Samuel L Jackson Samuel L. Jackson takes a seat Last week Samuel L. Jackson stepped in it when talking about Get Out and its star, Daniel Kaluuya, who is British. In an interview with Hot 97 Jackson said, “I tend to wonder what would that movie have been with an American brother who really understands that. […] Daniel grew up By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A New Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Yesterday it was announced that Sony will finally make the sequel to their 2011 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake. Sony is skipping the other books in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, though, and going right to the new book, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, written by David Lagercrantz. By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kong: Skull Island – great monsters, unintentional comedy Kong: Skull Island opened this weekend with $61 million, which is a respectable spring opener, but well short of Godzilla’s $93 million haul in 2014. Kong is a prequel to Godzilla, and the second entry into Warner Brothers’ budding monster-centric cinematic universe, so slightly deflated numbers aren’t the By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Baby Driver After Edgar Wright dropped out of Ant-Man, he went to work on an original script he’d written called Baby Driver, which is not a helpful title. Is it about a baby who drives? A driver of babies? A person named “Baby Driver”? Turns out that last one was pretty By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman don’t fail us now I’m trying so hard to keep my expectations tempered because the DC movies are really good at trailers and really bad at everything else, but goddamn these Wonder Woman trailers are SO good. The latest is the “Origins” trailer, introducing us to Diana’s childhood and training on Themyscira. By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anna Kendrick in Table 19 The first thing you need to know is that despite the way its trailer makes it look, Table 19 is not a romantic comedy. The second thing you need to know is that it has an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I AM HERE TO DEFEND IT. Table 19 By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa Leo is a hated woman I think Netflix has a slight problem. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and debuted just a few weeks later on Netflix with no fanfare. Yesterday they released the trailer for The Most Hated Woman in America starring Melissa By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bargain Bin Little Mermaid There are several live-action Little Mermaid projects in the works, including one that has Lin-Manuel Miranda attached, but the first to theaters is The Little Mermaid brought to you by your worst nightmares because oh my god this movie looks ATROCIOUS. The totally bitching Atomic Blonde trailer dropped today but By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper Kristen Stewart won a Cesar Award for Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, and she now reteams with writer/director Assayas for a new movie called Personal Shopper. It’s a slightly trashy weird artsy Euro horror movie, and while it won’t be for everyone, it did scare By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 11:17 am
Game of Thrones Winter is in the summer Yesterday HBO did this thing where they melted a block of ice on Facebook Live to reveal the premiere date for season seven of Game of Thrones: July 16. Then they released the first teaser which has no footage. It’s mostly old dialogue and sigil graphics— I love the By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 10:08 am
TV Updates Tom Hiddleston may have a knock-off Bond franchise According to very vague statements, The Night Manager, Tom Hiddleston’s humanitarian effort to cheer up aid workers in Africa, is maybe possibly being explored to potentially develop a second season. The companies behind the transporting experience that Tom Hiddleston graciously provided, AMC, BBC, and The Ink Factory, released a By Sarah • Mar 09, 2017 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews New Wave Thor Entertainment Weekly has the first look at Thor: Ragnarok on its cover this week, and it is an Eighties-fantastic explosion of COLOR and LIGHT and HAIR. Thor’s got an entirely new look, including a new haircut—which I am way into—and a suspiciously missing hammer. I have never By Sarah • Mar 09, 2017 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Geostorm looks gloriously dumb Sometimes a trailer comes along and lights up your life with how gloriously f*cking dumb the movie looks, and today that trailer is Geostorm, a movie in which Gerard Butler saves us from the weather. In the grand tradition of Twister, Volcano, Dante’s Peak, 2012, The Day After By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 04:16 pm
TV Updates Late Night Boy Sh*t As we are so fond of saying around here, boy sh*t is the best sh*t and today we’ve been given a helping of late night talk show host boy sh*t. If you haven’t heard, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been steadily gaining ground By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 11:58 am
Equality Issues Duana nominates: Sarah on Blake Lively Sarah wrote about “Cherokee Princess” Blake Lively back in January and today, on International Women’s Day, as we show our work and celebrate the work of our colleagues, Duana remembers this post for the way Sarah shared her own experience as an indigenous woman getting to know her own By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoey Deutch in Before I Fall Before I Fall is a Very Special Episode stretched to ninety minutes in which an insipid teen learns not to be a total asshole by reliving the same day over and over. If you’re saying, “Hey, that sounds like Groundhog Day,” then you are correct because this is basically By Sarah • Mar 07, 2017 10:01 am
