Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner arriving for Arrival Here is Jeremy Renner, wearing the sh*t out of a pair of jeans, arriving in Venice for the film festival, which kicks off this week. He’s there to support Arrival, in which he plays second fiddle to Amy Adams. Renner—along with Elizabeth Olsen—skipped out on most By Sarah • Aug 30, 2016 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Get Down I feel like I should apologize for not getting to The Get Down sooner. But now that I’m here, I’m looking around what feels like a mostly empty room and wondering where everyone else is. Have you watched The Get Down? No? Why not? Maybe it doesn’t By Sarah • Aug 30, 2016 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s roommate Darryl At Comic-Con Marvel had several videos that played during their panel, but they only released one, a new trailer for Doctor Strange. Everything else stayed under the seal of Hall H, because it is possible to show stuff in Hall H and not have it pirated, you just have to By Sarah • Aug 29, 2016 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pete’s Dragon: a reason to go to the movies So far, it’s been kind of a sh*t year for film. The highlights have been incredibly high (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Green Room, Swiss Army Man, Captain America: Civil War), but they’re vastly outnumbered by a slew of utter dreck, and more than once this year, I’ By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 03:54 pm
Equality Issues Amy Schumer, Again It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Amy Schumer. Just as her first book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, was being released, a writer on Inside Amy Schumer, Kurt Metzger, went off on social media about rape survivors and rape culture. Schumer, as Metzger’s high-profile By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kubo and the Two Strings: Who is watching this? The animation house Laika makes beautiful jewel-box movies, all done in distinctively macabre stop-motion animation, and even when their aesthetic leans into “ugly on purpose” territory—as in their two previous films, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls—their films are visually stunning. Their latest is Kubo and the Two Strings, a By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster in Hell or High Water Sometimes you try to get to a movie to review it, but it keeps not working out, and you start to think that maybe you should just let this one go. I had just about reached that point with Hell or High Water when my schedule finally lined up and By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Manchester by the Sea is the new Oscar favorite At Sundance, the Kenneth Lonergan movie starring Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea, closed a big $10 million deal. Between the big sale and buzz coming from the festival, it felt like a sure bet for Oscar, and that Casey might finally step out of big brother Ben’s shadow. By Sarah • Aug 25, 2016 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Assholes In today’s “There’s Absolutely No Way This Ends Badly” news, Sean Penn and Mel Gibson are going to star in a movie together. The movie, The Professor and the Madman, is an adaptation of Simon Winchester’s book about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and Gibson By Sarah • Aug 25, 2016 10:54 am
Douchebags Scott Eastwood’s gross world Scott Eastwood is featured in Australia GQ’s September issue—in a somewhat telling play, he’s on the alternate subscriber cover while Jake Gyllenhaal covers the newsstand copy. So Scott Eastwood gets covers, but he still has to take a backseat to an actual movie star. Which is how By Sarah • Aug 24, 2016 04:14 pm
TV Updates Ryan Murphy’s Feud has a bonkers cast Ryan Murphy’s new anthology series, Feud, sounded great from the beginning. Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, and Stanley Tucci starring in a miniseries about the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford? Sign me up. But just in case that wasn’t enough to get you excited for “Camp By Sarah • Aug 24, 2016 02:41 pm
Award Season Campaigning Kit Harington, Emmy Nominee Kit Harington scored his first Emmy nomination this year, for the “Battle of the Bastards” episode of Game of Thrones, and so he’s doing some campaigning, including talking to The Hollywood Reporter about his nomination and the way Jon Snow changed in season six. First, Harington’s Emmy campaign By Sarah • Aug 24, 2016 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Thor & Loki Filming continues in Brisbane for Thor: Ragnorak, which means yet more photos of Thor and Loki walking around in civvies (I love how, in street clothes, Loki always looks like the older sibling). Now that everyone in Australia knows where they’re filming, crowds are gathering to watch the goings-on, By Sarah • Aug 23, 2016 04:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nobody You Care About in Ben-Hur In case you missed it, Paramount’s adaptation of Ben-Hur—already an iconic 1959 film starring Charlton Heston—sh*t the bed in a BIG way over the weekend, becoming one of the biggest flops of the summer. So, naturally, I went to see it. What I discovered is that By Sarah • Aug 23, 2016 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise wants more presents Extremely Rich Person Tom Cruise is holding up the production of Mission: Impossible – More? Punctuation! with his demands to be paid even more money than usual for his eleventeenth time portraying International Spy and Marathon Enthusiast Ethan Hunt. The movie has already been pushed back once, allegedly due to scripting By Sarah • Aug 22, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya might be Spider-Man’s Mary Jane When Zendaya was first cast in Spider-Man: Homecoming, her character was identified as “Michelle” and it wasn’t clear how big her role would really be. But as the movie has been shooting over the summer, word got around that she is playing the female lead, though at Comic-Con Zendaya By Sarah • Aug 19, 2016 11:07 am
