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
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
