Media Manipulation Tom Hiddleston making the rounds Tom Hiddleston’s new movie, I Saw the Light, opened last weekend but hardly anyone noticed amidst the bat-noise of Superhero Face Punch. But Hiddleston did his duty and promoted the movie, making several talk show appearances and being visible. As I noted before, this is not the same Tom By Sarah • Mar 29, 2016 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beefcake Ezra Miller Ezra Miller is about to get to work on The Justice League Part One, in which he stars as The Flash. If you saw Superhero Face Punch over the weekend, you saw him in a cameo as out-of-costume Barry Allen, as well as a super-confusing dream sequence in costume as By Sarah • Mar 28, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Face Punch gets it done It wasn’t pretty and it will be debated forever, but Superhero Face Punch hauled in $424.1 million worldwide this weekend, with an estimated $170.1 million coming domestically, breaking The Hunger Games’ pre-summer record. If the movie paces like The Dark Knight Rises did in 2012, it will By Sarah • Mar 28, 2016 09:26 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 6.13-15: “Sometimes you have to” The Walking Dead Season 6, Episodes 13-15 recap We’re down to the last episodes before the ninety-minute finale of The Walking Dead, season six, and besides an Obligatory Secondary Character Death and the penultimate episode’s Cliffhanger You Know Won’t Amount To Anything, not a lot happens. Three By Sarah • Mar 28, 2016 08:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Wonder Woman’s three moms There is a brief feature on Wonder Woman in Entertainment Weekly this week, since she is one of the best parts of Superhero Face Punch—and the only element that successfully generates excitement for a future movie. So let’s take a look at Wonder Woman along with the three By Sarah • Mar 24, 2016 01:44 pm
Amazingness Chris Pratt being Chris Pratt A reader named Catherine sent us a link to Chris Pratt’s Facebook with the subject line “Pratt being Pratt”. He’s auctioning off a chance to win a trip to the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 set through Omaze—you can find out more here if you’re By Sarah • Mar 24, 2016 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe: Shane Black’s best odd couple? A new trailer for Shane Black’s film The Nice Guys has debuted and this movie looks f*cking fantastic. This is the theater-friendly green band trailer, which will undoubtedly be in front of Superhero Face Punch this weekend, so it’s missing some of the violent sight gags of By Sarah • Mar 23, 2016 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Huntsman: Winter’s War still exists Defying all the odds, Snow White and the Huntsman prequel-ish thing, The Huntsman: Winter’s War continues to exist. And I continue to not understand anything about this movie. Everything about how Charlize Theron as the evil queen and Chris Hemsworth as the huntsman interact makes it look like a By Sarah • Mar 23, 2016 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck & Gal Gadot can’t save Batman v Superman SPOILER FREE Well. Here it is. After nearly three years of marketing, hype, and expectation, the film I have called Superhero Face Punch arrives in theaters this Friday, where it lands with a leaden thump, an overlong, overly serious, grinding f*cking drag of a movie. If you’re not By Sarah • Mar 23, 2016 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale in Knight of Cups In the 1970s, writer/director Terrence Malick made two legit masterpieces. In a decade dominated by the first wave of American independent cinema and blockbusters—everything sharks and wars amongst the stars and godfathers—Malick delivered two of the most important pieces of American cinema in the post-studio age. His By Sarah • Mar 22, 2016 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan in The Bronze He is not the star, but the only part of this movie you care about is the much-ballyhooed sex scene between Sebastian Stan’s gold-medal winning gymnast, Lance Tucker, and Melissa Rauch’s bronze medalist, Hope Ann Greggory. So does it live up to all that Sundance hype? Pretty much, By Sarah • Mar 22, 2016 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler’s latest filmed vacation Yesterday the teaser for Adam Sandler’s next vacation enjoyed on Netflix’s dime was released, announcing that The Do-Over will be released on May 27. That puts it up against X-Men: Apocalypse, which fuels my theory that Sandler really wants to be in a superhero movie. No one is By Sarah • Mar 22, 2016 10:35 am
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant is coming back to TV Last week I said I miss seeing Timothy Olyphant every week on Justified, and while Justified is not coming back, Timothy Olyphant is. It’s been announced that he will star with Drew Barrymore in a new single-camera comedy for Netflix, due in 2017. This is great! Not only are By Sarah • Mar 21, 2016 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shailene Woodley in The Divergent Series: Allegiant Last year Insurgent was one of the stupidest, most boring movies I saw. This year, Allegiant is sure to be one of the stupidest, most boring movies I see. It is infuriating to sit through a sequel that makes all the same mistakes as its predecessor, but that is exactly By Sarah • Mar 18, 2016 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone looks bored in X-Men: Apocalypse The X-Men movies are wildly uneven, ranging from “highly enjoyable” to “utterly godawful”, but the prequel trilogy starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence has generally been good. That’s a great ensemble making fun movies that are good for the most part. But the trailers for the latest By Sarah • Mar 17, 2016 02:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Potter f*cks over some magicians … Is the best way of describing Now You See Me 2, judging by the new trailer. If you remember the first one—and why would you?—Morgan Freeman ended up in jail because Mark Ruffalo was the best magician in the world, or something like that. So the sequel is By Sarah • Mar 17, 2016 12:39 pm
