Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp and a pile of burning money in Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is complete garbage which explains its mediocre-at-best Memorial Day weekend haul—here’s hoping global box office saves it (good luck, the reported $230 million budget is a joke—I’d add at least $100 million). It isn’t just frustrating By Sarah • May 29, 2017 09:48 am
Game of Thrones Starks reunited We’re a little over a month away from the seventh season of Game of Thrones, and the Westeros crew covers Entertainment Weekly. There are also a ton of photos inside—it is straight up disconcerting to see the (surviving) Starks reunited and smiling. Only backstage, though, of course—they’ By Sarah • May 26, 2017 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews New New Star Wars has fabulous hair and diverse faces Star Wars: The Last Jedi covers Vanity Fair for June, once again photographed by Annie Leibovitz. There are four covers: one for the Jedi (Rey and Luke Skywalker), one for the villains (Captain Phasma, General Hux, and that emo punk Kylo Ren), one for the scrappy rebels (Poe Dameron, Finn, By Sarah • May 23, 2017 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zack Snyder leaves Justice League Yesterday it was announced that Zack Snyder is leaving Justice League and Joss Whedon will be taking over, shooting the additional photography this summer and ushering the film through post-production. Far from a juicy nerd scoop, though, this is the result of a tragedy: Snyder’s 20 year old daughter, By Sarah • May 23, 2017 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Venom gets a Tom Hardy Upgrade On Friday Sony announced that Tom Hardy will star in Venom, their first Spider-Man spin-off. The last time Venom was on screen, he was played by Topher Grace, so this is a major upgrade. If you have also blocked Spider-Man 3 from your memories, Venom is the alien that possesses By Sarah • May 22, 2017 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in Alien: Covenant If you have ever wanted to see Michael Fassbender kiss himself, then Alien: Covenant is the movie for you. If, however, you don’t like bodily fluids spraying everywhere, then Alien: Covenant is probably not the movie for you. Ridley Scott returns to his Alien universe to redo Prometheus in By Sarah • May 19, 2017 11:11 am
TV Updates The dead speak in Twin Peaks, but evil is excused SPOILERS FOR ORIGINAL TWIN PEAKS The new Twin Peaks begins this weekend. Before it begins, let’s revisit the original. The original was a show that charmed you with its weirdness. The town of Twin Peaks seems populated almost entirely by oddballs, and the oppressive presence of the primordial Pacific By Sarah • May 18, 2017 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone’s should-have-been Oscar The first trailer is here for Battle of the Sexes, documenting the 1973 tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, and to quote Lainey, “What was the rush to give [Emma Stone] an Oscar when she still has performances like this.” Of course there’s no knowing, at By Sarah • May 17, 2017 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Warner Bros denies there’s a Justice League problem Yesterday, word got out that Justice League is undergoing extensive retooling, the same kind of thing we saw with Suicide Squad. Later that day, The Wrap ran a denial from Warner Brothers, quoting a(nother anonymous) source: “There has been no additional photography to date on Justice League, we have By Sarah • May 17, 2017 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justice League uh-oh Would you be terribly surprised if I told you Justice League might be in trouble? No? Me neither. The latest warning sign comes in the form of reshoots—lots and lots of reshoots. Like, multiple rounds of reshoots, enough to be “remade…twice”. Oh boy. I bet Ben Affleck is By Sarah • May 16, 2017 02:10 pm
Cannes 2017 Cannes Preview 2017 Cannes 2017 kicks off tomorrow, and the festival seems a bit muted, with a noticeable dimming of star power and no obvious Oscar bait in the line-up. That has to be deliberate—there is a real emphasis on the filmmaker, not the actor, this year. Which is good for the By Sarah • May 16, 2017 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively, Cage Fighting Mom Today in This Year Is Complete Nonsense News: Blake Lively will star in a movie about a woman who turns to cage fighting in order to keep her son. That’s right, Blake Lively, the self-appointed second coming of Martha Stewart, is going to play a cage fighter. The movie By Sarah • May 16, 2017 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlie Hunnam is White Aladdin in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was supposed to be the first in a six-film franchise. But in a classic “the gods punish hubris” result, King Arthur fell on its sword with a $14.7 million opening weekend. This isn’t just a bomb, this is, “Sorry By Sarah • May 15, 2017 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn in Snatched Snatched starts strong, with a solid first act based in character-driven comedy featuring two generations of funny women. Amy Schumer stars as Emily, a vapid asshole who is stuck with a non-refundable trip to Ecuador after her musician boyfriend (Randall Park, hilarious in one scene) dumps her because his budding By Sarah • May 12, 2017 02:36 pm
TV Updates A girl in a suitcase Confession: I’m not watching The Handmaid’s Tale. I tried but I couldn’t make it through the second episode—it’s TOO REAL. When I read the book in college it was like a warning to not take for granted the ground gained and keep fighting for more, By Sarah • May 11, 2017 12:55 pm
Amazingness Jessica Chastain double-rolls Johnny Depp Jessica Chastain is promoting the UK release of Miss Sloane, and was asked by a BBC reporter if she had heard about Johnny Depp and his ear pieces, through which he is fed lines on set, and Chastain’s response is a thing of beauty. Behold: Jessica Chastain's By Sarah • May 10, 2017 02:34 pm
