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Drake Celebrates His Birthday with New Music

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-It’s Drake‘s birthday but we’re the ones getting presents! To celebrate his 30th, he announced a new album and debuted some original tracks.

-In honour of Drake‘s birthday, here are a bunch of celebrities performing a dramatic reading of “One Dance.” (This was clearly filmed during TIFF.)

-No no no! There are rumours about Demi Lovato and John Mayer hanging out. Burn it with fire!!!!

Kim Kardashian has dropped her lawsuit against Media Take Out after they apologized for claiming she faked her Paris robbery.

-Seriously guys, Justin Bieber really wants you to stop screaming at his concerts. Pretend it’s church, mm-kay?

-As if I couldn’t love Netflix’s Jessica Jones more, the second season will be directed entirely by women.

-How did I not know that Jeffrey Dean Morgan owns a candy shop with Paul Rudd?! I think I’ve had that dream!!

-Speaking of JDM, I feel kind of bad for him because he was the best part about last night’s total piece of shit episode of The Walking Dead. I’ve never seen a show that hates its audience more. Critics were also not impressed. At all. Like, really. This was probably my favourite takedown.

Emmy Rossum says her first time directing Shameless involved blocking scenes with Legos and teaching her costars how to snort cocaine. As you do…

-Well, this doesn’t bode well: George Lucas won’t be working on Indiana Jones 5.

-Hamilton fans, here’s a new Lin-Manuel Miranda song courtesy of Moana.

-Deadpool 2 has lost its director — and it sounds like Ryan Reynolds’ ego may be to blame.

-And now people are petitioning for Tarantino to direct it. What?

Tom Hanks‘ SNL monologue wasn’t great, but there were some killer skits in the ep, especially Black Jeopardy and the one about CBS’s attempt to make a prestige show.

-I’m kind of over Lip Sync Battle, but I’m here for Samira Wiley’s upcoming performance of “O.P.P.”

Kanye West is threatening to skip the Grammys if Frank Ocean isn’t nominated. I … kinda agree with him? Whoa. That feels weird.

-The lawyers for Serial’s Adnan Syed have asked the court to free him on bail.

-This might be the least attractive I’ve ever found Johnny Depp. And that’s saying something.

Imogen Poots and Michael Shannon are in a May-Dec romance in the moody new trailer for Frank & Lola.

Sarah Jessica Parker: “I Am Not a Feminist”

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Sarah Jessica Parker says lots of awesomely feminist things in the new issue of Marie Claire — and then declares “I’m not a feminist.”
-In better cover story news, THR somehow convinced The Americans on-and-offscreen couple Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys to sit down for a rare joint interview, and the whole thing is a goddamn delight. I mean, the video alone makes me giddy (“Oh jesus, this is going f*cking south. Next question!”).

-Oh Drake. I love you, child, but no.

-In her new Cosmo interview, Gwen Stefani says she’s only told her parents the whole story about what went down with Gavin Rossdale because “nobody would believe it if I could really say what happened. I went through months and months of torture.”

-We know Tyler Hoechlin is swole, so why does he look so skinny in his Superman costume? Is it too big for him ? Or is that just a side effect of posing next to an Amell?

-I’m so, so glad the creators of Poldark aren’t going to follow the novel’s rape storyline. I devoured S1 of this swoony corsets ‘n horses BBC drama in one weekend, but I was dreading the second season because of what happens in the books. Outlander should take note.

Jared Leto: destroyer of your meme dreams.

-Despite the poor reviews (it’s now officially as poorly-reviewed as Batman v Superman), Suicide Squad is still skyrocketing towards record setting $140M opening. And Ghostbusters couldn’t even scrape together a third of that? Sigh.

-Meanwhile, this is my favourite line from any review I’ve read so far: “There is also a movie where Kevin Spacey plays a talking cat opening this weekend, and, sight unseen, that might be a better bet.”

-Seriously tho, what’s up with all the movie suckage this summer?

Jeffrey Dean Morgan says he was as frustrated by The Good Wife’s dumb finale as the rest of us.

-The internet spent way too much time today examining a shadow and trying to determine if it’s Orlando Bloom‘s junk.  It was weird.

