Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck: What if the Batphone doesn’t ring? As predicted, the report that Ben Affleck could be “phased out” as Batman put a dent in in the DC Films presentation at Comic-Con on Saturday. They were on the defensive, Affleck forced to answer again and again that he loves playing Batman and isn’t going anywhere any time By Sarah • Jul 24, 2017 09:58 am
Amazingness Ben Affleck isn’t in good enough shape for Batman In what can only be described as a “PR nightmare”, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Ben Affleck’s tenure as Batman is coming to a premature end and he will be phased out of the DC Extended Universe. We’ll talk more about it next week, in the context By Sarah • Jul 21, 2017 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith: WAND COP Earlier this year we saw a teaser trailer for Bright, the Netflix movie directed by David Ayer and starring Will Smith. It looked sort of interesting, with Smith playing an LAPD officer in a world where trolls and fairies are real, and seemed like a decent-ish rebound chance for both By Sarah • Jul 21, 2017 11:35 am
Halle Berry Halle Berry chugs whiskey, nerds approve Comic-Con got underway yesterday, and kicking off the festivities in Hall H was Fox as the studio trotted out the cast of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, including Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Jeff Bridges, Channing Tatum, Pedro Pascal, and Halle Berry, who won over the crowd when she chugged an oversized By Sarah • Jul 21, 2017 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in A Ghost Story Filmmaker David Lowery’s last two feature films, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Pete’s Dragon, could not be more different. Saints is a crime drama infused with Southern Romantic flare, and Pete’s Dragon is a live-action remake of the Disney cartoon. They do have something in common, By Sarah • Jul 20, 2017 03:41 pm
Dumbass So much for that Freddie Mercury movie A Freddie Mercury biopic has been percolating for literally a decade, when rumors that Sacha Baron Cohen would play Freddie Mercury on the big screen began emerging. Then, in 2010, came confirmation that Baron Cohen would indeed play Mercury, only for that deal to fall apart a few years later By Sarah • Jul 20, 2017 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2017: The Dork Knight Returns Last year in my Comic-Con preview I wrote, “Comic-Con’s dominance as an industry event is definitely waning.” That is blatantly apparent this year, as four studios—Paramount, Universal, Lionsgate, and Sony—are sitting out the festivities in Hall H, and an increasing number of studios and networks are cutting By Sarah • Jul 19, 2017 09:38 am
Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk The opening scene from Saving Private Ryan is the gold standard of cinematic depiction of World War II. Recreating the Omaha Beach landing in searing detail, Steven Spielberg brought to life one of the most harrowing and horrifying chapters in that war’s history. Christopher Nolan now attempts to do By Sarah • Jul 18, 2017 01:29 pm
Amazingness Enter The Room I’ll never forget the first time I saw The Room, arguably the worst movie ever made. (It’s up against Manos: The Hands of Fate, a spectacularly bad movie.) I was in college and a friend was talking about this terrible movie playing at a theater in Fairfax, going By Sarah • Jul 18, 2017 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner at war A new trailer for Blade Runner 2049 has just been released, and in case you’re wondering, yes this movie continues to look f*cking awesome. (Blade Runner is at Comic-Con on Saturday, so we might be getting even more to look at soon.) This trailer shows more of Jared By Sarah • Jul 17, 2017 12:48 pm
Robert Downey-Jr Marvel’s camp reunion Also at Disney’s D23 over the weekend was a sizeable chunk of the cast of Avengers: Infinity War, including Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sebastian Stan (those three, by the way, got the biggest ovations from the crowd), Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Don Cheadle, Chadwick Boseman, By Sarah • Jul 17, 2017 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars Family This past weekend was Disney biennial fan convention, D23, and among the many things they showed off—they see Universal’s Harry Potter Land and will raise you Avatar Land, Star Wars Land, and Marvel Land—was Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars is not expected to be among By Sarah • Jul 17, 2017 09:58 am
Dumbass Goop doesn’t actually want to talk Earlier Maria covered the goop open letter that challenged Dr Jen Gunter and whether or not it was good business strategy. I name-checked Dr. Gunter in my write-up of the In Goop Health event held last month, as she has been one of the most vociferous and articulate critics of By Sarah • Jul 14, 2017 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I wish I never saw Wish Upon The first thing you need to know about Wish Upon, is that there is a Very Good Dog called Max and SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS. The second thing you need to know is that Wish Upon isn’t remotely good enough to justify it. The third thing you need to know By Sarah • Jul 13, 2017 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gimme Black Panther NOW Continuing the pre-Comic-Con warm-up is Black Panther, which covers Entertainment Weekly’s special issue. We’ve seen the trailer, and now we have a trove of photos to scan in detail, including T’Challa’s family—his mother, Ramonda, is played by ANGELA BASSET. There’s also Lupita N’yongo By Sarah • Jul 12, 2017 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time We’re about to get hit with a deluge of new movie stuff, with Disney’s biennial fan convention, D23, taking place this weekend, and then Comic-Con the weekend after. As a warm up, Entertainment Weekly has some first-look features in their Comic-Con issue, including Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle By Sarah • Jul 12, 2017 12:18 pm
