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
Girlcrushes Effie Brown and Matt Damon are not super best friends The last time we talked about Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s HBO revival of Project Greenlight, it was about #mattsplaining and Damon’s dumb remarks about diversity hiring on a film set, which he directed at Effie Brown, an African-American producer. Now, as the show heads toward its finale, By Sarah • Oct 14, 2015 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor, Hulk…and Cate? The third Thor movie—officially titled Thor: Ragnarok—is creaking into gear, moving inexorably toward its July 2017 release date. Seems far away, but that means it’s going into production next year, so, you know. Time to fire up the rumor mill. The unofficial word is that New Zealand By Sarah • Oct 14, 2015 11:01 am
TV Updates Quentin Tarantino is bummed he lost an Oscar, is not into TV There is a new interview with Quentin Tarantino in the New York Times magazine, and by far the most annoying thing about it is that the interview is conducted by Bret Easton Ellis. QT actually manages to come off as the reasonable one here, mostly because the majority of the By Sarah • Oct 13, 2015 03:36 pm
Fargo Fargo Season 2: “The devil came to God” Fargo Season 2 Episode 1 recap In Fargo, people like to tell stories. Characters speak in parables and riddles, and the events of previous generations linger in collective memory. In season one the shadow of a massacre in Sioux Falls hangs over the case police officer Molly Solverson investigates. Her By Sarah • Oct 13, 2015 10:06 am
