Movie Reviews and Previews Closer to Peeta? Is there a Hunger Games club you all belong to that I don't know of? Because I've received a lot of email in the last day or so with the same video link and even the same wording, from different senders (I think), about how a By Lainey • Jan 18, 2012 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews You have GOT to be kidding me with Miley Cyrus Over the last year I’ve seen several gossips—Lainey included—state that Miley “Smoke pot? Not me, never!” Cyrus has earned some affection by drawing down her public persona and making some effort at being a more mature pop tartlet. I’ve disagreed all along, issuing a strong BITCH, By Sarah • Jan 11, 2012 09:51 am
Dumbass Les Miserables becomes Les Mis ...with Taylor Swift It was all over the internet last night... Twitch first reported that Taylor Swift and Amanda Seyfried have been offered the parts of Eponine and Cosette respectively in Tom Hooper’s upcoming Les Miserables, scheduled to start shooting in March. Seyfried I can live with, and even welcome, as Cosette. By Lainey • Jan 04, 2012 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews David Fincher movies I was quick to jump on the US Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movie bandwagon after the first trailers were released. I was ready to love it. To be super impressed. To fangirl over a version that I initially labelled unnecessary. Then I saw it. Dragon Tattoo Girl For America By Lainey • Jan 04, 2012 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum is really growing on me And it feels really bizarre to say that. (Lainey: Please note this article was written by Sarah.) It all started with a radio interview with him and Jamie Bell during promotion for that Eagle movie they made. I listened and found myself thinking, You know, Channing Tatum isn't By Sarah • Dec 27, 2011 10:39 am
Media Manipulation Who decided to drop a trailer after Batman? There’s a marketing misstep if ever I saw one. Summer 2012 is stacked with high-profile franchise releases including The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, and one of the more mysterious entries, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Set in the same universe as Scott’s classic Alien, it’s a By Sarah • Dec 23, 2011 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Get out of the way You build for the summer at Christmas. Which is why the studios have been rolling out trailers for all their summer blockbusters. Today, the big one arrived: The Dark Knight Rises. I don’t think Michael Caine could have delivered that line with any more emotion. Right off the top By Lainey • Dec 19, 2011 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Reese Witherspoon: Serious, not sexy Speaking of studying celebrity career moves... Reese Witherspoon is an interesting case. She's popular, not a bad actress, an Oscar winner. Yet the last few years she's eroded a lot of goodwill by making a string of bad movies. Even in this year's Water By Sarah • Dec 19, 2011 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale vs China Christian Bale has been in China promoting The Flowers Of War. I’ve written about the film here and here, the “first time a domestically-funded Chinese movie has placed a Hollywood actor in a leading role” with the transparent intent for the Chinese film industry to go aggressively global, much By Lainey • Dec 16, 2011 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s hard out there for a female director A couple months ago, Marvel Studios announced that Patty Jenkins, director of Monster, would be in charge of Thor 2, which was very exciting as it was only the second time a woman would be in charge of a superhero tent pole project (Lexi Alexander was the first to do By Sarah • Dec 15, 2011 11:20 am
Quiveration Please look like this for Awards Season The first stills from Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby were released yesterday featuring a really, REALLY hot Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby holding on to Carey Mulligan’s Daisy. Like, really hot. Like, SO HOT. Like, maybe the hottest photo taken of him in many, many years. (I know By Lainey • Dec 14, 2011 11:52 am
Amazingness Without Irony I don’t think we can talk about this until you’ve seen it. So here, please watch. The new Rock of Ages trailer. I’ll wait for you on the other side. If you’re looking for someone to snark on it, you’ll have to click away. I By Lainey • Dec 13, 2011 04:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews This year’s Black List, next year’s most anticipated films When Franklin Leonard created the Black List—an annual list of the most popular unproduced scripts circulating around Hollywood—it was a way to see what trends were coming, what sort of projects the execs around town were favoring, and who would be next year’s breakout star. Past Black By Sarah • Dec 13, 2011 11:54 am
Douchebags James Franco: On Twilight & The Descendants James Franco is a movie critic. For the Paris Review. And his latest piece is a study of Twilight 4 and The Descendants which... I mean I guess I kind of love him for comparing boring The Descendants to the boring ass mess that was Twilight 4. Because, as you By Lainey • Dec 13, 2011 11:14 am
Media Manipulation Tattoo Girl in London Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig premiered The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in London tonight, beginning their carpet tour towards the film’s opening on December 21. Reviews for the film are embargoed until tomorrow. But last week there was a big ass drama over the release of The New By Lainey • Dec 12, 2011 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in your face Most of you will, at some point today, have Men In Black 3 thrown in your face after you leave my blog. Or, perhaps you’d already had it thrown in your face before you visited my blog. That was their intention. Sony announced this morning that they’re promoting By Lainey • Dec 12, 2011 01:01 pm
