TV Updates Channing Tatum’s WEIRD TV Show So here’s a surprise: Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a TV show and it’s a parody of a Romanian 1980s cop show. That’s a lot to digest. Let’s break it down. The trailer for Comrade Detective, an Amazon Prime show, was just released and it By Sarah • Jul 27, 2017 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt Damon vs. The Mob I didn’t really have an impression of George Clooney’s new film, Suburbicon. I knew Matt Damon was in it, I knew Joel and Ethan Coen co-wrote the script (with Clooney and his partner, Grant Heslov). But other than that, it wasn’t really on my radar. Well, the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2017 11:59 am
TV Updates Mahershala Ali: True Detective The summer TCA—the biannual meeting of television critics and industry in which networks tout their wares—is going on right now, and one piece of news to come from the HBO presentation is that Mahershala Ali is locked in for the third season of True Detective. We’re all By Sarah • Jul 27, 2017 10:14 am
Amazingness Let Lupita lift you up Today has been a sh*tstorm of bad and worse news. From the moment I opened my Twitter feed during my morning commute to you reading this right now, it’s just been a parade of garbage. I’m afraid to go on social media because it’s one of By Sarah • Jul 26, 2017 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jon Hamm’s Black Mirror Movie A few years ago Jon Hamm starred in an episode of Black Mirror (“White Christmas”), and now he is taking the creepy technology act on the road, as it were, with Marjorie Prime, a Sundance favorite and possible Oscar contender. The first full trailer has been released, and now you, By Sarah • Jul 26, 2017 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie in The Little Hours A loosely-derived mash-up of a couple stories from Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron—the first and second tales from Day Three—The Little Hours is a raunchy sex comedy by way of a fourteenth century Italian convent. Written and directed by Jeff Baena (Life After Beth), and starring a cohort By Sarah • Jul 25, 2017 03:16 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things wants to thrill us They couldn’t make it any clearer. The new Stranger Things season two trailer, unveiled at Comic-Con, features Michael Jackson’s Thriller, particularly Vincent Price’s creepy narration. The first season leaned on a Spielbergian tone, invoking Close Encounters and E.T. and Poltergeist, and playing on the real-world 1980s By Sarah • Jul 24, 2017 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hulk talks, Taika’s style, and Michelle Pfeiffer joins the MCU…what? Every year people are like, Who “won” Comic Con? And every year the answer is: Marvel. No one puts on a better show, and you know they’ve got the magic touch when they don’t actually have to release anything online and they STILL get the most hype. They By Sarah • Jul 24, 2017 11:06 am
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
