Movie Reviews and Previews Do not sleep on Thoroughbreds I already slept on The Love Witch, Anna Biller’s superbly stylized 2016 film about a witch addicted to love—it’s on Amazon Prime, so we can all get caught up—and I almost missed Thoroughbreds, so it is with the determination of not missing another offbeat genre flick By Sarah • Mar 23, 2018 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pacific Rim: Uprising is charmingly dumb…sort of It’s like, the DUMBEST. Not that anyone was expecting any different. It’s a movie about robots punching monsters—it was only ever going to be dumb. Not even Guillermo del Toro and his sincerity could stop Pacific Rim from being dumb, so the sequel from a bunch of By Sarah • Mar 23, 2018 11:42 am
Theatre Nerd Chris Evans: the next phase Chris Evans is making his Broadway debut in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero (wearing a moustache, and a lot of people are into their feelings about this), and on the precipice of opening night, he has a big new profile in the New York Times. Everyone is By Sarah • Mar 23, 2018 08:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are bad spies Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon went on Ellen to premiere the first trailer for their upcoming comedy, The Spy Who Dumped Me, and holy crap does this movie look good. Comedy trailers are tricky—the trailer could be all the funny bits and then the movie itself disappoints—but this By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Deadpool 2 A new trailer for Deadpool 2—the official title, though I kinda wish they had stuck with “Untitled Deadpool Sequel”—has been released, and goddamn does the marketing for this movie remain on point. This trailer is GREAT, except for the increased screen time for TJ Miller, and actually gives By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 12:49 pm
Henry Cavill Long live the Cavill ’Stache Easily the most bizarre film story of 2017 was the studio warfare between Paramount and Warner Brothers prompted by Henry Cavill’s mustache. As Superman, Cavill is clean-shaven, but for his role in Mission: Impossible…6-ish? he grew a mustache (I assume because Tom Cruise contractually will not allow anyone By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tiffany Haddish and some other people Tiffany Haddish, as Duana noted after the Oscars, is a Star. She has It. When Tiffany Haddish is around, all you want to be looking at or listening to is Tiffany Haddish. And she is beginning to have projects built around her, as Stars do, including one called The Kitchen. By Sarah • Mar 21, 2018 01:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can’t catch Jeremy Renner One of the more high-concept (mainstream) comedies in the works is Tag, based on the idiotic but true story of a bunch of guys who played a game of tag for thirty years. Any story that wacky is destined to be optioned, and indeed, the rights were snapped up and By Sarah • Mar 21, 2018 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Renee Returns A first-look photo was released yesterday of Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland, for a biopic called Judy. It’s about Garland doing a series of shows in London in 1968, the year before she died. Zellweger doesn’t look exactly like Garland, but she looks enough like her to be By Sarah • Mar 20, 2018 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nick Robinson in Love, Simon Simon is a regular teen with a regular life, which he outlines for the audience in voice over, but he has one secret: He’s gay, but still in the closet. His only attempt to flirt is with a cute landscaper who can’t hear him over the leafblower, so By Sarah • Mar 19, 2018 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay is already moving on It was everyone’s low-key worry, right? That after A Wrinkle in Time merely whelmed, Ava DuVernay would not get the same second (third, fourth, fifth) chance that her white male peers get to go on and make another blockbuster, like, say, Zack Snyder who made a divisive Superman movie By Sarah • Mar 16, 2018 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers mount up A new trailer—the last one?—for Avengers: Infinity War has been released, and yeah, okay, this one is working for me. I haven’t been 100% sold on the Super Big Important Tone of previous trailers, and I’m starting to get seriously irritated with Tony Stark, but this By Sarah • Mar 16, 2018 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Apathetic Bond After approximately 97 years of waffling, the 25th Bond movie is a go. It’s slated for November 2019, Daniel Craig is returning—presumably with his own Scrooge McDuck vault of gold since he said if he did another Bond it would “only be for the money”— and now Danny By Sarah • Mar 16, 2018 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tomb Raider doesn’t suck Tomb Raider wants to be Indiana Jones but ends up more The Mummy (the good Rachel Weisz one, not the dumb Tom Cruise one). That’s not an insult—The Mummy is a good f*cking adventure movie. But The Mummy also doesn’t take itself seriously, and you can By Sarah • Mar 15, 2018 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Very Little Johnny Depp The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has been released and it, unlike JK Rowling, would like to pretend like Johnny Depp is not in the movie. (I am not inclined to cut anyone associated with this movie slack because A. they could have recast him between By Sarah • Mar 14, 2018 03:57 pm
Business of Hollywood Matt and Ben join the inclusion club I guess better late than never. The first person to publicly respond to Frances McDormand’s call for the inclusion rider was Michael B. Jordan. Next to the party are Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, through their Pearl Street production shingle. Okay. Fine. If they want to be productive allies By Sarah • Mar 13, 2018 03:14 pm
