Dumbass Leonardo DiCaprio, please be smarter than this In an interview with The Guardian, screenwriter David Franzoni (best known for co-writing Gladiator) talked up a film he’s writing about the Persian poet and scholar Rumi, one of the most often translated and widely read poets in history. He’s sometimes called the “Shakespeare of the Middle East” By Sarah • Jun 09, 2016 11:17 am
Style Lizzy Caplan deserves better Lizzy Caplan was out the other night, at the premiere of Now You See Me 2, which seems destined to be the latest in summer’s brutal string of failure sequels. A few of you have confessed to enjoying Now You See Me, but even you must admit that a By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 01:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny in Love & Friendship Lady Susan, an early Jane Austen manuscript that apparently never made it to the rewriting stage and was published over fifty years after Austen’s death as an unfinished novella, is the unlikely source of Whit Stillman’s new film, Love & Friendship. Reuniting with this Last Days of Disco By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 12:35 pm
TV Updates Do you have a Dominic Cooper Problem yet? I’m getting there. I DEFINITELY have a Jesse Custer problem. I wasn’t quite sold on Jesse after the Preacher pilot, but episode two hooked me and I’m in 100%. Usually a show comes on strong in the pilot and then kind of backs off, to spend some By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The NuGhostbusters are cover stars Elle is debuting their first women in comedy issue, and the NuGhostbusters are their first funny-lady cover stars. I kind of don’t care about Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy—they’ve covered magazines before, and will again—but I’m SUPER into Leslie Jones’s cover. I love the By Sarah • Jun 08, 2016 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Boyega takes over for Charlie Hunnam Do you remember Pacific Rim? It’s Guillermo Del Toro’s kaiju vs. robots movie that stars Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba as the guy who cancelled the apocalypse. It is not a great movie, and did only mediocre at the box office, but Universal has decided to take a By Sarah • Jun 07, 2016 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is not as bad as you think Don’t get me wrong—it’s bad. It’s just that you probably think it’s a blazing inferno chemical disaster fire, and it’s not. It’s more like a mildly alarming dumpster fire. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is not a good movie, and By Sarah • Jun 06, 2016 02:50 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 6.7: “We fight with the army we have” Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 7 recap SPOILERS All season we’ve been seeing women rise to power across Westeros, and this week the power shift continues. Some have said that the shift is due to the showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, responding to years of criticism By Sarah • Jun 06, 2016 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lonely Island in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Since 1984, This Is Spinal Tap has been the gold standard of film satires, a flawless movie that uses the mockumentary format to lampoon pop culture and music in the 1980s. In the years since there have been worthy mockumentary successors—Drop Dead Gorgeous, What We Do in the Shadows— By Sarah • Jun 03, 2016 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rose Byrne & Chloe Grace Moretz in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Lainey: Here are some new photos of Rose Byrne and Chloe Grace Moretz which is great because we haven’t, until now, been able to post Sarah’s review of Neighbors 2.) I have been very hard on Zac Efron around here, so now I will say something nice—he’ By Sarah • Jun 03, 2016 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson is your status quo choice to play Captain Marvel As Marvel enters Phase 3, one of the biggest questions is who will play Captain Marvel, the first superheroine to headline a Marvel movie. Variety may have the answer, as they’re reporting that reigning Best Actress Brie Larson is in “early talks” for the role. (Worth noting that this By Sarah • Jun 02, 2016 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Guys and Dolls is finally happening As you know, I don’t really care for musicals. There’s a seediness inherent in most musicals that I feel the singing and dancing completely erases (anyone who thinks The Sound of Music has a happy ending is nuts). But there are a few exceptions. I like Beauty and By Sarah • Jun 01, 2016 12:24 pm
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
