Dumbass Oscars So Wrong The Academy has just announced changes for the Oscars, one of which is relatively minor, two of which are ham-fisted at best, disastrous at worst. The minor change is moving up the broadcast date for 2020 to February 9, which will just make award season a little more hectic as By Sarah • Aug 08, 2018 01:38 pm
TV Updates Cary Fukanaga’s next thing Cary Joji Fukanaga has been absent our screens since Beasts of No Nation. He returns to Netflix in September, though, with a limited series called Maniac that he adapted from a Norwegian show. The details have been scarce until now, about six weeks before the series debuts, as we finally By Sarah • Aug 07, 2018 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie a go go I described the first look at Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pritt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood—apparently the correct punctuation is Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, but this is already a bad title and I refuse to make it worse—as having “no dick energy”. We now By Sarah • Aug 07, 2018 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ewan McGregor in Christopher Robin Obviously chasing the Paddington market, Disney has revived Winnie the Pooh and friends in an incredibly creepy live action for a new story about the importance of paid vacation. The movie is called Christopher Robin and it occurs in an alternate universe where Christopher Robin did not resent Winnie the By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 12:23 pm
Movie of the Heist Week It’s been a big week for heists. First came the McDonald’s Monopoly scam expose— one of Lainey’s long reads of the week—then there was the stroller shark heist in San Antonio, followed by the Swedish crown jewel heist featuring a speed boat getaway, and, finally, someone By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon’s buddy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me is being marketed as an action-comedy but it isn’t really that. There is action and there is comedy, but describing it as an action-comedy is like calling Planes, Trains and Automobiles a travelogue. The heart of The Spy Who Dumped Me is the friendship By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews See Tom Hardy as Syphilitic Al Capone Earlier this year we got a peek at Tom Hardy getting into character as Al Capone for the upcoming movie Fonzo. Now, we get the first look at Hardy fully made up as Capone and it’s fine. He doesn’t look anything like Capone but the overall impression is By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 10:06 am
Tiffany Haddish Put Tiffany Haddish in Wonder Woman Really just put Tiffany Haddish in All The Things, but when Vogue asked her “what’s a role you’d love to take on” as part of their “73 Questions” series, Haddish responded, “Wonder Woman’s sister”. Wonder Woman does have a black twin sister, Nubia, so this is ENTIRELY By Sarah • Aug 02, 2018 10:24 am
Dumbass The James Gunn Saga This f-ckin’ mess. On July 20, the shocking news broke that James Gunn was fired by Disney, to be immediately removed from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which he was writing/directing. It’s an exhausting story that involves the alt-right and America’s ongoing culture war—here’s By Sarah • Aug 02, 2018 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews WTF is Tom Hardy saying Lainey emailed me about the new Venom trailer with this note about Tom Hardy’s acting choices: “Why does he always have to play characters where you can’t understand what the f*ck he’s saying?” Tom Hardy loves to do silly voices, as he always does one. He By Sarah • Aug 01, 2018 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daveed Diggs in Blindspotting Daveed Diggs is the name you know, but Blindspotting is a work made with his creative partner Rafael Casal. They co-wrote, co-produced, and co-star in it, and it feels top to bottom like a collaboration—a story about two sides that requires two perspectives. Navigating between their voices is director By Sarah • Jul 30, 2018 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Your New Charlie’s Angels Elizabeth Banks is rebooting Charlie’s Angels, and after a lot of speculation and social media teases this week, the new Angels have been revealed: Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska, and Banks will be doing double duty as Bosley. Meet the new #CharliesAngels: @ellabalinska, Kristen Stewart, and @NaomiScott! By Sarah • Jul 26, 2018 04:45 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds expands his brand After several false starts, Deadpool finally made Ryan Reynolds the A-lister everyone expected him to be. And given Deadpool’s success, it also made him a producer with clout overnight. That has given him the power to do things like set up a Clue remake and, now, he’s producing By Sarah • Jul 26, 2018 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Not the Tiffany song After working as a cinematographer, Reed Morano made her directorial debut with 2015’s Meadowland. Following that film, she went to work in television, directing episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale—for which she won an Emmy—and working as one of the cinematographers on Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Morano has By Sarah • Jul 25, 2018 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonah Hill needs a new nickname Lainey calls him “Jonah Hill, 2x Oscar nominee and friend of Leo, Scorsese, and Brange”, but I think Jonah Hill needs a nickname update. Not only because the Brange is no more—who do you think got him in the divorce?—but because Jonah Hill has another tick on his By Sarah • Jul 25, 2018 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mission: Impossible – Fallout will rock your face off If Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation was like shotgunning a beer and diving off a roof into a pool, then its follow up, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, is like shotgunning TWO beers and back-flipping out of an airplane while making out with the prom king and/or queen. It’s another astounding By Sarah • Jul 25, 2018 10:18 am
