Movie Reviews and Previews Kingsman with a side of Channing Tatum After a week of teasers—which is a BIT much—the first trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle finally dropped last night. It’s the sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service, once again from director Matthew Vaughn, who made the closest thing to a good X-Men movie, X-Men: First Class. By Sarah • Apr 25, 2017 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise (and Henry Cavill’s Molestache) on set Filming for Mission: Impossible 6 – Pew Pew Noises is underway in Paris, shooting around the Grand Palais, which, as every publication feels the need to emphasize, is just a “four minute drive” from the Champs-Élysées, where there was an alleged terrorist attack last Thursday. Is it just me, or is By Sarah • Apr 25, 2017 09:58 am
Dumbass Chris Pratt: (Middle) American Hero Chris Pratt is currently promoting Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and as such is on the cover of Men’s Fitness. I have begun to feel like the more we hear from Pratt the less we like him, and I don’t think this interview is going to help By Sarah • Apr 21, 2017 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson and Armie Hammer in Free Fire Joanna reviewed Free Fire at TIFF in September. You can read her thoughts on the movie here. Free Fire also stars SHARLTO COPLEY, that’s very important. The latest from English filmmaker Ben Wheatley (High Rise, A Field in England), Free Fire is in the vein of John Wick and By Sarah • Apr 21, 2017 01:19 pm
Theatre Nerd Chris Evans goes Broadway Chris Evans has attained a level of success enviable to most actors (Michael Shannon probably doesn’t give a sh*t). But Evans is clearly after more than just blockbuster box office and magazine covers—which he keeps trying to show us via magazine covers— as he takes on smaller/ By Sarah • Apr 21, 2017 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith will be the Genie now Earlier this year we learned that Will Smith was planning for his next bad movie to be Tim Burton’s “live action” Dumbo for Disney, but then a month later he decided that was too bad of a decision to make and dropped out of negotiations. But now! Will Smith’ By Sarah • Apr 20, 2017 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hidden Figures and Garden State made a movie baby Going In Style has the oddest pedigree. It’s a remake of the 1979 comedy starring Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, and George Burns, in which three old codgers decide to rob a bank for sh*ts and giggles because why not, they’re going to die soon anyway. In 2008, By Sarah • Apr 20, 2017 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keira Knightley Trapped In Pirate-Land A new Japanese trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Give Us Gold—I legit can’t remember the title and I JUST watched the trailer, not a great sign—was released yesterday and it spoils what I assume was to be a surprise for fans of the franchise (do those By Sarah • Apr 19, 2017 02:30 pm
Catherine Zeta Jones Olivia de Havilland shuts down Feud Feud: Bette and Joan airs its last episode on Sunday, and to celebrate the finale of this sensational show, let us celebrate with the words of Olivia de Havilland, the only actor featured in Feud—she’s played by Catherine Zeta-Jones—who is still alive. Ms. de Havilland is 100 By Sarah • Apr 19, 2017 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bad Nuns One of my favorite literary sub-genres is “Stuff Written During The Plague”. There’s a whole shelf in my bookcase dedicated to Stuff Written During The Plague (between “Angry Repressed Victorians” and “Maritime Mysteries [Non-Fiction]”). Medieval plague breakouts drove people out of cities—if you could afford to leave the By Sarah • Apr 18, 2017 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer trades Barbie for Pretty Yesterday it was announced that Amy Schumer will star in a comedy called I Feel Pretty, which is the directorial debut of the writing team behind such mediocre movies as He’s Just Not That Into You and How To Be Single. For some reason, the details about Pretty are By Sarah • Apr 18, 2017 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Burlesque Star is Born Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were at Coachella over the weekend, shooting scenes for A Star Is Born, which is Cooper’s directorial debut. It’s a remake of the 1954 Judy Garland film, with Gaga taking the Garland role (after it was initially intended for Beyoncé). Besides directing, Cooper By Sarah • Apr 17, 2017 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Last Jedi is v. important Star Wars Celebration—a nerd convention devoted solely to the nearly religious experience of Star Wars fandom—went down over the weekend, and included the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi (the key art has dropped “Episode VIII”), on Good Friday nonetheless. (The teaser for The Force Awakens By Sarah • Apr 17, 2017 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Imperator F*cking Furiosa doesn’t drive ONCE Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson star in the eighth installment of the Fast/Furious franchise, a movie which is infuriatingly still not called F8 of the Furious. (They have two scenes together, one in which they’re in separate cars and another in which they never talk or look directly By Sarah • Apr 13, 2017 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin makes Deadpool 2 less magical The last we heard from Deadpool 2, Michael Shannon was the frontrunner to play fan favorite Cable. Yesterday, though, it was announced that Josh Brolin will be playing Cable, agreeing to a four-film deal. This means that not only is Brolin double-dipping with Marvel—he plays the big bad, Thanos, By Sarah • Apr 13, 2017 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s time we knew Set during the 1967 riots, Kathryn Bigelow’s next film, Detroit, assembled a tremendous ensemble including Anthony Mackie, John Boyega, John Krasinski, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Jack Reynor, and Will Poulter, but the trailer is focused on Boyega, playing a young security guard in Detroit. His dilemma is compelling—he’ By Sarah • Apr 12, 2017 11:24 am