Movie Reviews and Previews Goose’s Disappointment Last week Lainey wrote about the short list to play Goose’s son in Top Gun 2, which included Nicholas Hoult, Glen Powell, and Miles Teller. Proving that we live in the darkest timeline, Variety is reporting that Miles Teller has been cast as Goose Jr. Lainey preferred Teller for By Sarah • Jul 03, 2018 04:50 pm
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 Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska: “the tiny horse you need right now” A man arrives in town, leather-clad and spurs clanging, a guitar and a rifle slung across his back, Mysterious Stranger comes to town on Unknown Business. He bellies up to the bar and proceeds to…awkwardly twist out of his gear and order a drink in a reedy, vaguely creepy By Sarah • Jun 28, 2018 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Somebody stop Jared Leto Unsatisfied with being the Third Best Joker, actor and human costume shop Jared Leto will now star as Morbius the Living Vampire in a Spider-Man spin-off at Sony. This movie will exist in the same universe as Tom Hardy’s Venom, both of which have not been admitted into the By Sarah • Jun 28, 2018 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Prepare your tissues Timothee Chalamet defied the Oscar gods to become the rare young dude actor recognized for a romantic performance. Young dudes almost never get nominated when playing romantic roles. It says something about us, culturally, and it’s not good, that we so rarely lionize romantic performances from men. But Timothee By Sarah • Jun 27, 2018 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No Dick Energy Lainey opened the site today by talking about the Big Dick Energy that is taking over social media and prompting all of us to wonder who in our friend group has BDE. (I’m going to posit that among the LG crew, Duana has the most BDE.) What I want By Sarah • Jun 27, 2018 12:53 pm
Russell Crowe Russell Crowe to play aggressive jerk In a shocking piece of out-of-the-box casting, famously temperamental actor Russell Crowe has been cast as Roger Ailes, the late, disgraced Fox News executive who was booted from his perch atop Dipsh*t Mountain after a series of sexual harassment allegations. It’s a revelatory move as no one could By Sarah • Jun 27, 2018 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette: an extraordinary plea for empathy Jokes, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby tells us, are a two-part structure: set-up and punchline. And the problem with jokes, she goes on, is that they have no resolution. In her new comedy special, Nanette, Gadsby tells us how she “sealed off” her coming-out story at its “trauma point” by turning By Sarah • Jun 25, 2018 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is bigger, dumber, louder, better The bar that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has to clear is just “be less of a sexist mess than Jurassic World”. That’s it. The bar could not be lower. Jurassic Park has never and will never spawn a good sequel because it’s a one-trick pony, story-wise, and every By Sarah • Jun 22, 2018 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars on pause After Solo’s disappointing box office, marking the first failure of Disney-era Lucasfilm, something amazing has happened: Lucasfilm has pressed pause. That is, they have put the spin-offs on ice for the time being. Collider reports that the “Star Wars Story” branch of films has been suspended indefinitely. Lucasfilm will By Sarah • Jun 21, 2018 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adonis Creed Returns In 2015, Creed was a surprise. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan, coming off Fruitvale Station, reinvigorated the Rocky franchise by making it about not only a new generation, but a new culture, passing the title and the franchise not to Rocky’s son but to Apollo Creed’s. Creed By Sarah • Jun 20, 2018 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Surprise, Tag doesn’t suck A high-concept comedy based on a Wall Street Journal article about a group of middle-aged dudes who play tag is not a sure thing, to say the least. But Tag, the movie based on that article, is, surprisingly, not bad. It’s not great, like most studio comedies it’s By Sarah • Jun 20, 2018 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Incredibles Return The Incredibles has stood for fourteen years as one of the best superhero movies ever made. In the time between the original and the sequel out now, The Incredibles has become so beloved that the film begins with an intro from the cast thanking fans for their patience, sticking out By Sarah • Jun 18, 2018 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Mr. Rogers Cry Fest Warning: You are going to need Kleenex. Like, a whole box of tissues. The Fred Rogers documentary Won’t You be My Neighbor? is basically a ninety-minute cry fest. I’m not an easy movie-crier, but I started crying in the first five minutes and did not stop until the By Sarah • Jun 15, 2018 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman: Everybody’s Wet Tonight Aquaman isn’t due until December, and for the first time this decade Warner Brothers and DC Films have not sprayed us down with marketing every minute of every day. With Aquaman they have displayed actual restraint, which means that we are only just now, six months out, starting to By Sarah • Jun 15, 2018 12:31 pm
Equality Issues Brie Larson Speaks Out I would like to get through one goddamn week without something in the world being on fire, because frankly, I am f*cking exhausted of constantly having to beg to be recognized as an equal member of society. Please pay me the same, please give me the same opportunities, please By Sarah • Jun 15, 2018 11:07 am
