Movie Reviews and Previews Surprise Star Wars During the World Series (congrats, Astros!), a super-sized TV spot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi dropped and everyone lost their minds because Luke Skywalker is in the Millennium Falcon. I lost my mind because the Porg screamed and it’s simultaneously adorable and terrifying (their teeth are nightmares). At By Sarah • Nov 02, 2017 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tyrese vs. The Rock Fast Furious frontmen Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson have been involved in a generally entertaining maybe-feud for a while. But recently, there is a new challenger in the midst, competing for The Rock’s attention, and that is Tyrese Gibson. He’s super upset that the Jason Statham/Dwayne Johnson By Sarah • Nov 02, 2017 09:54 am
Douchebags Brett Ratner’s reckoning A month ago, it was announced that Brett Ratner would direct a biopic of Hugh Hefner, with Jared Leto to star as Hef. I said that was a bad idea, partly because of Leto but mostly because of Ratner: “Honestly, Jared Leto playing Hef is an afterthought, mostly just good By Sarah • Nov 02, 2017 08:52 am
TV Updates Stranger Things 2 has an Eleven problem Spoilers Picking up one year after the events of the first season, Stranger Things 2 sees Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) pining for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who has been missing ever since they confronted the Demagorgon. Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) has grown his front teeth, and he and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) By Sarah • Nov 01, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Trick or Treat: I saw Jigaw And it was not a treat. I do not enjoy the Saw movies, or torture porn in general, and while Jigsaw will probably work for fans of the Saw series, I cannot imagine casual viewers being drawn into the franchise by this movie. Or any movie. There are EIGHT of By Sarah • Oct 31, 2017 04:29 pm
Quiveration Chadwick Boseman on the never-ending Avenger shoot Chadwick Boseman was spotted on set in Atlanta (Hollywood Peach) working on Avengers 4: Title TBD. Marshall opened a couple weeks ago and hasn’t set the world on fire, but that’s okay because Boseman is just a few months away from total domination when Black Panther comes out. By Sarah • Oct 26, 2017 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Geostorm: The nonsense movie 2017 deserves The timing could not be worse for Geostorm. They’re saying now that the movie could lose between $50 – $100 million for Warner Bros, Skydance, and RatPac. Is there any good news? Well, it could become a cult classic? Geostorm is the feature film directorial debut of Dean Devlin, producer By Sarah • Oct 25, 2017 11:46 am
Sean Penn Woman speaks, Sean Penn panics Remember when Sean Penn spent 10,000 words jerking himself off in Rolling Stone about his meeting with drug cartel kingpin El Chapo? Remember how he strutted like he’s such a legendary badass and brilliant writer—the new Hemingway—and then Ricky Gervais made fun of him? Lainey covered By Sarah • Oct 24, 2017 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jackie Chan in The Foreigner If you, like me, saw the trailer for The Foreigner and thought Jackie Chan wants to get some of that Taken action, then you, like me, will be pleasantly surprised that The Foreigner is not a Taken knock-off. It’s a revenge thriller, so it’s in the same genre, By Sarah • Oct 24, 2017 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Stare into the abyss with a doc about Harvey Weinstein Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering have worked together to make The Invisible War and The Hunting Ground, documentaries about sexual assault in the military and on college campuses, respectively. They are now re-teaming to make a documentary about sexual assault in Hollywood, focusing not only on a predator like Harvey By Sarah • Oct 24, 2017 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in The Snowman The Snowman combines the properties of two of the worst movies in recent memory: Assassin’s Creed’s waste of talent, and Collateral Beauty’s sheer insanity. Is it as insane as Collateral Beauty? No, there are no immortal metaphysical beings involved in The Snowman. But it’s about as By Sarah • Oct 23, 2017 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews REYNOLDS WOODCOCK Daniel Day-Lewis is a classy man who makes classy movies with classy people like Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson. He’s a three-time Oscar winner, who could legit be a four-time winner by this time next year. His latest, and potentially final, project—I don’t 100% By Sarah • Oct 23, 2017 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Get Out is still in the conversation As well it should be. Get Out came out in February and we’re closing in on November and it’s still one of the best movies of the year. As it’s still hanging around, and given its box office success, which has kept it in the conversation as By Sarah • Oct 23, 2017 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie in Goodbye Christopher Robin English author and playwright Alan Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) returns from World War I with a case of shellshock, or what we now call PTSD. His wife, Daphne (Margot Robbie), is just glad to have him home, and to get back to their upper-crusty West End London life of opening nights By Sarah • Oct 20, 2017 01:50 pm
Equality Issues Another domino falls So far the list of People Whose Careers Are Cancelled includes Harvey Weinstein and Amazon’s Roy Price. In the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal, there has been much talk but not a huge amount of tangible action. However, signaling the reach of this thing is still growing, another By Sarah • Oct 20, 2017 09:08 am
Harvey Weinstein Quentin Tarantino: What next? Beginning with Pulp Fiction in 1994, Harvey Weinstein produced all of Quentin Tarantino’s feature films. It’s a collaboration that spans twenty-three years—twenty-four if you go back to 1993 and True Romance, which Tarantino wrote. That’s almost a quarter of a century spent making movies with the By Sarah • Oct 20, 2017 08:47 am
