Movie Reviews and Previews David Oyelowo and Kate Mara go on the lam Relief—a movie trailer that doesn’t make me want to crawl under my bed and hide! After a series of trailers that I had to watch with one hand over my eyes because the events depicted are pants-sh*tting scary, the trailer for the upcoming thriller Captive is a By Sarah • Jun 17, 2015 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt get paid Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, two of the biggest and most well-liked movie stars in the world right now, have been attached to a sci-fi movie called Passengers for a while. The movie is about a deep space voyage in which a passenger wakes up early and then wakes up By Sarah • Jun 17, 2015 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews BCoop will now make a fake Army movie With American Sniper and Aloha, Bradley Cooper is on an Army movie run, which he will now cap off by making a movie about a fake Army. He’s going to play a guy pretending to be in the Army, pretending to be in the Army—kind of. Based on By Sarah • Jun 16, 2015 02:00 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 5.10: “For the Watch” Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 10 recap. SPOILERS Game of Thrones comes to an end, and consequences and uncertainty are doled out to heroes and villains alike. This is a great episode and we’re going full-spoiler, so if you haven’t watched yet, now’s the time to By Sarah • Jun 15, 2015 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World made crazy Avengers money Literally, it banked the second-biggest opening weekend of all time with an estimated $204 million debut, knocking Avengers: Age of Ultron down to number three. By the time the actuals come in, Jurassic World could actually take down The Avengers’ 2012 record of $207.4 million for the biggest opening By Sarah • Jun 15, 2015 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley, Emma, and Rachel in Aloha (Lainey: given the way it’s performing and that dinosaurs are taking over, this might be your last chance to see Aloha... if you want to.) One of the threads that emerged last year during the Sony Hack was that the Hawaiian-set “Untitled Cameron Crowe” project was a disaster, testing By Sarah • Jun 12, 2015 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange just keeps getting better Following the most improbable superhero movie casting news ever, yesterday Deadline confirmed that Chiwetel Ejiofor will co-star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange as Baron Mordo, Stephen Strange’s frenemy turned arch-nemesis. Marvel is just lousy with Barons (see also: Barons Zemo and von Strucker, respectively), and By Sarah • Jun 12, 2015 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Yet more NOPE: Emma Watson’s creepy cult movie This is becoming a thing, apparently, trailers for movies that make me go NOPE. First it was Everest (NOPE), then it was The Martian (NOOOOPE), and now it’s the trailer for Alejandro Amenabar’s new thriller Regression, starring Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke. Amenabar made the most excellent The By Sarah • Jun 11, 2015 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor answers phones for the Ghostbusters The female-lead Ghostbusters movie is slated to start filming this summer, and as such, casting is underway. Last night, director Paul Feig announced on Twitter that Chris Hemsworth will appear in the movie in the “Janine” role, playing the Ghostbusters’ receptionist. Our receptionist. #whoyougonnacall pic.twitter.com/wGTzs8KdUs— Paul Feig By Sarah • Jun 11, 2015 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock makes everything better San Andreas is exactly as advertised on the tin—The Rock fights an earthquake, and The Rock wins. Hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people die in the process, but the important thing is that if you go see San Andreas, that movie will hold up its end of By Sarah • Jun 10, 2015 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Bond in a tactleneck There’s a new TV spot for Spectre, the next installment in the Bond franchise. (Every time someone asks me when superhero movies will be over, I remind them that Bond has been going strong for fifty-three years and watch the light die in their eyes.) It’s mostly recycled By Sarah • Jun 10, 2015 11:48 am
Amazingness What even the f*ck, Chris Evans? If you do one thing for yourself today, please let it be going to the link below and watching all of the videos actress Lindsey McKeon posted on her blog from her “amazing friend with incredible insight”, Chris Evans. You may remember McKeon as the woman photographed with Evans (click By Sarah • Jun 09, 2015 12:56 pm
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt ushers in the future Netflix made a trip to Cannes’ Marche du Film, as the streaming service is looking to expand into the feature film market. They’ve already picked up Idris Elba’s Beasts of No Nation for distribution, and they have a deal to make and distribute Adam Sandler’s turds that By Sarah • Jun 09, 2015 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy in Spy I was nervous about this one going in because though I think Melissa McCarthy is very talented, she has also made a lot of bad movies since breaking out in Bridesmaids. But Spy reunites her with her Bridesmaids and The Heat director, Paul Feig—who also wrote the script—and By Sarah • Jun 08, 2015 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Martian: Also NOPE I called Everest a big bag of NOPE after watching the first trailer, and after sitting through Fox’s three minute-plus first trailer for The Martian, I am adding this movie to the NOPE bag, too. Directed by Ridley Scott, The Martian is based on Andy Weir’s novel (adapted By Sarah • Jun 08, 2015 12:49 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 5.9: “Fly” Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 9 recap. SPOILERS Last week Lainey noted that the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones is usually when the Serious Business goes down, but after last week’s episode featured that amazing battle sequence north of the Wall, we all wondered what could possibly By Sarah • Jun 08, 2015 08:11 am
