Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s Johnny Depp Decision Looking ahead to a post-Avengers career—or at least, an inter-Avengers break—Robert Downey, Jr. has booked his next non-Tony Stark role and it’s none other than Doctor Dolittle in a remake/reboot/sequel thingie absolutely nobody asked for called The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. The film is written By Sarah • Mar 21, 2017 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Catface McHornswaggler wins the day Beauty and the Beast had an enormous opening weekend, devouring $170 million. That makes it the biggest March opening ever, taking down Batman v. Superman, and also the largest PG-rated opening, which means we’re in for more family-oriented fare. (Honestly, that would be welcome, since adults have pretty well By Sarah • Mar 20, 2017 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews That Superman Man Guy + Tom Cruise So Mission: Impossible 6, which ought to be subtitled At What Point Do We Stop Calling This Impossible, He ALWAYS Does It, starts filming in a few months and has just added a new member to Tom Cruise’s Mission: Not-Quite-Impossible team. Henry Cavill is on board to play a By Sarah • Mar 17, 2017 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast You know the story: Belle’s a bookworm who doesn’t fit in, there’s a beast, a cursed castle, and lots of musical numbers. The live action remake of Beauty and the Beast changes little of the main plot, but it does take pains to address some questions that By Sarah • Mar 16, 2017 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This is a BAD IDEA Today in This Is A Terrible F*cking Idea, Seriously, Whose Idea Was This news, Warner Brothers is exploring the possibility of rebooting The Matrix. Everything is sequels and reboots these days, so it’s not outside the realm of expectation that someone would have this idea—apparently producer Joel By Sarah • Mar 15, 2017 11:36 am
Dave Chappelle Dave Chappelle Returns “I’ve been gone for a very long time. Surprise: It’s me.” That’s the first line in the trailer for Dave Chappelle’s new stand-up special, debuting on Netflix on March 21. Ever since he walked away from Chappelle’s Show in 2005, Chappelle has been working his By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 04:14 pm
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
