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 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 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 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 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, 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, 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
Amazingness P2: The Mighty Bellas Yessss. This is how you do a sequel. You push so hard into the deep sequeliness of it that you go Malkovich on your own movie. I read once that sequels are whore’s movies. That is, you make the first one for the love of the story. You make By Duana • Feb 11, 2015 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jupiter Ascending review Right off the top, the thing you care about most: No, this won’t “Norbit” Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar chances because it has far bigger problems than his relatively small performance, but make no mistake: Eddie Redmayne is profoundly terrible in Jupiter Ascending. He gives the most baffling, distracting, ABSURD By Sarah • Feb 10, 2015 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “You are now about to witness…” There was a distraction from the Grammys on Sunday. It distracted me for almost half an hour. Twitter too, it seems, because it was trending for a while… A red band trailer for Straight Outta Compton was released. Have you seen it yet? It opens with Dre and Ice Cube By Lainey • Feb 10, 2015 11:55 am
Media Manipulation Huge Coup: Marvel reclaims Spider-Man Late last night Marvel Studios dropped a bomb: They’ve worked out a deal with Sony and will take over production of future Spider-Man movies. This is a huge deal, literally and figuratively, that will have repercussions for a lot of people, and especially Andrew Garfield, who is now By Sarah • Feb 10, 2015 11:42 am
Shame Jamie Dornan’s apologies Jamie Dornan was in New York this weekend for a final promotional push before the release of Fifty Shades Of Grey this Friday. The studio has already greenlit the two sequels; they’re likely confident with their numbers predictions. I wonder though if they might want to talk to Dornan By Lainey • Feb 10, 2015 11:05 am
