Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner’s Revenant Hawkeye did not make the cut in Avengers: Infinity War, so Jeremy Renner sat out the press tour, which means we only have to hear about his two broken arms once this summer. In case you missed it: Renner broke both arms doing a stunt for his new movie, Tag. By Sarah • Jun 14, 2018 02:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Striped Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson has a new movie coming out next week, the quirky western Damsel in which he plays a lovelorn sap with a miniature horse named Butterscotch, trying to woo a woman who has no visible feelings for him. He co-stars with Mia Wasikowska, and they both turned out for By Sarah • Jun 14, 2018 12:03 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch Dreadful Doorways: Patrick Melrose is a study in trauma and recovery Patrick Melrose is a character portrait composed in the key of dread. As in the first episode, series director Edward Berger and cinematographer James Friend establish a visual language in which doorways are the thresholds of nightmares and the fig tree on the terrace looms as a specter of humiliation. By Sarah • Jun 13, 2018 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 1980s Wonder Woman Wonder Woman 2 began production today and to mark the occasion Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins tweeted out first-look images of Diana Prince and Steve Trevor. The sequel is titled Wonder Woman 1984—GREAT title—and so this is 1980s fashion for Diana and Steve. It’s not completely By Sarah • Jun 13, 2018 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie Foster in Hotel Artemis In case you, like me, watched the trailer for Hotel Artemis and thought, Oh, a fun John Wick knock-off, allow me to disabuse you of the notion. Despite obvious similarities, particularly in the “hotel for criminals” vein, Hotel Artemis isn’t really a John Wick knock-off. There’s a likeness, By Sarah • Jun 12, 2018 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Women successful, world marvels We’ve known for years that diversity is good business. It pays dividends to appeal to more than just one demographic. And some groups are so starved for decent content, if you make something halfway good targeted at the overlooked and underserved, you can earn a nice little profit. Make By Sarah • Jun 12, 2018 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Toni Collete in Hereditary Billed out of Sundance as the next Rosemary’s Baby and/or Exorcist, and hailed as the most terrifying movie you’ll ever see, Hereditary had an impossible hill of hype to climb. And indeed, it could not climb that hill, earning a D+ CinemaScore on its opening weekend. I By Sarah • Jun 11, 2018 03:36 pm
Jameela Jamil Jameela Jamil Remembers The North remembers, and so does Jameela Jamil, co-star of The Good Place. On Friday, on the heels of the news that Emile Hirsch is joining the star-strewn cast of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, she took to Twitter to remind everyone that Emile Hirsch sucks. By Sarah • Jun 11, 2018 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling goes to the moon We’re just a few months away from the fall festival circuit and award-season movie jamboree, which is why there have been so many f*cking trailers in the last week. The latest addition is for another automatic contender, First Man. It’s the re-team of Ryan Gosling and Damien By Sarah • Jun 11, 2018 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth: Bad Guy Nearly a decade ago MGM went bankrupt and the resulting financial quagmire threw a lot of movies into disarray. It delayed development on a Bond movie, on The Hobbit which at the time was being stewarded by Guillermo Del Toro, and a bunch of movies got shelved in the fallout, By Sarah • Jun 08, 2018 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ocean’s 8 is sparkling rosé on a hot day That is to say, it’s delicious and indulgent and something to luxuriate in: a treat. Do you want to have a good time? A good time shall be had. Do you want to ogle outrageous wardrobes and gowns? Ogle you will. Are you here for a cast of talented By Sarah • Jun 08, 2018 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews American Animals is the reverse Ocean’s 8 There are two heist movies in theaters this month, Ocean’s 8 and American Animals. One is big and splashy, the other is a decidedly more low-key affair, and unlike Ocean’s 8, American Animals is based on a true story. It’s the stranger-than-fiction tale of how four college By Sarah • Jun 07, 2018 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A new girl with a dragon tattoo After David Fincher’s English-language adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo didn’t set the world on fire—it might not be a “major Fincher” but it’s a damn good movie—it became clear that Sony was going to do something new with the potential franchise. The By Sarah • Jun 07, 2018 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shailene Woodley on a boat Adrift is the perfect vehicle for Shailene Woodley. She is not an actress with a particularly warm screen presence, but she has a toughness that is appealing, though that can be hard to slot into the right projects. (The Descendants and Big Little Lies: Right; Divergent: Wrong.) But Adrift lands By Sarah • Jun 06, 2018 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The McConaissance is back The timeline is thus: Matthew McConaughey broke out in A Time to Kill. Then he became a rom-com king, starred in the legendarily awful Tiptoes, turned into a self-parody, and then it was the McConaissance, in which he achieved his final form as the surprisingly versatile actor with the distinctive By Sarah • Jun 06, 2018 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Extremely Loud Holiday Movies Star Wars has dominated the last three holiday box office tournaments. In the wake of Solo’s summer slip, don’t forget that from 2015-2017, Star Wars cranked out billion-dollar business each December. But there is no Star Wars this Christmas, which means everyone else is trying it in their By Sarah • Jun 05, 2018 02:54 pm
