TJ Miller Next Up: TJ Miller Did you think it was over? Did you think the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar had spat out its last name? Well Merry F*cking Christmas, we’ve got another one: TJ Miller. Remember him? Of Silicon Valley and Deadpool fame, and, oh yeah, The Emoji Movie. And also one of By Sarah • Dec 20, 2017 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman Even if you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about PT Barnum, The Greatest Showman is not a great movie. It has going for it Hugh Jackman, truly a Great Entertainer, and he is determined to greatly entertain the sh*t out of his audience. And the musical numbers aren’t that bad, By Sarah • Dec 20, 2017 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ocean’s 8: It’s what they’re good at Ocean’s 11 is one of the movies that propelled Matt Damon into permanent A-list capital-letter Movie Star status. And now, when he can’t stop the diarrhea flowing from his mouth on a daily basis, comes the trailer for Ocean’s 8, the all-lady spin-off featuring a slew of By Sarah • Dec 19, 2017 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah’s Top 10 of 2017 First, we must acknowledge that the true and correct Top 10 is the Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie ten times. But after that, here are my next Top 10 Films of 2017. As always, it’s alphabetical, not ranked. A Ghost Story David Lowery’s tone poem about grief and By Sarah • Dec 18, 2017 10:14 am
Business of Hollywood Deadpool trolls the Disney-Fox merger Yesterday it was announced that Disney and 20th Century Fox are merging, after a month of speculation and on/off talks. The deal comes as Fox spins off its movie and TV divisions, handing Disney their studio and television package which includes the FX networks, National Geographic channel, stakes in By Sarah • Dec 15, 2017 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Annihilation? We’ve seen a trailer for Annihilation, Alex Garland’s follow-up to Ex Machina, which stars Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Oscar Isaac. That was a promising trailer, and I was way into it. Now we have a second trailer, expanding on the plot and By Sarah • Dec 14, 2017 10:02 am
Michael Che Now we’re being Josted Taking a lesson from Scarlett Johansson, Saturday Night Live is now Josting us, adding Colin Jost to a head writing team that already includes other people. At the winter break, SNL is adding Jost and his Weekend Update partner, Michael Che, to the head writing team, joining Kent Sublette and By Sarah • Dec 13, 2017 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the Star Wars for a generation After an original trilogy, a prequel trilogy, a spin-off, and the first installment in a sequel trilogy, it didn’t seem that Star Wars could still surprise. They could create new creatures and amaze with effects, be they practical or elaborate CGI, and they could give us new versions of By Sarah • Dec 12, 2017 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Day-Lewis (maybe) goes out on a high note In a career littered with great performances, it’s not hard to see why Daniel Day-Lewis would choose Phantom Thread’s Reynolds Woodcock to be his final performance (for now). For one thing, he looks like himself. There’s no facial hair or affected gait or prosthetics or other device By Sarah • Dec 12, 2017 10:02 am
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
