Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan in Creed Without Rocky, there is no Creed, but you don’t need to know Rocky to get Creed. In the most impressive feat of franchise filmmaking in recent memory—maybe ever—Creed, the seventh entry into the Rocky franchise is entirely its own film, and yet it is an organic part By Sarah • Nov 30, 2015 12:33 pm
The Walking Dead The Rickator returns SPOILERS So my predictions are halfway skewed because Rick was never banished from Alexandria, but the endgame is in effect—Rick is now in total control of Alexandria. The first half of The Walking Dead season six ends with Rick organizing an effort to save Alexandria after zombies overrun the By Sarah • Nov 30, 2015 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Antonio Banderas in The 33 In 2010, the world was captivated by the real life drama of thirty-three Chilean miners trapped underground in a collapsed gold and copper mine. Sixty-nine days later a miracle was achieved when all thirty-three men were rescued, starved but alive. Interviews, television appearances, and books followed, and a film adaptation By Sarah • Nov 26, 2015 02:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia Roberts in Secret in Their Eyes In 2010 Argentinian thriller El Secreto de Sus Ojos won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, beating out A Prophet and The White Ribbon. It also did very good business for a subtitled import, topping $6 million at the box office, which means it found a considerable audience in By Sarah • Nov 25, 2015 01:14 pm
Faux Gossip Tom Cruise vs. The Mummy We have a little bit of a trade war going on over Tom Cruise. Yesterday, Variety reported that Cruise was in talks to star in a reboot of the Brendan Fraser classic, The Mummy. Universal plans to use The Mummy reboot to launch a Marvel-style cinematic universe around their classic By Sarah • Nov 25, 2015 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America: Civil War – Whose side are you on? In a surprise move, Marvel dropped the first trailer for Captain America: Civil War last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live (thanks to some Grade-A studio f*ckery, expect to see a new trailer from DC soon, too). Trying to keep up with their bosses’ brinksmanship may drive everyone at Marvel By Sarah • Nov 25, 2015 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy is BANANAS in Legend Unfortunately, the movie does not live up to the totally insane bar that Tom Hardy is setting. In Legend Hardy stars as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, a pair of Cockney gangster twins in the London of the swinging 1960s. Reggie Kray is relatively straight-laced, the twin with the business sense By Sarah • Nov 24, 2015 03:19 pm
TV Updates You should be watching Jessica Jones On Friday Marvel released the second of their Netflix series, Jessica Jones. So far the Netflix series feel custom-made for people who don’t really like superheroes, with the emphasis on street-level life and realism and not superpowers. If you’ve ever disliked a Marvel movie for being too goofy, By Sarah • Nov 24, 2015 01:22 pm
Media Manipulation Guess who else is still alive? Really, though, this one has always been obvious. The first teaser for Game of Thrones season six has arrived in the form of a poster of none other than Lord Crow himself, Jon Snow. There’s blood on his eye, even though he was stabbed in the stomach, so I By Sarah • Nov 24, 2015 11:52 am
Fargo Fargo 2.7: “Stories used to be simpler” Fargo Season 2, Episode 7 recap. Fargo has been renewed for a third season, which is great news, but who knows what it will be about. It’ll be another limited series, which probably means a whole new cast. Will it be about the rise of the Gerhardts in the By Sarah • Nov 24, 2015 09:59 am
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead wimps out SPOILERS So after putting Glenn in a seemingly inescapable situation and doing everything possible to make it seem like he died, The Walking Dead did not kill off a major popular character after all. The show that is known for killing characters all the time yet somehow has never actually By Sarah • Nov 23, 2015 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scrooged…but with drugs Every year someone tries to make an insta-classic holiday comedy, and almost every year, they fail. We’ve already had one such failure this year, but the other attempt at making a long-lasting holiday comedy, The Night Before is actually the rare exception—a holiday comedy that not only works, By Sarah • Nov 20, 2015 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Check out Noted Satirist Jesse Eisenberg in Now You See Me 2 Yesterday Lainey wrote about Jesse Eisenberg’s, um, satirical take on film critics in The New Yorker. I recognize the type of critic he’s lampooning, so I find it halfway funny, but I also think this is how he sees all film critics, not just that particular type, and By Sarah • Nov 19, 2015 01:18 pm
Kate Winslet Just start calling these “Jennifer Lawrence Roundtables” After dominating the conversation during the Hollywood Reporter studio execs roundtable, Jennifer Lawrence is herself sitting in on the actresses roundtable where her wage gap essay is once again a topic of conversation. The Hollywood Reporter released their actresses roundtable yesterday and Lawrence is joined by Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson, By Sarah • Nov 19, 2015 11:00 am
Charlize Theron The Huntsman: Winter’s War looks good-ish? Lainey and I have been going back and forth for the last few days about The Huntsman: Winter’s War. I think it has the potential to be Pan levels of bad—no one is asking for this movie, and the first entry into the franchise, Snow White and the By Sarah • Nov 18, 2015 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Okay, I’m on board with Zoolander 2 The first teaser for Zoolander 2 did not get me excited, but a proper trailer has arrived and it’s hilarious. I’m sold. Zoolander 2 was not a movie I knew I wanted, but now that I have seen this trailer, I totally want this movie right now. Fourteen By Sarah • Nov 18, 2015 11:41 am
