Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth tries it again After several years of lackluster results trying to be a Hollywood leading man, Chris Hemsworth underwent a reinvention, emerging as a rising comedy star. He stole every scene he had in Ghostbusters, he hosted the sh*t out SNL, he did the “Team Thor” mockumentary with Taika Waititi, and now By Sarah • Oct 19, 2017 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh’s chances Here are some photos of Hugh Jackman on set in Atlanta—seriously, Hollywood East, or wait, no, Hollywood Peach—filming The Front Runner, in which he plays Gary Hart, the one-time presidential hopeful who withdrew from the 1988 race when he was busted for having an affair. Yes, it’s By Sarah • Oct 19, 2017 10:01 am
Equality Issues Kevin Smith’s decency In the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, a lot of celebrities have been asked to comment on the situation. Many women have come out and spoken about their experience(s) with Weinstein, or men just like him, and some men, like Terry Crews, have shed light on how widespread By Sarah • Oct 19, 2017 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin and Miles Teller in Only The Brave Movies about gritty men with gritty jobs only get made when something terrible happens (see also: Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon), so you know going in that Only The Brave, a film about a group of wildfire-fighting “hotshots”, is going to have something terrible in it. The Granite Mountain Hotshots became By Sarah • Oct 18, 2017 01:18 pm
TV Updates The Green Lantern Mystery I’m already on the record doubting that any version of the Green Lantern shows up in Justice League. But, last night The Big Bang Theory introduced the “Geekstakes” in which a fan can win a trip to the Justice League premiere. The game involves clicking on a wheel which By Sarah • Oct 17, 2017 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to Wakanda The second trailer for Black Panther has arrived, to be attached to Thor: Ragnarok, and it gives us a better look at the world of Wakanda, which looks AMAZING. The combo of traditional African art and fashion with the high-tech comic book wizardry of Wakanda is super f*cking cool, By Sarah • Oct 16, 2017 04:27 pm
Relationship Assumption Chris Evans and Jenny Slate? Over the weekend, a couple different readers emailed in re: Jenny Slate and Chris Evans together in Atlanta. Rebecca sent us a link to a Twitter sighting, and Janet says she and her cousin saw them out on Friday night, not “making out or anything”, but “looking pretty cheery”. They’ By Sarah • Oct 16, 2017 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Diana’s kinky origins in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Several movies in October are running up against bad timing, including Geostorm’s “the weather is trying to kill us” plot becoming redundant because the actual weather is actually trying to kill us, and Marshall’s depiction of a sexual assault case being made even more uncomfortable given the ongoing By Sarah • Oct 13, 2017 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The New Mutants’ hospital from hell The X-Men movies are not great. They are either outright bad, or they don’t hold up. Logan is the closest they’ve come to a genuinely good movie, and even it falls apart in the third act. But, the success of Logan and Deadpool has shown Fox a way By Sarah • Oct 13, 2017 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman in Marshall Set in 1941, Marshall depicts the early days of Thurgood Marshall’s law career, before he tried and won Brown v. The Board of Education—which desegregated schools in the US—and before he became the first black Supreme Court Justice. The case in question is Connecticut v. Joseph Spell, By Sarah • Oct 13, 2017 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Liquefy your brain matter with My Little Pony The television show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is adorable and charming, combining unrelenting cheer with positive messages about acceptance, teamwork, and friendship. The cutesy voices of the ponies are fitting for the brightly colored cartoon, and the plots are easily resolvable within 22 minutes and usually take no By Sarah • Oct 12, 2017 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rotten Tomatoes isn’t the problem This week in non-Harvey news, Martin Scorsese penned an op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter about how Rotten Tomatoes is ruining movies and everyone should stop obsessing over box office and Cinemascore and also he liked mother!. Blaming Rotten Tomatoes for a movie’s failure became a favorite pastime this summer— By Sarah • Oct 12, 2017 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2049 Blade Runner 2049 did not live up to expectations, opening with just $32 million (against a reported $150 million budget and a big marketing push). It got an A- minus Cinemascore, so the people who saw it liked it, but basically, no one saw it. Or, not enough people saw By Sarah • Oct 11, 2017 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Merely whelmed by The Last Jedi It’s a day for final trailers. Star Wars: The Last Jedi also released their final trailer, and it’s very red. Red, and all about Kylo Ren being the biggest bag of dicks in this or any other galaxy. My interest in The Last Jedi has waned with previous By Sarah • Oct 10, 2017 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Here is your new, colorful Justice League A new trailer for Justice League was released on Sunday, and I think this is the first one to incorporate the new Joss Whedon-shot material. One difference after the director handover is apparent right away—someone found the color grading knob and turned it up. This is by far the By Sarah • Oct 10, 2017 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews We’re un-cancelling the apocalypse New York Comic Con is going on right now—not quite San Diego Comic Con, but getting close—which means there are some new trailers dropping, including the first trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s “robots fight kaiju” movie, Pacific Rim. You remember Pacific By Sarah • Oct 06, 2017 02:31 pm
