Movie Reviews and Previews Matt Damon in The Great Wall IGN reported yesterday that The Great Wall is Matt Damon’s “worst wide release box office opening weekend since 2011” but that the film is “one of his better performing films worldwide”. This is the craziest movie I have seen since Jupiter Ascending, which is saying something because that movie By Sarah • Feb 22, 2017 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Han Solo & Friends The Han Solo spin-off does not yet have a title, so for now I’m calling it Han Solo & Friends. The just-released first cast photo shows off Han (Alden Ehrenreich), Lando (Donald Glover), Chewbacca (now played by Joonas Suotamo), and Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, and Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge By Sarah • Feb 21, 2017 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlie Day and Ice Cube in Fist Fight Few actors stage a freak out as well as Charlie Day. He is, of course, the man behind the Pepe Silvia freak out—one of pop culture’s seminal breakdowns—and fans of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia know that Day can go big and he can get quiet, By Sarah • Feb 20, 2017 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews LEGO Batman is the hero we need Matt Damon will try to be the white savior in The Great Wall this weekend but he’s going to get beat by LEGO Batman. So if you haven’t seen it yet… The LEGO Batman Movie gets you laughing right from the start, with Batman (Will Arnett at his By Sarah • Feb 17, 2017 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Poehler is burning down this house As much as I like Will Ferrell, I can probably live without another “Will Ferrell plays a man-baby” movie. I prefer the high-concept Ferrell of Zoolander, Stranger Than Fiction, and Talladega Nights to the broad-appeal Ferrell of crap like Daddy’s Home and Kicking & Screaming. So when you tell By Sarah • Feb 16, 2017 01:00 pm
Dumbass Warner Brothers would rather talk to Mel Gibson than a woman Long headline in place solely to f*ck up Warner Brothers’ SEO. Because Warner Brothers would rather talk to MEL GIBSON than a woman. Courtesy Deadline, we found out yesterday that Warners is talking to Gibson about directing Suicide Squad 2. Apparently whoever had this terrible f*cking idea—did By Sarah • Feb 16, 2017 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor & Darryl: Back Again As part of the home video release of Doctor Strange, Marvel released a clip from Team Thor: Pt. 2, Where Are They Now?, which is the continuing adventures of Thor and his Australian roommate, Darryl. We first met Darryl in Team Thor, Taika Waititi’s shot-on-a-lark mockumentary explaining Thor’s By Sarah • Feb 15, 2017 09:57 am
Catherine Zeta Jones I am living for Feud In this world, where everything is terrible nonsense, you have to live for the small victories and snatch joy wherever you can. John Wick got me through the beginning of the year, and now Feud is getting me through the next couple months. It premieres on March 5, and I By Sarah • Feb 14, 2017 05:11 pm
Douchebags Cap vs. The KKK: Round 2 Last week the human embodiment of spoiled milk, David Duke, attempted to take down Chris Evans on Twitter and got his ass electrically handed to him because Evans is a decent guy and David Duke just a pile of talking garbage. Well, they’re back at it. Or rather, Duke By Sarah • Feb 14, 2017 09:53 am
Tryhards Tom Post-Taffy Last week we all read Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s amazing profile of Tom Hiddleston. In it, T-Hidds is the most! Excited! Person! And he just! Can’t! Stop! Sharing!!! Lainey assessed Hiddles’ Try as not the “uncool cool” of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Lady Gaga, but as the uncool-uncool of, well, a By Sarah • Feb 13, 2017 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Asa Butterfield in The Space Between Us If you’re avoiding Fifty Shades Darker this weekend, and you’re wondering if this might be an option… The Space Between Us tanked, so I was alone when I saw it, and though I have seen many bad movies under these very circumstances, for some reason, with this one, By Sarah • Feb 10, 2017 01:13 pm
TV Updates Try the Santa Clarita Diet Sheila and Joel are an average suburban couple with average suburban problems. Their teenage daughter, Abby, wants a car they can’t really afford, their realty business is maybe not so hot, and upon finding his wife’s dead body in an open house’s bathroom, Joel is a little By Sarah • Feb 10, 2017 11:38 am
Douchebags Captain America tweet-punches the KKK It’s one of the most famous images from comic book history: Captain America punching Hitler in the face. It’s the cover of Captain America No. 1, and a moment that got referenced in Captain America: The First Avenger. Punching Nazis is what Captain America does. So people got By Sarah • Feb 10, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Mannequins in Fifty Shades Darker What little worked in Fifty Shades of Grey worked because director Sam Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel played on a psychological thriller angle, and Dakota Johnson was able to use her natural screen presence to inject some slyness into Anastasia Steele that made her more than just a weepy doormat By Sarah • Feb 09, 2017 01:39 pm
Break Ups Chris Evans & Jenny Slate: They Did Break Up Or, In Which Sarah Is A Terrible Detective. Yesterday we went on a journey of discovery, trying to determine through social media posts and other dubious “evidence” whether or not Chris Evans and Jenny Slate were still together. I concluded “yes” because there wasn’t any empirical evidence otherwise, just By Sarah • Feb 08, 2017 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 2 First and most important: Nothing bad happens to the dog. In fact, the first fifteen minutes of John Wick: Chapter 2 play like something of an apology for the first fifteen minutes of John Wick, as Chapter 2 opens with a rousing car chase and a surprisingly funny recap of By Sarah • Feb 08, 2017 12:16 pm