Mariah Carey arrived at her TCAs presentation by being carried onstage by shirtless hunks. I’d expect nothing less.

-All the reviews for Baz Luhrmann‘s new Netflix show Get Down seem to indicate that the first episode is a mess, but it grows on you.

-Years ago, Nicole and I saw a terrible foreign movie at TIFF where characters randomly sang at the moon and side-walked into scenes. We STILL talk about the side-walk cause it was so weird. I can only assume that Taylor Swift has also seen that movie.

Britney Spears assembled a team of dancers and marched over to Jimmy Kimmel’s house in the middle of night to wake him up. He takes it way better than I would.

-The kid from Modern Family hooks up with the kid from The Good Wife in the trailer for XOXO.

Daisy Ridley and John Boyega Get Ready for Star Wars Stardom

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-The new stars of Star Wars are taking over the newsstand, with Daisy Ridley covering Elle, and her and John Boyega both covering THR.

-Oh happy day! It’s a new Jeremy Renner interview! He talks about his favourite curse (it’s the c-word, obvs), and mentions his house-flipping hobby again (of course). I really hope the Hollywood Prospectus guys get their new podcast up and running soon so they can deep-dive this one!

Reese Witherspoon called out Hollywood sexism and ageism in her speech at Glamour’s Women of the Year event, adding “ambition is not a dirty word.”

Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt attended a memorial service for Mike Nichols together in New York, making everyone wonder if they’ve reconciled.

Azealia Banks is under investigation by the LAPD for allegedly attacking a security guard at a club.

-The final Jessica Jones trailer has arrived ahead of its debut this weekend. Not surprisingly, the first reviews are glowing.

-Speaking of Netflix originals, I binged through most of Master of None over the weekend, and the fourth episode “Indians on TV” was amazing. Read Aziz’s NYT column on race and casting after you watch it. I spent a lot of time thinking about that episode during last night’s screening of The 33, in which French actress Juliette Binoche and Irish actor Gabriel Byrne (unconvincingly) play Chileans.

Gwyneth Paltrow talked about her divorce at a panel discussion on Sunday. “I am from a tribe of people who stay married…I really don’t come from a culture of divorce at all, and I had very high hopes for what my life could be.”

-This passage from Mary-Louise Parker’s book about being alone and pregnant after Billy Crudup left her for Claire Danes made me tear up a little.

Shia LaBeouf is making James Franco jealous by watching all his own movies while a camera records him for 72 straight hours. I watched the livestream for a bit, and it was oddly mesmerizing.

Alanis Morissette updated the “Ironic” lyrics for James Cordon last night. “It’s like swiping left on your future soul mate.” (Yeah, that’s still not irony.)

-Speaking of James Cordon skits, how did I miss the Jason Derulo car karaoke one?

-I liked this story about Spotlight, a movie about journalism that required the filmmakers to do some investigative reporting to crack the story.

-I really thought I had quit The Walking Dead for good, but then came today’s news that Jeffrey Dean Morgan had been cast. Dammit! That man keeps dragging me back into shows I try to drop. I’m not liking much about this year’s Good Wife (except for the diversity debate),  but I keep tuning in just to watch him *lean*. That man is a Jordan Catalano-level leaner.

Nick Offerman looks great (even while scarfing down fatty meats with Jimmy Fallon).

-Someone made a supercut of all the Britney Spears scenes in last night’s Jane the Virgin. I thought she did a great job (after I got over the ‘what the heck is going on with her face?!’ distraction). I was convinced that the Britney/Jane dance sequence was split screened, but the showrunner insists it wasn’t.

-The Transparent season 2 trailer finds the fam at a wedding.

Billy Eichner sent Amy Sedaris through an Shondaland-themed obstacle course. (“Now you’re going to run through this gauntlet of 10 white people patting themselves on the back for embracing a black lead!”)

Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser may be expecting. Probably not, though.

-I always liked TV critic Mo Ryan’s stuff at Huffington Post, but the long features she’s been putting out at her new gig at Variety have been stunning. Her latest is on why peak TV has not led to increased opportunities for women and POC directors. She includes links to all her interviews, and the one where she bluntly tells the FX president that he could change things if he really wanted to is worth your time.

-The trailer for the Finding Nemo sequel, Finding Dory, has arrived.