Movie Reviews and Previews Festival hopping with Mia & Jesse Mia Wasikowska walked the carpet in black last night at the Venice Film Festival for Tracks. The reviews have been solid and, once again, Wasikowska has delivered a fine performance, re-confirming her status as one of the most talented young actresses of her generation. Tracks will also screen at TIFF. By Lainey • Aug 30, 2013 12:03 pm
Dumbass Armie’s underwhelming summer Armie Hammer was supposed to be a big time movie star by now. Only The Lone Ranger didn’t deliver. But, you know, that was the critics’ fault. Blame them. If the critics didn’t take a dump on the movie, would Armie Hammer have had a shot at Batman? By Lainey • Aug 30, 2013 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James Spader is an evil robot The Avengers have their Ultron, the psychotic rampaging robot who tries to destroy humanity, and they’ve found him in the form of James Spader. *record scratch* What a WEIRD pick. But weird/good, not weird/bad. It’s just so out of left field. And yet, as I think By Sarah • Aug 30, 2013 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gravity is good, Sandy challenges Cate Gravity might be great. Rapturous early reviews are coming out of the Venice Film Festival where Sandra Bullock and George Clooney presented the film for the first time yesterday. The film is being called a visual masterpiece, in particular its 13 minute opening – a single shot. This, then, is not By Lainey • Aug 29, 2013 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 29, 2013 Dear Gossips, A change in format today. I have press all day for The Social, our upcoming afternoon talk show premiering on Monday on CTV in Canada. We start at 6am ET with interviews every half hour or so. Normally I try to structure my work schedule to accommodate for By Lainey • Aug 29, 2013 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Carrie returns I have a love/hate relationship with horror movies; the love stems from a childhood spent watching Hitchcock, Vincent Price and Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the hate comes from the late trend of torture porn that’s strictly about the fetishizing of female fear for consumption by a predominantly By Sarah • Aug 28, 2013 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch weekend in a week The Fifth Estate opens TIFF a week tomorrow. Am kind of curious to see how many of Benedict Cumberbatch’s fans show up at Roy Thomson Hall that night. And what level of Twi-Hard they reach. Like will they be breaking into all the hotels in the vicinity? Will they By Lainey • Aug 28, 2013 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Walking out on James McAvoy James McAvoy will be at TIFF with Jessica Chastain for a preview of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her/Him. The last time he was at TIFF we had a cigarette out the window. I think he’s quit now. Or maybe he’s switched to e-cigs like me. So By Lainey • Aug 28, 2013 11:50 am
BFFs Why can’t this be more than friends? Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are kicking off the Venice Film Festival tonight with Gravity. Here they are at the photocall this afternoon. Now WHYYYYYYYYYYY can’t this be more than friends? They clearly like each other. And if the physical is any indication, they seem to bring out the By Lainey • Aug 28, 2013 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey in the first Dallas Buyers Club trailer We saw the pictures from the set last year and what we've been asking so far about Dallas Buyers Club has been pretty fluffy stuff like - how did Matthew McConaughey lose all that weight?! Or maybe - is he replacing Julie Bowen as my new thinspo?? (KIDDING! By Dean • Aug 28, 2013 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Katie shoots at home Katie Holmes is from Ohio. She's shooting a movie in Ohio now called Miss Meadows. I guess that's quite a Miss Meadows outfit then. It'd be a Diane Kruger outfit but for the shoes though. Her co-star in the film is James Badge Dale. By Lainey • Aug 27, 2013 04:02 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Sandy, Louis, and George together again The Venice Film Festival opens tomorrow. First film: Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. I’ve talked to a few people at TIFF. They all said it’s an extraordinary piece of filmmaking. So for those of you who’ve been asking me what to line up for at By Lainey • Aug 27, 2013 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Divergent first teaser Shailene’s somehow unannoying VMAs There was a kind of feeling of quiet despair at the VMAs. Did you feel it, at home on your couch? I think it was because there was so much promise – NSYNC, Taylor and Harry, Drake – and then so much sweaty disappointment. The four members of NSYNC who know that By Duana • Aug 26, 2013 12:31 pm
Style Best Dressed Of The Week: Robert Sheehan He’s in Madrid with Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower. I don’t see why I have to justify why he’s the Best Dressed Of The Week. But if you really want me to, here’s how I break it down: -Nathan is wearing a carpet on the By Lainey • Aug 23, 2013 01:30 pm
TV Updates Who is Troy Dyer? If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you know how a few of us here feel about Reality Bites – ok maybe just Duana and me. This is the origin of our love-hate for Ethan Hawke. And our enduring love for loafers with anything. If you clicked on the By Lainey • Aug 23, 2013 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is a space raccoon After the relief of Vin Diesel being relegated to playing a tree, the next bout of Marvel casting speculation turned to the final piece of the Guardians of the Galaxy puzzle—who would voice Rocket Raccoon, the trigger happy space varmint and biggest WTF element of a WTF-heavy concept. Rocket By Sarah • Aug 23, 2013 09:48 am
