Jordan Peele Get Out at the Globes – and a giveaway The Golden Globe nominations are out, and Get Out—one of the best movies of the year—only got two nominations: Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture and Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical for Daniel Kaluuya. Those are not insignificant nominations, but Jordan Peele went 0-0 on directing and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2017 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RPattz goes for it Robert Pattinson gave his best performance to date this year in Good Time. He’s gotten a Gotham Award nomination for it, and an Independent Spirit Award nod, too. People have noticed him doing Good Work this year (he also gave a solid performance in James Grey’s Lost City By Sarah • Dec 08, 2017 01:40 pm
Bryan Singer: The other shoe just dropped Well, it’s not like we didn’t have a clue. Just days after getting sh*t-canned from Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer has been sued for allegedly assaulting a seventeen-year-old boy in 2003. Wow that’s an ugly sentence. But we knew it would be. For those of us who By Sarah • Dec 08, 2017 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World 2: Cruise Control In 2015, Jurassic World made a billion dollars, so a sequel was inevitable. And now we have the first trailer for that sequel, which is officially titled Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, but if you’re not getting Speed 2: Cruise Control vibes from this, then you have never seen Speed By Sarah • Dec 08, 2017 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The DC holiday shuffle It was inevitable, and like clockwork, it arrived just before the holidays, when Warner Brothers likes to do their firing: an executive shuffle at DC Films. Jon Berg, who was co-president of production and oversaw DC, is exiting his executive role to become an on-the-lot producer. Apparently, he started talking By Sarah • Dec 08, 2017 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The 100 Club That’s what they’re called now, it is known. They are the three women directing $100 million-plus movies for Disney: Ava DuVernay, Niki Caro, and Anna Boden. DuVernay, of course, is directing A Wrinkle In Time, due in the spring. Niki Caro is tackling the live-action Mulan, and Boden By Sarah • Dec 07, 2017 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet can’t save Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel Woody Allen’s latest film, Wonder Wheel, is the sixteenth “wonder” movie of the year, and it has everything you’ve come to expect from a Woody Allen film: New York locations, relationships complicated by suppressed misery, uncomfortable dialogue about an uncomfortable father/daughter relationship, and a legendary actress going By Sarah • Dec 07, 2017 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post Set during the pre-Watergate Nixon administration, The Post follows the Washington Post back when it was considered a “local paper”. The New York Times is the paper of record, but the Post is under the control of Kay Graham, whose father left the family publishing empire to her husband, who By Sarah • Dec 06, 2017 04:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I, Tonya and the real Tonya I, Tonya is opening this weekend, so there was a premiere and people showed up. Tonya Harding showed up! It’s been so long since I’ve seen Tonya Harding, I almost didn’t recognize her. But there she is, in a black dress with some kind of colorful underskirt. By Sarah • Dec 06, 2017 12:51 pm
Business of Hollywood An agency takes action It’s what we’ve been waiting for, right? For someone to do something, ANYTHING, as the Hollywood sex scandal rolls on. There have been some high profile firings, yes. But real, systemic change? Hasn’t happened yet. In fact, there are signs it might not happen at all. (This By Sarah • Dec 06, 2017 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Singer got fired Following his vanishing act from the set of Bohemian Rhapsody, and to the surprise of no one, Fox has fired Bryan Singer as director of the film. A replacement is expected to be named within days, and that person will then finish the film—with about two weeks left on By Sarah • Dec 05, 2017 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie Quentin Tarantino has been talking retirement recently, stating his intention to retire (from directing) at ten feature films. He has a project—relocated at Sony after splitting from his long-time producer, Harvey Weinstein, for obvious reasons—currently slated for 2019 that may or may not be about Charles Manson. That By Sarah • Dec 05, 2017 09:23 am
Bryan Singer’s disappearing act In the latest Weird F*ckin’ News, it broke over the weekend that Bryan Singer has vanished, abandoning production on the Queen movie, Bohemian Rhapsody. Fox, the studio behind the film, was forced to release a statement, saying, “Twentieth Century Fox Film has temporarily halted production on Bohemian Rhapsody due By Sarah • Dec 04, 2017 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Christmas Rock Ahead of Jumanji, Dwayne Johnson covers Entertainment Weekly, with an accompanying slightly disturbing sexy Santa-themed photoshoot. (Some things should never be sexy and Santa is one of them.) The cover teases Johnson talking about his imaginary presidential run, though those quotes are left out of the online preview, but if By Sarah • Dec 01, 2017 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ridley Scott’s eleventh-hour miracle After Kevin Spacey was spat out by the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar (TM Lainey), Ridley Scott decided to remove him entirely from All the Money in the World and replace him with Christopher Plummer. That was a good decision but also totally bonkers, as the movie was set to come By Sarah • Nov 30, 2017 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avengers: Beginning of the End Following that canonization in Vanity Fair, Marvel has released the first trailer for Avengers: Infinity War. Fans have been clamoring for it since basically Comic-Con, but anyone who pays attention should know by now that Marvel runs their advertising on a pretty tight six-month clock, and we are about six By Sarah • Nov 29, 2017 01:18 pm
