Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya is the first of Spider-Man 3.0’s new friends I have never seen anything Zendaya has been in—she’s a Disney kid?—but I have seen her on red carpets and in interviews, and she strikes me as an above-average articulate young woman who does not suffer fools. Every time I have been made aware of her, I By Sarah • Mar 07, 2016 03:04 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 6.10-12: The Next World The Walking Dead Season 6, Episodes 10-12 recap SPOILERS Coming back from the mid-season premiere, The Walking Dead made a very good decision—we jump ahead a few weeks in the timeline. The single-day format of the first half of the season was a grind, and though this set of By Sarah • Mar 07, 2016 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in London Has Fallen London Has Fallen is a movie in which the leaders of several sovereign nations are explicitly and violently assassinated on camera. Then half the city of London is blown up—particularly, all the “known landmarks”, as opposed to all those unknown ones—and then we spend two hours watching as By Sarah • Mar 04, 2016 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who you gonna call? NuGhostbusters! After what feels like a long wait—but really, they’re right on schedule, it’s just that we’re paying SO MUCH attention to this movie—the first trailer for the all-lady Ghostbusters is here, and it’s pretty great. Just watched the trailer for Bridesmaidsbusters. For the sake By Sarah • Mar 03, 2016 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman in Eddie the Eagle The second of three Olympic-themed movies coming down the pipe—sandwiched in between Race and The Bronze—Eddie the Eagle is a charming crowd-pleaser about a perpetual loser who games the system to become an Olympian. It’s too loosey-goosey with the facts to count as a real biopic—the By Sarah • Mar 03, 2016 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Exclusive - Gwyneth Paltrow NOT in Captain America: Civil War Last week Empire magazine ran their Captain America: Civil War issue and it included the news that Gwyneth Paltrow had filmed a “small but key role” as Pepper Potts during the additional photography in January and would be included in the movie. However, I have since heard that she is By Sarah • Mar 02, 2016 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in the ridiculous Gods of Egypt Director Alex Proyas recently posted a screed on Facebook in which he rails against film critics and film criticism, saying things like, “…contrary to what a critic should probably be they have no personal taste or opinion, because they are basing their views on the status quo.” Proyas is unhappy By Sarah • Mar 02, 2016 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey win The Dark Tower lottery Stephen King’s Gunslinger series—which spans books, short stories, and comic books—is finally coming to the big screen after a long and convoluted development process that saw it pass through JJ Abrams and Ron Howard, who wanted to do a film franchise/TV series combo to tell the By Sarah • Mar 01, 2016 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Gritty Cop Drama Boasting an impressive cast that includes Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, and Kate Winslet, Gritty Cop Drama is exactly the kind of gritty cop drama you get sucked into watching on cable on a Saturday afternoon. It’s got just enough going on under the By Sarah • Feb 26, 2016 02:00 pm
TV Updates Tom Hardy is a very dangerous man to know Remember that time Tom Hardy got naked? Which time, you ask, the time in the short film or all the times he was in his underpants on MySpace? Or some other time I missed because Tom Hardy seems always to be getting naked? No, this most recent time, when he By Sarah • Feb 26, 2016 12:25 pm
Amazingness The only honest Oscar ballot you need to care about Today is a gift that keeps on giving. First it was Mariah Carey’s DIY wheelchair situation, and now it’s one of those “honest Oscar voter” ballots that have become a cottage industry over the last few years in the industry trades. This one comes courtesy The Hollywood Reporter, By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 03:35 pm
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Taylor Kitsch I'm wondering if Taylor Kitsch deserves a career review? He seemed to be everywhere for a while, and is now nowhere. Just watched John Carter last night and he was so meh. How can Riggins let us down? --Kendra I haven’t done one of these in a By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay goes full-Disney None of this half-Disney Marvel sh*t, Ava DuVernay has decided that if she’s going work for a corporate machine, she’s going to work for Disney itself, the corporatiest, machiniest one of all. Yesterday Deadline reported that DuVernay will direct an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 10:22 am
Douchebags Casey Affleck went Joaquin Phoenix on Stephen Colbert I texted Lainey the other night after seeing Casey Affleck’s new movie, Triple 9, that I think he might have A Moment coming. She agreed, but then he went on Late Night with Stephen Colbert to promote the movie and had an awkward interview, and she was like, maybe By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 09:29 am
Business of Hollywood Rooney Mara is wishy-washy on whitewashing It is not my preference to go after actors in the ongoing #OscarsSoWhite and the Hollywood diversity crisis. (Want to be depressed? Read this super sad and regressive study of diversity within industry ranks from the studio C-suites on down.) But actors are usually the most visible people connecting a By Sarah • Feb 23, 2016 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sacha Baron Cohen in underpants Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, Grimsby—unnecessarily retitled The Brothers Grimsby in the US—opens in the UK this weekend, a couple weeks before it opens here in North America. So there was a premiere in London and, as he is wont to do, SBC showed up in character By Sarah • Feb 23, 2016 11:24 am
