Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Capone There is a line between “good” and “bad” where quantifiable binary judgments don’t matter because the thing itself is so interesting. Great filmmakers like David Lynch and David Cronenberg frequently walk this line, creating works that are unpleasant, indecipherable, possibly in bad taste and yet are captivating regardless of By Sarah • May 14, 2020 10:56 am
Gossip Nostalgia Mad Max: Fury Road turns 5 Mad Max: Fury Road was released on May 5, 2015 – 5.15.15. To mark its fifth anniversary on Friday, The New York Times has published an oral history of Mad Max: Fury Road featuring commentary from several of the key players, including director George Miller, lead stars Charlize Theron By Lainey • May 13, 2020 11:55 am
TV Updates Hug Me, by Tom Hardy Tom Hardy is very popular with the dude-bros what with all his tough guy roles and the superhero thing, twice: Bane and Venom. He is also very popular with parents in England, especially the moms in England, for his semi-regular appearances on BBC’s CBeebies. He’s doing one tonight By Lainey • Apr 27, 2020 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Remember Tom Hardy?! This was Lainey’s email subject to me after the first trailer for Capone, starring Tom Hardy, dropped yesterday. It’s a been a minute since we’ve seen Hardy, he was last on cinema screens in Venom in 2018, and his only 2019 credit is one episode of Peaky By Sarah • Apr 16, 2020 10:55 am
Royals Tom, Harry, and Meghan’s Vogue It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Tom Hardy. He’s been pretty low profile since Venom came out last October. A sequel is planned and is expected to be released next October – they’ll likely start shooting that before the end of the year if they want By Lainey • Jun 12, 2019 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Venom When a movie fails, there are two possible outcomes. One is that it’s bad and boring, and thus forgettable, because there is nothing about it to make an impression other than its overall badness. Or, it’s bad yet entertaining, because while it doesn’t work, it fails in By Sarah • Oct 05, 2018 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Venom or Star? Tom Hardy was seen in New York today promoting Venom. Venom? Does it feel to you like Venom is a big deal? Have you been paying attention to any of the hype around it? Has there BEEN any hype around it? I work in media, both online and broadcast. Venom By Lainey • Sep 27, 2018 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews See Tom Hardy as Syphilitic Al Capone Earlier this year we got a peek at Tom Hardy getting into character as Al Capone for the upcoming movie Fonzo. Now, we get the first look at Hardy fully made up as Capone and it’s fine. He doesn’t look anything like Capone but the overall impression is By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews WTF is Tom Hardy saying Lainey emailed me about the new Venom trailer with this note about Tom Hardy’s acting choices: “Why does he always have to play characters where you can’t understand what the f*ck he’s saying?” Tom Hardy loves to do silly voices, as he always does one. He By Sarah • Aug 01, 2018 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom grows his hair back The last time we saw Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley together was at Prince Harry and Royal Meghan’s wedding in May and he was bald, still working on that Al Capone movie. Tom joined Charlotte last night in London for the premiere of Swimming with Men and the hair By Lainey • Jul 05, 2018 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Vegas for Venom While almost everyone (except Chris Evans) from the MCU was in LA last night for the Avengers: Infinity War premiere, Tom Hardy who is Marvel-ish but not MCU proper was in Vegas at CinemaCon for the Sony presentation and the release of the new Venom trailer, with Michelle Williams and By Lainey • Apr 24, 2018 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taron Egerton is Elton John Elton John is finally getting the biopic treatment, and as a sign of some goodness remaining in the universe, Justin Timberlake is not going to portray him. The movie is called Rocket Man (for now), and it will star charm machine Taron Egerton as Elton John. The project originally centered By Sarah • Apr 20, 2018 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy plays a gangster again He does it a lot. RocknRolla, Peaky Blinders, Legend, technically Inception and Dark Knight Rises, and that’s just the criminal/gangster roles I remember off the top of my head. Tom Hardy has a niche and it’s “unintelligible crime boss”. (I like Tom Hardy, he’s a great By Sarah • Mar 29, 2018 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy…has…DEMONS The teaser for Venom, the supervillain movie starring Tom Hardy, has been released and it’s certainly a series of moving images. I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. It’s just Hardy narrating about how everyone has their THING and his THING is DEMONS, and he’ By Sarah • Feb 08, 2018 11:40 am
Michelle Williams Michelle Williams: Tom Hardy’s She-Venom Tom Hardy has been in Atlanta the last few months working on Venom. Venom is a Spider-Man villain. Apparently he starts off as Eddie Brock and some sh-t happens to him – as it does in these stories – and he becomes a bad guy. I’m not a comic book nerd By Lainey • Dec 20, 2017 01:50 pm
Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk The opening scene from Saving Private Ryan is the gold standard of cinematic depiction of World War II. Recreating the Omaha Beach landing in searing detail, Steven Spielberg brought to life one of the most harrowing and horrifying chapters in that war’s history. Christopher Nolan now attempts to do By Sarah • Jul 18, 2017 01:29 pm
