Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are enchanting in Carol I know, I know, “enchanting” is a stupid word, but I don’t know how else to describe it. The US trailer for Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel about a mid-century lesbian romance, just came out and it IS enchanting. It’s so beautiful in its period detail By Sarah • Sep 09, 2015 03:52 pm
TV Updates Colbert Returns Last night Stephen Colbert came back to late night television, making his debut as the new host of The Late Show. So how did it go? How was the first night of the “real” Stephen Colbert on TV? Pretty good. It was a solid first show, given that this is By Sarah • Sep 09, 2015 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Awards Season Kick-off: TIFF Preview 2015 The last time I was in Canada I gave Lainey the gears because Canada’s money seemed fake and like something from Monopoly. I went to the bank yesterday to get some fake Canada money for my trip to TIFF and somehow, despite redesigning the paper bills, it’s still By Sarah • Sep 09, 2015 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Not Jason Statham in The Transporter Refueled I went to see this movie on a Saturday during a holiday weekend so I was kind of surprised to find that I was the only person in the theater for The Transporter Refueled. That’s consistent with the movie’s unimpressive box office, but I figured there would be By Sarah • Sep 08, 2015 03:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom’s Chinese Labour Day Tom Cruise was in Shanghai and Beijing this weekend to promote Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. So far, Rogue Nation has grossed over $500 million worldwide without Chinese cash money. The movie opens there on Tuesday where it’s expected to take in at least another $100 million, probably more. So, By Sarah • Sep 08, 2015 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Film Review: Z For Zachariah If you have any doubts that Margot Robbie can act, or that Chiwetel Ejiofor is one of the very best actors of his generation, or that Chris Pine is a cut above your average Franchise Chris, Z For Zachariah will lay those doubts to rest. The three of them—the By Sarah • Sep 04, 2015 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Tomlin is a national treasure She was Tina Fey before Tina Fey was Tina Fey, and she’s every bit as funny today as she was on Laugh-In in the 1970s. Maybe even funnier, because while she was always a bold performer, she’s now levelled up into that mature-lady boldness that comes with reaching By Sarah • Sep 04, 2015 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan walking and Marvel divorce 2.0 Here are some photos of Sebastian Stan walking around. Captain America: Civil War has wrapped, but he’s still got his long Winter Soldier hair, which he’ll probably have to keep at least until the scheduled Civil War reshoots are done in a few months. It also looks like By Sarah • Sep 04, 2015 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Colin Farrell’s SUPER WEIRD Lobster Colin Farrell has a film screening at TIFF called The Lobster. The Lobster is from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who also made the deeply creepy Dogtooth. Colin Farrell is pants-wettingly hot, but in The Lobster he’s playing an awkward man with a bad mustache, and he looks pretty convincing By Sarah • Sep 03, 2015 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lucille Ball is getting Sorkinized Yesterday it was announced that Cate Blanchett will star as Lucille Ball in a biopic being written by Aaron Sorkin, which is a confusing sentence. On the one hand, I can easily see The Incomparable Cate as Ball, but on the other…Aaron Sorkin? At first it doesn’t make By Sarah • Sep 03, 2015 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man broke Andrew Garfield’s spirit Andrew Garfield is promoting his new movie, 99 Homes, which means giving a lot of interviews, and that means people keep asking him about Spider-Man. Garfield washed out of superhero’ing, joining the ranks alongside Taylor Kitsch and Brandon Routh as someone whom superheroes Did Not Help. The sad thing By Sarah • Sep 03, 2015 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie Redmayne looks PHENOMENAL in The Danish Girl The Theory of Everything was so calculated and mercenary in its intentions it might as well have been titled GIVE US OSCARS NOW PLEASE. It was unsubtle, and while yes, Eddie Redmayne was physically convincing as Stephen Hawking as ALS wrecked his body, there was no nuance anywhere in that By Sarah • Sep 01, 2015 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith takes on the NFL to get an Oscar Yesterday the trailer for Will Smith’s football/head injury movie, creatively titled Concussion, dropped its first trailer, marking its entry into award season. Smith stars as Dr. Bennet Omalu, the man who discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, which is the brain disease that sets in after repetitive concussions By Sarah • Sep 01, 2015 01:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron is definitely not your friend We Are Your Friends, aka “the Zac Efron DJ movie”, is basically a remake of Saturday Night Fever with EDM substituting for disco and the San Fernando Valley for pre-hipster Brooklyn, and a vast, sucking void where its box office should have been. This is another blow to the already By Sarah • Aug 31, 2015 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The blue lightsaber I’m going to go ahead and put a SPOILER warning on this, even though I don’t think anything released by a movie studio as part of marketing counts as a spoiler. But I get tired of spoiler babies crying in my inbox, so SPOILERS, if you’re trying By Sarah • Aug 27, 2015 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Gerwig in Mistress America I don’t really get Greta Gerwig. She’s not untalented, but she doesn’t really rock my face off, either. Yet people keep flipping out over her (Lainey: I used to flip over her), and I just want to ask—you’ve seen Chloe Sevigny, right? You do know By Sarah • Aug 27, 2015 01:17 pm
