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, 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
Movie Reviews and Previews What To Expect From Movies For Women Has Motherhood ever been more in style than it is now? These days in Hollywood, pregnancy can make a career and save a career. People are obsessed with getting pregnant, talking about getting pregnant, talking about other people being pregnant, talking about what it was like when they were pregnant, By Lainey • Dec 09, 2011 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom and Pea Coat He looks great in his little pea coat, right? Here’s Tom Cruise with Paula Patton and Simon Pegg at the Moscow premiere of Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, his hands tucked into fingerless gloves - like all the kids are doing these days, man! - and his skin younger and tighter than By Lainey • Dec 09, 2011 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Three Stooges in The Hangover era The Farrelly Brothers made a Three Stooges movie. The first trailer was released yesterday. A lot of people are sh-tting on it. I didn’t have a chance to watch it until this morning. It wasn’t really my flavour but, at the same, I found it more appealing By Lainey • Dec 08, 2011 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Heigl-Kutcher-Duhamel Katherine Heigl’s movies, you know, they’re not exactly rivalling Christopher Nolan’s. Same goes for Ashton Kutcher. And when those two collaborated, we ended up with Killers, maybe one of the worst pieces of sh-t movies of the last 20 years, slightly worse than another piece of By Lainey • Dec 06, 2011 12:27 pm
Maple Leaf Taylor’s movie wasn’t made for me You know I LOVE Taylor Kitsch. You know I want very badly for Taylor Kitsch to have a huge movie star career. Yes, because he’s hot, and of course, because he’s Riggins, but mostly because I’ve met him several times and he’s really, really nice. He By Lainey • Dec 02, 2011 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casting girlfights: Les Miserables edition As I wrote in the article about Anne Hathaway being confirmed as Fantine - click here for a refresher - I love Les Miserables in a very serious, very personal way. In the most corny way. Like, errrm, going to Paris and wanting to walk where Victor Hugo walked. So Page Six By Lainey • Nov 30, 2011 04:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mission: Impossible & Football Check out Tom Cruise arriving in Tokyo today, to the delight of the Hello Kitties waiting for him at the airport, to kick off the press tour for Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, opening on December 21...the same day as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Ethan Hunt vs Lisbeth By Lainey • Nov 30, 2011 10:49 am
