Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds expands his brand After several false starts, Deadpool finally made Ryan Reynolds the A-lister everyone expected him to be. And given Deadpool’s success, it also made him a producer with clout overnight. That has given him the power to do things like set up a Clue remake and, now, he’s By Sarah • Jul 26, 2018 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Not the Tiffany song After working as a cinematographer, Reed Morano made her directorial debut with 2015’s Meadowland. Following that film, she went to work in television, directing episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale—for which she won an Emmy—and working as one of the cinematographers on Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Morano has By Sarah • Jul 25, 2018 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonah Hill needs a new nickname Lainey calls him “Jonah Hill, 2x Oscar nominee and friend of Leo, Scorsese, and Brange”, but I think Jonah Hill needs a nickname update. Not only because the Brange is no more—who do you think got him in the divorce?—but because Jonah Hill has another tick on his By Sarah • Jul 25, 2018 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mission: Impossible – Fallout will rock your face off If Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation was like shotgunning a beer and diving off a roof into a pool, then its follow up, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, is like shotgunning TWO beers and back-flipping out of an airplane while making out with the prom king and/or queen. It’s another By Sarah • Jul 25, 2018 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is Gus Van Sant’s first feature film since 2015’s disastrous Sea of Trees. Three years is not an unreasonable amount of time between features, but given how very, very bad Trees is, Foot can’t help but feel By Sarah • Jul 24, 2018 04:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Homemade Superheroes M. Night Shyamalan’s best movie is Unbreakable, which is why, after a lukewarm reception following The Sixth Sense in 2000, it has developed a considerable cult following. It came along just before comic book movies took over Hollywood, and it is so much like a comic book—the whole By Sarah • Jul 24, 2018 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Big, but for superheroes Here’s an unexpected development, Shazam! the DC movie you probably haven’t heard of, doesn’t look bad. In fact it looks good? It looks better than Aquaman, anyway. The teaser trailer for Shazam! dropped at Comic-Con, and it is quite fun and charming. And remember that rhythm By Sarah • Jul 23, 2018 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman: Underwater Space Mutiny We’re used to DC movies being marketed years in advance, but with Aquaman Warner Brothers and DC Films finally showed some restraint, waiting until Comic-Con, five months before the movie is due, to drop the first trailer. That restraint paid off, too, because it gave them a literal By Sarah • Jul 23, 2018 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Let them fight Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla is a good movie, and if you think otherwise, you are entitled to be wrong. It’s a good movie, and it gave us the instantly iconic line, “Let them fight.” The rebooted monster universe—Kong: Skull Island is part of this franchise—immediately established its penchant By Sarah • Jul 23, 2018 09:29 am
Douchebags Fantastic Beasts with 100% more Johnny Depp Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was a big part of Warner Brothers’ two-hour presentation at Comic-Con on Saturday. The whole cast turned out, except notably absent Johnny Depp, and there was an electrically palpable sigh of relief as everyone reveled in Ezra Miller cosplaying as Toadette and By Sarah • Jul 23, 2018 09:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Denzel Washington in The Equalizer 2 Spoilers Denzel Washington returns as Robert McCall, a mysterious former government operative who has retired and is now driving for Lyft. The beginning of The Equalizer 2 is just McCall driving around, eavesdropping on his riders and using his Murder Skills to help people out. He travels to Turkey to By Sarah • Jul 20, 2018 03:39 pm
Quiveration Hot Pennywise at Comic-Con Bill Skarsgard, aka Hot Pennywise, brought his particular brand of creepy-hot to Comic-Con yesterday to promote Assassination Nation. Here he is, tall and handsome, not dressed like a murdering demon clown, with those ludicrous cheekbones everywhere. Are you into Bill Skarsgard? I am 100% on board. He’s By Sarah • Jul 20, 2018 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the summer fling of 2018 I have not seen Mamma Mia! and I don’t know enough ABBA to make a go of it at karaoke, and I hate musicals, so Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again had a lot of ground to make up with me. I sat through the whole movie, and I By Sarah • Jul 19, 2018 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Boy vs. Boy Joel Edgerton forever separated himself from being confused with Sam Worthington when it turned out he’s a good filmmaker with his debut feature film, The Gift. Now he’s following up that quasi-exploitation horror flick with Boy Erased, which he adapted from Garrard Conley’s memoir about being By Sarah • Jul 18, 2018 04:21 pm
TV Updates Dork Storm 2018: The Dorkening After years of pop cultural dominance, we’re adjusting to a new reality: Comic-Con is no longer a major industry event. Oh, the magazines still feature glossy previews and there are parties and “activations” galore, but at this point Comic-Con is a thing because we say it’s By Sarah • Jul 18, 2018 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Notorious RBG One of the summer box office superstars this year isn’t a comic book movie or a dinosaur catastrophe or a cartoon. It’s a documentary, specifically, RBG, a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. RBG has been rocking the specialty box office, one of the best arthouse By Sarah • Jul 18, 2018 11:16 am
