Civil War gets Goopy Captain America: Civil War covers Empire Magazine this week, and while the actual issue won’t be out until Thursday, we’re getting plenty of teasers and new images up front, including my favorite, the Scarlet Witch, looking like her head was photo-shopped onto someone else’s body. There’s By Sarah • Feb 22, 2016 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hunt for the Wilderpeople is on and Taika Waititi is here Taika Waititi’s last film, What We Do in the Shadows, was one of my favorites of last year—and goddamn, it just keeps getting better with re-watches—and this year he’s got a new movie that looks destined for future top ten lists, too. Hunt for the Wilderpeople By Sarah • Feb 22, 2016 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner 2 to be executed in January 2018 Last year it was announced that Blade Runner 2 is happening and Denis Villeneuve will be directing, with Harrison Ford set to return as Deckard, and now Ryan Gosling is in it, too. The film will shoot later this summer, and it was announced yesterday that it will be released By Sarah • Feb 19, 2016 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fulbright Scholar humiliated in cruel movie prank Fulbright Scholar and noted chemical engineer Dolph Lundgren is the victim of a recent prank in which a person is hired to star in a movie, and then that movie turns out to be Kindergarten Cop 2, a direct-to-digital sequel of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Kindergarten Cop. Lundgren, who By Sarah • Feb 18, 2016 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julianne Moore may be a lady-villain, too Last year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service was 99% of a good movie, which featured Colin Firth in a second-act makeover role as a suave English spy and action hero. The movie was successful enough to justify a sequel which is slated to shoot later this summer, but since Firth By Sarah • Feb 18, 2016 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson in How to Be Single How to Be Single is a romantic comedy so bad I’m shocked it doesn’t star Chris Evans. This movie’s idea of romance is only appealing to narcissists, and it’s sex-positive attitude is mere lipstick on a heteronormative ideal where every woman secretly wants babies and marriage By Sarah • Feb 18, 2016 11:49 am
TV Updates Samantha Bee, First Lady of Late Night The Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee has struck out on her own, headlining a new late-night show on TBS called Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. It’s a half-hour show that straddles the line between The Daily Show and John Oliver’s next-gen series, Last Week Tonight. Like The Daily By Sarah • Feb 17, 2016 01:30 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is straight trolling Game of Thrones released their second teaser and they continue to troll everyone about Jon Snow’s fate. We see the faces of deceased characters like Ned, Robb, and Catelyn Stark—and Joffrey, but who gives a f*ck that he’s dead?—in the Hall of Faces, as lines By Sarah • Feb 16, 2016 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in Zoolander 2 The first time I saw Zoolander I didn’t like it, but it grew on me after multiple viewings, so after I saw Zoolander 2 and did not like it, I actually went back the next day and tried it again. Maybe it just needed to grow on me so By Sarah • Feb 15, 2016 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool restores Ryan Reynolds Deadpool had a crazy weekend at the box office, destroying every record for February no matter which way you slice it—opening day, single day, Thursday preview, R-rated debut, the four-day President’s Day weekend frame. For the three-day weekend it’s pulled an estimated $135 million, with $150-160 million By Sarah • Feb 15, 2016 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool The mistake in talking about Deadpool is to think that it is in any way subversive of the superhero genre—it isn’t. A long-gestating passion project for producer and star Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool is thoroughly a superhero movie, and a pretty conventional origin tale. Further, it overindulges in the By Sarah • Feb 15, 2016 09:40 am
The Walking Dead Valentine’s Day on The Walking Dead: Spoilers, Obviously The Walking Dead returned from its mid-season hiatus, picking up right where it left off with Alexandria still under zombie-siege and Rick & Co. split up. We start with a promising stand-off between Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham, and a group of men who invoke for the first time By Sarah • Feb 15, 2016 07:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Do you understand anything about this Huntsman movie? I sure don’t. Nothing about this movie has ever made any goddamn sense, and now there’s a second trailer for us to deal with. The first trailer made this look like a sequel that would fill in the Huntsman’s backstory while also dealing with the aftermath of By Sarah • Feb 12, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily James in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Well, I will give this credit to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the second adaptation of a Seth Grahame-Smith concept novel—it is not nearly as bad as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. That movie is a f*cking disaster. PPZ is just stupid and boring. It’s neither a good By Sarah • Feb 11, 2016 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Batman v. Batman: Dawn of Batman We’re six weeks away from Superhero Face Punch finally hitting theaters, after what feels like a five-year build up, which means now is when the marketing kicks into high gear. We’ve been fed a steady diet of this movie, but now we’ve arrived at the buffet, and By Sarah • Feb 11, 2016 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nearly Naked Tom Hiddleston A new trailer for Tom Hiddleston’s next film, High Rise, came out yesterday and it expands on the previous glimpse of Nearly Naked Sunbathing Tom Hiddleston with Nearly Naked Standing & Talking Tom Hiddleston. This is what I mean about this movie baiting the super enthusiastic internet fandom surrounding By Sarah • Feb 10, 2016 01:32 pm
