Game of Thrones Ice and Fire If you’re the kind of person that doesn’t like to know anything about Game of Thrones while it’s filming, then this post is not for you. There are set photos, they’re not especially spoilery but they do show people standing together in ways suggestive of Important By Sarah • Oct 26, 2016 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Or, as I like to call it, Jack Reacher: Never Stop Running. Starring in the sequel four years after the original, just plain Jack Reacher, Cruise returns as Reacher, the former military policeman who runs hither and yon and also takes a lot of buses. In one memorable scene in By Sarah • Oct 24, 2016 04:06 pm
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds and his Deadpool director broke up Directors have left comic book movies before (see also: Edgar Wright/Ant-Man), but on Saturday morning the news broke that Tim Miller, the VFX producer who made his feature film debut directing Deadpool, had left the sequel, and it was Ryan Reynolds’ fault. Of course all the expected language is By Sarah • Oct 24, 2016 01:07 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead: I Quit SPOILERS The producers behind The Walking Dead spent all summer promising that the arrival of the villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) would be a reset for the show, which is tacitly admitting that something had gone wrong and they needed a big new character to drive the show back on By Sarah • Oct 24, 2016 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kiki casts her boyfriend Kirsten Dunst is making her directorial debut with an adaptation of The Bell Jar, which is supposed to start shooting in early 2017. As such, it’s casting up right now and Dunst has done something men have done forever in Hollywood—she’s cast her lover in a lead By Sarah • Oct 20, 2016 05:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman’s last ride Before there was RDJ and Iron Man, there was Hugh Jackman and Wolverine, the perfect marriage of actor and character. Wolverine is the role that defines Jackman, as versatile a performer as you’ll ever find and yet he’s been Wolverine for sixteen years, which is a long f* By Sarah • Oct 20, 2016 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hooked on Guardians again (and Chris Pratt is really hot)* A couple years ago, Guardians of the Galaxy was Marvel’s big risk, the high-concept uncertainty in their superhero line-up, but then it turned out to be a big hit and they’re basically bulletproof because of it. So the follow up, appended with “vol. 2”, has some big shoes By Sarah • Oct 19, 2016 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck is MATH-MAN The Accountant is dumb. It is so, so dumb, and I won’t try to defend it as anything other than a hella dumb movie. But it’s that special kind of stupid—a movie so ludicrously, delightfully dumb that it comes out the other side fun. Everything about The By Sarah • Oct 19, 2016 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck won’t be stopped Casey Affleck is the clear frontrunner for Best Actor this year, for Manchester by the Sea, and though Michael Keaton and Denzel Washington will have something to say about it, it’s such a weak year in that category that, even this early, it’s Affleck’s Oscar to lose. By Sarah • Oct 19, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender revamps Assassin’s Creed The first trailer for Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed was not awesome. When it was released, I said all a first trailer has to do is set the tone, but that one didn’t, unless the tone is “confusing as f*ck super-nerd stuff”. But the second trailer has By Sarah • Oct 18, 2016 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christopher Guest’s Mascots Christopher Guest is the undisputed king of the mockumentary. From co-writing This Is Spinal Tap to writing directing films like Waiting for Guffman and Best In Show—the zenith of his mockumentary features—Guest’s credentials are impeccable. His latest mockumentary, the first in ten years, is Mascots, which follows By Sarah • Oct 17, 2016 02:50 pm
TV Updates TV Review: Luke Cage SPOILERS Mike Colter returns as Luke Cage, the stoic bartender we first met in Jessica Jones. Following the events of that show, Luke has retreated to Harlem, where his late wife’s last living relative, a barbershop proprietor known as Pop (Frankie Faison), has given Luke a job sweeping up By Sarah • Oct 13, 2016 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can we stop worrying about Rogue One? A new trailer for Rogue One just came out and goddamn it’s good. Between some pretty incredible visuals—that fallen Jedi monument legit gave me a chill—to the haunting variation on the famous theme, to the rousing rebellion story it’s laying out, this looks like a damn By Sarah • Oct 13, 2016 11:50 am
Business of Hollywood The Hollywood wage gap The wage gap is real. It exists in every industry, at every level of industry, but in the film industry the wage gap isn’t just a product of gender/racial bias, it’s also the result of a scaled compensation system that rewards stars more than anyone else. Professional By Sarah • Oct 13, 2016 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amber Heard as Mrs. Aquaman Her name is Mera but there’s no reason for you to know that yet. Today IGN released the first look at Amber Heard in costume as Aquaman’s wife and queen, Mera—which makes me think a new trailer is coming which will show Mera in action—and it By Sarah • Oct 12, 2016 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome back, Mr. Wick New York Comic Con happened over the weekend, and while not quite as big as San Diego it is still good for new trailers. This year, there was only one I cared about, by a pretty huge margin—the teaser trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2. Lainey has talked about By Sarah • Oct 12, 2016 11:39 am
