Quiveration Ejiofor, Fassbender and Pitt are conspiring against us I love Michael Fassbender. I almost love him more than Ryan Gosling. I love him so much I never want to meet/see him for fear of him doing something to wreck my crush. I love him, shark smile and all. There’s no point to this, I just wanted By Sarah • Oct 26, 2011 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Henry Cavill is ripped The new Superman movie is shooting in Vancouver. Henry Cavill was working with the green screen yesterday for a scene that evidently involves him trying to hang on to a helicopter. Or something. Does it matter??? There will be special effects and explosions and stunts and it’ll stimulate you By Lainey • Oct 26, 2011 11:34 am
Quiveration John Cho is hot And he looks SUPER hot right now. Is it the hair? John and Kal Penn were at MuchMusic in Toronto yesterday to promote A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. Let’s not mention the fact that the Much audience is, like, 14. And how did you watch Go To By Lainey • Oct 21, 2011 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews China & Bale for Oscar? Last December I wrote about Zhang Yimou’s Thirteen Women of Nanjing - click here for a refresher - starring Christian Bale in the first domestically-funded Chinese film with a Hollywood actor in the lead role. The film has been renamed The Flowers of War and China is hoping it By Lainey • Oct 20, 2011 05:35 pm
Media Manipulation Not sure this works Orlando Bloom is making the rounds in New York to promote The Three Musketeers. It opens this weekend and... well... the reviews so far have been dismal. And apparently Paranormal Activity 3 is expected to win the box office this weekend while many predict that Musketeers, starring real(ish) actors, By Lainey • Oct 20, 2011 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Catwoman is Fantine I LOVE Les Miserables. Both the novel and the musical. In a very, very personal way. In the way you love something for what you associate it with the first time you read it or see it, and what that meant to you, and how that meaning evolves. Les Miserables By Lainey • Oct 18, 2011 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s not just Rooney Mara ... In the November issue of Vogue. It’s Rooney Mara AND her creator David Fincher. Yes. I said creator. Read the article and see if you don’t feel the same way afterwards. One of the BEST Vogue celebrity profiles in a LONG, LONG time. So much better than the By Lainey • Oct 17, 2011 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Straight up money-grab The trailer for This Means War was released online yesterday. The movie was shot in Vancouver, starring Tom Hardy and Chris Pine as CIA agents in love with the same woman, warring, literally, with like bombs and sh-t, over her heart. So, obviously, totally preposterous. This is what we’re By Lainey • Oct 14, 2011 12:51 pm
BFFs Fassy & McQueen can’t stay apart Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen presented Shame at the London Film Festival today. Shame, as you know, is their second collaboration and word is they will work together for a third time on 12 Years A Slave, the true story of Solomon Northrup with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the lead role. By Lainey • Oct 14, 2011 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Termagant. Is there a celebrity more suited to the word? I have never actually been personally lectured by Julia Roberts. But for some reason I have a memory of it, you know what I mean? And when it comes to Julia, it’s even more extraordinary, her legendary sanctimony, when in By Lainey • Oct 13, 2011 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Prince Armie You remember my friend with all the hang-ups, even when people wear Converse? Click here if you missed that article yesterday. Well she also has one about shortened man-names that she finds infantile. I had to hear about it in another rant yesterday. Like "Bobby" instead of Bob By Lainey • Oct 12, 2011 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s not a romantic comedy So why is Kate Hudson in it? Fair question. But finally, right? Here’s Kate Hudson with Riz Ahmed in New York and brown hair shooting outside the Met yesterday. It’s called The Reluctant Fundamentalist based on the book by Mohsin Hamid which made the Booker Prize shortlist a By Lainey • Oct 12, 2011 09:51 am
Amazingness Thanksgiving As You Wish Entertainment Weekly is doing a cast reunion special in its new issue. One of the reunions: The Princess Bride !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can we all agree that there is no fighting about The Princess Bride? As the magazine points out, The Princess Bride was not a mega box office performer. There were no By Lainey • Oct 07, 2011 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle goes back-to-back? Michelle Williams was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar last year in Blue Valentine. They’ve been buzzing about it for weeks but now that the first trailer for My Week With Marilyn has been released, the hype has become much louder. Could she go two for two? Michelle, of By Lainey • Oct 06, 2011 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandy & the fastest man alive Sandra Bullock and Usain Bolt were both at Mr Chow last night for dinner. Some people tried to suggest that it was a date. Apparently all they did was pose for a photo together inside. Hilarious, right? Let us not speak of what happened last month at the Worlds. Let’ By Lainey • Sep 29, 2011 05:59 pm
Style The new Bourne looks good in pants You don’t have to be tall to work a pair of pants well. Jake Gyllenhaal is tall and he finds pants problematic rather often. Jeremy Renner is not tall and, well, here leaving the set of The Bourne Legacy yesterday in New York, Jeremy demonstrates that he can do By Lainey • Sep 28, 2011 05:28 pm
