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
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
