Movie Reviews and Previews Helen Mirren is going to class up Fast & Furious Today in Your Dreams Are Coming True, Helen Mirren Edition, Helen Mirren told Elle magazine that she will, in fact, be appearing in Fast 8, the eighth Fast/Furious movie that is somehow not called F8. Last year she went on the record with her admiration of Vin Diesel, and By Sarah • Jun 16, 2016 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daisy Ridley Lara Croft? Daisy Ridley confirmed the other day that she’s considering playing Lara Croft in a reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise. I’m supposed to say here that Angelina Jolie was Lara Croft. Which you know. But I guess this post would be incomplete if I didn’t mention that, By Lainey • Mar 22, 2016 01:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, February 9, 2016 Stop with these games Ye, unless it’s “Formation” no one cares this week. That's the new album anybody who can figure out the title gets tickets to Season 3 and free Yeezys— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 9, 2016 Bieber’s Gramps has the same expression as every By Maria • Feb 09, 2016 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vin Diesel in the hysterically awful The Last Witch Hunter Vin Diesel is, somewhat improbably, a huge fantasy dork. He’s a long-time player of Dungeons & Dragons—no, seriously— and he’s even written the foreword for a book about D&D. So it’s not surprising that he’s the star of a D&D knock-off By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 04:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Furious 7’s first weekend $147 million domestically over the weekend… I want to like Furious 7, I really do, because in theory this is the kind of dumb fun action movie I cut my teeth on. But Furious 7, though wildly successful and spurring the franchise to new heights, actually shows exactly what’s By Sarah • Apr 06, 2015 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vin Diesel Day Yesterday wasn’t just April Fool’s Day. It was also the day Vin Diesel’s hand and footprints were immortalised at the Chinese theatre, followed by the premiere of Furious 7. He’s the man! I don’t like this phrase. It’s so corny. Like you’re supposed By Lainey • Apr 02, 2015 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vin Diesel’s Furious Oscar I used to hate Vin Diesel. There were rumours about how he behaved on set, how he treated people. Then, he kinda went gossip quiet. And after that he started showing me his dance and lip-synch on line to Rihanna and Beyonce and Katy Perry. Even Sarah didn’t hate By Lainey • Mar 25, 2015 02:18 pm
Amazingness Who ARE you, Vin Diesel? When Vin Diesel posted video of himself dancing to Katy Perry and Beyonce in January – click here for a refresher – I realised he’d be an awesome party favour. Make a list of 5 celebrities you’d want at a party who would MAKE THE PARTY BETTER. Not 5 you’ By Lainey • Aug 01, 2014 09:56 am
Media Manipulation Vin Diesel gets into it Yesterday was the London premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy, and Vin Diesel showed up in a tee shirt with his one line from the movie, “I am Groot”, printed on it and wearing a pair of stilts to make him taller like his space ent character, Groot. While Bradley By Sarah • Jul 25, 2014 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hooked on a feeling Guardians of the Galaxy has always been described as Marvel’s biggest risk to date, which is really saying something when you consider they bet their studio’s future against Iron Man’s success back when RDJ was still uninsurable. But making what amounts to the Marvel version of Spaceballs By Sarah • May 20, 2014 10:33 am
Amazingness A gift for Chinese New Year from Vin Diesel Sasha sent this to me with the question: Should we invite Vin Diesel to join our hip hop dance crew? I need you to watch this for me. The whole thing. I need you to watch this for yourself. It’s a video that Vin Diesel uploaded to his Facebook. By Lainey • Jan 28, 2014 11:52 am
Media Manipulation Fawning over the Foreign Press The Hollywood Foreign Press Association held a luncheon yesterday in Beverly Hills. You remember what Amy and Tina said of the HFPA at the Golden Globes? “There is no known cure for the Hollywood Foreign Press.” I just watched their opening monologue again. God that James Cameron joke still lands By Lainey • Aug 14, 2013 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Actor with no personality plays tree Remember when I wrote about Vin Diesel maybe making something happen at Marvel, and I was like, Ugh, please just let him be the space tree that barely speaks? Well guess what? He’s the tree. Diesel, after weeks of buildup via Facebook and some pretty blatant campaigning, is in By Sarah • Aug 13, 2013 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews My Marvel/Vin Diesel nightmare I cannot stand Vin Diesel. CANNOT. STAND. I don’t have a good reason for it. (Lainey: I have several.) It’s just an irrational hatred that sprang from sitting through one too many of his terrible movies. I love bad action movies, and have an unusually high tolerance for By Sarah • Jul 10, 2013 02:57 pm
Vin Diesel Rock, Shrek, Paul The Rock Dwayne Johnson has joined the Fast & Furious franchise. Here he is with Vin Diesel who I call Shrek because, obviously, and Paul Walker today in Moscow promoting the upcoming Fast Five which will make a stupid amount of money and that’ll be an excuse to make By Lainey • Apr 25, 2011 09:45 am
Dumbass Vin Diesel: Sexiest Man Alive on Facebook Well if that’s not a reason to quit Facebook... I don’t use Facebook. For various reasons, but mostly because it’s a time sucker. Today I am grateful for this, because I’ve now learned that Facebook users are the kind who voted Vin Diesel the Sexiest Man By Lainey • Nov 17, 2010 02:12 am
