Movie Reviews and Previews It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Henry Cavill’s personality! When Henry Cavill first started doing press, for stuff like The Tudors and Immortals, he was a big ol’ dork who talked about fantasy novels, and he was quite charming as a nerdy kid who grew up to be super hot but was still dorky on the inside. But as By Sarah • Aug 12, 2015 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Adam Driver’s mysterious Star Wars villain…or anti-hero? Disney’s in-house fan convention, D23, is this weekend, and not coincidentally, Adam Driver in costume as New New Star Wars bad guy Kylo Ren is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. This is the best look yet that we’ve gotten of Driver, who, except for showing off his By Sarah • Aug 12, 2015 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep in Ricki and the Flash You know the kind of movie your parents suggest watching when you’re visiting, and you agree to watch it because you know it’s relatively harmless entertainment that won’t include a graphic sex scene or anything similarly mortifying to watch with your parents? But then you end up By Sarah • Aug 11, 2015 01:49 pm
TV Updates Amy Schumer gets one hour Stand-up comedy has changed quite a bit over the last fifteen years, thanks entirely to the internet, but one thing that remains the same is the HBO one hour special. That’s the golden benchmark for “you made it” for a lot of comedians, which Amy Schumer alludes to in By Sarah • Aug 11, 2015 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron in Dark Places The problem with setting a murder mystery in the context of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s is that Satanism has been thoroughly debunked as a criminal phenomenon. Back then it was all the rage to accuse weirdo kids who liked heavy metal of all manner of crimes, but now By Sarah • Aug 10, 2015 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Four is an unmitigated disaster The writing was on the wall, but even amid downgraded expectations, Fantastic Four managed a spectacular belly-flop over the weekend. Dismal reviews and bad word of mouth—the movie got a C- from CinemaScore—led to a dismal $26.1 million opening weekend. With a production budget of $122 million, By Sarah • Aug 10, 2015 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More like Un-Fantastic Four Well, Fantastic Four really sh*t the bed this weekend. All the problems plaguing the movie behind the scenes and dogging its disastrous release will be dealt with in a separate post, so that here we can simply focus on the final product, which is just the worst. It’s By Sarah • Aug 10, 2015 10:02 am
TV Updates Stephen Colbert’s fitting ending, new beginning with George Clooney Of all the people who showed up to wish Jon Stewart farewell, Stephen Colbert’s heartfelt goodbye was the best tribute of the night. He’s arguably the most successful of the Daily Show alums, and he was the last of the former correspondents to come out and say goodbye By Sarah • Aug 07, 2015 11:58 am
Media Manipulation Jake G hangs out his shingle After helping to get End of Watch and Nightcrawler made, Jake Gyllenhaal is making it official and opening his own production company. The name of his company is not yet known, but he’s just signed a first-look deal with Bold Films, the production company behind Nightcrawler. He’s also By Sarah • Aug 07, 2015 10:57 am
TV Updates Jon Stewart’s Farewell Jon Stewart signed off on The Daily Show last night, which, barring a surprise retirement from Conan O’Brien, ends a period of turnover in late night television. Over the last few years, all the long-time late night hosts have retired—except for Conan, who not for nothing has always By Sarah • Aug 07, 2015 10:18 am
Quiveration Colin Farrell is a fantastic beast Colin Farrell is the latest actor to join the Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. He’ll co-star with Eddie Redmayne, who plays Newt Scamander, as a magical acquaintance of Newt’s.They meet in New York, where the movie is set. Fantastic Beasts is slated By Sarah • Aug 06, 2015 03:29 pm
Douchebags You’re reading this about Miles Teller’s Esquire interview Miles Teller has a spectacularly bad cover profile in the September issue of Esquire. He’s nominally promoting Fantastic Four, but mostly he’s providing Good Gossip because the interview is a trainwreck. The writer, Anna Peele, calls him a dick or references his “dickishness” five times. Teller comes across By Sarah • Aug 06, 2015 10:36 am
Media Manipulation Now this is how you tease a movie with Matt Damon & Jessica Chastain Yesterday I expressed annoyance with Zoolander 2 for wasting everyone’s time (and Paramount’s money) with a teaser trailer that was nothing. If you can’t illuminate some aspect of the film itself, don’t bother—wait until you actually have something to say about your movie before opening By Sarah • Aug 05, 2015 11:30 am
Maple Leaf Deadpool: Ryan Reynolds might actually have pulled this off No one has had worse luck with superhero movies than Ryan Reynolds. He’s been in three superhero movies of varying levels of bad—Blade: Trinity, hilariously awful; Wolverine: Origins, spectacularly bad; Green Lantern, disastrous—and if you add the completely misguided R.I.P.D., a non-superhero comic book By Sarah • Aug 05, 2015 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum’s Gambit is happening for sure Despite recent reports that Channing Tatum’s negotiations to play Gambit in an X-Men spin-off movie were falling apart, The Hollywood Reporter states that he’s closed his deal and will not only produce Gambit but will star in it, too, as was the intention all along. The news that By Sarah • Aug 04, 2015 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoolander 2 (2oolander?) has a teaser that is nothing Zoolander 2 is currently slated for release on February 12, 2016, which is a little over six months away. A burial in the February boneyard of cinematic crap is not a confidence builder, but then, the new teaser trailer for Zoolander II doesn’t commit to that date, instead saying By Sarah • Aug 04, 2015 10:23 am
