Movie Reviews and Previews Team Birdman on the way Venice. Birdman opens the festival tonight. Here’s the cast with director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu at the photo call today…already looking triumphant? Everyone is watching Birdman as one of the expected contenders for Oscar. They’ve been talking like Michael Keaton is a lock. Unless, of course, the film By Lainey • Aug 27, 2014 11:58 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Amy’s voice and Nick’s a superhero? New trailer for Gone Girl that was released during the Emmys is now online. It’s the most of Rosamund Pike’s Amy Dunne that we’ve seen so far. I’m trying to decide about her voice. Pike has a lovely, low voice. Did you hear Amy’s voice By Lainey • Aug 27, 2014 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma’s in Venice Emma Stone has arrived in Venice for the Venice Film Festival. Oh my God, the Venice Film Festival opens tomorrow. TIFF is next Thursday. It never stops! Emma is there for the highly anticipated Birdman from director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. So by the end of the week, we’ll know By Lainey • Aug 26, 2014 12:27 pm
Bad Style Chloe Grace Moretz: VMAs Worst Dressed Here’s a 17 year old mother of the bride going to pick out china patterns. TERRIBLE choice. I mean I understand she wants to set herself apart from Ariana Grande and not dress like she’s a screaming pop teen but there had to be other cuter options. Or By Lainey • Aug 25, 2014 11:48 am
Media Manipulation Tom Cruise at work Production on Mission: Impossible 5 is underway. Yesterday the team was in Vienna. Tom Cruise spent the day doing stunt rehearsals on the rooftop of the Vienna Opera House. That Tom Cruise, always living on the edge of danger. But you can really see it. That’s all he ever By Lainey • Aug 22, 2014 11:27 am
Baby and Bump Obsession What happened to being a New Yorker? TMZ reports that Katie Holmes bought an almost $4 million home in Calabasas, California and it sounds like they’ve already moved in. Supposedly Katie thought it would be better for Suri to live there instead of growing up in New York. Because there are children on the same block By Lainey • Aug 22, 2014 10:57 am
Hook Ups Red carpet date night Hollywood premiere of If I Stay last night. They say there’s a good chance the movie will win the box office this weekend. Are you going? Are you going for a cleansing cry? I’m challenging this movie to make me cry. Let’s touch base about it on By Lainey • Aug 21, 2014 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin’s new year A year ago, Josh Brolin was dealing with a broken marriage and a couple of embarrassing incidents caught on video – he was drunkenly fighting, one of those times was at a Del Taco drive-thru. Last November, Brolin entered rehab. This spring he was spotted with a new girlfriend on By Lainey • Aug 21, 2014 12:06 pm
Break Ups Michelle & Zac are over And I’m sure you’re shocked. (If you are, actually, shocked, you haven’t been doing your homework.) US Weekly reports exclusively that Michelle Rodriguez and Zac Efron have ended their summer romance. He’s back at work on a movie called We Are Your Friends. Not as much By Lainey • Aug 21, 2014 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise can handle the ice Robert Downey Jr and Ben Affleck are probably the biggest movie stars to date to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, right? I mean you can talk all you want about the Zac Efrons of the world but, come on, there are tiers. And Zac’s not on the Tom By Lainey • Aug 20, 2014 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sad Ant-Man Yesterday, in a display of stubbornness so determined it’s almost impressive, Marvel tweeted a first-look image of Paul Rudd in character as Scott Lang for Ant-Man, which is now officially in production. The movie that was greenlit purely to humor Edgar Wright is now being made because By Sarah • Aug 20, 2014 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Rose Depp will be famous On her own, she’ll be famous. It was announced yesterday that Kevin Smith is shooting a new movie called Yoga Hosers about two 15 year old female superheroes starring his own daughter Harley Quinn and Johnny Depp’s daughter Lily Rose. Johnny will also have a role in the By Lainey • Aug 20, 2014 11:15 am
Quiveration Meet your new crush OK, my new crush. Did you read Gayle Forman’s If I Stay? You have time to do it this week before the movie opens on the weekend. It’s not a long book. It’ll take you a couple of hours. And then you won’t be able to By Lainey • Aug 19, 2014 04:45 pm
TV Updates Watching Teenagers in your Thirties It’s not a fair fight. It isn’t. Because they start playing Bell Biv Devoe’s Poison before you even have a chance to form an opinion on whether you want to watch the movie or not. The fact is we shouldn’t, really. A movie about the behind- By Duana • Aug 19, 2014 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Why are we making TWO Jungle Books? Actors take jobs. Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor, and he’s just taken a job portraying the tiger Shere Khan in Andy Serkis’s Jungle Book (not to be confused with Jon Favreau’s Jungle Book). If all you care about is that Benedict Cumberbatch’s voice will be coming By Sarah • Aug 19, 2014 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman’s black robe Henry Cavill was photographed yesterday in Detroit on the set of Batfleck yesterday wearing his Superman costume underneath a black robe. The money shot, of course, is going to be when we finally get to see him and Ben Affleck’s Batman together. This hasn’t happened yet and Comic- By Lainey • Aug 19, 2014 10:36 am