Movie Reviews and Previews Leaked Sony emails: Jobs is a mess The Sony hack is the gift that keeps on giving. First it was a laundry list of reasons why making Adam Sandler movies was slowly crushing people’s souls, and now it’s a series of email exchanges between Sony co-chief Amy Pascal, producer Scott Rudin, Aaron Sorkin, and By Sarah • Dec 10, 2014 08:57 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina’s Unbroken playdate Angelina Jolie spent last week in New York promoting Unbroken. The Today Show aired a new interview this morning. Click here to watch the Jolie with Miyavi and Jack O’Connell talk more about the film with Tom Brokaw and Savannah Guthrie. On Saturday she arrived back in LA with By Lainey • Dec 09, 2014 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Why isn’t George Lucas feeling Star Wars? The first trailer for New New Star Wars came out a couple weeks ago and is crushing records on its way to being the most viewed trailer of all time. Trailers are still the #1 indicator for a movie’s potential audience, and based on the stats for New New By Sarah • Dec 09, 2014 11:38 am
Gorgessity All that matters is Meryl Into The Woods New York premiere last night. Meryl Streep was there. This is all that matters. And look at her. I love this outfit. I love it even more than she didn’t pass her handbag off to an assistant and kept it with her on the carpet. The By Lainey • Dec 09, 2014 11:16 am
Media Manipulation Joaquin Phoenix is NOT ENGAGED Not engaged. NOT engaged. I just want to make that clear because most headlines you’ve read this morning will probably say that he IS engaged. But he’s NOT engaged. It was a prank. Because this is what happens when Joaquin Phoenix appears on David Letterman. He either pretends By Lainey • Dec 09, 2014 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Diversity in Film: The media reacts Last week we talked about Hollywood’s (ongoing) diversity problem in context to Rupert Murdoch’s and Ridley Scott’s outright offensive attitudes regarding the whitewashing controversy surrounded Exodus: Gods & Guyliner. This week, we’re taking a look how the media covers stories like this. I don’t want By Sarah • Dec 08, 2014 11:49 am
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 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 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’ 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
