TV Updates Dominic Cooper in Preacher Jesse Custer is a terrible preacher. That’s apparent from his first, awkward, half-hearted sermon. He clearly hates being a preacher and doesn’t seem to believe anything he’s saying, but at the same time, Jesse also seems like someone who doesn’t want to let people down. That’ By Sarah • May 31, 2016 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Rogue One in trouble? A report on Page Six came out last night that Disney is in a “panic” over Stars Wars: Rogue One not testing well, and has ordered four weeks of reshoots to tweak the movie. Four weeks of reshoots would be expensive and quite extensive, and it wouldn’t be unprecedented. By Sarah • May 31, 2016 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews McAvoy, Fassbender, and Lawrence in X-Men: Apocalypse Are people ready yet to admit that the X-Men movies aren’t very good? There is no reason in a year in which people accepted Captain America and the f*cking Vision in the same film for an X-Men movie to look as drab and boring as X-Men: Apocalypse looks. By Sarah • May 30, 2016 01:42 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 6.6: “What we do to our enemies” Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 6 recap You can really feel the downhill run coming as the story advances by leaps this week. Let’s start with the part no one cares about, the Lannisters and Tyrells and High Sparrow. The Tyrell army shows up to liberate Margaery and By Sarah • May 30, 2016 09:27 am
Game of Thrones Thrones Theories After an intense episode that opened up a huge new avenue of possibilities for Game of Thrones, we’ve got a lot to discuss, theory-wise. One of the great joys of this show is all the speculating as we try to guess what will happen next or how the various By Sarah • May 24, 2016 10:13 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 6.5: “Hold the door” Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 recap SPOILERS One word, that has meant so many other words. A single word that was so often a joke, a punchline, the word that broke through the brutality and death and tragedy with brief moments of humor—a word no one took By Sarah • May 23, 2016 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Bacon in The Darkness There is a really excellent movie starring Kevin Bacon called Cop Car, which is an indie thriller about a corrupt cop and a couple of punk kids. It’s a really tight, tense movie that doesn’t go in the direction you think it will. It’s very atmospheric, very By Sarah • May 20, 2016 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes in A Bigger Splash Inspired by classic European cinema (specifically, La Piscine) and borrowing its title from a David Hockney painting, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash is simultaneously gorgeous and silly. Reuniting with Tilda Swinton, following 2009’s stellar I Am Love, Guadagnino takes on the kind of laissez faire erotic thriller we By Sarah • May 19, 2016 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews NuGhostbusters is the most disliked movie ever A new trailer for Ghostbusters was released yesterday. This one gives us more of the plot—still science dorks in New York bustin’ ghosts—and sets up the purpose of Chris Hemsworth’s character. Not every joke works, like the Leslie Jones stage diving bit, but then that demon joke By Sarah • May 19, 2016 11:33 am
Business of Hollywood Working with auteurs made Chloe Sevigny hate directors Chloe Sevigny is doing the rounds for her new movie, Love & Friendship, and while promoting it she gave an interview to The Guardian in which she says that working with auteurs has given her “a total disdain for directors” that is “very strong, very deep”. “Auteur” is one of By Sarah • May 17, 2016 11:32 am
Xenu Did Tom Cruise get mad at Preacher? The premiere for the new AMC show Preacher was held over the weekend, and I am so ready for this show to be here already. The trailers have been really good, the early screenings for the pilot were really well-received. The pilot premieres on May 22 and replays on May By Sarah • May 16, 2016 01:38 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 6.4: “We go home” Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 4 recap SPOILERS A note from last week. I mentioned that there are two Stark direwolves left, Summer and Ghost. I had a line about Nymeria, Arya’s wayward wolf, banished in season one because the Lannisters are petty f*cking assholes, but I By Sarah • May 16, 2016 08:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck is Autistic Bourne Ben Affleck, as has been noted several times, has just been through one of his downward spirals. He’s had the crash—divorce, high-profile professional embarrassment—and now it’s time for The Climb. The Climb is the part Affleck thrives on, he just loves proving everyone wrong. He thrives By Sarah • May 13, 2016 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Money Monster Money Monster is several different movies rolled into one, all of them mediocre. It stars two of the biggest old school Movie Stars in the world, but only puts them on screen together for about eight minutes. It is directed by a celebrated actress-cum-filmmaker who cannot manage tension but who By Sarah • May 13, 2016 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Assassin’s Creed certainly looks like something The first trailer for Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed came out last night and it is certainly something. Parts of it are gorgeous. Other parts of it are f*cking horrendous. Fassbender does look very cool as a medieval assassin. Marion Cotillard is delivering lines like she just had By Sarah • May 12, 2016 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Woody Allen Problem A reader named Regina emailed me and asked, “Why are we not ready for Mel Gibson to come back but we’ll still embrace Woody Allen’s films?” Turns out Regina has something in common with Ronan Farrow, because he’s asking the same question. The Hollywood Reporter provided Farrow By Sarah • May 12, 2016 10:14 am
