Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Renner’s London year Jeremy Renner has been in and out of London all year. Avengers: Age of Ultron filmed there over the spring and summer, and following that, he’s been there working on Mission: Impossible 5 – Presumably There’s A Bomb throughout fall and winter. Here he is once again at LAX By Sarah • Dec 08, 2014 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 8, 2014 Dear Gossips, The Boston Society of Film Critics and the LA Film Critics Association both named Boyhood the best film of 2014 yesterday. So Boyhood and director Richard Linklater are well on their way to Oscar nominations. But, as Ritchie wrote in his email to me last night, it remains By Lainey • Dec 08, 2014 08:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batch is Strange, for real this time After a long, rumor-filled casting process—easily a top-three roughest go round— Marvel has finally announced their Dr. Strange and it is, for real, Benedict Cumberbatch. He’s been rumored for years—I first mentioned it in 2012—but the timing never worked out, and Marvel would go look at By Sarah • Dec 05, 2014 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney Gladiator Check out George Clooney in costume on the set of Hail Caesar in LA yesterday. It’s a Coen Brothers movie. It’s about old Hollywood and a guy who did a lot of the dirty work back then to protect the stars when they f-cked up. I wonder if By Lainey • Dec 05, 2014 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Terminator: Ridiculousity The first trailer for the next Terminator is here, and it is some seriously silly sh*t. I refuse to deal with the movie’s real title, Terminator: Genisys, because it’s dumb, but it does seem to fit what looks like a highly stupid movie. There are ways to By Sarah • Dec 04, 2014 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond 24: Spectre I like Bond movies but I'm no Bond historian. Spectre, the title of Bond 24, just announced today, will mean something to Bond nerds though the way "alohomora" means something to Potterheads (me). For many, a Bond film is an Event. My best friend Fiona is By Lainey • Dec 04, 2014 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen is coming back to TV Kind of. Rogen and his creative partner Evan Goldberg have finally gotten their pilot order from AMC for an adaptation of Preacher, a 1990s comic about a Texan preacher who is possessed by a heaven-baby and goes looking for God with his ex-girlfriend and a drunk vampire. It’s an By Sarah • Dec 04, 2014 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Rock or Moses? There’s been a discussion lately about the whitewashing of Exodus. Sarah posted about it here the other day. Exodus opens on December 12. Some are calling for a boycott. Why don’t we call it an alternative? Chris Rock’s Top Five opens wide on the same day. This By Lainey • Dec 04, 2014 10:59 am
Media Manipulation Garrett’s gift and with the Jolie “I think (Garrett’s) going to be a huge movie star. He reminds me of the very lovely Brad Pitt. He has this country, earthy grit about him, juxtaposed with this incredible sensitivity. It is a very sexy combination.” – Gwyneth Paltrow in VOGUE 2010 Haven’t seen much of Garrett By Lainey • Dec 03, 2014 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Suicide Squad features Harley Quinn and some other people Last we heard of David Ayer’s DC villain flick, whether or not Harley Quinn, the nutjob supervillainess from the Batman comics, would be included was still up in the air, and Jared Leto was in talks to play The Joker (lesser version 2.0). Yesterday, Warner Brothers announced the By Sarah • Dec 03, 2014 10:19 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Blake in black Blake Lively stepped out last night for the L’Oreal Paris Annual Women of Worth Awards in New York. She’s a spokesperson for the brand. Blake hasn’t said exactly when she’s due. But her film The Age Of Adaline opens in April. So she’ll have to By Lainey • Dec 03, 2014 09:56 am
Media Manipulation Boyhood, Marion, and Vern You ever watch Oz? JK Simmons played Vern Schillinger. It took me a long time not to see him as Vern anymore. And I don’t. Now I don’t. Now I either see him as Juno’s dad or Miles Teller’s mentor adversary in Whiplash. For which he By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 04:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake’s Raging Bull Hurricane This is what Jake Gyllenhaal will look like in Antoine Fuqua’s film Southpaw next year. According to Fuqua, Jake’s dedication to the role and his subsequent transformation are so extraordinary, it’s worthy of very impressive comparison: “Two people have done this in their lives,” Fuqua told Variety By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 03:45 pm
Gorgessity Michael Fassbender surfs with Alicia Vikander Michael Fassbender is in Australia working on a film called The Light Between Oceans with Alicia Vikander. They play husband and wife. But it’s not a romance. He looks after a lighthouse. Their marriage is strained because she can’t have children. Then a baby shows up in a By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 11:29 am
Dumbass Diversity in Film: The problem at the top On Friday Rupert Murdoch, elderly white man, took to Twitter to address the whitewashing casting controversy that has surrounded the upcoming movie Exodus: Gods & Guyliner. Christian Bale plays Moses, a Hebrew, Joel Edgerton is the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses, and Sigourney Weaver is their mother, Tuya, also Egyptian. In fact, By Sarah • Dec 01, 2014 11:17 am
Media Manipulation Angelina presents Unbroken Angelina Jolie and her cast were in LA yesterday to screen Unbroken at the Writers Guild of America. There were influential Oscar voters in the audience. And press. And now that the embargo has been lifted, we finally have a better idea of whether or not Unbroken can get to By Lainey • Dec 01, 2014 11:06 am
