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 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 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
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gang’s All Here About 11 months ago I wrote about the impending Entourage movie and at the time, this was my plot prediction: "Vince is happily married to the reporter he met at the end of the final season – they have 4 kids. Eric is now a big player in Hollywood, Johnny By Maria • Dec 24, 2014 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Interview is back on, kind of Last week, following a threat from the hackers that have ruined Sony’s year, the studio decided to pull The Interview off their release slate entirely. They cancelled its release and had no plans to show it, ever, despite a huge amount of criticism that peaked with President Obama calling By Sarah • Dec 23, 2014 02:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mirren & Maslany: Woman In Gold Just watched the first trailer for Helen Mirren’s new film Woman In Gold based on the true story of Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann fight to reclaim the family art that was stolen by the Nazis, including Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, the woman in gold. By Lainey • Dec 23, 2014 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith is Focus…but Hitch The first trailer for Will Smith’s upcoming Focus was released yesterday. He’s a con man. Margot Robbie is his protégé. While watching the first 30 seconds, I was like, oh, this feels familiar. Then I realised, it felt familiar because he’s basically the guy he played in By Lainey • Dec 23, 2014 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s Kate Winslet’s turn to be in Jobs Casting for Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic was messy even before Sony vomited bitchiness all over it. Now that it’s been re-homed at Universal, things are hopefully less dramatic around the production office, but the casting merry-go-round continues to turn. The female lead has yet By Sarah • Dec 22, 2014 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Interview pulled after Sony Hack turns threatening The Sony Hack took a turn for the dangerous earlier this week when the hackers released a statement threatening violence should people go see the movie when it was to open on Christmas day. Following the threat, Sony said it would allow theater owners to back out of booking deals By Sarah • Dec 18, 2014 09:57 am
Baby and Bump Obsession “Wassup!” Shiloh Angelina Jolie, the “rule breaker” covers the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, the issue that members of the Academy will have during the holiday break. It’s a very strategic, very fortuitously timed release. Because it’s been kinda sh-t for the Jolie the last week or so. By Lainey • Dec 17, 2014 04:05 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Unbroken Couples It was only a half Brange at the Unbroken premiere last night but there were other Unbroken couple on the carpet. First… Miyavi, with the most gorgeous bone structure to rival Alexander Wang, his wife Melody, and their daughters Lovelie and Jewelie. These children. And their hair! I have some By Lainey • Dec 16, 2014 01:32 pm
TV Updates Jon Hamm…misanthrope? Tone is everything. So maybe I’m not reading this right. Maybe the tone I’m getting out of Jon Hamm in this new interview with Radio Times is all wrong. Maybe you can help me hear it differently. Because I’m hearing it like he’s all kinds of By Lainey • Dec 16, 2014 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The best thing about Chris Hemsworth: Matt Damon When Chris Hemsworth was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive, we were all like, wait what? What’s he even promoting? Avengers: Age of Ultron isn’t until May 2015, and that Ron Howard whale movie is in March, but we totally forgot one! Hemsworth has that dismal looking Michael By Sarah • Dec 16, 2014 10:41 am
