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
Movie Reviews and Previews A Very Murray Christmas, indeed On December 4, Bill Murray will attempt to revive the tradition of the celebrity Christmas special with his Netflix special, A Very Murray Christmas. The first trailer has just been released, and it is delightful. Directed by Sofia Coppola, the special stars Murray and a slew of celebrity guests, including By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ridley Scott can’t let Michael Fassbender go Prometheus was the kinda sorta dancing around the face-hugger in the room prequel to Alien, but with the sequel to Prometheus, Ridley Scott is dropping all pretense of this not being a shared universe and is retitling Prometheus 2 as Alien: Covenant. (For a second it was called Alien: Paradise By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 01:33 pm
Fargo Fargo 2.6: “I’m living in a museum of the past” Fargo Season 2 Episode 6 Recap Every week I think Fargo can’t get any better, AND THEN IT DOES. I almost love this show as much as I love Justified, and I love Justified more than some members of my family. One thing we haven’t talked about yet By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Check out Emily Blunt as Evil Elsa The sequel-prequel-whatever no one asked for, The Huntsman, has an official title, an official release date, and official character posters, including Emily Blunt as the Ice Queen. This thing is now called The Huntsman: Winter’s War, it will open on April 22, 2016, and you can check out the By Sarah • Nov 16, 2015 03:13 pm
