Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer is not Barbie In December we learned that Amy Schumer would star in a live-action Barbie movie, which seemed like kind of a bad idea because Barbie, as a toy and cultural landmark, is already loaded with so many issues. Do we even need a Barbie movie, let alone an Amy Schumer By Sarah • Mar 24, 2017 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds in 'Life' Life is a terribly stupid movie, but it’s dumb in that fun B-movie way, a trashy space thriller full of dumb-sh*t dialogue and wildly convenient circumstances. Despite its stupidity, though, Life is decently scary because space is naturally horrifying as we are instinctively afraid of its By Sarah • Mar 24, 2017 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Three Billboards and Frances McDormand The first trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was just released and all I really have to say is that in the course of two and a half minutes, Frances McDormand c*nt-punts a teenager, calls Sam Rockwell “f*ckhead”, attacks a dentist with his own drill, cusses By Sarah • Mar 23, 2017 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Shannon + Deadpool = Magic Deadpool 2 doesn’t have a set release date—a minor miracle these days, when movies are slated years in advance and rushed to meet predetermined deadlines—but it’s aiming for a 2018 release, which means it’s casting up right now. Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz is on tap By Sarah • Mar 22, 2017 04:01 pm
Break Ups Jenny Slate opens up When Jenny Slate comes up in Chris Evans’ interview with Esquire, “you can almost feel his heart pinch”, and he doesn’t talk about it. But when Chris Evans comes up in Jenny Slate’s interview with New York Magazine, she proceeds to talk about him for the next three By Sarah • Mar 21, 2017 12:47 pm
Boy Sh-t Dave Chappelle is hurt by Key & Peele This is the headline everyone is pulling from Dave Chappelle’s sit-down with Gayle King on This Morning. Chappelle is promoting his upcoming Netflix special, and in the course of a thoughtful and interesting profile of Chappelle, a decade on from him famously leaving Chappelle’s Show, King brings By Sarah • Mar 21, 2017 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s Johnny Depp Decision Looking ahead to a post-Avengers career—or at least, an inter-Avengers break—Robert Downey, Jr. has booked his next non-Tony Stark role and it’s none other than Doctor Dolittle in a remake/reboot/sequel thingie absolutely nobody asked for called The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. The By Sarah • Mar 21, 2017 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Catface McHornswaggler wins the day Beauty and the Beast had an enormous opening weekend, devouring $170 million. That makes it the biggest March opening ever, taking down Batman v. Superman, and also the largest PG-rated opening, which means we’re in for more family-oriented fare. (Honestly, that would be welcome, since adults have By Sarah • Mar 20, 2017 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews That Superman Man Guy + Tom Cruise So Mission: Impossible 6, which ought to be subtitled At What Point Do We Stop Calling This Impossible, He ALWAYS Does It, starts filming in a few months and has just added a new member to Tom Cruise’s Mission: Not-Quite-Impossible team. Henry Cavill is on board to By Sarah • Mar 17, 2017 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast You know the story: Belle’s a bookworm who doesn’t fit in, there’s a beast, a cursed castle, and lots of musical numbers. The live action remake of Beauty and the Beast changes little of the main plot, but it does take pains to address some questions that By Sarah • Mar 16, 2017 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This is a BAD IDEA Today in This Is A Terrible F*cking Idea, Seriously, Whose Idea Was This news, Warner Brothers is exploring the possibility of rebooting The Matrix. Everything is sequels and reboots these days, so it’s not outside the realm of expectation that someone would have this idea—apparently producer Joel By Sarah • Mar 15, 2017 11:36 am
Dave Chappelle Dave Chappelle Returns “I’ve been gone for a very long time. Surprise: It’s me.” That’s the first line in the trailer for Dave Chappelle’s new stand-up special, debuting on Netflix on March 21. Ever since he walked away from Chappelle’s Show in 2005, Chappelle has been working By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 04:14 pm
Samuel L Jackson Samuel L. Jackson takes a seat Last week Samuel L. Jackson stepped in it when talking about Get Out and its star, Daniel Kaluuya, who is British. In an interview with Hot 97 Jackson said, “I tend to wonder what would that movie have been with an American brother who really understands that. […] Daniel grew up By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A New Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Yesterday it was announced that Sony will finally make the sequel to their 2011 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake. Sony is skipping the other books in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, though, and going right to the new book, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, written by David Lagercrantz. By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kong: Skull Island – great monsters, unintentional comedy Kong: Skull Island opened this weekend with $61 million, which is a respectable spring opener, but well short of Godzilla’s $93 million haul in 2014. Kong is a prequel to Godzilla, and the second entry into Warner Brothers’ budding monster-centric cinematic universe, so slightly deflated numbers aren’t By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Baby Driver After Edgar Wright dropped out of Ant-Man, he went to work on an original script he’d written called Baby Driver, which is not a helpful title. Is it about a baby who drives? A driver of babies? A person named “Baby Driver”? Turns out that last one was By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 10:09 am
