Movie Reviews and Previews “I’m still betting on you, Girl On Fire” You ready? She’s coming. Here’s Jennifer Lawrence, aka Katniss Everdeen, the Girl On Fire, arriving at LAX yesterday presumably to prepare for the Catching Fire press tour. She will be everywhere up in your face for the next few weeks leading up to the November 22 premiere. A By Lainey • Nov 05, 2013 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Granny blonde and bobbed Nicole Kidman is shooting Paddington (yes, about the bear) in London. She plays a bad bitch called Millicent who presumably wants to stuff Paddington and hang him on her wall. As you can see, her character is a blonde, with a fringed bob. I love that a new generation of By Lainey • Nov 04, 2013 11:16 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Idris Elba’s good news? Idris Elba was in Johannesburg yesterday for the premiere of Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. Many members of Madiba’s family were there (the film has their enthusiastic blessing) and it appears that Elba was warmly received. Madiba’s wife Graca Machel greeted him by saying, "Let me hug By Lainey • Nov 04, 2013 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Only Lovers Left Alive is funny? After premiering at Cannes and screening at TIFF, Only Lovers Left Alive, aka the vampire movie with Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, finally has a trailer. And it looks funny, maybe? Funny is not a word I would use to describe writer/director Jim Jarmusch—usually I would go with By Sarah • Nov 04, 2013 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews American Hiddlemas As we enter our third week of Hiddlemas, celebrations move to America as the patron saint himself, Saint Tom the Huge Dork, has come to ring in the festivities by, what else, being a huge dork. But this time, he’s being a huge dork with kids, which is the By Sarah • Nov 01, 2013 02:47 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Spermy’s Halloween Here are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner trick-or-treating with their kids yesterday, not in costume. Because, as she told Ellen Degeneres, the one year they dressed up, none of the other parents did, so Ben said he’s never doing it again. It was one of those wholesome family stories By Lainey • Nov 01, 2013 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The LEGO Movie: Everything is awesome At first, The LEGO Movie sounded like exactly the kind of consumerist filmmaking that is tanking summer movies (see also: Transformers, Battleship), but the first trailer was funny, and despite its graveyard shift release in February, I was optimistic. Now the second trailer has been released and I am totally By Sarah • Nov 01, 2013 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee & Pipsqueak It was announced a few months ago that Justin Timberlake would play Neil Bogart in a biopic of the music producer’s life called Spinning Gold. Now The Hollywood Reporter says that they want Spike Lee to direct. Ummmm… I don’t need to see any more acting from JT By Lainey • Oct 31, 2013 04:03 pm
Media Manipulation Which would you rather: Aaron Taylor-Johnson edition This week in Duh, We Knew That news, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has officially joined the cast of The Avengers: Age of Ultron as Quicksilver, the one hero more worthless than Hawkeye. Word that Taylor-Johnson was being tapped for the role came out early last summer and then he gave some not-very-coy By Sarah • Oct 31, 2013 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne, Matthew, and the Nolan secrets Whenever Sarah talks about JJ Abrams, she always refers to him and his super secrety secrets approach to his projects. I get it. Sh-t is leaking everywhere these days. And he wants to preserve the integrity of his work. You know who’s also super secrety with all of his By Lainey • Oct 30, 2013 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In Which I Defend My Beloveds. It has come to my attention that there is some unrest about the Veronica Mars movie. People - in my case, Sarah, who thought that the trailer looks “janky” and is being a good sport about this article - have had some critiques about it that center around the recent By Duana • Oct 30, 2013 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James McAvoy needs to hope again I’m a sucker for goose fleshy music in a movie trailer if it’s done well. Which is an obvious thing to say. But the goose fleshy music attempt is so often attempted, with sh-tty results, that it feels more and more like it doesn’t happen enough. It By Lainey • Oct 29, 2013 10:53 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jamie Dornan’s turn Now that Jamie Dornan’s been confirmed as Charlie Hunnam’s replacement for Robert Pattinson in Fifty Shades Of Grey, the paps have a new target. Check out Jamie with his wife Amelia Warner in London this weekend. The look on his face is cracking me up. He’s like, By Lainey • Oct 28, 2013 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s wedding The Germany premiere of Thor: The Dark World occurred over the weekend and—gasp—a rare wild Hemsworth appeared. We’ve been poking at Chris Hemsworth for his lackluster presence in his own franchise’s promotions, and after the London premiere I didn’t expect to see him again until By Sarah • Oct 28, 2013 10:12 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Jolie’s bad pants Angelina Jolie took her kids out shopping the other day in Queensland, Australia where she’s directing her next film Unbroken. I don’t understand these pants. Like, I’m all for an elastic waistband but these…these are not sweatpants. The material is too nice. These are more like… By Lainey • Oct 28, 2013 09:26 am
Sports Ben Foster IS Lance Armstrong Holy. Sh-t. This is NOT Lance Armstrong. This is Ben Foster PLAYING Lance Armstrong. Amazing, right? They just started shooting the biopic last week with Stephen Frears directing. I was going to see this movie anyway because, well, I followed Armstrong for a long time. I naively/stupidly/blindly believed By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 02:04 pm
