Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp to disappear in a pile of scarves Let’s start with a sidebar—this morning Funny Or Die posted a fifty-minute video called The Art of the Deal: The Movie, which is a “TV movie” from the 1980s based on Donald Trump’s book of the same name, which stars “Donald Trump” as played by a completely By Sarah • Feb 10, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominees talk about the importance of their nominations Award season roundtables are all the rage now, and Vulture is getting in on the action with a roundtable discussion featuring eight Oscar nominees, including Alicia Vikander, Bryan Cranston, and screenwriting nominees Phyllis Nagy (Carol) and Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton). During the discussion, the importance of nominations came up, By Sarah • Feb 10, 2016 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Forget Revenant Bear, now we have Bill Murray Bear And isn’t that the best of all fake computer movie bears? A new trailer for Jon Favreau’s update of The Jungle Book was released as part of the Super Bowl Trailer Apocalypse, and goddamn this movie looks gorgeous. Watch the new trailer and keep in mind two things: By Sarah • Feb 09, 2016 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years How well do you know your partner? How well do you think you would—or could—know them, if given forty-five years together? Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is a film about marriage but concerned with knowing, and it is a devastating, slow-motion vivisection of a marriage shaken by knowledge. By Sarah • Feb 09, 2016 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t forget about the X-Men! Sunday’s Super Bowl Trailer Apocalypse also included a new TV spot for X-Men: Apocalypse, the superhero movie I can never seem to remember is coming out this summer. I’m sure this movie will be fine and that it will make a bunch of money, but doesn’t it By Sarah • Feb 09, 2016 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Bourne’s Fight Club The Super Bowl Trailer Apocalypse continues with the first look at Matt Damon’s return as Jason Bourne, in a movie creatively titled Jason Bourne. That is a seriously sh*t title, but I suppose after making an off-brand Bourne movie without Jason, they need to remind everyone that THIS By Sarah • Feb 08, 2016 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Josh Brolin in Hail, Caesar! After my review of The Choice, which I hated, I got a slew of “why do you even review movies if you hate everything” emails, including one from a person who suggested that I just “try and put a positive spin” on my reviews. Well, to make up for my By Sarah • Feb 08, 2016 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews New Captain Ameri—He shot Tony Stark IN THE FACE! I’m just assuming Lainey is Team Iron Man because Tony Stark is her favorite Avenger, so she’s probably not going to be Team Winter Soldier at all because the new Captain America: Civil War Super Bowl TV spot shows Bucky Barnes firing a gun point-blank in Tony Stark’ By Sarah • Feb 08, 2016 12:11 pm
Joel Coen The Coen Brothers get dragged into #OscarsSoWhite Though regular figures during award season—they’re nominated this year for Best Original Screenplay for Bridge of Spies—Joel and Ethan Coen are not very interested in the Oscars. They also have the unfortunate timing as to be promoting a new movie, Hail, Caesar!, during this contentious award season, By Sarah • Feb 05, 2016 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Nicholas Sparks White People Experience Have you ever seen a beer commercial and looked at all the happy, smiling white people of above-average attractiveness and apparently unlimited income frolicking on a beach or at a barbecue and thought, Gosh, I wish that was my life? Well now you can! Yes, it’s true, YOU can By Sarah • Feb 05, 2016 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine and Casey Affleck in The Finest Hours The second maritime disaster movie in as many months, following December’s In the Heart of the Sea, The Finest Hours, like that other movie, did not have a terribly impressive opening weekend. That’s consistent with Sea, suggesting that people don’t really have an appetite for boat movies By Sarah • Feb 04, 2016 01:16 pm
TV Updates Louis CK’s surprise new show, “Horace and Pete” On Saturday Louis CK released a new show on his website with absolutely no fuss or fanfare. For five dollars you can buy the first episode of Horace and Pete directly from CK (over here, if you’re interested). This first episode is sixty-seven minutes long, and the setup on By Sarah • Feb 04, 2016 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Millennials: The Movie A trailer was just released for a movie starring Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick called Get A Job. It’s about a couple of college grads struggling to get by in a dicey job market and with a crushing burden of student loan debt, but with a rom-com spin. There’ By Sarah • Feb 03, 2016 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The NuGhostbusters have names now A new website for Ghostbusters launched today, and it includes character portraits of the new, all-female team, and their hot male secretary. You can check out the photos below, and if anyone can explain how to make my hair be like Kate McKinnon’s, please do. I want to be By Sarah • Feb 03, 2016 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Guardians of the Galaxy gets the band back together Captain America: Civil War is entering the last stages of production, Doctor Strange is currently shooting in London, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has just gotten underway this week in Atlanta. Last year, the Marvel rank and file got a little downtime as they had a lull between By Sarah • Feb 03, 2016 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews How Don Cheadle spent his Iron Man money For years Don Cheadle has been working on a biopic of legendary musician Miles Davis, fighting not only to get the movie made—always an uphill battle—but to direct it himself. Finally, after slogging uphill through the snow both ways, Cheadle premiered his film, Miles Ahead, at Sundance. He By Sarah • Feb 02, 2016 12:56 pm
