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November 2015

Captain America: Civil War Trailer Wows

Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. debuted the Captain America: Civil War trailer on Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night and it’s hands down the best trailer Marvel’s ever cut. I’m so in for all of this.

Adele joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to sing “Hello” with classroom instruments and it was glorious.

-Meanwhile, Adele’s coat game is on point!

Will Smith says there ‘might be a future‘ for him in politics. Oh god, can you imagine how much more he’s going to talk about his marriage if that happens?!

Charlie Hunnam recently went to a concert by country artist Sturgill Simpson. *I* recently went to a concert by country artist Sturgill Simpson. Not really on purpose; he was the only act playing at a stage that had shade and it was 105 degrees and…you know what, it doesn’t matter!! I still think this makes Charlie and I soul twins!

Ava DuVernay threw so much shade at Quentin Tarantino and it got me like:
Leonardo DiCaprio‘s new movie The Revenant is so gory it’s causing walkouts at early screenings, which makes me not want to watch it (also because the trailer does nothing for me), but I’m going to anyway because some stupid critic called it too ‘unflinchingly brutal’ for women and screw that noise.

-The cast of The X Files recall their favourite scenes in this cute video. I’m glad someone mentioned my fave moment: the dance at the end of “The Post-Modern Prometheus.”

-Yup. Scandal’s Fitz is the worst character on TV.

-I feel ya, Elisabeth Moss.

-I about to move and should probably spend most of my weekend packing, but I also have a ton of Hallmark holiday movies on my DVR so I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen. Cheesy holiday movies are my crack. I *can’t wait* to watch the one Mariah Carey directs and stars in. She cast herself as someone who went to high school with Lacey Chabert! Poor Gretchen Wieners doesn’t deserve this.

-I’m actually kind of surprised that Blake Lively let herself be photographed like this.

-Just in time for US Thanksgiving, something we can all be thankful for: Michael B Jordan shirtless on the cover of Men’s Fitness.

-I am SO done with all these tweets I’m seeing about Supergirl being irrelevant now that Jessica Jones premiered. Did anyone ever say “we no longer need The Flash” after Daredevil debuted? I’ve given up on Supergirl (there’s just too much other stuff I want to watch more) but this is some sexiest BS.

-Is my love of Lindsay from You’re The Worst blinding me, or is this promo for Fox’s live version of Grease kinda…cute?

-The Little Prince trailer looks great — and the voice cast is insane: Rachel McAdams, Jeff Bridges, Paul Rudd, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro, James Franco, Ricky Gervais, Paul Giamatti, and Albert Brooks.

Jennifer Lawrence is Your Entertainer of the Year

Jennifer Lawrence has been named the 2015 Entertainer of the Year by EW.
Jennifer Lawrence has been named the 2015 Entertainer of the Year by EW.

-Entertainment Weekly just named Jennifer Lawrence Entertainer of the Year. Not surprising — and much deserved (I assume it was a close race between her and Chris Pratt). You know what this means, right? The 2015 best-of lists are starting! It really is the most wonderful time of the year…

-Meanwhile, Jennifer Lawrence elevated all of our #squadgoals by hanging out with Adele and Emma Stone last night.

-Usually Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt standing next to each other would make for a banner day, but their bad hair is too distracting to fully embrace the yum.

-In today’s ‘Hollywood Has Run Out of Ideas’ news: Kevin Bacon will star in a Tremors TV show, and  Tom Cruise is in talks to star in a reboot of The Mummy.

-In other Cruise-adjacent news, Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx are still a thing, in case anyone cares.

Kaley Cuoco tattooed an ill-advised giant bug on her back to cover up her ill-advised wedding date tattoo.

-A 7-year-old schooled the Star Wars cast on trivia during Jimmy Kimmel‘s last night.

-The best part about THR’s actors roundtable was that it taught me that Mark Ruffalo‘s first acting gig was on Canadian drama Due South!

-Geek gods/awesome human beings Felicia Day and Jonah Ray just signed on to the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 reboot.

-There’s a Friday Night Lights musical happening and Scott Porter is playing Coach and Mae Whitman is publicly petitioning for a part and I need to move to LA right now!

-Apparently the CW has given up on ratings since it’s ordered more Crazy Ex-Girlfriend which has been coming in as low as 0.2 in the demo. (My guess is they just don’t have anything else to pair Jane the Virgin with.) They also ordered more iZombie — but not a full season, which is a shame. That show is like the network version of Jessica Jones (in a good way).

