Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s BIG weekend In case you missed the news this weekend, Wonder Woman stomped on the box office, with an estimated $100.5 million opening weekend (don’t be surprised if the actuals go up a few million). This is a new record for a film directed by a woman, leap-frogging Sam Taylor-Johnson By Sarah • Jun 05, 2017 09:47 am
Relationship Assumption BexHamm Lainey’s not feeling well so she’s off for the rest of the day. We’ll be back on Monday with our regularly scheduled programming. Maria's Smutty Social Media is up next! There was a screening of Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver in Los Angeles this week, By Sarah • Jun 02, 2017 01:09 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Carey Mulligan’s Spotlight Carey Mulligan is stepping into producer’s shoes for her new movie, On the Other Side. Mulligan will also star in the film, as Kate Webb, a Vietnam war correspondent who was captured and held by the Vietcong for twenty-three days. The project comes from an imprint of the studio By Sarah • Jun 02, 2017 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Holly Hunter like damn Holly Hunter is one of those actors, I don’t care what she’s in, I’ll watch it. Carrie Coon is also that type (you might not know her name yet, but you will soon, as she is THROWING DOWN on Fargo and The Leftovers right now, plus she By Sarah • Jun 02, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman Wonder Woman opens in Themyscira, the utopian home of the Amazons, where little Diana, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, longs for adventure and glory, while her mother tries to protect her from the harsh realities of life beyond their secluded haven. Themyscira is a beautiful setting, a Mediterranean island sketched in By Sarah • Jun 01, 2017 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dwayne Johnson & Zac Efron: high on muscles, low on mocking By now you know that Baywatch sh*t the bed on Memorial Day weekend. A lot of people decided not to see Baywatch, whether it’s because they don’t care about Baywatch as a thing or because there really is something to the “one buff guy, one schlubby guy” By Sarah • May 31, 2017 10:35 am
Equality Issues Jessica Chastain speaks out The Cannes Film Festival closed down with an award ceremony and press conference, and during the presser the jury took the stage to talk about their festival experience. Jessica Chastain specifically talked about how the representation of women on screen “disturbed” her: Say that, @jes_chastain. pic.twitter.com/H7QHnEE5JA— By Sarah • May 30, 2017 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig is bleached and tatted in Nascar’s 11 The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky was released yesterday and it’s one of those automatic, Three Billboards - style I’M IN deals. You don’t even need to finish the trailer before you know whether or not this movie is for you. I knew it By Sarah • May 29, 2017 10:32 am
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
