Movie Reviews and Previews Key & Peele’s first movie is here and it looks hilarious Comedy duo Key & Peele (aka Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) wrapped up their brilliant sketch show on Comedy Central after five seasons last year. They left at their peak to make the leap to film, with the duo producing a Police Academy soft reboot, and Peele making his directorial By Sarah • Jan 21, 2016 04:51 pm
Amy Schumer Is Amy Schumer stealing jokes? Yesterday Wendy Liebman, a comedian, made a comment on Twitter about Amy Schumer “doing one of her best jokes” in her recent HBO special. This ignited a flurry of tweets between Liebman and fellow comics Chuck Martin, Kathleen Madigan, and Tammy Pescatelli about Schumer maybe lifting their material. The tweets By Sarah • Jan 21, 2016 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2016: 10 to Watch The Sundance Film Festival begins this tomorrow, which means we’re officially eyeballing movies for the 2017 award season. As always, narrowing this down to just ten movies was a son of a bitch. There are a lot of interesting and good-looking movies at Sundance this year, but here are By Sarah • Jan 20, 2016 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman is being done right, maybe While Suicide Squad got the big flashy trailer premiere during the televised DC Comics special last night, for me the big draw was seeing the first footage from Wonder Woman, which is filming now. It’s not much, just about eighty seconds including interstitials with Kevin Smith and comic book By Sarah • Jan 20, 2016 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Suicide Squad, aka Guardians of the Galaxy Redux Someone once described the plot of Suicide Squad to me and I said, “So it’s Guardians of the Galaxy.” And they replied, “No, it’s about the rogues’ gallery! They’re bad guys! Law breakers! And they team up to—f*ck it’s Guardians of the Galaxy.” But By Sarah • Jan 20, 2016 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Bay’s 13 Hours Most reviews get headlined by a starring actor, but when it comes to Michael Bay movies, Michael Bay is the star. The subtext of every Michael Bay movie is that if he wasn’t a director he would undoubtedly be the kind of black ops badass all his movies are By Sarah • Jan 19, 2016 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ice Cube and Kevin Hart in Ride Along 2 I had two films to get through this weekend, 13 Hours and Ride Along 2, and I saved Ride Along 2 for last, thinking it, as a light-hearted comedy, would rinse out whatever taste 13 Hours left in my mouth, but then I saw Ride Along 2 and proceeded to By Sarah • Jan 18, 2016 03:22 pm
TV Live Blog Kirsten Dunst gets a Fargo win Fargo got shut out at the Golden Globes, but it got some love from the wholly irrelevant Critics’ Choice Awards, where it won four awards, including Best TV Movie/Limited Series, and Best Actress in a TV Movie/Limited Series, for Kirsten Dunst. I’m not even a Kirsten Dunst By Sarah • Jan 18, 2016 12:56 pm
TV Updates Master of None did not lose to Jeffrey Tambor Watchers of award shows know that Aziz Ansari comes prepared to lose. And while he did lose Best Actor In A Comedy Series to Jeffrey Tambor, he did not lose the top prize, Best Comedy Series. Master of None won, which is, I think, the first time they’ve won By Sarah • Jan 18, 2016 09:08 am
TV Updates Krysten Ritter at the Critics’ Choice Awards During the holidays Lainey started texting me, stressed out, because she was watching Jessica Jones, which is a very stressful show. One of the best things about Jessica Jones—THE best thing—is Krysten Ritter, who gave one of 2015’s best leading actress performances on television as Jessica. But By Sarah • Jan 18, 2016 08:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cloverfield 2 is maybe real, definitely coming out in two months Rumors of a sequel to the found footage monster flick Cloverfield have floated ever since that movie was a surprise hit in 2008. Produced by JJ Abrams, Cloverfield is the movie that kicked off the JJ Abrams School of SECRETY SECRETS, as its ad campaign was mysterious and baffling and By Sarah • Jan 15, 2016 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The first draft of Leonardo DiCaprio’s acceptance speech We’re preparing ourselves for the inevitability of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar win, right? There’s always a chance that Bryan Cranston’s Trumbo hustle could pay off, or that Michael Fassbender will get off his ass and decide to participate and upset Leo, but I think we’re all By Sarah • Jan 14, 2016 04:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amber Heard is joining Aquaman Remember when the idea of an Aquaman movie was a running joke on Entourage? And now we live in a world where Warner Brothers is seriously going to make an Aquaman movie. Which means we’re living in the Entourage universe. Truly, this is the darkest timeline. Aquaman: No, Seriously By Sarah • Jan 14, 2016 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Dormer in The Forest This is the first review of 2016, so welcome to the Annual January Movie Sh*tshow! We’re kicking off the month with a really bad horror film starring Natalie Dormer called The Forest. What is it about? If you guessed a forest, you’re right! More specifically, it’s By Sarah • Jan 13, 2016 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey stars in Confederate Point Break When Lainey asked me to cover the trailer for Matthew McConaughey’s new movie, Free State of Jones, I was like, “What? Why?” But then I watched it and it made sense because the movie looks ridiculous and amazing. Like I’m not sure which joke to make first—Die By Sarah • Jan 12, 2016 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Coogler officially directing Black Panther So after the back and forth that involved Ava DuVernay coming and going and Ryan Coogler’s name being in contention and then being not in contention and then being back in contention, it is now official and Ryan Coogler, who is two-for-two as a director with Fruitvale Station and By Sarah • Jan 12, 2016 12:02 pm
