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
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is Gus Van Sant’s first feature film since 2015’s disastrous Sea of Trees. Three years is not an unreasonable amount of time between features, but given how very, very bad Trees is, Foot can’t help but feel By Sarah • Jul 24, 2018 04:42 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 Big, but for superheroes Here’s an unexpected development, Shazam! the DC movie you probably haven’t heard of, doesn’t look bad. In fact it looks good? It looks better than Aquaman, anyway. The teaser trailer for Shazam! dropped at Comic-Con, and it is quite fun and charming. And remember that rhythm problem By Sarah • Jul 23, 2018 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman: Underwater Space Mutiny We’re used to DC movies being marketed years in advance, but with Aquaman Warner Brothers and DC Films finally showed some restraint, waiting until Comic-Con, five months before the movie is due, to drop the first trailer. That restraint paid off, too, because it gave them a literal stage By Sarah • Jul 23, 2018 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Let them fight Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla is a good movie, and if you think otherwise, you are entitled to be wrong. It’s a good movie, and it gave us the instantly iconic line, “Let them fight.” The rebooted monster universe—Kong: Skull Island is part of this franchise—immediately established its penchant By Sarah • Jul 23, 2018 09:29 am
Douchebags Fantastic Beasts with 100% more Johnny Depp Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was a big part of Warner Brothers’ two-hour presentation at Comic-Con on Saturday. The whole cast turned out, except notably absent Johnny Depp, and there was an electrically palpable sigh of relief as everyone reveled in Ezra Miller cosplaying as Toadette and got to By Sarah • Jul 23, 2018 09:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Denzel Washington in The Equalizer 2 Spoilers Denzel Washington returns as Robert McCall, a mysterious former government operative who has retired and is now driving for Lyft. The beginning of The Equalizer 2 is just McCall driving around, eavesdropping on his riders and using his Murder Skills to help people out. He travels to Turkey to By Sarah • Jul 20, 2018 03:39 pm
Quiveration Hot Pennywise at Comic-Con Bill Skarsgard, aka Hot Pennywise, brought his particular brand of creepy-hot to Comic-Con yesterday to promote Assassination Nation. Here he is, tall and handsome, not dressed like a murdering demon clown, with those ludicrous cheekbones everywhere. Are you into Bill Skarsgard? I am 100% on board. He’s my favorite By Sarah • Jul 20, 2018 11:19 am
