Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio will never be the Joker The Joker madness continues. The latest development came on Friday just before everyone in the US took off for a long weekend, which is less about burying the lede and more about there being so much crazy DC Films news that it just sprays everywhere like a loose water hose. By Sarah • Sep 05, 2017 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A worthwhile Trip to Spain Reuniting for the third time, filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their “Trip” series of a largely improvised travel show which then gets edited into a feature film. (Say what you want about franchise culture, but it has resulted in a Trip trilogy.) It’s By Sarah • Aug 31, 2017 03:51 pm
Dumbass Mean Girls is getting an unwanted remake Today in Did You Even Read That Book news, filmmaking duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directors behind What Maisie Knew and The Deep End, have closed a deal to write and direct an adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies but with a TWIST!, and the By Sarah • Aug 31, 2017 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Downsizing is about shrink rays?! Alexander Payne is an Oscar regular. He’s one of those filmmakers who gets instant consideration, thanks to films like About Schmidt, The Descendants, and Nebraska. (His best movie is still Election.) And he’s back in contention this year with Downsizing, starring Matt Damon—also Oscar-friendly—Kristen Wiig, and By Sarah • Aug 30, 2017 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews OG Daario Naharis quits Hellboy Last week, Ed Skrein—best known as Game of Thrones’ OG Daario Naharis and the “Posh Spice” badguy in Deadpool—was cast in the Hellboy reboot in the works with David Harbour. He was set to play Major Ben Daimio, an undead paranormal agent (comic books, yay!). There was just By Sarah • Aug 29, 2017 10:14 am
Douchebags Sit DOWN, James Cameron James Cameron famously invented the Strong Female Character when he made Terminator, and there has never been another Strong Female Character since Sarah Connor. As the leading expert on Strong Female Characters and the only person in the world whose opinion matters on the topic of women in action cinema, By Sarah • Aug 25, 2017 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aubrey Plaza in Ingrid Goes West Ingrid Goes West is equal parts scathing social satire, horror movie, and character portrait. It’s self-aware enough to include a Single White Female joke, but it’s not the kind of jokey movie that winks at itself. Aubrey Plaza caps her stellar year with her best performance yet, turning By Sarah • Aug 24, 2017 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What is HAPPENING with DC Films? Wonder Woman is the biggest movie of the summer, breaking all kinds of records, and successfully lighting a path for DC Films after Zack Snyder’s grimdark vision didn’t pan out. Wonder Woman should be the future of DC Films, but while yes, a sequel is in the works, By Sarah • Aug 24, 2017 10:10 am
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
