Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Think Twice Comedian Mike Birbiglia’s feature film debut as a writer/director, Sleepwalk With Me, is a fantastic film, and his sophomore effort, Don’t Think Twice, is even better. Birbiglia makes comedies about comedy about life, and the natural comparison would be to Woody Allen, a fellow New York comedian By Sarah • Aug 18, 2016 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt being Chris Pratt, Vol. 2 The Magnificent Seven remake starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt opens next month, so the publicity machine is clicking into high gear. As such, Pratt is covering InStyle as September’s “Man of Style”, which is sort of odd as I don’t think anyone thinks “Chris Pratt” and “stylish” By Sarah • Aug 17, 2016 01:02 pm
Keira Knightley Keira Knightley, nut-cracking fairy Of the Sugar Plum variety. Disney is making a live action update of The Nutcracker, titled The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and Keira Knightley will star as the Sugar Plum Fairy. She won’t be dancing, though, as this won’t be a ballet. There will be a dance By Sarah • Aug 17, 2016 11:05 am
TV Updates RDJ and True Detective are teaming up RDJ and Nic “True Detective” Pizzolatto are working together on a project for HBO. Is it a series or a TV movie? No idea. Will it be the Perry Mason update RDJ and Susan Downey have been developing for the last million years? Who knows. All that is known is By Sarah • Aug 16, 2016 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams is the man in Arrival Denis Villeneuve is on a streak. From Incendies to Prisoners, Enemy, and Sicario, he’s made some of the more memorable movies of the last few years. (Prisoners, especially, has lingered in my mind.) His next film is a sci-fi alien invasion movie called Arrival and the first trailer is By Sarah • Aug 16, 2016 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are inhumanly beautiful I don’t want to stir sh*t up, but the teaser for Allied, the World War II movie starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, is out and Pitt & Cotillard look unbelievably gorgeous in it. It’s shades of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, when you couldn’t believe two By Sarah • Aug 15, 2016 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Warner Brothers Open Letter Late last week Pajiba published an open letter, penned by an alleged former Warner Brothers staffer using the pseudonym “Gracie Law” (a character name from Big Trouble in Little China). Presumably this was done to protect someone still working in the industry, or with hopes of returning to the industry, By Sarah • Aug 15, 2016 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Rogue One the next blockbuster disaster? It’s been a bad year for blockbusters. With but few exceptions—pretty much just Deadpool and Captain America: Civil War—blockbusters have disappointed and underperformed, with the carcasses of more than one disaster strewn behind summer’s unforgiving wake (see also: Warcraft, Independence Day: Resurgence). We’re about to By Sarah • Aug 12, 2016 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen in Sausage Party There’s no real preparing yourself for Sausage Party. You can watch the trailers, you can read reviews, but you’re not going to be ready. The closest comparison is the early days of South Park, when you just couldn’t believe these things were being said on TV, let By Sarah • Aug 10, 2016 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hell Lives Inside Me: I Saw Nine Lives The ordeal began with a trip to the ticket window. The movie in question, Nine Lives, had not screened for critics, so I had to pay actual money to see the movie in which Kevin Spacey gets turned into a cat. As I was paying to see the movie in By Sarah • Aug 09, 2016 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t worry, the McConaissance was already over A new trailer for Matthew McConaughey’s latest movie, Sea of Trees, came out yesterday. Sea of Trees premiered at Cannes last year, where it did not go over well, and while that audience can be a bit boo-happy, in this case, the ensuing reviews were pretty uniformly terrible, too. By Sarah • Aug 09, 2016 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Suicide Squad and the Hollywood double standard Suicide Squad shattered the August box office records, raking in $135 million for the biggest August opening weekend, breaking Guardians of the Galaxy’s previous record of $94.1 million. (And oh, is everyone at Warner Brothers ecstatic to take down a Marvel record.) Box office numbers can mean anything By Sarah • Aug 08, 2016 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Patsy and Edina in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie If you’re a fan of the British TV series Absolutely Fabulous, about the trials and misadventures of boozy London publicist Edina and her enabling editor friend, Patsy, then sweetie darling do I have the movie for you. Almost twenty-four years after debuting on the BBC, Ab Fab comes to By Sarah • Aug 05, 2016 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Not Pictured: Harry Styles Christopher Nolan’s next film is a World War II drama called Dunkirk, and while it features the usual suspects when it comes to Nolan—Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy—it also marks the feature film debut of Harry Styles. I do not like One Direction, and I resent having the By Sarah • Aug 05, 2016 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Roberts and Dave Franco in Nerve Here’s a surprise—I really like Nerve! The trailer made this movie look dumb as sh*t, and it IS dumb, but it’s also really fun and actually pretty thrilling. Based on a novel by Jeanne Ryan (adapted by Jessica Sharzer, Speak), and directed by Henry Joost and By Sarah • Aug 04, 2016 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rogue One: We need different directors A few months ago there was a report that Rogue One, the Star Wars spin-off, was undergoing weeks of additional photography, and that the brass at Disney were in a “panic” over an initial cut of the movie not testing well. That whole report seemed fishy to me, not because By Sarah • Aug 03, 2016 02:48 pm
