exit, most people By Sarah • Jan 07, 2015 09:15 am
Quiveration Oh yeah, Jamie Dornan Amid all the award season strategising and divorces and hookups and weddings etc, I totally forgot. We’re just a month out from the release of the Fifty Shades Of Grey movie. And it’s supposed to be an EVENT. I want it to be an event. Even though I By Lainey • Jan 06, 2015 01:43 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Rosamund: the real “Cool Girl” There’s something to be said for taking your time, and picking your fights – especially in the fame game. As Lainey wrote yesterday, Rosamund Pike’s been selective with her Gone Girl campaign tour and here she is on the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair. But it’ By Joanna • Jan 06, 2015 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It should be Marion Marion Cotillard was in New York yesterday. She stopped by The View and then she collected her Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle in the evening in a high collar black and white cocktail dress that’s perfect on her. Have you read Sarah’s Top By Lainey • Jan 06, 2015 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake & Mrs Timberlake: from Nailed to Accidental Love Back in 2008, Jake Gyllenhaal and then Jessica Biel were working on a film called Nailed, directed by David O Russell. They had to shut down production because they financing fell apart. David O Russell ended up stepping away from the project, going on to work on The Fighter and By Lainey • Jan 06, 2015 10:49 am
Media Manipulation Anne Hathaway gags Anne Hathaway was on Kimmel last night promoting Song One. The film comes out on January 23 in theatres and VOD. I’ve attached the trailer below. Her love interest is Johnny Flynn. God he is hot. For a little movie like this, as you’d expect, it’s on By Lainey • Jan 06, 2015 09:57 am
Media Manipulation ScarJo is the Ghost in the Shell After the surprise success of Lucy this past summer, Scarlett Johansson is now an internationally bankable action movie star. It’s not just Marvel, Lucy proves people like watching ScarJo punch things in the face with or without the presence of capes. And with that now-proven track record, she has By Sarah • Jan 06, 2015 09:28 am
Media Manipulation Dark Horse Bradley Cooper? Right now, Bradley Cooper’s not part of the Best Actor Oscar talk. Not yet, anyway. Right now, according to experts, it’s breaking down like this: Michael Keaton Benedict Cumberbatch Eddie Redmayne And then… David Oyelowo Steve Carell Jake Gyllenhaal But Selma lost some momentum today being left off By Lainey • Jan 05, 2015 04:49 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Sienna Miller on the Motherhood Whitewash Sienna Miller is continuing to promote American Sniper. American Sniper just received a nomination today from the Producers Guild, by the way. Ahead of both Unbroken and Selma. In addition to American Sniper, the PGAs went with Gone Girl. Foxcatcher also made the list. So of the Top 10 films By Lainey • Jan 05, 2015 04:33 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession The Return of Rosamund Some Oscar contenders have been up in our faces for weeks. Then there’s Rosamund Pike who promoted Gone Girl in September, let the performance do the work for her, and went off to enjoy the final weeks of her pregnancy away from the spotlight. Her baby was born December By Lainey • Jan 05, 2015 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinderella has a Robb Stark problem The first trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s live-action Cinderella halfway sold me on the project. It doesn’t look terrible, and some of the fantasy elements look cool, even if I will always and forever think that Cinderella’s should-be iconic ball gown is a mall prom dress nightmare (sorry, By Sarah • Jan 05, 2015 12:27 pm
Media Manipulation The Bad Joke Dad is available for birthdays and bar mitzvahs Brad Pitt presented this weekend at the Palm Springs Film Festival to David Oyelowo. He’s a producer on Selma. And Selma is coming on well as a contender for Best Film and Best Director (Ava DuVernay). Have you seen it yet? It’s coming to more theatres this weekend. By Lainey • Jan 05, 2015 09:13 am
Media Manipulation Jennifer Aniston wants to be the “go-to girl” As I mentioned last week, voting for Oscar nominations ends on Thursday. So everyone’s doing a final push. On Saturday night, many contenders were in Palm Springs hanging out with all the old Academy members who live there. And the network for the old Academy members? They say it’ By Lainey • Jan 05, 2015 08:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2014 Nightcrawler Anchored by Jake Gyllenhaal’s blazing performance as the creepy, amoral Lou Bloom, Nightcrawler plays like a fractured fairytale take on the American dream. Bloom is reprehensible, driven and ambitious and unwilling to be stopped by anything, including morality. Writer and first-time director Dan Gilroy gives us a series By Sarah • Dec 31, 2014 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Double gagging How much promotion did Johnny Depp put in for Into The Woods? Almost none, right? Pretty sure he wasn’t at any of the premieres, screenings, Q&As. He’s big enough to cut that out of his job description when he wants to now. I’m not sure By Lainey • Dec 29, 2014 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Film Review: The Interview With all the fuss surrounding The Interview, the question being asked after it was finally released via limited theatrical engagement and online platforms over the Christmas holiday is whether or not the movie is even worth all this trouble and strife. It doesn’t really matter because the point was By Sarah • Dec 29, 2014 09:42 am