Business of Hollywood This Hot Bitch at the airport Here are some photos of This Hot Bitch, Sharon Stone, at the airport. I would like to draw attention to her outfit, because I was just arguing with someone about “appropriate” travel-wear, and I feel like Stone is modeling the perfect travel outfit. Comfy pants, comfy sweater, but doing it By Sarah • Jan 16, 2018 11:36 am
Top Reads This is a conversation about consent Over the weekend, a story about Aziz Ansari was published, in which a woman referred to as “Grace” recounted her date with Ansari, which ended in his apartment and a moment far too many women know: A round of touch-roulette where you try to decide the least awful places and By Sarah • Jan 16, 2018 09:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Liam Neeson(s) in The Commuter Last summer, director Jaume Collet-Serra scored with the sleeper hit The Shallows, the Blake Lively vs. A Shark movie that is ridiculous, but in that fun, schlocky way that is entirely watchable. That movie was a nice break from the Liam Neeson Revenge Man movies he had been making to By Sarah • Jan 12, 2018 04:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews At last, a Black Widow movie Marvel was always going to make a Black Widow movie, eventually, because at a certain point it just becomes money left on the table. Following Wonder Woman’s success in 2017, now is apparently when the money is on the table, and Marvel wants their cut. (They’ve talked enough By Sarah • Jan 11, 2018 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Almost time for Black Panther (Lainey: this post was supposed to go up yesterday but I had to be a dick. Black Panther tickets went on sale. The film has already set a record for advance ticket sales which is why, like an asshole, I didn’t want to post about it because I was By Sarah • Jan 10, 2018 01:08 pm
Douchebags The Michelle Williams/Mark Wahlberg pay gap Today in Burn It All Down News, USA Today is reporting that for the eleventh-hour All the Money in the World reshoots, Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million, while Michelle Williams was paid less than one thousand dollars. Yes, that’s right, Michelle Williams, who received a Golden Globe By Sarah • Jan 10, 2018 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batch is back Since The Current War was vamoosed from award season because of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, it’s been a relatively quiet time for Benedict Cumberbatch. He had that cameo in Thor: Ragnarok, but even with the (allegedly) final episodes of Sherlock airing in early 2017, it felt like a light By Sarah • Jan 09, 2018 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Boneyard Horror #1: Insidious: The Last Key It’s January, so you know what that means: Welcome to the boneyard where all the worst movies are sent to die! A fair number of the cinematic bodies dumped in the winter boneyard are horror movies, and indeed, this year’s first burial is Insidious: The Last Key. Before By Sarah • Jan 05, 2018 10:27 am
TV Updates Lena Waithe’s own words Last year, Lena Waithe became the first black woman to win an Emmy for writing in a comedy series, for her work on Master of None’s stellar “Thanksgiving” episode. This year, Waithe is launching her own show, The Chi, on Showtime. According to her profile in the New York By Sarah • Jan 04, 2018 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bright: The Return Netflix has established itself as a player in the television world, but despite big spending at film festivals, they have yet to prove themselves in the world of film. Or, rather, they only just did, as Bright becomes their biggest film hit, comparable to a blockbuster in the “real” world By Sarah • Jan 03, 2018 12:46 pm
Emily Blunt Emily Blunt gives us “bum-pinching” Emily Blunt is on the cover of the new Vanity Fair, which is a little odd, though, because she’s not really promoting anything. She’s voicing a character in Sherlock Gnomes—Lainey, I REFUSE to watch this—but that’s not out until March, and it’s not mentioned By Sarah • Jan 03, 2018 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dad Approved: All the Money in the World When watching All the Money in the World, it is incredible to think that 1) six weeks ago Christopher Plummer was not in this movie, and 2) anyone other than Christopher Plummer was ever cast as J. Paul Getty. Plummer is terrific as oil tycoon and grandfather from hell J. By Sarah • Dec 28, 2017 09:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Bright At first glance, Bright seemed batsh*t crazy, and the combination of director David Ayer, who specializes in down and dirty action movies particularly of the cop variety, and screenwriter Max Landis, who specializes in “this plus that” story pitches, seemed crazy enough to create the perfect storm of good-bad By Sarah • Dec 27, 2017 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle The lasting impression of the comedy Central Intelligence is that Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson are a terrific screen duo. They must have known that, too, because just eighteen months later, they’ve reunited for the Jumanji sequel/reboot, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. They wasted no time in finding By Sarah • Dec 22, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bellas are back in Pitch Perfect 3 Look. Pitch Perfect 3 is not good. Not by any reasonable metric of filmmaking. There are no character arcs, there is no narrative arc—there is BARELY a narrative. Pitch Perfect was a nice little surprise, a college comedy wrapped up in a capella/girl band trimmings, and as a By Sarah • Dec 21, 2017 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Come for Charlize, stay for Sharlto Just in time for the holidays, like a little present from the universe, comes a trailer for Gringo, a movie starring Sharlto Copley. I love Sharlto Copley, and he is not in nearly enough movies to satisfy me, which would be all the movies. Sharlto Copley should be in all By Sarah • Dec 21, 2017 11:27 am
