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
BFFs Anthony Mackie picking on Tom Holland Last month at Disney’s D23 fan convention, Anthony Mackie, along with Sebastian Stan, picked on Tom Holland. Last year, when promoting Captain America: Civil War, Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan picked on Tom Holland. Well Anthony Mackie was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, and guess By Sarah • Aug 04, 2017 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit Set during the 1967 Detroit riots, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s latest docu-drama focuses on the Algiers Motel murders in which three young black men were killed during a police brutality incident. Bigelow and Boal have had success exploring real-world events like the Iraq war (The Hurt Locker, for By Sarah • Aug 03, 2017 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in The Dark Tower Based on Stephen King’s sprawling Gunslinger series, The Dark Tower takes thousands of pages of mythology that spans centuries and dimensions and pares it down to a spare ninety-five minute movie that encompasses a thimble’s worth of all that original King storytelling. Fans of the books will have By Sarah • Aug 03, 2017 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Why did Valerian flop? In its second week in theaters, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets dropped 60%. Tent pole films tend to be front-loaded, but that’s a bad drop, especially since the opening weekend was also sour. Valerian is not launching a new space-fantasy franchise—unless China can save it— By Sarah • Aug 02, 2017 01:54 pm
Theatre Nerd Tom Hiddleston Hamlet It’s been a pretty quiet summer for Tom Hiddleston. He popped up at Comic-Con, but—press obligations aside—he’s been flying under the radar this summer, unlike last summer, when he frolicked in the waves with Taylor Swift, and we were all so innocent and young. But, now, By Sarah • Aug 01, 2017 03:26 pm
TV Updates TV Avengers in New York The Netflix division of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Defenders, had a premiere in New York last night, for their upcoming team-up series which starts streaming later this month. Everyone turned out—except for Sigourney Weaver, who doesn’t need to—and my best-dressed prize goes to Mike Colter for By Sarah • Aug 01, 2017 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLaw’s artsy horror movie A teaser for the highly anticipated Mother!, the collaboration between Darren Aronofsky and Jennifer Lawrence, has been released, and it’s a horror movie? It’s hard to tell for sure, because it’s just thirty seconds of disjointed scenes and dialogue with no context—you know, a real teaser By Sarah • Jul 31, 2017 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde Set on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and choreographed to a thumping Euro-pop synth beat, Atomic Blonde is the best action movie this year since John Wick: Chapter 2. That makes sense, as Atomic Blonde comes from the same production/stunt company as John Wick, and By Sarah • Jul 28, 2017 10:59 am
