Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Beckinsale in Underworld: Blood Wars I will never ever under any circumstances recommend anyone watch Underworld: Blood Wars, so do me a favor: Rent Love & Friendship. It’s available on Amazon Prime, it stars Kate Beckinsale (and Chloe Sevigny), and it is FANTASTIC. It’s Whit Stillman’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished By Sarah • Jan 13, 2017 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg in Patriots Day Patriots Day opens in wide release today. Mark Wahlberg stars as Tommy Saunders, a fictional police officer in Boston. Tommy’s a tough guy and a loud mouth, coming off suspension for kicking a fellow officer so hard he hurt his knee. On one hand, Tommy is a classic Wahlberg By Sarah • Jan 13, 2017 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Santa, but a girl Late yesterday it came out that Anna Kendrick will star in a female-led project about Santa Claus. The movie is currently titled Nicole and is about Santa’s daughter taking the reins—SORRY—after her dad, Santa, retires and her brother can’t get it together on Christmas Eve. To By Sarah • Jan 12, 2017 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith’s next bad decision I doubt 2016 turned out the way Will Smith hoped (“SAME,” shouts the rest of the world). Suicide Squad proved to be as derided as Superhero Face Punch, and Collateral Beauty was totally insane and didn’t make much of an impression at the box office, either. This following a By Sarah • Jan 12, 2017 11:40 am
TV Updates Tom Hardy in Taboo Tom Hardy’s first foray into producing for television is the dark, macabre Taboo, which premiered last night with a ninety minute pilot. Hardy stars as James Delaney, who returns to London after being presumed dead for a decade. Delaney is the long lost heir to a shipping company, I By Sarah • Jan 11, 2017 01:02 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds is one step closer to Oscar We have seen an unprecedented amount of hustle and thirst from Ryan Reynolds this award season as he pushes Deadpool as the year’s most improbable contender. And, well, it’s working, because besides those Golden Globe nominations, Deadpool has also bagged a Writers’ Guild and now a Producers’ Guild By Sarah • Jan 10, 2017 03:35 pm
Golden Globes 2017 The Return Of Timothy Olyphant And Drew Barrymore Timothy Olyphant and Drew Barrymore appeared together at the Golden Globes, he as a Very Handsome Man, she dressed as an astral queen from a 1970s low budget sci-fi flick. (This felt like a year where everyone came in costume.) I immediately started texting Lainey in all caps about Olyphant, By Sarah • Jan 09, 2017 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Diego Luna & Gael García Bernal: Globes Los Charolastras Here are #InternetBoyfriend2017 Diego Luna and his Golden Globes date, Gael García Bernal—or is Luna García’s date? Luna was repping Rogue One, currently the biggest movie in the world, and García was a repeat nominee for Mozart in the Jungle (for which he won last year). Either way, By Sarah • Jan 09, 2017 04:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Catface McHornswaggler FLIRTS Disney has started releasing TV spots for Beauty and the Beast, which more and more looks like Belle’s Night at the Museum. (They have also released a clip of Emma Watson singing, to prove she can, I guess. She’s fine. She sounds like a good singer in your By Sarah • Jan 06, 2017 11:43 am
Chris Pratt Chris Pratt’s version of events On Tuesday Lainey opened the New Year by writing about Ben Affleck and Hollywood dreams, the cost thereof (see also: La La Land) and also, how the ones that have Made It often reframe their success because, as Lainey put it, they’re “embarrassed” of their desire to be a By Sarah • Jan 05, 2017 11:04 am
Ben Affleck Batfleck hedges on Batman Ever since Ben Affleck signed on as Batman, it’s been assumed he would make a solo Batman movie for the Justice League era. The movie, as of now titled The Batman and penciled in for a late 2018 release, was assumed to begin production in the spring. A few By Sarah • Jan 05, 2017 08:49 am
TV Updates Sherlock: no longer a “game” but a soap opera SPOILERS Sherlock series four picks up where the Victorian special left off, with Sherlock hauled back to England after being banished for about four minutes because of Moriarty’s seeming return from the grave. The game, as Sherlock is so fond of saying, is on, as he must discover who By Sarah • Jan 03, 2017 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in Fences Denzel Washington directs his first film since 2007’s The Great Debaters with Fences, an adaptation of August Wilson’s play of the same title. He also stars as Troy Maxson, a garbage man stymied by life in 1950s Pittsburgh. Troy is expansive to the point of domineering and stern By Sarah • Dec 30, 2016 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Do you trust it? The first trailer—red band, so watch those volume levels if you’re at work—for Alien: Covenant was released over the weekend, just in case your holiday didn’t feel enough like a horror show. I don’t think this trailer is as effective as the Prometheus trailer, for By Sarah • Dec 28, 2016 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in Assassin’s Creed Capping off my week of ridiculous movies is Assassin’s Creed, Michael Fassbender’s adaptation of the popular video game series. Fassbender put a lot on the line with this one, not only starring in it but also producing through his DMC Film banner. In a “let’s see if By Sarah • Dec 23, 2016 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Men lost in the forest again The trailer for The Lost City of Z, aka, the movie where Charlie Hunnam ghosted his girlfriend for five months, has been released and it’s two minutes of white dudes wandering around in the woods. Again. The book it’s based on is a great read, but the trailer By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 12:36 pm
