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
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves plays Frankenstein Thanks to John Wick, Keanu Reeves is enjoying something of a renaissance. He’s not working any more or less than he was before, and he hasn’t really changed the type of movies he’s interested in making, it’s just that, in the wake of John Wick, people By Sarah • Oct 06, 2017 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justin Timberlake makes Woody Allen worse Just in case you’re not over Woody Allen yet, here is the first trailer for Wonder Wheel, his latest movie, which stars Kate Winslet but also Justin Timberlake. That’s right, Justin Timberlake. Justin Timberlake is in a Woody Allen movie, co-starring with Kate Winslet. (That’s like putting By Sarah • Oct 05, 2017 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will you watch Jack Ryan on TV? In the 1990’s, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character was the American answer to James Bond. Alec Baldwin originated him in The Hunt for the Red October—AKA your dad’s favorite movie—but it was Harrison Ford’s portrayal in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger that By Sarah • Oct 04, 2017 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Cho in Columbus Review of "Columbus" starring John Cho (Lainey: as Sarah wrote yesterday in her post about the Oscars and Netflix, how and where people are consuming film, and the accessibility of movies, Columbus is hard to get to. Even for someone like Sarah who lives in a major market By Sarah • Oct 04, 2017 10:45 am
Business of Hollywood The Oscar meeting For only the second time in the Academy’s history, there was a members-only meeting held last Thursday. According to Deadline, about 300 people attended, and one of the things they talked about was Netflix, and their potential eligibility in future Oscar races. Netflix has managed success at the Emmys, By Sarah • Oct 03, 2017 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Today’s Bad Idea: A Hef Biopic Following the death of Hugh Hefner, it seems natural that someone would order up a Hef biopic, and indeed, someone has. Hollywood fratboy Brett Ratner is going to produce and direct a biopic of Hef, which will star Jared Leto. How do you think Leto will get into character? What By Sarah • Oct 03, 2017 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Father Figures: Tulip Fever II When it comes to release date shuffling, Tulip Fever is the gold standard. But there is another movie that has quietly been shuffled on and off the release slate, and that is the Owen Wilson/Ed Helms comedy Father Figures (formerly titled Bastards). The movie, which languished at Paramount before By Sarah • Sep 29, 2017 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey, post-Dark Tower Here is Matthew McConaughey out and about in New York, where he was in town to speak on behalf of the just keep livin Foundation (that punctuation drives me nuts). He looks good, and not at all like his movie bombed. We’re just a month removed from The Dark By Sarah • Sep 29, 2017 12:35 pm
Dumbass Leave Hocus Pocus alone Hocus Pocus is one of those movies, objectively not great but beloved by a generation anyway. I was ten when Hocus Pocus came out, and if there had been fan fiction and message boards in 1993, I would have been all over it, my screenname undoubtedly “ThackeryBinx27”, and unspeakably bad By Sarah • Sep 28, 2017 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in American Made There’s a game I like to play with new Tom Cruise movies. It’s called “How Old Does This Movie Think Tom Cruise Is?” It’s simple, all you have to do is watch a recent Tom Cruise movie and try and figure out how old he is supposed By Sarah • Sep 28, 2017 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul Set in the waning days of Queen Victoria’s reign, Victoria and Abdul depicts the end-of-life friendship Queen Victoria struck up with Abdul Karim, a servant sent from India during her golden jubilee. Abdul is a low-level clerk in a prison in India, who is chosen—because he is tall— By Sarah • Sep 27, 2017 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman and sci-fi soap bubbles Yesterday we saw the first image from Natalie Portman’s upcoming film, Annihilation. It’s from Alex Garland, the filmmaker behind Ex Machina, and the first look features an albino alligator. Well we now have a teaser trailer, and it does not include the albino alligator. But it does have By Sarah • Sep 27, 2017 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Kitsch steps We’ve been a little worried about Taylor Kitsch around the LaineyGossip offices. I wonder what the hell he’s doing in cut-rate action movies, and Kathleen wonders if, like Samson, his hair is the secret to his power. We’re all a little bummed True Detective season 2 didn’ By Sarah • Sep 27, 2017 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman and an albino alligator The first image from Annihilation, Alex Garland’s follow-up to Ex Machina, has been released and it shows Natalie Portman rubbing a Q-tip on an albino alligator, so I’m sold. (I can just feel someone being like, “Actually, that’s a crocodile.”) You know what this reminds me of? By Sarah • Sep 26, 2017 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum is barely in Kingsman: The Golden Circle This is relevant information you need going into Kingsman: The Golden Circle. The sequel to the surprise 2015 hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, Golden Circle is heavily advertising Channing Tatum as a new cast addition, but beware—it’s a glorified cameo and he’s only there to service one By Sarah • Sep 22, 2017 02:11 pm
