Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart & Jesse Eisenberg in American Ultra Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart are a FANTASTIC screen couple, but people flat refuse to watch their movies. American Ultra reunites the Adventureland co-stars, and even though no one expected it to open at #1, as Straight Outta Compton continues to dominate, Ultra still disappointed with a $5.5 million By Sarah • Aug 24, 2015 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glengarry Glen GREY When last we heard from the Fifty Shades movie-verse, EL James’s husband, Niall Leonard, had signed on to write the script for the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker. Now we have an update—the search for a director is down to the negotiations stage, with By Sarah • Aug 21, 2015 10:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bel Powley in The Diary of a Teenage Girl The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a film about discovery, and a big part of the joy in watching it is discovering things alongside the protagonist and narrator, Minnie (British actress Bel Powley, making a case for international stardom), a wildly charming lead who balances naiveté and precocity without By Sarah • Aug 20, 2015 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Salma Hayek presents Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet Salma Hayek has worked hard as a producer to get Lebanese philosopher Khalil Gibran’s seminal collection of poem-essays, The Prophet, to the big screen, and she’s finally succeeded, in the form of an animated film. The book, one of the most popular in the world, is a collection By Sarah • Aug 20, 2015 12:49 pm
TV Updates Annie guns for EGOT Anne Hathaway has signed onto a limited TV series called The Ambassador’s Wife. Adapted from a novel by Jennifer Steil, it’s about a woman who is kidnapped in the Middle East. If this were 1982 I’d say it would be a derivative bodice-ripper full of dashing sheikhs By Sarah • Aug 20, 2015 11:11 am
TV Updates Trevor Noah takes his seat Trevor Noah’s tenure as host of The Daily Show begins on September 28, and Comedy Central has released the first teaser for the new era, showing Noah taking his seat on the revamped set with the tagline “Same seat, different ass” as Kanye West’s “Power” plays. It’s By Sarah • Aug 19, 2015 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James McAvoy and DanRad are my new favorite onscreen couple James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe have a new movie together, Victor Frankenstein, that comes out this November, for which the first trailer has just arrived. I was expecting something dark and dour, but Victor Frankenstein is written by Max Landis, who generally writes genre movies with strong humor impulses (like By Sarah • Aug 18, 2015 01:20 pm
TIFF 2015 Coverage Set Sarah’s TIFF schedule! I’ll be attending TIFF this year, reviewing films for LaineyGossip. Beginning on September 10 through the first week of the festival—when most of the major premieres are screened—I will be watching and reviewing as many movies as is physically possible. I’m very excited for this opportunity, By Sarah • Aug 17, 2015 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shaun the Sheep: The Mad Max of kids’ movies Inevitably when I review a movie meant for children and come down on it the least little bit, some huffy parent emails to tell me off for sh*tting on harmless whizz-bangs meant to distract the children for ninety minutes or so. I say the same thing every time—it’ By Sarah • Aug 17, 2015 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Film Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Guy Ritchie’s take on retro-pop espionage flicks, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. did not have a very good opening weekend, landing in third place behind the surprisingly (TRIUMPHANTLY) strong Straight Outta Compton and Tom Cruise’s take on retro-pop espionage flicks, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. It By Sarah • Aug 17, 2015 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans wears tight sweater for Civil War at D23 SOME SPOILERS Disney’s in-house fan convention, D23, was this past weekend, and after skipping out on Comic-Con, Marvel showed up with both barrels loaded. After a video message from Benedict Cumberbatch and a teaser for Dr. Strange unveiling some psychedelic concept art, Marvel chief Kevin Feige moved right along By Sarah • Aug 17, 2015 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joel Edgerton’s The Gift So you know how I was just recently saying that actor-directors are usually bad? Well, funny thing, Joel Edgerton just released his directorial debut, The Gift, and it’s really good. So while yes, fewer actors should become directors, Joel Edgerton gets a pass because he is actually good at By Sarah • Aug 14, 2015 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Segel is gunning for Oscar in The End of the Tour And he is the best part of The End of the Tour, a movie that would have been better served as a play. Based on David Lipskey’s aborted Rolling Stone interview of David Foster Wallace just after Infinite Jest was published—which Lipskey later turned into the book Although By Sarah • Aug 14, 2015 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Black Panther has finally arrived Captain America: Civil War has moved to Berlin for the last bit of filming, and as they are shooting outside in public, the inevitable has happened and we’ve finally got our first look at the Black Panther. Yesterday while filming a stunt sequence, the Black Panther’s costume was By Sarah • Aug 13, 2015 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cowboy Loki Entertainment Weekly has more first-look photos from movies coming out this fall, including the first official image of Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw the Light. I emailed the photo to my dad, because this is probably the only movie this year we’ll be able By Sarah • Aug 13, 2015 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Whoa nelly, The Hateful Eight looks AMAZING “Maybe it’s good that Quentin Tarantino movie is ruined?” This was Dean’s headline over a year ago when a leaked copy of Tarantino’s The Hateful Script prompted QT to throw a hissy fit and declare the project dead. Of course it didn’t stay that way, as By Sarah • Aug 12, 2015 03:37 pm
