Dumbass Are they offering refunds? Crowdfunding for movies with established stars attached – it’s all a bit confusing isn’t it? Like, why would I give money to James Franco? (Read Sarah’s thoughts on it here). Not that I’m telling anyone how to spend their money, but $40 for a T-shirt from a By Maria • Jul 18, 2013 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blonde Channing Tatum He’s in Chicago shooting Jupiter Ascending. And he’s blonde, the kind of blonde that looks tinted green in some light. You dig it? I … kinda do. That may be because I like him so much (by celebrity standards) or it could be because, ultimately, I’m one of By Lainey • Jul 18, 2013 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2013: The Dorkening It’s July, which means it’s time once again for the annual Gathering of the Geeks down in San Diego, otherwise known as Comic-Con. It also means we’re going to be getting a deluge of trailers and production announcements as studios and networks hawk their wares. Thursday Comic-Con By Sarah • Jul 17, 2013 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jen's fringed bob This is apparently what Jennifer Aniston's hair in Squirrels For The Nuts will look like. This is apparently what "therapist" hair looks like? She plays one in the film. Here's Jen heading to set today wearing her big engagement ring. These shots provide a By Lainey • Jul 17, 2013 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Vera and The Conjuring Check out Vera Farmiga arriving in Vancouver to begin production on the second season of Bates Motel. Her new film The Conjuring opens this weekend. It’s currently sitting at 90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. I was at The Conjuring junket for etalk a couple of weeks ago in San By Lainey • Jul 17, 2013 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 12 Years a Slave is coming for Oscar The first trailer for Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is out and holy hell, you guys. A friend put it perfectly—this isn’t Oscar bait-y, this is Oscar win-y. Based on the true story of a man who was born free in the North and then kidnapped By Sarah • Jul 17, 2013 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling’s summer suit He looks great in this light coloured suit, non? Ryan Gosling was in New York last night for the premiere of Only God Forgives. He also participated in a Q&A session with director Nicolas Winding Refn and castmates Vithaya Pansringarm, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Yayaying Rhatha Phongam. Below By Lainey • Jul 17, 2013 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cranston and Jackman Two decent men. Two wonderful actors. I thought it’d be a nice way to end another day of bad news. Here’s Hugh Jackman in London at the premiere The Wolverine. He’s awesome and generous and great at his job, all aspects of it, as usual. And here’ By Lainey • Jul 16, 2013 05:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Aniston’s Squirrels To The Nuts That’s the name of the movie. It’s a good one, for serious. And I hope they don’t change it. They just changed the name of Tom Cruise’s All You Need Is Kill to Edge Of Tomorrow, which is dumb. Anyway, Squirrels To The Nuts is being By Lainey • Jul 16, 2013 03:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar season Idris? Deadline posted an article earlier this week about the upcoming award season and the possibility that it might actually be more diverse this year than it has been, maybe, ever. Fruitvale opens this weekend after coming out strong from Sundance. Then there’s The Butler, and Twelve Years A Slave, By Lainey • Jul 12, 2013 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s Oldboy One of the most crazily violent, and just plain crazy, movies I’ve seen is Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy, a classic of South Korean action cinema from 2003. It’s a twisted story of torture and revenge, loosely based on The Count of Monte Cristo, with some of the most By Sarah • Jul 12, 2013 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck: lying, cheating husband gets punked? Fact or fiction? Fiction, OF COURSE it’s fiction. Ben Affleck met with David Fincher the other day. Click here to see the photos. At the time I asked if it was a directors’ lunch or whether or not it was an actor meeting with a director and it turns By Lainey • Jul 12, 2013 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks wants that third Oscar He must be thinking, “Daniel Day-Lewis has three. Why not me?” First in October, Tom Hanks has Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips, about the Maersk Alabama’s crew being taken hostage by Somali pirates, which is sure to be a tense and heroic turn for Hanks. And then in December By Sarah • Jul 12, 2013 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Hawaii F-ck Henry Cavill, OK? When even one half of My Obsession is around, Henry Cavill can wait. Aaron Taylor-Johnson spent a couple of months in Vancouver shooting Godzilla. Production on the film has been moved to Oahu, Hawaii. Check him out, all American army buffed and, at the same time, By Lainey • Jul 12, 2013 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews King RDJ Uneasy is the head that wears the crown It would apply to Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, once all kings of the box office. For now though, RDJ’s reign seems pretty secure. He was first out with Iron Man 3. They came, they tried, they were turned away. By Lainey • Jul 11, 2013 05:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man loves Wallace, Vince, and maybe the Human Torch? If you’ve been reading my blog long enough, you know I’ve been selling you on Michael B Jordan. Of The Wire, of Friday Night Lights, and now, of Fruitvale which is generating a lot of great buzz out of Sundance and opens this weekend in select cities but, By Lainey • Jul 10, 2013 04:22 pm
