TV Updates Drop Dead Murder Kirsten Dunst has never been my favorite, but Drop Dead Gorgeous is one of my all-time favorite movies. I bring this up because Dunst stars in season two of FX’s crime anthology, Fargo, and hearing her Minnesota accent is giving me fond Drop Dead Gorgeous memories. That movie is By Sarah • Jul 22, 2015 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gorgeous, Grim Bond There’s a new trailer for the latest Bond movie, Spectre, and we finally get a clear look at some of the new characters in play, including Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx, Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux as the femme fatales, and Christoph Waltz as Totally Not Blofeld. Officially Waltz’ By Sarah • Jul 22, 2015 12:39 pm
Trevor Noah Trevor Noah is making good After Trevor Noah was appointed Jon Stewart’s successor on The Daily Show, there was some backlash during which everyone got mad about old (bad) jokes on Twitter. People knew nothing about Noah so they went looking to understand the guy who was just handed the keys to the kingdom, By Sarah • Jul 21, 2015 03:23 pm
Equality Issues Amy Schumer’s brutal honesty is why she’s great We’ve seen the Star Wars-themed photoshoot already, and now GQ has released their cover profile of Amy Schumer for their comedy issue. They call her the “funniest, gutsiest comedian in America”, and the interview certainly backs up the gutsy claim. Interviewed while preparing for an HBO stand-up special, Schumer By Sarah • Jul 21, 2015 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd is Ant-Man For the second time this summer, a Marvel movie opened below predictions, as Ant-Man, despite opening number one, banked the second-lowest opening in Marvel’s franchise machine with $58 million. This has led to more panicked cries of “What’s wrong with Marvel?!” and “the ship is sinking and everything By Sarah • Jul 20, 2015 02:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer in Trainwreck Trainwreck is a funny movie with some truly great comedic moments; Trainwreck draws out scenes too long. Amy Schumer is GREAT in Trainwreck; Judd Apatow really needs to let go and edit his movies with a sharper hand. Trainwreck is an enjoyable movie; Trainwreck is a mixed bag. I wanted By Sarah • Jul 20, 2015 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Munn’s moment, finally? Despite a stint on The Daily Show, hosting the popular geek show Attack of the Show!, a starring role on The Newsroom, and flirting with scandal,Olivia Munn has yet to break out. But that might be changing because she’s on the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly, alongside By Sarah • Jul 16, 2015 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero class photo day & Ben Affleck is the new Keanu Reeves At Comic-Con The Hollywood Reporter gathered the casts of Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad and sat them down for a class portrait that reinforces what I said about the dynamics during the WB/DC Hall H panel—while the Suicide Squad cast seems fun, the cast of Superhero Face By Sarah • Jul 16, 2015 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer is the funniest woman in the galaxy So says GQ, putting her on the cover of their annual comedy issue. In advance of the issue’s release next week, they’ve released Schumer’s Star Wars-themed cover shoot, in which she’s dressed as Princess Leia and dances with stormtroopers. These kinds of photoshoots always remind me By Sarah • Jul 15, 2015 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Four may not be a total loss And solely because of Michael B. Jordan. The final trailer for the gritty reboot of Fantastic Four is out and it looks like all your least favorite parts of comic book movies—destruction on a massive scale, blue beams of light pointing at the sky, overly serious dialogue, overreliance on By Sarah • Jul 14, 2015 01:13 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead: More going in circles! At Comic-Con AMC debuted the trailer for season six of The Walking Dead, which looks like every other season of The Walking Dead. Rick & Co. are stuck somewhere, there’s a lot of standing around and arguing, Rick goes nuts for a little while and everyone questions his leadership, By Sarah • Jul 14, 2015 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in Self/Less This movie is a complete waste of time and no one should see it. I was actively angry the whole time I sat through it, and when it was over I vowed to ensure that no one else would ever have to suffer as I have suffered by wasting precious By Sarah • Jul 13, 2015 04:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Minions Minions made big money at the box office this year. When I reviewed Home earlier this year I said it’s impossible to get mad at movies like this because they’re so thoroughly meant for small children and I am not that audience. But coming so close to the By Sarah • Jul 13, 2015 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben & Henry: do you want to hang out with the Justice League? A big part of Marvel’s success has been that the Avengers are the coolest club in Hollywood. If Hollywood is a high school cafeteria—and it is—then the Avengers are the kids everyone wants to sit with. Playing catch up at Comic-Con this weekend, Warner Brothers tried to By Sarah • Jul 13, 2015 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Forget Batman and Superman, just give me Wonder Woman (A separate post about how the cast interacted on the panel will follow.) On Saturday at Comic-Con, Warner Brothers released a three and a half minute trailer for Superhero Face Punch. Non-nerds who would normally skip this, please do me a favor and just watch the trailer, then let me By Sarah • Jul 13, 2015 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews New New Star Wars takes Comic Con by storm(trooper) On Friday at Comic-Con, JJ Abrams took the stage along with LucasFilm chief Kathleen Kennedy and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and proceeded to blow the doors off the place. As promised, they did not show new footage, not exactly. Instead Abrams had a sizzle reel that had 6,500 hundred nerds By Sarah • Jul 13, 2015 09:42 am
