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 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 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 featurette. The 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. 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 By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Winter Soldier is coming Everyone is sweating bullets about Thor: The Dark World’s box office, but really, they ought to be worried about Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Captain America is, as the joke goes, nobody’s favorite. He’s one of the oldest characters in Marvel’s cannon (the oldest? Help me By Sarah • Oct 24, 2013 01:19 pm
BFFs Will Leo be going back there? There was an article on PEOPLE yesterday about how Leonardo DiCaprio was at the same restaurant in New York three times in the last week. It’s called Merchants River House and they had his order down to specific detail: warm spinach and artichoke dip all the time, steamed chicken By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg will take care of it Check out Mark Wahlberg in Hong Kong today working on Transformers 4 with Michael Bay who wants you to see how hot he is and that’s why Victoria’s Secret models will date him. Last week Bay was attacked by an air conditioner – click here for Sarah’s report By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 11:27 am
Amazingness Nicolas Cage is “open to the world” I’ve been waiting a while for new photos to post of Nicolas Cage. Like 3 months, actually. That’s how long it’s been since his awesome interview with The Guardian in July. I mean, this is what you want in a Movie Star. They water them down too By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds’s birthday wax It was Ryan Reynolds’s 37th birthday yesterday. He celebrated in New Orleans with his brand new wax figure at Madame Tussaud’s. He also spent part of the day in a Lamborghini on the set of his new film Selfless. And, because she’s the true heir to Martha By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Dornan replaces Robert Pattinson’s replacement Fifty Shades Of Grey was initially written as Twilight fan fiction. As I’ve said before, it was the author, with her hand between her legs, transferring that onto the page. Anyone who plays Christian Grey then is simply a replacement for Robert Pattinson. Would it be reasonable to ask By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 08:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews First Annual Hiddlemas Parade Continuing the (newly minted) holiday celebrating all things goofy and long-legged, Hiddlemas marked its second week by having a festive parade on a carpet that happened to be red. The parade was overseen by Grand Marshall Chris Hemsworth, with a tie knot tied so tiny-ly that it made By Sarah • Oct 23, 2013 11:00 am
Media Manipulation George is delayed The LA Times broke the news yesterday that George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, originally expected to be an award season contender, will now be pushed to early 2014. According to Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov, they don’t have enough time to complete the special effects. Here’ By Lainey • Oct 23, 2013 10:13 am
