Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds and the blowjob guy Ryan Reynolds owns a gin company, Aviation (aggressively featured in Blake Lively’s movie, A Simple Favor), and he does Maximum Ryan Reynolds ads for the company. His newest ad is called “Dedication”, and it is advertising Aviation’s “signature bottle”, a bottle “signed” by Reynolds (it is real, and By Sarah • Jun 06, 2019 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman shines Yesterday, a surprising piece of news came out that Warner Brothers will be skipping Hall H at Comic-Con next month, which means no DC Films panel, as has been the case the last several years. That means no Joker (I REALLY wanted to see Joaquin Phoenix cope with Hall H) By Sarah • Jun 06, 2019 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scary Stories is the Harold show From the beginning, I have been mixed on the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie. The live-action realization of those godawful illustrations from the book are spot-on, and come loaded with a generation’s worth of nightmare fuel to give them extra weight as screen images. But everything By Sarah • Jun 05, 2019 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Curse of Bond 25? Is Bond 25 cursed? First there was the director drama, then that spectacularly ill-timed live-launch event— these were the harbingers, the warnings that Bond 25 had run afoul of some ancient chthonian curse, it’s the part of the story where the old timer shows up to warn you to By Sarah • Jun 05, 2019 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt’s Ad Astra is in an awkward spot Last month, Lainey mentioned that Brad Pitt had a space movie, Ad Astra, that was supposed to come out, only to get pulled from the release schedule. The movie was due on May 24, but there had been no trailer or publicity for it, so it wasn’t exactly surprising By Sarah • Jun 05, 2019 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Godzilla’s weakening roar Godzilla: King of the Monsters opened at #1 over the weekend, but still managed to disappoint, earning $47 million against expectations of $50 million or more. That’s not a huge disappointment, true, but Godzilla’s expectations themselves were disappointing. This is the third entry in a franchise, following 2014’ By Sarah • Jun 04, 2019 03:47 pm
TV Updates Orlando Bloom got a job This is how Lainey chose to inform me about the new Amazon Prime show, Carnival Row. Not, “There is a show about mythical creatures living in Victorian London,” or even, “this looks interesting.” No, she led with, “Orlando Bloom got a job!” Which is news, to be fair. He was By Sarah • Jun 04, 2019 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rocketman: The queer-positive rock biopic we deserve It is impossible to talk about Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, without mentioning its sibling, Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic. Both are about rock icons who came up in the 1970s, whose combination of glam, rock, and pop led to total chart dominance. Both feature iconic vocalists with a library By Sarah • Jun 03, 2019 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Boy sh-t at the race track One of the most fun things I have ever done in my life was go to a test track and drive a 1967 Shelby GT500. I’ve always loved Corvettes, and the way they look like they’re eating the road as they drive, but my boyfriend’s dad was By Sarah • Jun 03, 2019 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews We do not need Rambo now When the Death Wish remake starring Bruce Willis came out last year, I said there was “no good time for a movie like Death Wish”, a movie about a white man using vigilante violence against minority communities. You know what is a movie like Death Wish? Rambo. Specifically, Rambos 2-4. By Sarah • May 31, 2019 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Kitchen doesn’t belong in August A year ago, we learned that Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy, and Elisabeth Moss were co-starring in a movie, The Kitchen, about mob wives who take over when their husbands go to jail. I’ve been super into this movie ever since, and the first trailer has done nothing to dissuade By Sarah • May 31, 2019 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RBatz IS a lock after all Update: Batman waffling is over, Robert Pattinson got the job. Yesterday we heard that Robert Pattinson, despite earlier reports, had not actually locked down the role of Batman in Matt Reeves’ upcoming Bat-movie, and that he would be screen testing against Nicholas Hoult for the role. Now, though, Deadline is By Sarah • May 31, 2019 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RBatz is not a lock A couple weeks ago we learned that Robert Pattinson is up to be the new Batman, taking over the role from Ben Affleck. Lainey dubbed him the “Millennial Batman”, I think we should call him “RBatz” if he gets the gig. And it is an IF, as a report yesterday By Sarah • May 31, 2019 09:55 am
Business of Hollywood Talk more about money! Award season roundtables are a cottage industry now, and with Emmy nominations looming, The Hollywood Reporter is back on their bullsh-t with a comedy ladies’ roundtable of hopeful nominees. The group includes Jane Fonda, Regina Hall, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alex Borstein, Tiffany Haddish, Maya Rudolph, and Natasha Lyonne. It’s a By Sarah • May 30, 2019 03:38 pm
Music Jukebox movies have arrived A while back, jukebox musicals were all the Broadway rage, thanks to shows like Mamma Mia! and Rock of Ages. Now, the jukebox movie has come to take over Hollywood. It was inevitable, really, in the age of Big IP, that as soon as one person made money off framing By Sarah • May 30, 2019 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Octavia Spencer in Ma When discussing the trailer for Ma, the horror movie starring Octavia Spencer, I said, “Even if this turns out more camp than high art—a real possibility with a Blumhouse production—I’m cool with it.” Well, guess what. Ma is not camp. It’s certainly not high art. It By Sarah • May 29, 2019 04:27 pm
