Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale to Method Dick Cheney Few actors are as committed to Method by way of body transformation as Christian Bale, who will, as his next trick, transform himself into a peeled egg in order to play Dick Cheney. Adam McKay and his Big Short producers at Plan B—including Brad Pitt—are putting together a By Sarah • Apr 07, 2017 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kiernan Shipka and Emma Roberts in The Blackcoat’s Daughter Here’s a little gem for you: The Blackcoat’s Daughter, a thoroughly creepy horror movie that has slid by largely unnoticed this spring. It originally played festivals in 2015 under the less evocative title February, and then sat on the shelf while the director wrote and completed a second By Sarah • Apr 05, 2017 04:02 pm
TV Updates Master of Joy Yesterday Lainey wrote about TV FOMO in the age of Peak TV, and how hard it is to keep up with the sheer volume of shows available now. With something like 500 scripted shows airing in 2017 across all platforms, it is virtually impossible to see everything. I wrote to By Sarah • Apr 05, 2017 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell The live-action Ghost in the Shell, starring celebrated Asian actress Scarlett Johansson, totally bit it over the weekend. It did not meet even the softest expectations of a $20 million opening, and since the foreign markets failed to bail it out, it’s destined to go down as yet By Sarah • Apr 04, 2017 01:54 pm
TV Updates Feud and the Working Woman’s Trap Five episodes into Feud: Bette and Joan and we have covered the making of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, its release, and subsequent trip to the Oscars in 1963. We’re now at the point where Bette Davis and Joan Crawford should be swamped in offers, careers reignited thanks to By Sarah • Apr 03, 2017 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alec Baldwin in The Boss Baby I have seen Nine Lives, so no movie will ever really seem THAT bad to me again. In the eternal sh*t vs. diarrhea debate, Nine Lives is always the diarrhea, which means that The Boss Baby is just sh*t. Starring the vocal talent of one-time Capital One By Sarah • Mar 31, 2017 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joss Whedon switches teams Duana noted earlier this week that it doesn’t seem like Buffy the Vampire Slayer got any real love from the entertainment press until Joss Whedon became The Man Who Launched The Avengers, which is maybe true—although I remember a lot of love for Buffy back in the day, By Sarah • Mar 31, 2017 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain in The Zookeeper’s Wife Just in case you aren’t convinced Nazis are The Worst, here is a movie in which they slaughter helpless zoo animals, including an adorable baby camel and majestic great horned owl. If you can’t stand to see animals harmed in movies, then boy is The Zookeeper’s Wife By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman in love As CinemaCon rolls on, it was Wonder Woman’s turn on center stage, with new footage debuted with Chris Pine and director Patty Jenkins on hand to promote the film (Gal Gadot just had a baby and was not there). The footage showed Diana and Steve Trevor (Pine) getting to By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews F8: Beefcakes beefing Remember when The Rock was throwing Insta-shade at an “unnamed castmate” while making F8 of the Furious, and it turned out to be about Vin Diesel? Well, F8 had its CinemaCon presentation yesterday, and guess who wasn’t part of it? Dwayne Johnson (even though he was on hand By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Good Jupiter Ascending When the first trailer for Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets debuted, I said it remained to be seen whether or not it’s more Guardians of the Galaxy or Jupiter Ascending. Well, a new trailer premiered at CinemaCon, and this one gives us more of a sense of the By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot Love CinemaCon continues in Vegas, and it was Paramount’s turn to give the ol’ razzle-dazzle yesterday. The best they could come up with was Transformers: The Last Knight and I don’t even have a joke for that. There to present a fifteen-minute sneak peek were Mark Wahlberg, By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gos On The Shill Last week Ryan Gosling popped up at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, and this week he’s back in Vegas, shilling for Blade Runner 2049 at CinemaCon. After Sony boss Tom Rothman sniped, “Netflix my ass,” when debuting an extended look at the film, Gosling got up to hype By Sarah • Mar 28, 2017 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: Homecoming bringing back your faves (Lainey: OMG …and Gwyneth too???) A new trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming debuted yesterday at CinemaCon, the annual film industry show-and-tell, and today it’s online, bringing us more of the absolutely adorable Tom Holland as Peter Parker. And lots and LOTS of Iron Man. Anyone who’s By Sarah • Mar 28, 2017 11:51 am
Amazingness Val Hearts Cate 2017 being a nonsense year, it makes perfect sense that Val Kilmer went on a weekend-long tweet-spree to declare his admiration of Cate Blanchett. It starts with his announcement on March 24 that he “flew all the way to Australia just to talk to Cate Blanchett”, only to By Sarah • Mar 27, 2017 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Justice League steps down Last summer at Comic-Con Warner Brothers/DC unveiled the first look at Justice League, and it wasn’t completely awful. But in case you were feeling cautiously optimistic that Warners/DC could fix their sh*t and turn out a good Justice League movie—don’t. The first official By Sarah • Mar 27, 2017 09:33 am
