Movie Reviews and Previews Seth MacFarlane’s Ted 2 It’s not like I expected greatness from Ted 2, but I did have some expectation that it would be amusing, at least. Ted was surprisingly funny, and though it had plenty of signature Seth MacFarlane poop humor, it also had a nice little story about friendship at its center, By Sarah • Jun 29, 2015 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Al Pacino in Manglehorn Filmmaker David Gordon Green has a weirdly binary career. On one side are comedies like Pineapple Express, The Sitter, and Eastbound & Down, and on the other are slow, thoughtful dramas, usually set in the rural South, that show a heavy Terrence Malick influence. Green’s latest, Manglehorn, is of By Sarah • Jun 26, 2015 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Go see Dope A breakout hit at both Sundance and Cannes this year, writer/director Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope is equal parts Risky Business, The Breakfast Club, and Boyz n the Hood. It feels like a John Hughes movie, in that it’s very much about teenagers and their lives but isn’t By Sarah • Jun 25, 2015 04:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller is going full-franchise One of my all-time favorite posts on LaineyGossip is Lainey’s account of interviewing Ezra Miller at TIFF several years ago—“These are TEXTILES”. And then there was the time he went to the MTV Movie Awards with a balloon as his date, and the balloon said “Nothing loves you” By Sarah • Jun 25, 2015 11:24 am
Media Manipulation Chris Pine to replace Ryan Reynolds? In a bold marketing move known as “straight up lying”, it’s probable that the news that Chris Pine will be playing Wonder Woman’s boytoy is a straight up lie, and that Pine is, in fact, going to play a superhero himself—the Green Lantern. There had been rumors By Sarah • Jun 24, 2015 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum makes it impossible to not like him How does he do this?! It is just impossible to not like Channing Tatum. My heart is made of second-hand smoke and the last inch of bourbon in the bottle and even I can’t hold out—Tatum has totally won me over. He may be a walking slab of By Sarah • Jun 24, 2015 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alicia Vikander throws over Fassy for Bourne The thinking man’s Blake Lively has just been announced as a lead in the new Bourne movie, which should be titled The Bourne Continuum if there is any sense to the naming mechanism of this franchise. There are no details as to her role but she’s either playing By Sarah • Jun 23, 2015 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet your new, friendly neighborhood Spider-Child After an exhaustive casting process—their most laborious since they had such a hard time getting someone to voice Rocket Raccoon—Marvel announced they have found their new Spider-Man and he is the English child, Tom Holland. It’s a good choice—Holland was very memorable in The Impossible, and By Sarah • Jun 23, 2015 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside Out is amazing At one point in Inside Out, Pixar’s latest after a two year hiatus, the anthropomorphized emotions inside a little girl’s head spill boxes of fact and opinions and, unable to tell them apart, jumble them up while putting them back. “Don’t worry,” says the little girl’s By Sarah • Jun 22, 2015 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay bagged a Marvel gig Say what you want about Marvel movies, but directing them is a landmark career moment for filmmakers. Marvel can’t guarantee A List status for its stars, but it can transform a director’s career. So it is very, VERY exciting that Ava DuVernay has signed on to direct Black By Sarah • Jun 22, 2015 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daddy’s Home—ugh, can we change that title? When I first wrote about Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg reteaming to make a comedy about a father and stepdad competing for the (dubious, bribe-susceptible) affections of crotch fruit, I mentioned that the title, Daddy’s Home, is creepy and ought to be changed. Well Paramount declined to take my By Sarah • Jun 22, 2015 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mia Wasikowska as Madame Bovary Emma Bovary is never anything less than frustrating, so it’s fitting that the latest screen adaptation of Flaubert’s novel, Madame Bovary, should also be frustrating. Directed by Sophie Barthes and co-written by Barthes and Felipe Marino, Madame Bovary is a gorgeous film that is sometimes inspired and sometimes By Sarah • Jun 19, 2015 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Spoilers, but also like, the title Like Whiplash before it, one film won both the Audience Award and the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Whiplash went on to bag five Oscar nominations, winning three of them. I don’t By Sarah • Jun 19, 2015 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sicario looks SICK and YES Emily Blunt Coming out of Cannes, Denis Villeneuve’s latest film, Sicario, received very positive reviews, with many singling out Emily Blunt’s performance as a possible awards contender. Since breaking out with the Oscar-nominated Incendies in 2010, Villeneuve has established himself as a consistently compelling director of thrillers, and many think By Sarah • Jun 19, 2015 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Behold, a Lady Ghostbuster Kristen Wiig was photographed on the set of the new Ghostbusters movie, looking rather dowdy in her costume. I’m into this—one of the best parts of OG Ghostbusters is that the guys aren’t hero-types. They’re awkward nerds who get excited about science, and Wiig’s costume By Sarah • Jun 18, 2015 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Cusack and Paul Dano in Love & Mercy Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) By Sarah • Jun 18, 2015 12:01 pm
