Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!
Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!
Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got a whopping eleven trailers for you this week, offering everything from animation to big-budget studio comedy to Sundance hopefuls; check ‘em out after the jump.
Everybody loves a good holiday movie. When we wrote last week about the beginning of the season, and our favorite annual Christmas movies (Die Hard and It’s A Wonderful Life), our readers threw in their favorites: A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Bad Santa, Muppets Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, etc. But, lest we forget, every film of the season ain’t White Christmas; there are plenty of rotten holiday movies. (And, in fact, one of them is coming out tomorrow: steer clear of New Year’s Eve as though your life depends on it.) As many great Christmas movies as there are, it’s also a very tricky style to get right, requiring the proper mix of holiday cheer, sentiment, laughs, and warmth. It is pretty easy to screw that elixir up, and end up with something sickly sweet and utterly unwatchable. After the jump, we’ll gather up a few lumps of coal from our previous Christmas stockings. Read More »
Well, it’s official: the received wisdom that comedies for women don’t make money is complete and utter crap. The glowingly reviewed, Kristen Wiig-penned and -starring Bridesmaids exceeded the studio’s wildest projections, earning $24.6 million (nearly $10 million more than anticipated) and debuting at #2. To celebrate the film — and further disprove the notion that ladies can’t do slapstick, gross-out comedy — we’ve compiled our favorite raunchy women-in-comedy moments. From sexual come-ons to birth to bodily fluids, the top ten are after the jump. Let us know what you’d add in the comments.
We’ve been excited about Hesher ever since we first heard about the film, which debuted at Sundance last year. So we’re definitely planning to see it when it makes its theatrical debut this weekend. But despite our anticipation, we do have one worry: that we’ll never be able to look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt the same way again. You see, he plays Hesher‘s title character, a greasy, ratty-haired, tattooed metal guy with bad teeth and penchant for farting. Thankfully, Gordon-Levitt is hardly the first actor to sacrifice beauty or likability for a good role. After the jump, we recall ten more roles that killed our crushes, on everyone from Charlize Theron to Christian Bale.
1. Tony Award-winning playwright and director Arthur Laurents (who wrote the books for West Side Story and Gypsy) passed away earlier today due to complications of pneumonia. He was believed to be 93. [via LAT]
2. After nearly a decade of false starts, production on Live to Tell, the screenplay that Tupac Shakur wrote while serving a jail sentence in 1995, is slated to begin early next year. The film tells the story of a teen druglord trying to make a fresh start of it. [via Vulture]
3. Weird and weirder: They’re making a Love Actually-style romantic comedy out of What to Expect When You’re Expecting (“five couples experience the surprises that happen when a stork visit is imminent”), and it’s set to star Cameron Diaz. [via Deadline]
4. Subtle Sexuality, aka the pop group featuring Kelly (Mindy Kaling) and Erin (Ellie Kemper) from The Office, has released a new single called “The Girl Next Door.” Check out the music video here.
5. In case you missed it last night, watch former SNL castmates Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler , and Rachel Dratch take a ride on a magical elevator that transforms them into Jersey Shore characters. (Unfortunately, Questlove refused to participate.) [via Vulture]
It’s official: According to Entertainment Weekly, Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films and Sony Pictures TV are bringing a remake of Charlie’s Angels to ABC next fall. The series will be set in Miami, and an offer is currently out to Mark Piznarski (Gossip Girl) to direct the project. Based on the above, we’re assuming that the reboot will take its cues from two recent film versions of the franchise as opposed to the original TV show. As such, we’ve offered up casting suggestions for all three Angels after the jump.
1. Madonna is plotting a collaboration with visual artist Marilyn Minter. [via NYDN]
2. Bigger, better images from Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox [via Slashfilm]
3. Casting news for Michel Gondry’s Green Hornet: Nic Cage in talks to play the villain; Cameron Diaz, Seth Rogen’s love interest. [via Variety]
4. Jay-Z’s new song from his upcoming album The Blueprint 3 will drop this Friday and feature Rihanna and Kanye West. [via Ace Showbiz]
5. Will Sacha Baron Cohen follow up Bruno with a serious role in a Scorsese film? [via Daily Mail]
Do we even have to say it? Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen made huge, heaping, robot-turned-dump-truck-loads of money this weekend and made Michael Bay a very happy man. Despite claims of racism, the movie raked in $112M, which, added to the $89.2M it made earlier in the week, gave it the second largest five day opening of all time — right behind The Dark Knight. And to top it off, assuming that the movie passes the $300m mark — and unless all of the copies of it spontaneously explode, it will — Shia LaBeouf will become the first star ever to appear in $300M films three summers in a row. Not bad for a guy who’s in love with his mother. Read More »
