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
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Collateral Beauty SPOILERS because this movie is INSANE Based on the trailers, you probably think Collateral Beauty, aka Will Smith’s holiday movie, is some kind of twenty-first century It’s A Wonderful Life, where the universe conspires to convince a sad schmuck that he’s better off being a sad schmuck, By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence Passengers, the best worst movie of the year SPOILERS because everything wrong with this movie is the plot Passengers starts out like it’s going to be an existential sci-fi horror movie, something along the lines of Ex Machina, perhaps, where the science fiction premise is used to examine questions of morals and ethics, and the plot revolves By Sarah • Dec 21, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick is TOTALLY that guy A new trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2, aka one of my favorite movies of 2017, was released yesterday and this movie continues to look completely f*cking rad. We actually get a little sense of the plot in this one, as John Wick turns down a job which results By Sarah • Dec 20, 2016 11:20 am
Benedict Cumberbatch The Batch in blue Here is Benedict Cumberbatch and his increasingly tragic hairline at a screening of the Sherlock Christmas special, which already aired earlier this year but is getting trotted out as a holiday warm-up to season four. He was joined by Martin Freeman, whose stylist apparently got a different memo than everyone By Sarah • Dec 20, 2016 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner’s potential answer Blade Runner is one of the most influential sci-fi films of the last thirty years, building off the dirt-and-muck aesthetic of Star Wars and the headier, more philosophical engine of 2001: A Space Odyssey. So it’s only natural, in our current nostalgia-driven culture, that a beloved classic be revisited By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 03:03 pm
Casey Affleck Casey Affleck is A-Okay on SNL Did you watch SNL over the weekend? If so, you saw some awesome performances by Chance the Rapper. It was the last episode of 2016, and Chance came to shut that sh*t down, crushing his live performances and featuring in one of the night’s best sketches, “Jingle Barack” By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rogue One almost stands alone The first spin-off of the Star Wars cinematic universe, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, starts on a familiar path: Trouble comes to a remote farm, where the hero of the piece is left orphaned. Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is abandoned when the Empire comes calling, dragging her scientist father, By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer’s Terrible Vacation Earlier this year Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn shot a comedy together—you might remember it because of that ill-advised Formation “parody” that they made while on location. Remember how stupid and dumb that was? Well buckle up because the trailer for the movie they were making, Snatched, is out By Sarah • Dec 16, 2016 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah’s Top 10 of 2016 Captain America: Civil War Paying off years of story and character work, and servicing a cast numbering in the double-digits, somehow Civil War doesn’t collapse under its own weight. It delivers on both the action front, with the best superhero battle ever filmed, and the character front, executing the By Sarah • Dec 16, 2016 11:33 am
