Movie Reviews and Previews Joss Whedon switches teams Duana noted earlier this week that it doesn’t seem like Buffy the Vampire Slayer got any real love from the entertainment press until Joss Whedon became The Man Who Launched The Avengers, which is maybe true—although I remember a lot of love for Buffy back in the day, By Sarah • Mar 31, 2017 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain in The Zookeeper’s Wife Just in case you aren’t convinced Nazis are The Worst, here is a movie in which they slaughter helpless zoo animals, including an adorable baby camel and majestic great horned owl. If you can’t stand to see animals harmed in movies, then boy is The Zookeeper’s Wife By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman in love As CinemaCon rolls on, it was Wonder Woman’s turn on center stage, with new footage debuted with Chris Pine and director Patty Jenkins on hand to promote the film (Gal Gadot just had a baby and was not there). The footage showed Diana and Steve Trevor (Pine) getting to By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews F8: Beefcakes beefing Remember when The Rock was throwing Insta-shade at an “unnamed castmate” while making F8 of the Furious, and it turned out to be about Vin Diesel? Well, F8 had its CinemaCon presentation yesterday, and guess who wasn’t part of it? Dwayne Johnson (even though he was on hand to By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Good Jupiter Ascending When the first trailer for Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets debuted, I said it remained to be seen whether or not it’s more Guardians of the Galaxy or Jupiter Ascending. Well, a new trailer premiered at CinemaCon, and this one gives us more of a sense of the By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot Love CinemaCon continues in Vegas, and it was Paramount’s turn to give the ol’ razzle-dazzle yesterday. The best they could come up with was Transformers: The Last Knight and I don’t even have a joke for that. There to present a fifteen-minute sneak peek were Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gos On The Shill Last week Ryan Gosling popped up at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, and this week he’s back in Vegas, shilling for Blade Runner 2049 at CinemaCon. After Sony boss Tom Rothman sniped, “Netflix my ass,” when debuting an extended look at the film, Gosling got up to hype By Sarah • Mar 28, 2017 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: Homecoming bringing back your faves (Lainey: OMG …and Gwyneth too???) A new trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming debuted yesterday at CinemaCon, the annual film industry show-and-tell, and today it’s online, bringing us more of the absolutely adorable Tom Holland as Peter Parker. And lots and LOTS of Iron Man. Anyone who’s tired of seeing By Sarah • Mar 28, 2017 11:51 am
Amazingness Val Hearts Cate 2017 being a nonsense year, it makes perfect sense that Val Kilmer went on a weekend-long tweet-spree to declare his admiration of Cate Blanchett. It starts with his announcement on March 24 that he “flew all the way to Australia just to talk to Cate Blanchett”, only to meet her By Sarah • Mar 27, 2017 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Justice League steps down Last summer at Comic-Con Warner Brothers/DC unveiled the first look at Justice League, and it wasn’t completely awful. But in case you were feeling cautiously optimistic that Warners/DC could fix their sh*t and turn out a good Justice League movie—don’t. The first official trailer By Sarah • Mar 27, 2017 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer is not Barbie In December we learned that Amy Schumer would star in a live-action Barbie movie, which seemed like kind of a bad idea because Barbie, as a toy and cultural landmark, is already loaded with so many issues. Do we even need a Barbie movie, let alone an Amy Schumer Barbie By Sarah • Mar 24, 2017 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds in 'Life' Life is a terribly stupid movie, but it’s dumb in that fun B-movie way, a trashy space thriller full of dumb-sh*t dialogue and wildly convenient circumstances. Despite its stupidity, though, Life is decently scary because space is naturally horrifying as we are instinctively afraid of its vastness and By Sarah • Mar 24, 2017 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Three Billboards and Frances McDormand The first trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was just released and all I really have to say is that in the course of two and a half minutes, Frances McDormand c*nt-punts a teenager, calls Sam Rockwell “f*ckhead”, attacks a dentist with his own drill, cusses out By Sarah • Mar 23, 2017 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Shannon + Deadpool = Magic Deadpool 2 doesn’t have a set release date—a minor miracle these days, when movies are slated years in advance and rushed to meet predetermined deadlines—but it’s aiming for a 2018 release, which means it’s casting up right now. Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz is on tap By Sarah • Mar 22, 2017 04:01 pm
Break Ups Jenny Slate opens up When Jenny Slate comes up in Chris Evans’ interview with Esquire, “you can almost feel his heart pinch”, and he doesn’t talk about it. But when Chris Evans comes up in Jenny Slate’s interview with New York Magazine, she proceeds to talk about him for the next three By Sarah • Mar 21, 2017 12:47 pm
Boy Sh-t Dave Chappelle is hurt by Key & Peele This is the headline everyone is pulling from Dave Chappelle’s sit-down with Gayle King on This Morning. Chappelle is promoting his upcoming Netflix special, and in the course of a thoughtful and interesting profile of Chappelle, a decade on from him famously leaving Chappelle’s Show, King brings up By Sarah • Mar 21, 2017 11:11 am
