Hook Ups Rooney & Joaquin See? Gossip is comin’ at us from all over the place this year. Page Six reported that Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix, who worked together on Her and, most recently, Mary Magdalene (he plays Jesus), “found love on the set”. They were shooting in the desert, away from the city, By Lainey • Jan 11, 2017 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney Mara in Una While standing in line for Una, the film adaptation of David Harrower’s play Blackbird, earlier this week, one of the PR reps for the film told me she had already noticed an audience divide forming around it—men almost uniformly hated it, but women were moved by it. Then, By Sarah • Sep 15, 2016 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lion, the word of mouth movie of TIFF, & a "love letter" to Nicole Kidman's children Word at TIFF travels fast. Sometimes, a little too fast. And Lion surprised everybody when it premiered on Saturday to "ugly cries" and a standing ovation. It's the based-on-a-true-story Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara adoption movie that is seemingly sponsored by Google Earth, and which By Joanna • Sep 12, 2016 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The pre-Oscar class photo? Take a look at this low key, chilled out group picture with some of the most buzzworthy stars and filmmakers of 2016, all together, sitting on the ground. And check out Amy Adams’s beaming smile. Pure joy… and stamina. This edition of the #Telluride group photo is a who& By Joanna • Sep 06, 2016 02:40 pm
Faux Gossip Jake & Rooney? Jake Gyllenhaal and Rooney Mara went for a walk together in New York yesterday. Now everyone’s wondering whether or not they’re dating. Descriptions like this, direct from the photo agency releasing these shots, certainly help: Actors and rumored new couple Jake Gyllenhaal & Rooney Mara were seen out By Lainey • Jun 21, 2016 12:12 pm
Oscars 2016 Rooney Mara is a Well-Dressed Oscars Suck I love, love, love the word ‘suck’. Not like ‘that sucks’, although I do frequently employ that terminology— but like, ‘you’re being a suck’. Remember when we were kids and someone was always being a sucky baby? Now when we talk about it, we use kids’ language and say By Duana • Feb 29, 2016 03:11 pm
Business of Hollywood Rooney Mara is wishy-washy on whitewashing It is not my preference to go after actors in the ongoing #OscarsSoWhite and the Hollywood diversity crisis. (Want to be depressed? Read this super sad and regressive study of diversity within industry ranks from the studio C-suites on down.) But actors are usually the most visible people connecting a By Sarah • Feb 23, 2016 01:12 pm
Golden Globes 2016 Rooney Mara: Globes Les Miserables The problem with this dress (Alexander McQueen) is that it feels dated to me. Like I’ve seen it before in Beyonce or JLO music video, either one of them crawling suggestively on a dance floor with their clothes shredded, from all the explosive sex that inevitably happens when they’ By Lainey • Jan 11, 2016 02:44 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Rooney’s first black dress of the year I don’t normally like a lace underlayer. It’s hard to do without looking tacky. This, however, is probably the best I’ve ever seen. Because it’s not tight. The construction of the skirt, with the volume, and then the strip of lace underneath that compliments the lace By Lainey • Jan 04, 2016 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in (a Christmas) Carol (Lainey: the “Christmas” in the title is my corny addition and not Sarah’s. Am working on a theme today.) Todd Haynes made one of my all-time favorite films, Velvet Goldmine, which is about a young man’s sexual awakening at the hands of a more experienced man during the By Sarah • Dec 24, 2015 10:49 am
Media Manipulation Harvey’s hopes for Rooney & Jake Harvey Weinstein wrote a piece for The Hollywood Reporter that was published yesterday about award season, specifically about his concerns about award season and how the only films considered are the ones that are released in the fall, ignoring quality features that opened earlier in the year. After complimenting other By Lainey • Dec 04, 2015 10:52 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Rooney’s red and pink If this was just a blush tiered dress, I’d be bored and think it was Elie Saab. It’s the jacket that makes the entire look totally amazing. Like military with attitude, especially way the way it buttons diagonally so that the two red stripes look like bold, aggressive By Lainey • Nov 16, 2015 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pan is wrong in every possible way Some movies are bad, and others are disastrous, but a few movies blow straight past your regular levels of terrible and land the realm of the just plain WRONG. This is where Pan lives. This is a movie made for no one, and it totally faceplanted at the box office By Sarah • Oct 12, 2015 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney Mara feels really bad about this whole Tiger Lily thing Casting Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily in Pan is not a move that went over well anywhere, and since she’s doing press to promote the movie, which comes out this weekend, Mara is now answering questions about the casting and whitewashing of what should have been a high-profile role By Sarah • Oct 06, 2015 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are enchanting in Carol I know, I know, “enchanting” is a stupid word, but I don’t know how else to describe it. The US trailer for Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel about a mid-century lesbian romance, just came out and it IS enchanting. It’s so beautiful in its period detail By Sarah • Sep 09, 2015 03:52 pm
Cannes 2015 Cate Blanchett & Solange Not shocking at all – they loved Todd Haynes’s Carol in Cannes. Cate Blanchett? Marvelous, as usual. And Rooney Mara’s performance is being called the best of her career too. They’re saying they could both be nominated for Oscars. Cate’s becoming like Meryl now. Whatever she does By Lainey • May 18, 2015 01:16 pm
