Movie Reviews and Previews You are not Bruce Willis But he’s trying... Gerard Butler made another movie. I know! I mean I don’t! I don’t know why they keep hiring him either! This time, as many people have already pointed it, it’s Die Hard except without Bruce Willis, and Gerry Spittles is alone with the By Lainey • Jan 22, 2013 04:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jakey shaved and under-loved It’s been a while, right?, since we’ve seen Jake Gyllenhaal so clean-shaven? He was hairy for Broadway for several months. Now it’s all come off, here in Georgia, on the set of Prisoners with Hugh Jackman (not pictured). That...is definitely not an electronic cigarette. Sh-t. Now By Lainey • Jan 21, 2013 05:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Granny goes “indie” Last week, on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter, Nicole Kidman was all like, “I am the indie spirit, and that’s where my art is, not with the big box office movies”. So here she is, at Sundance this weekend, being “indie”. Everyone else is in parkas and Sorels By Lainey • Jan 21, 2013 01:50 pm
Media Manipulation Best Actors in scarves Daniel Day-Lewis was in Madrid yesterday promoting Lincoln in a peacoat and scarf. Judging from your email and tweets, you really enjoyed this, as did I. Bradley Cooper was also in Madrid yesterday, also in a scarf. As you know, Coop has been nominated alongside DDL for a Best Actor By Lainey • Jan 17, 2013 12:08 pm
Lainey Interviews Nicholas Hoult: 2 for 2 A great week is only getting better, starting the second day in a row with Nicholas Hoult, currently in the #2 position on my Five List. Here he is in a well tailored suit at the premiere of Warm Bodies in Rome. My cousin Cat wrote to me yesterday, “I By Lainey • Jan 17, 2013 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2013 Preview: 15 films to look out for Oh relax, I’ll keep it short(ish). Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Casey Affleck has appeared in only one movie since the Joaquin Phoenix/I’m Still Here debacle in 2010, and that was the loathsome Tower Heist in 2011. But he’s back now (…good?), starring alongside Rooney By Sarah • Jan 16, 2013 02:53 pm
Maple Leaf Talk Show Ryan Promotion for Gangster Squad on the talk show circuit is being shouldered, primarily, by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. I mean, it’s not like they’re going to send Sean Penn out there. And, well, the young ones are just so pretty and fun and polished. Look at Ryan By Lainey • Jan 11, 2013 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Finnick... The new cover of Entertainment Weekly -- Jennifer Lawrence and Sam Claflin as Katniss and Finnick in Catching Fire with a still from the movie on the inside. How you doing? You OK with that? The shot from the film is better, I guess, but whatever it is that’s By Lainey • Jan 09, 2013 04:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac & the Quirky Girl Check out Zac Efron with Imogen Poots shooting Are We Officially Dating? He and his two boys vow not to get girlfriends and then, naturally, he falls in love, and, hold up, hold up... She’s a Quirky Girl, isn’t she? She’s what the internet has termed the By Lainey • Jan 08, 2013 04:45 pm
BFFs Emma & Ryan Been in LA since Friday to cover 4 junkets, including Gangster Squad and the LA premiere last night. Ryan Gosling wore the sh-t out of his brown suit. And his shoes... I looked down at them when he was being interviewed by the outlet just ahead of me on the By Lainey • Jan 08, 2013 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie Redmayne, Christian Grey At this point, who HASN’T been mentioned for Christian Grey? Wait, I know... Anthony Mackie. Anthony Mackie should be Christian Grey. Anyway, yesterday I wrote about Eddie Redmayne and how, after Les Miserables, he’s now a teen heartthrob. And then many of you shouted back that he appeals By Lainey • Jan 08, 2013 11:36 am
Style Naomi Watts: easing in to award season Palm Springs Film Festival on Saturday night -- the first of several major events in the next 10 days: Oscar nominations are coming Thursday morning followed by the Critics’ Choice Awards that night, and then, of course, the Golden Globes on Sunday. As the later events will probably get a By Lainey • Jan 07, 2013 01:16 pm
Media Manipulation Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the new movie star Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants superstardom. He’s already in the mix for the next Batman, carrying into DC/WB’s Justice League movie, and now he’s been revealed as the late entry into Marvel’s casting pool for the lead role in Guardians of the Galaxy, as space captain Peter By Sarah • Jan 03, 2013 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The case against Les Miserables Many of you have emailed to fret about some of the reviews. Les Miserables is currently sitting at 72% on Rotten Tomatoes and 61% on Metacritic which doesn’t suck, no, but there have indeed been certain critics who’ve been vicious in their disdain: it’s so melodramatic, and By Lainey • Dec 24, 2012 01:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What to Watch When Christmas Turns You Quaint I live in New York City. I waste hours a day on the internet. I have serious guilt about my Amazon usage. I’m bloggin’. The point I’m trying to make is that I’ve pretty much embraced modern urban life. But something changes every year when the holidays By Dean • Dec 20, 2012 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Baz makes Leo so pretty Leonardo DiCaprio was never so pretty as he was for Baz Luhrmann in Romeo + Juliet. As Dean wrote last week when he eulogised Leo’s sexiness -- click here for a refresher -- that’s the Leo we keep clinging to, the one we see with our memories instead of By Lainey • Dec 20, 2012 01:11 pm
