Equality Issues Amy Schumer asks for more In a depressing and thorough review of the state of equal pay in the film and television industry, Variety includes an anecdote that Amy Schumer, after seeing the headline-making deals that comedians Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle got from Netflix, went to the streaming company and asked for increased compensation By Sarah • Aug 23, 2017 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Joker origin no one asked for Today in How Can We Crash This Car We Just Got Going In The Right Direction news, it has been announced that Warner Brothers and DC Films are developing an origin movie for the Joker, something no one wants. It is, of course, inevitable. The Joker is easily the most By Sarah • Aug 23, 2017 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth is a solid dude Taika Waititi’s birthday was last week, and to wish him a happy birthday—and promote Thor: Ragnarok—Chris Hemsworth posted a photo on Instagram, which Maria put in yesterday’s Smutty Social Media, of Taika and him each bussing Sir Anthony Hopkins on the cheek. It’s cute! They’ By Sarah • Aug 22, 2017 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Logan Lucky is Ocean’s 7-11 That’s an actual joke in the movie, that the heist at the center of the film is “Ocean’s 7-11”. And it’s appropriate, because Logan Lucky, a perfectly delightful heist flick from one of the best crafters of heist flicks, is a beat-for-beat remake of 2001’s Ocean’ By Sarah • Aug 21, 2017 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Patty Jenkins gets PAID A lingering question in the wake of Wonder Woman’s success— biggest movie of the summer, first film directed by a woman to cross $400 million domestically—is when Patty Jenkins would be announced as the director of Wonder Woman 2. She didn’t have a multi-picture deal with Warner By Sarah • Aug 18, 2017 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ewan McGregor or bust Yesterday word got out that LucasFilm is talking to director Stephen Daldry about making an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie for their “Star Wars Story” spin-off line. This should be an automatic YES and a fist pump, but I had only the following reaction: If it does not star Ewan McGregor, I By Sarah • Aug 18, 2017 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson in The Hitman’s Bodyguard In my Kidnap review, I talked about the Trashy Movie Paradox and how if you want to make a truly trashy movie, you have to commit to the trash. Well, The Hitman’s Bodyguard isn’t a trashy movie, but it is super, super dumb, and everyone involved commits to By Sarah • Aug 17, 2017 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews But what about Henry Cavill’s mustache? We all saw Tom Cruise bounce off that building over the weekend while filming a stunt for Mission: Impossible 6 – Cruise Control—HOW IS THIS NOT THE REAL TITLE—and try to walk it off. But it doesn’t sound like he’s been able to, as now it’s By Sarah • Aug 16, 2017 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen in Wind River Following his Oscar nomination for Hell or High Water, actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan takes on directing as well with Wind River (technically his sophomore directorial effort, following a 2011 horror movie called Vile). Between Sicario and High Water, Sheridan has a proven knack for setting and dialogue, and creating tense stand-off By Sarah • Aug 16, 2017 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain’s Game Jessica Chastain does not have an Oscar. I have to double-check this CONSTANTLY. Because it seems like she should have one, yes? Surely she won for The Help? No? Well then she HAD to have gotten one for Zero Dark Thirty. Also no. She has not yet recorded a W By Sarah • Aug 15, 2017 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Year of Superheroines Spider-Man: Homecoming is a hit for Sony this summer—and Marvel, who gets the merchandise profits—and they are moving full steam ahead with their own cinematic universe (which they are foolishly not calling the “Spider-Verse”). They’ve already got Tom Hardy lined up to star in a Venom spin-off, By Sarah • Aug 15, 2017 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo on Leo Over the weekend a bidding war broke out over the rights to adapt a biography of Leonardo da Vinci which will be produced by and star Leonardo DiCaprio because they have the same name. No seriously, allegedly his mother named him “Leonardo” because she was looking at a da Vinci By Sarah • Aug 14, 2017 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars says hello and goodbye Star Wars: The Last Jedi covers this week’s Entertainment Weekly, to remind us that not every Star Wars film is a behind-the-scenes clusterf*ck. The Last Jedi, in fact, is the smoothest operation LucasFilm has run in this new Disney era. It’s kind of nice to have this By Sarah • Aug 10, 2017 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson in The Glass Castle The Glass Castle is an adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ memoir of the same name about her unmoored childhood with her alcoholic father and enabler mother. I think it’s supposed to be a heart-warming, family-above-all-else, I Survived tale in which we celebrate Jeannette overcoming the hardship of her youth to By Sarah • Aug 10, 2017 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry in Kidnap The Trashy Movie Paradox is that to be a good trashy movie, a movie must be REALLY trashy—we’re talking Meet the Feebles puppet-f*cking trashy. At some point you have to realize that your movie is bad and fling yourself whole-heartedly into the badness to land somewhere on By Sarah • Aug 09, 2017 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is mother! Here is a rare case where a full trailer does little to illuminate a teaser. Last week we saw the teaser for mother!, the Darren Aronofsky-directed film starring Jennifer Lawrence, which set it up as a horror movie that is maybe about a weird cult invading a woman’s home. By Sarah • Aug 08, 2017 03:08 pm
