Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun After a famously troubled production capped off a bankruptcy-driven distributor shuffle, Jane Got a Gun, which Natalie Portman produced and stars in, has finally arrived in theaters, three years after The Troubles began (Michael Fassbender exiting the project in February 2013 turned out to be a harbinger of things to By Sarah • Feb 01, 2016 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie and Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda 3 I’m inclined to go easy on Kung Fu Panda 3 because Norm of the North is so f*cking bad, and indeed, it is better than that garbage movie. But despite some pretty flashy animation, Kung Fu Panda 3 is not especially good. It’s basically Kung Fu Panda, By Sarah • Feb 01, 2016 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boy review: Continue waiting for The Witch I will say this for The Boy: Dolls are inherently creepy, and trees are not, so it’s already better than The Forest. I will also add this: It is not worse than Dirty Grandpa. So far, in the Annual January Movie Sh*tshow, The Boy is batting a thousand, By Sarah • Jan 29, 2016 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund in Mojave Part noir, part Western, part black comedy, part inside Hollywood drama, Mojave is a Frankenstein movie, a genre mash-up where not all parts are created equal. Garrett Hedlund stars as Tom, a filmmaker whose life and career seems to have hit rock bottom. Written and directed by William Monahan (the By Sarah • Jan 29, 2016 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America gets his face kicked in Here are photos of Chris Evans and Chadwick Boseman on set for Captain America: Civil War reshoots in Los Angeles this week. Evans is sporting some serious fake bruises on his face, which means Cap is getting his ass handed to him at some point. Boseman looks fine because Black By Sarah • Jan 29, 2016 10:28 am
Media Manipulation Nate Parker is ready Yesterday Nate Parker landed a record-breaking deal for his film, The Birth of a Nation, at Sundance, which also turned out to be the biggest sale of a complete film at any film festival, ever. Now, some details of the bidding war are coming out. It came down to Netflix By Sarah • Jan 27, 2016 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Nostalgia Train’s next stop is Little House on the Prairie After stalling out at Sony, it was announced yesterday that the movie version of Little House on the Prairie has relocated to Paramount. The movie will be written by Abi Morgan, co-writer of Shame, and directed by Sean Durkin, who made Martha Marcy May Marlene. That’s a VERY interesting By Sarah • Jan 27, 2016 11:43 am
Amazingness Nate Parker just banked a record-breaking Sundance deal Here’s your feel-good story of the day. Nate Parker, the actor best known for Beyond the Lights, basically quit acting right when he was getting some traction off that movie in order to make Birth of a Nation, about Nat Turner and his doomed slave revolt in the 1830s. By Sarah • Jan 26, 2016 01:03 pm
TV Updates The X-Files came back big The X-Files returned on Sunday night and even with a time delay thanks to championship football, the ratings were REALLY good. Even allowing for spillover football fans who tuned out within the first few minutes of the show, The X-Files pulled around 13.5 million viewers, which is great for By Sarah • Jan 26, 2016 11:58 am
TV Updates I think Saint Tom the Huge Dork is gone for good I’ve been missing Saint Tom the Huge Dork, as Tom Hiddleston has deliberately lowered his profile over the last couple years. Saint Tom the Huge Dork was born of the glory days when he was last promoting 2013’s Thor: The Dark World, and doing silly dances all over By Sarah • Jan 25, 2016 03:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Step aside, Ben, it’s Casey’s turn It is my opinion that between the Affleck brothers, Casey is the better all-around actor. He can do character work, he can carry as a lead, he can disappear into roles or look sufficiently Hollywood, depending on how “visible” you want your star to be. Ben Affleck has proven to By Sarah • Jan 25, 2016 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman flies on regular airplanes, not invisible ones The new trailer for Superhero Face Punch answers a Very Important Question regarding Wonder Woman: Will she fly an invisible jet? Answer: No, or at least, not yet. The new trailer shows Wonder Woman dutifully stowing her appropriately-sized carry-on bag in the overhead compartment and taking her seat on a By Sarah • Jan 25, 2016 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I saw Dirty Grandpa and a part of me died It is time for a reckoning. It is time to stare into the darkest depths of the void and ask a question fundamental to humanity’s future. And that question is: How many movies can Zac Efron make before he triggers the apocalypse? We Are Your Friends is a torment, By Sarah • Jan 25, 2016 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Only take your kids to Norm of the North if you hate them When I was a kid my orthodontist had arcade games in the waiting room and TVs at every dental station, so you could watch movies while having your braces tightened. There I would be, suffering through intense pain and watching Homeward Bound, learning about friendship and teamwork and the ceaseless By Sarah • Jan 22, 2016 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brahman Naman: India’s sex comedy Lainey sent me a trailer for a movie premiering at Sundance this weekend, Brahman Naman, a sex comedy that’s a British/Indian co-production. It’s about Naman, a college quiz show champ who’s trying to lose his virginity while traveling to a national quiz challenge. It looks like By Sarah • Jan 22, 2016 12:38 pm
Girl Sh-t Comedy Girl Sh*t: Amy Schumer v. Tammy Pescatelli Yesterday we ran down the charges that Amy Schumer has stolen jokes from other comedians. I said then and I stand by it—I don’t think the evidence against Schumer is that compelling in most of the cases, but in a couple others, specifically Wendy Liebman and Kathleen Madigan, By Sarah • Jan 22, 2016 11:00 am
