Movie Reviews and Previews Mission: Impossible 5 looks like a blast After the back-to-back highs of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Mad Max: Fury Road, I’m kind of in a blockbuster hangover zone where I’ve lost interest in seeing more blockbusters. Like despite Chris Pratt’s charm offensive, Jurassic World is off my radar entirely. But a new trailer By Sarah • Jun 05, 2015 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everest: A big bag of NOPE Jake Gyllenhaal is going for the gold this year, first with Southpaw and then Everest, which is due in September—wouldn’t surprise me to see this one premiere at TIFF. Everest is based on Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, about the 1996 climbing disaster in which eight By Sarah • Jun 04, 2015 03:19 pm
Media Manipulation Lady Ghostbusters are the only interesting kind of Ghostbusters So says Paul Feig, the director of the all-female Ghostbusters reboot. In an interview with AlloCine while promoting Spy, Feig said the only way he can see to remake Ghostbusters is to reimagine it with women. I love that he says this, that the only way it makes sense to By Sarah • Jun 02, 2015 01:22 pm
Dumbass Henry Cavill got dumped By his investors, that is. Cavill was slated to star in the blatant Bond knock-off Stratton, in which he was to play an embattled MI5 agent who is the world's last hope against corruption or conspiracy or crab monsters or whatever. The movie was supposed to start principal By Sarah • Jun 02, 2015 10:05 am
Media Manipulation Update: Chris Pratt is still pretty great The Jurassic World press tour is fully engaged in advance of the movie's open this weekend, which means that Chris Pratt, the Internet's new boyfriend, is out and about, doing his duty as the face of this would-be franchise. So far, he's doing a By Sarah • Jun 01, 2015 11:05 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 5.8: "I'm going to break the wheel" Game of Thrones season 5, episode 8 recap Hands down this is Jon Snow's best episode to date. The battle at Castle Black last year was good, but this episode features one of the best battle sequences in the entire series (so far). I'd put the By Sarah • Jun 01, 2015 08:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Strange gets SWINTON-ed In a bit of news beamed straight to us from outer space, Tilda Motherf*cking Swinton is in talks with Marvel to appear in Dr. Strange as Dr. Stephen Strange’s mentor, the Ancient One. Dr. Strange is, of course, being played by Brambles Crumplesnort, King of the Reptiloids of By Sarah • May 28, 2015 12:06 pm
Media Manipulation Warner Brothers/DC bags their first Chris For years Marvel has dominated the market of white actors named Chris, building a veritable Chris army with the likes of Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Pratt. But now Warner Brothers/DC is striking back, claiming a Chris of their own—Chris Pine, who is negotiating to co-star in By Sarah • May 28, 2015 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Point Break remake is the dumbest thing on Earth I am not in favor of a Point Break remake, since Point Break is already a f*cking masterpiece of dumbass cinema. It’s the perfect combination of a stupid as sh*t idea and Kathryn Bigelow’s technical mastery behind the camera, starring Peak Patrick Swayze and Rising Keanu By Sarah • May 27, 2015 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews World War Z determined to break my heart even more World War Z is one of my favorite books. It’s brilliant, not just as a piece of genre fiction but as socio-political satire. The movie version starring Brad Pitt which was released in 2013 is an abomination and no recent movie has broken my heart the way that World By Sarah • May 26, 2015 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy redeemed I loved Melissa McCarthy on Gilmore Girls, so I was glad to see her get a mainstream break in Bridesmaids in 2011, but nothing McCarthy did after that lived up to the promise of Bridesmaids. That movie made McCarthy seemed like a comedic tour de force, someone with the ability By Sarah • May 26, 2015 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in Slow West A crafty subversion of the Western genre, Slow West is in turns hypnotic, lyrical, and absurd. It’s a pitch-black dark comedy centered on a hopelessly romantic quest that’s more interested in episodic beats than it is a cohesive narrative, which means it won’t be for everyone. Slow By Sarah • May 26, 2015 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney in Tomorrowland I have a thing with Damon Lindelof and his mystical sci-fi bullsh*t, in that Damon Lindelof and his mystical sci-fi bullsh*t keeps ruining otherwise interesting ideas (see also: Lost, Cowboys & Aliens, Prometheus, World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness). Credit where credit is due, The Leftovers is By Sarah • May 25, 2015 10:22 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 5.7: “We go forward, only forward” Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 7 recap Last week Sansa suffered marital rape and it set off a big controversy, as rape scenes on this show always do. A lot of that is because in the past this show has not done well by these storylines, too often reducing By Sarah • May 25, 2015 09:05 am
Hugh Jackman Pan is an acid-fueled nightmare A new trailer for the Peter Pan prequel no one asked for, Pan, is out and goddamn this movie looks terrible. After the first trailer, Lainey had some concerns, beginning with Hugh Jackman’s wig line. We now have much bigger problems than that, beginning with—when in the hell By Sarah • May 22, 2015 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Citizen Tink Continuing the trend of turning their classic cartoons into live action spectacles, Disney announced that the next property to get the Real Boy treatment will be a kind of Peter Pan spin-off centered on Tinker Bell. The movie is called Tink and it will star AMERICAN CITIZEN Reese Witherspoon as By Sarah • May 22, 2015 11:32 am
