Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Idris, Devil McConaughey The first trailer for The Dark Tower, the long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s “Gunslinger” series, has been released and it’s a lot of Idris Elba swaggering in leather, looking super f*cking hot and doing cool (computerized?) gun tricks. And Matthew McConaughey is strutting about, whispering about darkness By Sarah • May 03, 2017 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Watson and Tom Hanks in The Circle The Circle is the second time Tom Hanks has tried a Dave Eggers adaptation, following last year’s A Hologram for the King. Like that movie, The Circle doesn’t work, although Hanks’s performance is better here—albeit, much smaller. In The Circle he plays a secondary character and By Sarah • May 03, 2017 11:22 am
TV Updates Welcome back to Twin Peaks Twin Peaks is returning to television—thanks to Showtime—with a two-part premiere on May 21. They released a new teaser this week just featuring David Lynch’s beautifully composed, nostalgic shots of locations like Laura Palmer’s house, the sheriff’s department, and the Double R Café. God, David By Sarah • May 03, 2017 09:49 am
TV Updates Aziz Ansari is mastering it all The second season of Master of None premieres on Netflix on May 12—assuming they don’t end up releasing stuff early because they got hacked— and in advance of the premiere, Aziz Ansari covers New York Magazine, talking about season 2, SNL, and kinda-sorta Trump. There’s a lot By Sarah • May 01, 2017 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews David Fincher does Brad Pitt a solid Today in WTF News: David Fincher has signed on to direct World War Z 2. The last time Fincher directed a sequel was Alien 3, his first feature film, all the way back in 1992. The last time Brad Pitt starred in a good World War Z movie is never. By Sarah • Apr 27, 2017 01:13 pm
TV Updates Feud, Girlboss, and “difficult” women Feud: Bette and Joan wrapped up on Sunday, going out on a melancholy note as the show races through the seventies to the death of Joan Crawford in 1977. Crawford rattles around her Manhattan apartment alone, her only company a dog and occasional visits from Mamacita, who quit years before By Sarah • Apr 27, 2017 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson in Unforgettable Katherine Heigl stars as Tessa, the uptight Stepford ex of a man so bland his name makes no impression, but he looks like he’s the type to wear North Face and sandals at the same time, and he’s played by Geoff Stults (Zoo, Seventh Heaven). Tessa and North By Sarah • Apr 26, 2017 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Life finds a way To give you things you didn’t even know you want, such as Jeff Goldblum returning to the Jurassic franchise as sexy mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm. Last night it was announced that Goldblum will be in the as yet untitled Jurassic World sequel, joining Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, By Sarah • Apr 26, 2017 12:42 pm
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
