Movie Reviews and Previews You know who Jason Bourne is The first full trailer for the fourth Bourne movie—fifth if you count Jeremy Renner’s Bourne Legacy, which no one does—was just released and it’s got lots and lots of sweaty, glowering Matt Damon throwing punches and shooting people in the face. Sadly, this one does not By Sarah • Apr 21, 2016 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 21st century Magnificent Seven Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is one of the most referenced films in cinematic history, and already has an American remake, The Magnificent Seven starring Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner. Well now there’s a remake of the remake, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, and By Sarah • Apr 20, 2016 10:56 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: Drogon’s Return is almost here We’ve talked a lot about Jon Snow and his inevitable resurrection that will happen sometime in season six of Game of Thrones, but we haven’t talked at all about the most important character in Thrones: Drogon. He’s my favorite, and the last we saw of him, he By Sarah • Apr 19, 2016 01:00 pm
TV Updates Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager The Night Manager has already aired on the BBC and it begins its run on AMC in the US tonight, because somehow in 2016 synchronous release still isn’t the industry standard. The six-part mini-series is an adaptation of John le Carré’s novel—and the author himself has a By Sarah • Apr 19, 2016 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ice Cube in Barbershop: The Next Cut Living in a city where you regularly wake up to headlines tallying how many people got shot over the weekend wears on you after a while. No matter how much you love your home, you inevitably end up having “why am I still here” conversations with yourself. This is the By Sarah • Apr 18, 2016 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don Cheadle in Miles Ahead Don Cheadle worked for years to get his Miles Davis biopic, Miles Ahead, made. Part of the uphill battle was that he not only wanted to star as Davis, he wanted to write and direct as well. Well his long slog to the finish line paid off, as Cheadle makes By Sarah • Apr 15, 2016 01:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sam Rockwell + Anna Kendrick in Mr. Right I know it’s annoying when an actor is paired with an actress twenty years his junior for a romantic movie, but when it’s Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick, can we just look the other way on their seventeen year age difference? Can we all just agree that casting By Sarah • Apr 15, 2016 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Jungle Book is true magic Disney has already had one family hit this year, with Zootopia, and they’ve got another one on their hands with Jon Favreau’s update of The Jungle Book. It’s not only an eye-popping piece of mostly-digital filmmaking, but it also manages to fix pretty much everything creepy and By Sarah • Apr 15, 2016 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ghost in the Shell: Exodus Part II “My hope for The Ghost in the Shell is that some of the principal roles do end up going to Asian actors and this doesn’t turn into Exodus Part II,” I said last year, when Scarlett Johansson was announced as the lead of the live-action remake of Japanese manga By Sarah • Apr 14, 2016 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews That Jump Street/Men in Black mash-up is really happening This week in clean and rad and powerful news, it was announced at CinemaCon—the annual film industry circle jerk between studios and theaters—that the proposed mash-up sequel between the Jump Street and Men in Black franchises is going to happen for real. The movie, titled MIB 23, will By Sarah • Apr 14, 2016 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange looks like a trip Last night the first trailer for Doctor Strange debuted, and oh god, Benedict Cumberbatch is even more perfect as the Sorcerer Supreme than previously imagined. For some reason, it never occurred to me he’d have an American accent. I don’t know why I assumed Cumberbatch would use his By Sarah • Apr 13, 2016 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Cap looking sharp Last night was the world premiere of Captain America: Civil War, and Chris Evans & Co. showed up looking spiffy. Evans flies under the fashion radar but he’s got solid dude dressing game. He did a mix-and-match patterns thing with a dark teal suit that not many dudes would By Sarah • Apr 13, 2016 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson is Thor’s new maybe-lady It was announced yesterday that Tessa Thompson, of Creed and Dear White People fame, is joining Thor: Ragnarok in an unspecified role, though Deadline says she’s “kind of a superhero” and is expected to appear in other Marvel movies, and she’s also playing Thor’s love interest. Apparently, By Sarah • Apr 12, 2016 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #TeamCap vs. #TeamIronMan Lainey is #TeamIronMan. I am #TeamCap. We’ve been sniping at each other over text off and on about how she’s wrong. And with the Captain America: Civil War press tour kicking off over the weekend, it’s only going to get worse, because everything is divided by Iron By Sarah • Apr 12, 2016 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy in The Boss I saw The Boss this weekend and we need to have a come to Jesus about Melissa McCarthy. This is the second movie McCarthy made with her husband, Ben Falcone, the first being Tammy. They wrote and produced both movies, and Falcone directed both. Tammy is bad, The Boss is By Sarah • Apr 12, 2016 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Suicide Squad is all-in on the fun The last time we saw a Suicide Squad trailer, it left me a bit bemused. I wasn’t sure what to make of it, because it was, tonally, quite different from the first trailer. Well, the third trailer, premiered at the MTV Movie Awards, doubles-down on the relatively lighter tone By Sarah • Apr 11, 2016 02:05 pm
