Movie Reviews and Previews Miley unfollows Liam By today’s relationship standards, this is major. Like giving back a varsity jacket. Liam Hemsworth uses Twitter sparingly. Miley Cyrus, as you know, uses Twitter only. So she’d know that we’d know that she unfollowed Liam. She came in like a wrecking ball and all he ever By Lainey • Sep 16, 2013 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Getting to know Newt Scamander J.K. Rowling announced yesterday that she would write the script for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, a movie set in New York, some 70-odd years before Harry Potter, and starring Newt Scamander. You’ve had 24 hours to process the following information: - Yes, there is wizarding By Duana • Sep 13, 2013 11:45 am
Amazingness Mermaids reunion! Omg, where's Cher? Maybe it's better she's not there. My 80s heart would explode with love and maybe never recover. Ok but what song is playing in your head now? There can only be one! I've attached below. Does he love me By Lainey • Sep 13, 2013 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 13, 2013 Dear Gossips, A new trailer for August: Osage County was released yesterday. Better than the first one that came out around Mother’s Day – click here for a refresher – but it still doesn’t quite capture the tone of story if you know the play. There is however more of By Lainey • Sep 13, 2013 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Who wants to put their shoes on? So Lainey emails this morning to see if this is an article I’m interested in writing. Which is exactly the way it goes any other day, with any other article, except that the subject heading wasn’t “This?” or “Do you care?” The subject heading was “Anne Shirley”. SO By Duana • Sep 10, 2013 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I missed them! Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet were at Roy Thomson Hall last night for the premiere of Blood Ties. And I missed them! Etalk assigned me to cover Scarlett Johansson’s carpet instead, which we’ll get to later, but I felt this, I did. I adore them, I do. You By Lainey • Sep 10, 2013 12:31 pm
Media Manipulation Only Meryl can take on Cate It was reported just a few weeks ago that Meryl Streep would not contend for Best Actress at the Oscars in March and that, instead, she would be submitted in the Supporting category, with Julia Roberts representing August: Osage County in the lead to take on Cate Blanchett, the current By Lainey • Sep 10, 2013 10:18 am
Amazingness When Julia met Taylor As mentioned in today’s open, Meryl Streep cancelled last minute due to illness. Which meant that Julia didn’t have to share. We lose for missing Meryl. We win when it’s All About Julia. But look at her. That’s a Movie Star. You are tired of me By Lainey • Sep 10, 2013 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2013 Dear Gossips, TIFF's artistic director, Cameron Bailey, had a great weekend. So far, almost all the "possible contenders" have delivered, the most notable being Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, which now seems like a straight up lock for a Best Picture Oscar nomination, By Lainey • Sep 09, 2013 08:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Diana’s bad reviews You should read some of the reviews for Diana. They’re brutal. Here’s a sample: “Poor Princess Diana. I hesitate to use the term "car crash cinema". But the awful truth is that, 16 years after that terrible day in 1997, she has died another awful death. By Lainey • Sep 06, 2013 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourselves for Oscar: TIFF 2013 Preview People keep complaining about how terrible movies are, and while yes, it was a bad summer for the studios, there have already been some pretty great movies this year. If anything, the ham-stringing of the tent poles opened up the market for smaller independent and character-driven movies to emerge and By Sarah • Sep 05, 2013 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jakey post-Persia What I wrote yesterday about Charlie Hunnam’s decision to play Christian Grey in Fifty Shades Of Grey – click here for a refresher -- and whether or not it would be like Batman for George Clooney, a role he’d regret and have to make up for… It’s what By Lainey • Sep 04, 2013 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No excuses from Channing Tatum? White House Down was not a hit for Channing Tatum. He and Jamie Foxx are in Europe right now trying to make up for some of those losses but it won’t be enough. WHD is Tatum’s first stumble after a series of smash hits. What’s his excuse? By Lainey • Sep 03, 2013 11:13 am
Style Scarlett Johansson, alien, in Venice Scarlett Johansson was in Venice today to promote Under The Skin. She arrived at the festival with her boyfriend, Romain Dauriac. They’ve been together now for almost a year. Look at her, wearing the f-cking sh-t out of those pants. In Under The Skin, Scarlett is an alien who By Lainey • Sep 03, 2013 10:58 am
Media Manipulation Dakota Johnson & Charlie Hunnam: Anastasia & Christian EL James, the author of Fifty Shades Of Grey, announced yesterday that she’d found an actress to play her in her fantasy with Robert Pattinson. Dakota Johnson will be Anastasia Steele. Charlie Hunnan is Christian Grey. So the biggest move of his career is a replacement for Robert Pattinson. By Lainey • Sep 03, 2013 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy Locke Tom Hardy was in Venice this weekend to promote his new film Locke. The timing could not be better. Because the last time we talked about Tom Hardy it was about his Twitter account. And that f-cking video. Click here for a refresher if you have to but if you By Lainey • Sep 03, 2013 08:53 am
