Movie Reviews and Previews Is Daisy Ridley a giant? Star Wars: The Force Awakens won Best Movie of 2015 + Deadpool at the MTV Movie Awards last night, which is unsurprising. It’s a popularity contest and that was the biggest movie last year. JJ Abrams and Daisy Ridley, taking a break from shooting Episode VIII, were on hand to By Sarah • Apr 11, 2016 01:17 pm
Quiveration Ryan Reynolds is MTV Hot Dad Ryan Reynolds showed up at the MTV Movie Awards to collect an award for Best Comedic Performance and Best Fight (with Ed Skrein) for Deadpool, which apparently now counts as a 2015 movie. He got a very hype entrance with a bunch of dancing Deadpools and Salt-N-Pepa performing “Shoop”, so By Sarah • Apr 11, 2016 11:51 am
Harry Potter I want to go to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Eddie Redmayne, the human equivalent of the puppy who most wants to be adopted, also turned up at the MTV Movie Awards, to debut the first trailer from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Holy sh*t, you guys. It looks GREAT. It’s not like we had any By Sarah • Apr 11, 2016 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! If I could ask Richard Linklater one question, it would be: Why two exclamation points? Not one, not three—two. That’s weirdly specific, and Linklater is a filmmaker of deliberate choices, so I’d like to know why two exclamation points? The curiously punctuated Everybody Wants Some!! is Linklater’ By Sarah • Apr 08, 2016 01:50 pm
Louis CK Louis CK’s career high Louis CK’s experimental-ish Horace and Pete ended its season—maybe the whole series?—after ten episodes. It’s been an incredible run, and alongside American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, has been the best thing on TV this year so far, although Horace and Pete isn’ By Sarah • Apr 07, 2016 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rogue One …and Rey’s mom? The first trailer for Rogue One, the first “Star Wars Story” spin-off of the rebooted universe, is here and it’s pretty f*cking metal. From the piano breakdown of the Star Wars’ theme to the shots of the Death Star, Stormtroopers, AT-ATs, and those familiar orange flight suits, there’ By Sarah • Apr 07, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Shannon in Midnight Special Midnight Special has something in common with 10 Cloverfield Lane—you don’t want to know too much about this movie going in. The whole narrative is structured for discovery, and it unfolds with a real sense of wonder we don’t get to feel much at the movies anymore. By Sarah • Apr 07, 2016 10:01 am
Media Manipulation And so the Warner Bros. shuffle begins After the antipathetic public reaction to Superhero Face Punch, it seemed inevitable that Warner Brothers would have to make some changes to their plans for the DC Extended Universe, which is what they’re calling their cinematic universe. But they stuck with Zack Snyder as the director of The Justice By Sarah • Apr 06, 2016 03:06 pm
Media Manipulation Macaulay Culkin seems to be fine Macaulay Culkin, one of the most famous child actors of all time, keeps a low profile. There are only nine posts on LaineyGossip pertaining to him, even from back in the Mila days. He doesn’t create many opportunities for coverage, and beyond that, a lot of people go out By Sarah • Apr 06, 2016 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Dano and DanRad’s farting corpse Swiss Army Man screened at Sundance to mixed reviews. It stars Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe as two guys stranded on an island, except one of them is dead. People who love it, really love it; people who hate it can’t seem to get past the fart jokes. The By Sarah • Apr 05, 2016 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch IS Doctor Strange Back in December we got our first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in costume as Stephen Strange for Doctor Strange. It was a really good look. And now, thanks to outdoors, on location filming in New York City over the weekend, we can see Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor in full costume, By Sarah • Apr 04, 2016 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Face Punch is crashing Batman v Superman is still making a ton of dough, crossing $680 million worldwide, but at the rate it’s dropping, it really might not break the much-needed $1 billion. Superhero Face Punch was expected to suffer a big drop in its second week in release, and it landed on By Sarah • Apr 04, 2016 10:37 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 6.16: “Eenie, meenie, miney, moe” The Walking Dead Season 6, Episode 16 recap SPOILERS. SERIOUSLY. The Walking Dead is The Revenant of TV. It’s constructed to make you feel smart, without requiring you to be smart. Like The Revenant, it has a high level of technical proficiency, and it’s chock-full of the kind By Sarah • Apr 04, 2016 07:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Huntsman people stand next to magnificent owl Look at this gorgeous and magnificent snowy owl, so wise, so still. It sits peaceably, suffering the presence of these peasanty humans who dare stand near it. It even bears the hand of Chris Hemsworth, human peasant, who reaches toward its majesty and splendor with his dull human hand. No By Sarah • Mar 31, 2016 02:03 pm
Media Manipulation Reese Witherspoon bails, Kristen Wiig jumps in Before she was a lifestyle guru—or whatever the hell she’s doing with Draper James—before she was a Minivan maven, and before she was Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon was Tracy Flick. For some, despite the popularity of Elle and the romance of Annette in Cruel Intentions, this is By Sarah • Mar 30, 2016 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum’s Gambit movie is off (again) One of the more beleaguered superhero projects in development is Channing Tatum’s solo Gambit movie, a Deadpool-like spin-off of Fox’s X-Men universe. I’m on the record thinking this is a terrible idea because Gambit is a dumb f*cking superhero, and it would seem somebody somewhere agrees By Sarah • Mar 30, 2016 09:45 am
