Movie Reviews and Previews New Star Wars, New Heroes, Old Journey SPOILER FREE There’s a moment in Star Wars: The Force Awakens that is so triumphant you will fist pump and want to cheer. There’s a moment where you will gasp, and one where you will get a lump in your throat, and one where you’ll grip your By Sarah • Dec 21, 2015 11:11 am
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence talks “like a man” and the wage gap Jennifer Lawrence is doing promotion for JOY, and she’s being asked about her essay for Lenny in which she discussed the wage inequality in Hollywood, and how her own desire to not seem “difficult” kept her from being more assertive in negotiations. Here she is on Charlie Rose discussing By Sarah • Dec 18, 2015 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tina Fey tries war comedy Making good comedy is hard, making good war comedy is…ill advised, most of the time. Louis CK mined his own experience with the USO for a stellar three-episode arc on his TV show, Louie, and Three Kings holds up—though it’s not, strictly speaking, a comedy—but I By Sarah • Dec 17, 2015 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman cosplays as Jackie O The first photo of Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy in the film Jackie was released yesterday, and it shows Portman in a red suit and pearls with First Lady hair. She doesn’t look exactly like Jacqueline Kennedy—these are the days before Onassis—but it’s a solid approximation, By Sarah • Dec 17, 2015 12:41 pm
Quentin Tarantino Tarantino v. Disney: Battle for the Dome There was never any question that New New Star Wars will dominate the December/holiday box office. It opens tonight, and it’s going to break a lot of records. But there was one space—literally ONE—that was maybe supposed to be reserved for someone else on Christmas Day: By Sarah • Dec 17, 2015 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gods of an Egypt that is very, very white Two years after Ridley Scott and Exodus got dragged behind the outrage truck for whitewashing ancient Egypt by casting predominately white actors to play Egyptian characters, director Alex Proyas is courting the same controversy with Gods of Egypt, a movie also set in ancient Egypt and starring a bunch of By Sarah • Dec 16, 2015 03:27 pm
Harrison Ford Kurt Affair (aka Harrison Ford) is slightly less grumpy these days New New Star Wars covers Rolling Stone this month, and it features an interview with ole grumpy guts himself, Harrison Ford. Or, as he reveals he once wanted to be called—Kurt Affair. KURT AFFAIR. Let that sink in. Apparently Ford was once advised to change his name as a By Sarah • Dec 16, 2015 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson will Move That Body After not having much of an opinion on her, Scarlett Johansson has risen to the top of my “favorite actresses” list over the last few years. It’s due to a combination of behind the scenes strategizing I appreciate—she’s engineered a career resurgence every young actress should study— By Sarah • Dec 16, 2015 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Join us at the High Rise I missed Tom Hiddleston’s other film at TIFF, High Rise, but I remember hearing reactions from people who saw it and they were wildly divided. People either LOVED it, or HATED it, with very little in between, which is par for the course with director Ben Wheatley. Wheatley doesn’ By Sarah • Dec 15, 2015 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Independence Day 2: Xenu’s Revenge Independence Day is one of the great dumb-fun movies of the 1990s, and in 2016, twenty years after Will Smith punched an alien in the face, the sequel—officially titled Independence Day: Resurgence—will hit theaters, though without Smith. (This website will tell you why if you don’t consider By Sarah • Dec 15, 2015 02:17 pm
Fargo Fargo S2 Finale: “This is the future” Fargo Season 2 Episode 10 season finale recap SPOILERS Thankfully, Betsy Solverson didn’t die last episode, and though obviously very weak and not well, she hangs on until Lou finally makes it home. Betsy opens the episode, telling us about a dream she had of the future, which brings By Sarah • Dec 15, 2015 09:46 am
Sit DOWN Shame, Ridiculous 6. Shame, shame. After an incident on set in which several Native American actors—and the cultural advisor—walked off Adam Sandler’s The Ridiculous 6, Netflix released a (sh*tty) non-apology basically saying we were harshing their mellow by overreacting because the movie is “broad satire” and the diverse cast is “in By Sarah • Dec 14, 2015 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth in In The Heart of the Sea In the Heart of the Sea is an adaptation of a book by the same name, which recounts the sinking of the whaleship Essex in 1820, the story that loosely inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. The book is really excellent, but the movie is dead boring, and it By Sarah • Dec 14, 2015 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews X-Men: Apocalypse fails to register The trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse is here, and it’s awful. It’s even worse than the Superhero Face Punch trailer, but where that one shot itself in the foot by revealing the entire plot of the movie, X-Men is done in by a curious emptiness. I LIKE the X-Men By Sarah • Dec 11, 2015 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Director dick measuring The Hollywood Reporter has released their directors roundtable, which includes Tom Hooper, Danny Boyle, David O. Russell, Ridley Scott, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Quentin Tarantino. That’s quite a mix of people, several of whom have reputations for being, let’s call it “exacting” in their process. Hooper and Boyle By Sarah • Dec 11, 2015 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett is joining Thor: Ragnarok A couple months ago I wrote about some developments with Thor: Ragnarok, including that the big-screen Marvel villainess will debut in that movie. This is what I said back then: …empowered by their recent A-list success in casting Doctor Strange, Marvel will pursue a big name actress for Mystery Villainess— By Sarah • Dec 11, 2015 11:25 am
