Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Murray in Rock the Kasbah Not even Bill Murray’s benevolent-wizard persona could save Rock the Kasbah, a movie so baffling, so bad—so bafflingly bad—that it evokes the specter of Ishtar more than once. This is such an ill-advised, tone deaf movie I don’t even know where to start. I guess with By Sarah • Oct 26, 2015 03:56 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead said goodbye to… SPOILERS … … Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, maiorum feugait eum in, in ius atqui timeam consequuntur. Eam ea saepe complectitur, et affert tollit consequuntur ius, fugit doctus molestiae sit ea. In exerci fierent sit, vel ne minimum voluptaria, eos illum euismod ad. Debet tation suscipiantur vim cu, id pri quem labitur By Sarah • Oct 26, 2015 12:29 pm
Amazingness Ava DuVernay like a BOSS Ava DuVernay was honored this year as part of Elle’s annual Women In Hollywood awards, and she gave an AMAZING speech at their awards dinner. The whole thing is well worth a read, but there are a couple highlights that tie into some of the particular issues surrounding diversity By Sarah • Oct 26, 2015 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Vin Diesel in the hysterically awful The Last Witch Hunter Vin Diesel is, somewhat improbably, a huge fantasy dork. He’s a long-time player of Dungeons & Dragons—no, seriously— and he’s even written the foreword for a book about D&D. So it’s not surprising that he’s the star of a D&D knock-off By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 04:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell and Marky Mark are going to get KILLED by the Force As Lainey mentioned, I don’t think anything opening on December 18 or December 25—Christmas falls on a Friday this year, which means the holiday weekend will be extra-huge box office—has any chance of competing with New New Star Wars. The Oscar-bait movies have an out, though, because By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t forget about Batfleck Lainey said this week was supposed to be about the Brange, but then Adele said “Hello” and the takeover belongs to Adele. A similar thing happened for nerds this week, too, as we were set up for a big profile on Superhero Face Punch courtesy Total Film magazine, but then By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jane finally got a gun Two years ago Natalie Portman’s vanity project, Jane Got a Gun, ran into a lot of problems. After a hella troubled period that saw the original director, Lynn Ramsay, leave the project on the first day of production, followed by leading man Jude Law, and then a slew of By Sarah • Oct 23, 2015 12:51 pm
Dumbass Yes, Black Panther needs a black director Continuing the theme of “it’s a bad day to be a Marvel marketing flak”, Anthony Mackie, who plays Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is out promoting Our Brand is Crisis, which means that people are asking him about Marvel. When you’re part of Marvel, all anyone ever By Sarah • Oct 22, 2015 04:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence gets tough in Joy In the past, Jennifer Lawrence has done something that bugs me—she downplays her ambition. By her early twenties, she bagged two franchises and multiple Oscar nominations and became one of the most famous and successful young actresses in the world. None of that happens by accident. It takes considerable By Sarah • Oct 21, 2015 01:16 pm
TV Updates SNL shuffled the deck Have you been watching Saturday Night Live recently and thinking that it seems a little better than we’ve grown used to in recent years? Perhaps you have thought that, since coming back for season 41 three weeks ago, SNL is a cut above the previous season. Well, if you’ By Sarah • Oct 21, 2015 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars broke the internet After a long-ass delay, the final Star Wars Episode VII trailer arrived last night, plunked in the middle of Monday Night Football, just to ensure that Disney got ALL the attention and money. Why the delay? The JJ Abrams School of SECRETY SECRETS makes already strict security measures a living By Sarah • Oct 20, 2015 10:53 am
Fargo Fargo 2.2: “Don’t be a prisoner of ‘we’” Fargo Season 2, Episode 2 recap In the Fargo season premiere we met all the players and set the stage for the “Sioux Falls massacre” from Lou Solverson’s past, we start the chain reaction that will spin out from three dead at the Luverne Waffle House. We meet some By Sarah • Oct 20, 2015 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston (is wasted) in Crimson Peak I didn’t like Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim as much as I wanted to, because no matter how cool it looks, the story is really dumb. And you can’t say “oh it’s just supposed to be fun” in an era where we’re seeing some really By Sarah • Oct 19, 2015 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ashley Judd in Big Stone Gap I’m tempted to do a one-word review and leave it at that—blech. Or maybe, barf. Adapted by Adriana Trigiani from her own novel, and directed by her, too, Big Stone Gap is dumbest kind of cinematic treacle. Some people might call it “unpretentious” or “sweet” or “well-intentioned”, but By Sarah • Oct 16, 2015 04:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Goosebumps is Horror 101 for your kids I used to get in trouble for reading Goosebumps in church. They were pretty much the only kids’ books I actually read as a kid, and at one point I had the whole set. As I grew older, though, and I graduated to more mature forms of horror, I was By Sarah • Oct 16, 2015 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard’s Tarzan movie might be a disaster Did you remember that Alexander Skarsgard is starring in a Tarzan remake? I had honestly forgotten, and I’ve written about it. Of course, that was back in 2013 when the project was put on hold by Warner Brothers, citing budget concerns. It did end up going into production in By Sarah • Oct 15, 2015 12:19 pm
