Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance 2017: 10 To Watch Last year, two of the biggest films coming out of Sundance were Manchester by the Sea and Birth of a Nation. Both bagged huge distribution deals at the festival, and both were early tips for Oscar hopefuls. Manchester has stayed in it all year, and is sure to be a By Sarah • Jan 18, 2017 09:47 am
Boy Sh-t Boy Sh*t: Sherlock Edition Sherlock series four ended over the weekend, and maybe the whole show ended, too, as there is no guarantee of a return any time soon. Sherlock has always been a series of long hiatuses, but as its stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, have gotten more and more famous, it By Sarah • Jan 17, 2017 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie going for gold When I first wrote about Margot Robbie starring as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, I said this: “…they can use prosthetics and makeup to plain her up—a blatant Oscar ploy, by the way”. And now there are set photos of Robbie in character as Tonya Harding and they have By Sarah • Jan 17, 2017 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in Live By Night Unlike The Accountant, which is dumb in a coked-up Eighties action movie way, Live By Night is dumb in a self-important Oscar bait kind of way. Ben Affleck tries to make a movie that both pays homage to classic gangster films—The Godfather but for the Irish mob except that By Sarah • Jan 16, 2017 03:02 pm
TV Updates Sherlock: In the end, none of it matters Sherlock Season 4, Episode 3 recap SPOILERS After a middle episode that introduced a completely unjustified third Holmes sibling, Sherlock series four concludes with whack-a-mole plot and a wholly unnecessary retconning of the entire Moriarty arc of the first two—and still best—seasons. “The Final Problem” is also hopefully By Sarah • Jan 16, 2017 08:43 am
Blake Lively Cherokee Princess Blake Lively L’Oreal is running an ad for foundation that includes people from all over the world announcing their heritage, such as “I’m 100% Kenyan” (model Giannina Oteto), and “I’m Eastern European” (transgender model and activist Hari Nef), and featuring such interesting people as Cipriana Quann, Xiao Wen Ju, By Sarah • Jan 13, 2017 12:56 pm
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
