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
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