Gwyneth Paltrow‘s kids get to eat at places like The Lion on the regular and now I hate my life.

Sherri Shepherd has been ordered to keep paying child support for the baby she had via surrogate — even though she wants nothing to do with the child and claims her ex only went ahead with the pregnancy plans to wring money out of her. Ugh, that poor kid.

Justin Bieber has pulled out of a series of appearances this week due to “personal reasons.”

-I really like Sepinwall’s new article on the advantage of episodes vs. serialization on TV.

-Set your DVRs: Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans will assemble on Jimmy Kimmel tonight.

-I’m not gonna lie; I spent way too much time examining Kylie Jenner’s face in the first photo of this feature.

-This is a great piece on season 2 of The Leftovers, which has somehow managed to win me back after I gave up on the first season by getting really, really weird. As the writer of this piece tweeted, it’s like they said “What if Lost could be super weird & fucked up & not write to act breaks & not worry about ratings?”

-I didn’t even know Samantha Bee had a new show coming out but I’m so in!

Adam Pally plays house with an unstable one-night stand in the Night Owls trailer.

Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello’s Wedding Photos

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Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello showed off so many photos from their weekend wedding. SO. MANY. PHOTOS. It’s kind of great that they shared them all on social media instead of selling them, though.

-I barely watched the AMAs last night but I did manage to catch Anna Kendrick’s hilarious acceptance speech so I feel like I’m winning.

-Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj insists she wasn’t shading Jennifer Lopez by staying stone-faced while JLo danced to her music. Mmm-hmmm.

-Speaking of shading JLo, Mariah Carey claims she was “just being honest” when she once said “I don’t know her,” which makes it even shadier! Bless. (Though I still love Jennifer Lopez. She owns my heart if only because she once did an epic interview in which she shaded Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna.)

-Hello, indeed. Everyone was expecting Adele’s new album to do well but I don’t think anyone was anticipating 2.3 million in the first 3 days in the US alone. I guess all those worries about how it not being available on streaming sites would hurt her sales were bupkis.

-Meanwhile, someone at SNL leaked the raw mic feed from Adele‘s performance, and her isolated vocals are stunning.

-I watched a few episodes of Jessica Jones this weekend. Wow. It’s not perfect, but the way it’s playing with issues of consent and female agency is impressive. From having a man telling her to “smile” (taking something every woman has been ordered to do — usually by strangers — to its most terrifying extreme) to having very few people believe her story of abuse, this is some important, intense storytelling.

-Welp. Hackers are trying to blackmail Gigi Hadid with her own photos.

-The Walking Dead finally revealed Glenn’s fate last night — and broke the show’s rules in the process.

-Meanwhile, this is HBO’s teaser art for the new season of Game of Thrones. Every show I watch right now seems to be playing with not-really-dead TV characters and I’m kind of done with it. Joss Whedon needs to teach these young pups about stakes and consequences.

The Game did an interview about his ridiculous NSFW Instagram photos (complete with ridiculous NSFW hashtag). How does this get a free pass but Instagram immediately removes any hint of a nipple?!

-The trailers for Chris Hemsworth‘s new whale movie are ruining my life. Looks like it’s tough on him, too.

-In his new Vanity Fair cover story, Chris talks about the pressure of delivering box office result for giant movies. “When something costs $150 million and it doesn’t work, it’s your face, it’s your fault.” Really? ‘Cause Michael Fassbender, Bradley Cooper, Bill Murray, Zac Efron and countless other white dudes seem to be surviving their flops just fine. But Sandra Bullock and Angelina Jolie‘s movies tank, and hands start wringing.

-Speaking of which, the Hollywood Reporter has a new piece on how the failures of Our Brand Is Crisis and By the Sea  might spell the end of the Hollywood “favour” movie.

-The Hollywood Reporter’s actors roundtable is more diverse than last week’s one on actresses. Even more interesting, check out how different the tone is for each story.

Andy Richter’s response to the NYT story about celebrities favoring not-hot nannies to keep husbands faithful is gold.

Aaron Carter tweeted some madness this weekend about how Michael Jacksonpassed down the torch” to him. Wut?

Gillian Anderson reprises her Hannibal role for a super creepy PETA ad.

Justin Bieber serenaded Selena Gomez on Friday night. Make of that what you will.

-Ugh. Just when I resolved to not watch any more superhero shows (especially since I’m back on the Arrow train after it totally got its groove back), The CW goes and releases a new trailer for Legends of Tomorrow (debuting Jan. 21) that is admittedly epic. Resistance is futile.