Movie Reviews and Previews Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation At this point there is no separating art from artist in the case of Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation, his debut feature film as a writer and director. He also stars in the movie and produced it, so this is unquestionably his movie. The Birth of a By Sarah • Oct 11, 2016 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train Did you like Gone Girl? Didn’t you think Amazing Amy was just THE WORST, but also kind of cool? Do you like mysteries but not like, actually hard to solve or uncomfortable ones, but where the people you want to have done it, did it, and you don’t By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 04:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey is touching a tiger Matthew McConaughey has fallen into making two kinds of movies: 1) Serious award-baity fare, and 2) whatever the hell he was doing in Wolf of Wall Street. The first trailer for his new movie, Gold, was released yesterday and it definitely looks like it’s from the second category. McConaughey By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult is the perfect Tesla The Current War, the Nikola Tesla movie that is somehow not about Nikola Tesla, has finally cast Nikola Tesla. At least we know he’s in this movie for sure. In a rather brilliant piece of casting, Nicholas Hoult will be playing Tesla, the genius inventor caught between two litigious By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenny Slate in My Blind Brother Nick Kroll of The Kroll Show fame stars as Bill, a sort of schlubby, vaguely depressed guy who, at the beginning of the movie, is completing a marathon with his athletic brother, Robbie (Adam Scott, Parks and Recreation). There’s a catch, though—Robbie is blind. And there’s another By Sarah • Oct 06, 2016 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg: Patriotic Hero Lainey calls Mark Wahlberg the “Hollywood enforcer” because he’s always playing super-jacked heroes and talking a big game about how he would have single-handedly stopped 9/11 if only he’d been on a plane that day. Well, the latest in Wahlberg’s Patriotic Hero series is Patriots Day, By Sarah • Oct 06, 2016 12:36 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch’s fans take over We are exactly one month out from the release of Doctor Strange, which means the Marvel Hype Machine™ is officially engaged. The first bit of timed publicity is Benedict Cumberbatch covering Vanity Fair, in a profile called “The Mind-Bending Benedict Cumberbatch”. You would be forgiven, however, for thinking the profile By Sarah • Oct 04, 2016 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp is omitted from his own movie You know a celebrity is in the doghouse when they don’t appear in their own trailer. The teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: This Again Yarrr was released last night and it does not feature Johnny Depp nor does it mention his name by word or title card. By Sarah • Oct 03, 2016 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg in Deepwater Horizon At this point, no one is making better true-life disaster movies than Peter Berg, and Deepwater Horizon is the most visceral and realistic disaster recreation since James Cameron sank a fake Titanic. In 2010 the oil rig Deepwater Horizon suffered a methane gas explosion that kicked off the worst oil By Sarah • Sep 30, 2016 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nick Jonas is good in Goat One of the approximately one million projects James Franco is producing this year is Goat, an adaptation of Brad Land’s memoir of the same name, recounting his experience with hazing in a fraternity at Clemson University. (The school’s name has been changed in the film, undoubtedly to avoid By Sarah • Sep 30, 2016 01:42 pm
TV Updates A look at my favorite show of 2017 Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology series, Feud, is currently filming, which means set photos. Which means seeing Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange in costume as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, respectively. Super into how they look and the only way this could get better is if Judy Davis showed up By Sarah • Sep 30, 2016 12:16 pm
Tim Burton Tim Burton is disappointing Tim Burton is out promoting his new movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and he’s been asked the #Diversity question. Specifically, he was asked by Rachel Simon at Bustle why Miss Peregrine has only one person of color in a prominent role (Samuel L. Jackson, playing the By Sarah • Sep 30, 2016 10:41 am
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts has no owls But it does have a really cool golden bird. A new trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has come out and this one gives a better look at Newt Scamander’s many fantastic beasts, among them, a golden bird that is maybe a thunderbird. There are, however, By Sarah • Sep 28, 2016 02:45 pm
TV Updates The Crown is Netflix’s next obsession Netflix is having a helluva year. Stranger Things dominated summer, though The Get Down was the better show— and a pretty incredible six hours of storytelling—Luke Cage premieres this Friday and is sure to inspire a thousand thinkpieces, and yesterday they released a trailer for their fall drama, The By Sarah • Sep 28, 2016 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Molly Shannon and Jesse Plemons in Other People The “indie cancer dramedy” is a well-established sub-genre populated by films like 50/50, The Fault In Our Stars, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and of course the granddaddy of them all, Terms of Endearment. This is such a specific type of film that if you watch the By Sarah • Sep 27, 2016 01:48 pm
Business of Hollywood Disney Twitter Yesterday Bloomberg reported that Disney is exploring the possibility of buying Twitter and adding it to the already huge pile of other corporations that they own. It’s early in the process—they’re just exploring the option—but it does feel like Disney is chasing specific pieces and that By Sarah • Sep 27, 2016 10:50 am
