Movie Reviews and Previews James McAvoy is back James McAvoy was trending on Twitter—I will NEVER call it X—yesterday because he took his shirt off in the trailer for Speak No Evil and everyone was like, Oh yeah, James McAvoy is super hot. I feel like we have this conversation every few years, because McAvoy has By Sarah • Jul 25, 2024 03:22 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things is theatre now Stranger Things is the only legit phenomenon Netflix has produced to date. They’ve had some big series—maybe if Squid Game season two really happens, it could match the fervor of Stranger Things—but nothing that matches the blockbuster heat of Stranger Things, which has made an actual cultural By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The X-Men limp to the finish line With Disney taking over Fox, and the X-Men returning to Marvel Studios’ control, the X-Men franchise is now a lame duck. Dark Phoenix, which should have been the next stop in the two-decade-long franchise, is now the culmination of the franchise that began with 2000’s X-Men. (New Mutants, which By Sarah • Jun 06, 2019 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It: No thank you It was a surprise monster hit in 2017—it’s the highest-grossing horror film ever—and a sequel was immediately greenlit for 2019. Well, the teaser trailer for that sequel, It: Chapter 2, is here and all I have to say is: No thank you. All full up on horror By Sarah • May 09, 2019 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shyamalan’s homegrown superheroes: Glass brings it all together A direct sequel to Split and a shared-universe continuation of Unbreakable, Glass is the culmination of M. Night Shyamalan’s home-grown superhero universe within the Eastrail 177 trilogy. It unites strong-man David Dunn (Bruce Willis), evil mastermind Elijah Price/Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), and The Beast and his Horde By Sarah • Jan 18, 2019 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Homemade Superheroes M. Night Shyamalan’s best movie is Unbreakable, which is why, after a lukewarm reception following The Sixth Sense in 2000, it has developed a considerable cult following. It came along just before comic book movies took over Hollywood, and it is so much like a comic book—the whole By Sarah • Jul 24, 2018 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It spit It was a surprise hit last year, although horror movies consistently surprise at the box office so I don’t know when we stop calling it a “surprise” and start acknowledging the expectation, but anyway. It was huge. There is, naturally, a sequel. But the way Stephen King’s book By Sarah • Apr 13, 2018 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Atomic Blonde at SXSW The first trailer for Charlize Theron’s Atomic Blonde was released last week ahead of it the film’s premiere at SXSW this weekend. And, so far, the response has been generally positive, especially about Charlize’s performance. According to Consequence of Sound, she “is going down as this decade’ By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James McAvoy is tremendous in Split Following The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan continues his return to form with Split. It’s his second collaboration with Blumhouse Pictures, and where in The Visit there is discernable friction between Shyamalan’s impulse to go big and Blumhouse’s frugal, lo-fi approach to filmmaking, in Split there is no By Sarah • Jan 20, 2017 10:29 am
Quiveration James McAvoy makes Split M Night Shyamalan’s new film Split opens on January 20th. So far the reviews have been pretty decent. I mean, it’s January, and the movie is probably being assessed by January standards. That said, it’s not pretending to be anything else. And a few critics have even By Lainey • Jan 11, 2017 10:31 am
Quiveration A brief observation on James McAvoy James McAvoy is SOOOOOOO beautiful. That's it. That's all I got. He was at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards last night. His hair is exactly the length I like it. He looks so good in his suit. His lips have that natural stain I've By Lainey • Nov 14, 2016 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fox is having an X-Man problem So let’s just get this out of the way: That happened. I don’t know what to say. Except—I’m sorry. For all of us, but mostly for those who now legitimately fear for their rights, and even their lives. We’ll get through this, but it’s By Sarah • Nov 09, 2016 12:39 pm
Hook Ups James McAvoy’s Halloween kiss James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff announced that they were separating back in May. At the time, there was all kinds of rumouring that he’d moved on with Alexandra Shipp, one of his co-stars in X-Men. Looks like that was a diversion. Because around the same time, I got an By Lainey • Oct 31, 2016 05:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James McAvoy’s personalities Sarah messaged me yesterday about the new trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s Split starring James McAvoy, commenting that James looks amazing in the movie. I immediately told her that I wanted to write the article because I love James McAvoy, especially if he “looks amazing”. My version of “looks By Lainey • Jul 28, 2016 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews McAvoy, Fassbender, and Lawrence in X-Men: Apocalypse Are people ready yet to admit that the X-Men movies aren’t very good? There is no reason in a year in which people accepted Captain America and the f*cking Vision in the same film for an X-Men movie to look as drab and boring as X-Men: Apocalypse looks. By Sarah • May 30, 2016 01:42 pm
Break Ups James leads the morning X-Men James McAvoy, senior member of the X-Men, was on Good Morning America today with several younger mutants on the team including Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan, Lana Condor, and Alexandra Shipp, with whom he’s been rumoured to be dealing romantically. He looks hot, right? As you know, James and Anne-Marie By Lainey • May 24, 2016 12:10 pm
