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’ 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 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
Girlcrushes Snow White is a bad ass? Kristen Stewart’s version is supposed to be. Snow White & the Huntsman imagines Snow White as a warrior princess, throwing down against the evil queen. So here she is, shooting in England today on the beach, leading her army into battle. Stewart looks comfortable, to me at least, on By Lainey • Sep 28, 2011 02:47 pm
Girly Throw Downs Salma, stepmother I kept meaning to write about this during TIFF but it always ended up getting buried. So you know Salma Hayek’s husband Francois-Henri Pinault fathered a baby with Linda Evangelista and now she’s suing him for child support because she says he gives his other baby, with By Lainey • Sep 27, 2011 05:07 pm
Parent Pimps 3% That’s the rating for Taylor Lautner’s Abduction on Rotten Tomatoes. 3%! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it go lower than 5. I mean, I’m sure there are films who’ve scored less, and I’m sure you’ll know-it-all all over my By Lainey • Sep 26, 2011 05:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kung Fu RDJ Robert Downey Jr and Rachel McAdams were photographed today working on Sherlock Holmes in London. The movie is due for a holiday release and Guy Ritchie has already been cutting it for months. Rachel will only be making a cameo in the film. Noomi Rapace is officially the female lead. By Lainey • Sep 22, 2011 07:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Girl Dragon Tat new trailer How is it already the end of September? David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is due out in just three months. We’ll start to see the buzz build for it soon especially now that a second trailer has been released. And it’s long! Almost 4 By Lainey • Sep 22, 2011 04:26 am
Gorgessity Vera the director Love Vera Farmiga. Sometimes she dresses like a crazy person though. Remember this? Vera did much better on the cover of the new issue of NUVO Magazine. Beautiful. My favourite story about Vera is how honest she is about Up In The Air, specifically that she’d just had a By Lainey • Sep 22, 2011 04:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Princess Asstalk thrives in January? Knocked Up was a big hit for Katherine Heigl. But that wasn’t her movie. And, as she subsequently noted, she, um, wasn’t proud of that movie anyway. I wonder if she’s proud of any of her movies...? Like, is she proud of Killers??? It was 27 Dresses By Lainey • Sep 21, 2011 08:37 am
