Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig but mostly Josh O’Connor in Wake Up Dead Man In Knives Out, writer/director Rian Johnson introduced us to Benoit Blanc, a dapper, slightly eccentric, Southern-fried detective who can solve any crime, no matter how complicated it may seem, with a perfect cozy mystery setting: an autumnal New England estate. In Glass Onion, he shipped Benoit Blanc to a By Sarah • Nov 28, 2025 12:13 pm
Ben Affleck Netflix advertises the movies it doesn’t support Netflix’s annual fan event, Tudum, occurred over the weekend. It’s their effort to create an in-house marketing machine/hype event a la Disney’s D23, and it’s sort of working. Certainly, there were people who showed up in person and shrieked at celebrities standing on a stage. By Sarah • Jun 02, 2025 11:20 am
Award Season Campaigning Timmy had to pee Let me just say, again, because I haven’t said it yet this week so it’s only been three days since you’ve read it from me, that I consider Timothée Chalamet’s current Oscar campaign-non-campaign as one of the best, if not the best, of all time. Because By Lainey • Feb 12, 2025 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two more Chrises and a Josh on the purple carpet To state the obvious, the carpet was purple last night at the Avengers: Endgame premiere because Thanos. Thanos is purple. His ass, as Josh Brolin described it, is a “beautiful, purple peach”. Here it is if you’d like to see it: View this post on Instagram A post shared By Lainey • Apr 23, 2019 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benicio Del Toro in Sicario: Day of the Soldado As I write this review, there has been another mass shooting in America. More people are dead. More people are injured. More suffering, more anger, more inaction, more misery. We can’t go a f*cking day without some fresh hell bursting forth and poisoning the well. At this point, By Sarah • Jun 29, 2018 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool 2 Deadpool 2 picks up sometime after Deadpool, with Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds, this time not only the star and producer but also a credited writer, alongside Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick) now a working mercenary, taking out criminals around the world. The opening scene ups the ante on the comic By Sarah • May 22, 2018 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avengers: Infinity War is Marvel at its best and worst Avengers: Infinity War is the beginning of the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we’ve known it for a decade. It’s the culmination of ten years of storytelling, bringing together heroes from across the universe, uniting Avengers and Guardians and everyone in between. Pound for pound, for By Sarah • Apr 27, 2018 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool’s final pitch We’re getting into the final round of trailers for the first batch of summer movies—while STILL waiting on the first trailer for Crazy Rich Asians—and following Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s final trailer is Deadpool 2’s final trailer. I’ll tell you what, I LOVE that By Sarah • Apr 19, 2018 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Deadpool 2 A new trailer for Deadpool 2—the official title, though I kinda wish they had stuck with “Untitled Deadpool Sequel”—has been released, and goddamn does the marketing for this movie remain on point. This trailer is GREAT, except for the increased screen time for TJ Miller, and actually gives By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool does it himself Is there any movie better at marketing than Deadpool? If you have to do a huge comic book movie press campaign, you might as well have fun, right? That seems to be the attitude of Ryan Reynolds and everyone at Deadpool, Inc. They have a LOT of fun with their By Sarah • Feb 07, 2018 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin and Miles Teller in Only The Brave Movies about gritty men with gritty jobs only get made when something terrible happens (see also: Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon), so you know going in that Only The Brave, a film about a group of wildfire-fighting “hotshots”, is going to have something terrible in it. The Granite Mountain Hotshots became By Sarah • Oct 18, 2017 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin makes Deadpool 2 less magical The last we heard from Deadpool 2, Michael Shannon was the frontrunner to play fan favorite Cable. Yesterday, though, it was announced that Josh Brolin will be playing Cable, agreeing to a four-film deal. This means that not only is Brolin double-dipping with Marvel—he plays the big bad, Thanos, By Sarah • Apr 13, 2017 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Josh Brolin in Hail, Caesar! After my review of The Choice, which I hated, I got a slew of “why do you even review movies if you hate everything” emails, including one from a person who suggested that I just “try and put a positive spin” on my reviews. Well, to make up for my By Sarah • Feb 08, 2016 12:37 pm
Maple Leaf “The actor from Ontario” I interviewed Josh Brolin for Gangster Squad a couple of years ago. Half our interview was about Ryan Gosling’s balls…which wasn’t actually what I was asking. All I did was throw Josh a question about Ryan, what's he like to work with, their chemistry, etc. By Lainey • Sep 23, 2015 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin’s new year A year ago, Josh Brolin was dealing with a broken marriage and a couple of embarrassing incidents caught on video – he was drunkenly fighting, one of those times was at a Del Taco drive-thru. Last November, Brolin entered rehab. This spring he was spotted with a new girlfriend on a By Lainey • Aug 21, 2014 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside the Superhero Clubhouse First, Marvel’s panel started nearly twenty minutes late. Then, they didn’t announce anything new, except that the Guardians of the Galaxy’s pre-destined sequel will open on July 28, 2017. There was no news on Dr. Strange, or long-awaited confirmation of a Black Panther and/or Captain Marvel By Sarah • Jul 28, 2014 01:25 pm
