Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Foxx is a blue albino crocodile Don’t ask me how “blue albino” works, that’s just what is in my head as I look at these set photos of Jamie Foxx as Electro, the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which so far has no cutesy subtitle (The Even More Amazing Spider-Man? Spider-Man: Still Amazing? By Sarah • Apr 16, 2013 12:40 pm
Girlcrushes Conjuring and Casting Rachel McAdams was in Boston a couple of weeks ago. At the time, Emma Stone was in town too, visiting her friend Jennifer Lawrence who was working on a movie with Bradley Cooper. I posted a Girlcrushes article about it here wondering and hoping that it was something to look By Lainey • Apr 12, 2013 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No thanks, Tarzan. We’re good I’m kind of wondering what Alexander Skarsgard’s career management plan looks like. On the one hand, he’s jumping off a successful cable show into films and taking supporting roles in movies like The East and Melancholia and What Maisie Knew, but on the other hand he books By Sarah • Apr 11, 2013 04:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruis-E Yesterday when I wrote about the Elysium trailer I said that making good sci-fi is hard. It’s just a big pit of vipers and the vipers are named things like Exposition and Logic and Narrative Mandate. Good sci-fi requires a huge amount of behind-the-scenes planning, the majority of which By Sarah • Apr 11, 2013 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Please don’t let Elysium be disappointing like Prometheus Was there a bigger let down last year than Prometheus? All the hype, is-it-Alien/is-it-not-Alien, the series of good trailers and stellar viral marketing, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender AND Idris Elba in a movie together, and then…it kind of sucked. A lot. Sci-fi is hard. It’s By Sarah • Apr 10, 2013 10:50 am
Amazingness Liberace was Gay Boogyman The new trailer is out for Behind The Candelabra, HBO’s biopic about Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his boyfriend (Matt Damon), and damn if it doesn’t look like everything you could want it to be. Douglas playing into his naturally creepy old-man vibe, Matt Damon in a speedo (bonus By Dean • Apr 09, 2013 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America 2 is basically justifying Scarlett Johansson’s paycheck In the wake of The Avengers bonanza success last summer, we learned that RDJ raked in—at minimum—fifty million for the film. There was also a rumor that arose in the wake of RDJ’s back-end deal getting exposed that Scarlett Johansson, in order to guarantee her return in By Sarah • Apr 09, 2013 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Iron Man Mandarin Ben Kingsley’s the Mandarin is apparently the villain in the upcoming, highly anticipated Iron Man 3. And here’s Iron Man wearing a mandarin style jacket while promoting the film in Beijing this weekend at the Ancestral Imperial Temple. It’s apparently the first time a Hollywood movie has By Lainey • Apr 08, 2013 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Renner or Joe Pesci? This is Jeremy Renner in costume on the set of that David O Russell Abscam movie. Holy sh-t the cast on this film. That’s 13 nominations between actors and the director, spread across 6 people, and 2 wins (Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale). As we saw earlier this week, By Lainey • Apr 05, 2013 04:24 pm
Quiveration Only God Forgives Ryan Gosling who doesn’t speak A red band trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s new film, his second in a row with Ryan Gosling, was released online yesterday. As you know, their first collaboration was Drive. Ryan Gosling didn’t talk much in Drive. If this trailer is any indication, he speaks even less in By Lainey • Apr 04, 2013 05:27 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Winning Streak Uninterrupted As I mentioned earlier, we took our nephew to see GI Joe the other day. GI Joe opened big this weekend. It’s another win for Channing Tatum who... Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler By Lainey • Apr 04, 2013 04:47 pm
Quiveration RDJ’s Korean Birthday It’s Robert Downey Jr’s birthday today. He’s 48. And he’s celebrating in Seoul promoting Iron Man 3. I wonder if he’d be willing to fly over to Pyongyang and talk some sense into that child running the North who thinks that life is a video By Lainey • Apr 04, 2013 02:02 pm
Style A month of Gwyneth Exactly four weeks to go. In four weeks, Pepper Potts will be in theatres. Oh, of course, and Iron Man too. Iron Man 3 comes out on May 3. Sarah from Cinesnark has been calling it her favourite movie of the year. And most movie fans share her enthusiasm. Iron By Lainey • Apr 04, 2013 01:25 pm
Amazingness Bradley Cooper in the 70s It’s been two days since we had our first look at Bradley Cooper’s perm and still it makes me so happy. Here are some new shots of Coop in costume, with the perm, working on the new David O Russell ABSCAM movie in Boston. Coop can totally pull By Lainey • Apr 04, 2013 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Back In Black with The Great Gatsby New trailer for The Great Gatsby just dropped... And you can hear a few bars of Beyonce’s Back To Black cover collaboration with Andre 3000. There’s also Lana Del Ray, and Florence & The Machine. This soundtrack, produced by Jay-Z, is sounding GOOD. The film too is...looking By Lainey • Apr 04, 2013 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman Here she is in London yesterday shooting what I presume is the film adaptation of S J Watson’s book? Have you read it? If we’re talking literary thrillers, I preferred Before I Go To Sleep over Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Sleep is the creepy version of Drew By Lainey • Apr 03, 2013 01:09 pm
