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
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
