Movie Reviews and Previews Ron Howard mops up Han Solo After quickly emerging as the front-runner to take over the young Han Solo movie following the firing of original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Ron Howard has been confirmed just a day later as the new director of record. As expected, Disney/LucasFilm wasted no time getting someone By Sarah • Jun 22, 2017 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Science Bros and Strange Fellows Filming for Avengers: Infinity War—and whatever the hell they decide to call Avengers 4—continues in Atlanta. Yesterday, RDJ posted a photo on Twitter that gives us our first look at Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong, as Doctor Strange and Wong, respectively, revamped for the Avengers. And human fluffy By Sarah • Jun 22, 2017 11:27 am
TV Updates Don’t go back to the Wall For the first day of summer, a look into winter. A new trailer for the seventh season of Game of Thrones has been released, and at this point, I’m just ready for this sh*t to start. You could show me two and a half minutes of a dog By Sarah • Jun 21, 2017 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Han Solo Director Roulette In the wake of the shocking exit of directing team Lord & Miller, the young Han Solo movie is now looking for a new director. A few names started to emerge overnight, and given that Disney is sticking with the May 2018 release date—although I won’t be surprised By Sarah • Jun 21, 2017 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Han Solo CATASTROPHE Yesterday it was announced—surprising literally EVERYONE—that directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are leaving the young Han Solo movie. Yes, that young Han Solo movie, the one starring Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover. The one that is FIVE MONTHS into production. There’s less than a month left By Sarah • Jun 21, 2017 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Kitsch’s What The Hell movie A red band trailer for American Assassin, the hopeful launching pad for a new action franchise in the vein of Tom Clancy (the movie is based on the “Mitch Rapp” novels by Vince Flynn so it is a straight-up Clancy knock-off), has been released and I have not By Sarah • Jun 20, 2017 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mandy Moore in 47 Meters Down SPOILERS 47 Meters Down, aka, Don’t Go In The F*cking Ocean, You Dipsh*ts, opened in 5th place this weekend, exceeding expectations with over $11 million at the box office, and ahead of Rough Night, which should tell you how much of a bomb Rough Night is. But By Sarah • Jun 19, 2017 02:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson in Rough Night Rough Night bombed this weekend, and with a C+ CinemaScore it’s going to be hard pressed to last long enough in theaters just to break even on a comparatively low budget of $20 million. There’s a lot of “what happened” going on, and I think the issue with By Sarah • Jun 19, 2017 10:19 am
Break Ups Dodgeball Reunited Dodgeball is one of those movies that isn’t good and I won’t defend it, but if it’s on TV, I will watch it and laugh every time. (That actually describes most of the early 2000s output of Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell.) So when Lainey emailed me By Sarah • Jun 14, 2017 11:15 am
Maple Leaf What happened, Ellen Page Ellen Page earned an Oscar nomination at 20 for Juno. She starred in cult favorite Hard Candy and the underrated Whip It. She’s been in the X-Men and has worked with Christopher Nolan. It’s not like Ellen Page hasn’t Done Things. She totally has. And everyone By Sarah • Jun 13, 2017 12:22 pm
Top Reads I went to In Goop Health and here’s what happened The night before the Goop summit I go to The Ripped Bodice, the only bookstore in the country exclusively for romance. It’s a fantastic place, with a creative shelving system that divides books by type, not author (“Cowboy”, “Pirate”, et cetera). There’s a vast used section upstairs, an By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 01:47 pm
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews Flower Remedies with Alexis Smart What is it? Bach flower remedies, which is basically flower-water steeped in the sun (in a crystal bowl, naturally). You ingest them as drops taken under the tongue. Used regularly, they should help boost confidence, sharpen focus, calm down, or whatever that particular formula promises. Alexis Smart offers many By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 08:23 am
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews The I.V. Doc What is it? In-home “hydration therapy” for hangovers, jet lag, et cetera. It’s very popular at music festivals. What does it do? Instant hydration in the privacy of your own home, office, or Burning Man encampment, for those times when drinking water just isn’t fancy enough. Does By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 08:11 am
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews Crystal Therapy What is it? Compliments with rocks. What is it REALLY? Fortune-telling. (The security guy was directing people to the “crystal ball” and when someone corrected him he did not care.) How does it work? Colleen McCann (Goop’s “resident shaman”) sits down with you and stares intensely into your By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 08:02 am
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews Aura Photography What is it? A color-coded compliment. What is it REALLY? Artist Christina Lonsdale uses a double-exposure technique to combine a traditional portrait with a colorful “electrical impression” taken from hand sensors on classic 4x3 Polaroid film. Do you think that is your actual aura? No, but Christina Lonsdale By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 07:54 am
Lifestyle In Goop Health: Sarah reviews Moonjuice What is it? You might recognize Moonjuice from this amazing NYT profile, or perhaps the Great Crystal Robbery of 2016. It’s a chain of juice stores—“Juiceries,” hip people whisper—that specialize in “moon dust” additives in their drinks, such as Brain Dust that will, according to their website, By Sarah • Jun 12, 2017 07:47 am