Movie Reviews and Previews Ready Player One is the nadir of fanboy culture Ready Player One is Steven Spielberg’s latest movie, a return to his populist roots and the escapist fantasies for which he is most famous. Based on poet Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name, RPO is a fanboy’s love letter to nostalgia and gatekeeping and now it’ By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone experiment While Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Unsane, is undeniably schlocky, Soderbergh is one of those filmmakers who can lean into trash and come up with something with actual heft (another member of this club is Jeremy Saulnier). Working from a script from Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer—the duo’s last By Sarah • Mar 29, 2018 03:14 pm
TV Updates New Prince Phillip The next two seasons of The Crown will feature an older cast as Queen Elizabeth and her family move into the 1970s (WHO WILL PLAY DIANA). Olivia Colman is taking over as QEII, and after a rather long casting period, Tobias Menzies of Outlander fame has just been confirmed as By Sarah • Mar 29, 2018 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy plays a gangster again He does it a lot. RocknRolla, Peaky Blinders, Legend, technically Inception and Dark Knight Rises, and that’s just the criminal/gangster roles I remember off the top of my head. Tom Hardy has a niche and it’s “unintelligible crime boss”. (I like Tom Hardy, he’s a great By Sarah • Mar 29, 2018 12:03 pm
TV Updates What happened to Donald Glover’s Deadpool series? Donald Glover is already producing one hit show for FX, Atlanta, and last year he and his brother, Stephen Glover, signed on to expand their television empire by producing an animated Deadpool series for FX’s comedy wing, FXX. It was to be something like Archer but for Marvel, and By Sarah • Mar 28, 2018 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Steampunk Cate Blanchett Eli Roth makes movies of varying degrees of watchability. For every Knock Knock there is an unwatchable Green Inferno, and his latest movie, the ill-advised Death Wish remake, fell on the “thoroughly unwatchable” end of the scale. But he’s already rebounding with a new movie due in September, and By Sarah • Mar 28, 2018 10:59 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Timothy Olyphant I haven’t done one of these in a while, but Cher Martinetti, the editor of SYFY Fangrrls, has developed a Timothy Olyphant problem of late, and wants to know why Olyphant isn’t a bigger deal than he is: can I request a career prospectus on @LaineyGossip of Olyphant? By Sarah • Mar 27, 2018 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson is happy to see Jude Law There are new photos of Brie Larson on the set of Captain Marvel—she is still wearing that green not-iconic suit. We have all resigned ourselves to this suit, I just hope at some point between Captain Marvel and Avengers 4 we get to see Carol’s iconic comic book By Sarah • Mar 26, 2018 08:56 am
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
