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 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 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 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp is too exhausting to sustain interest in Black Mass The downside of Johnny Depp always doing weird voices and wearing elaborate makeup for his film roles is that it has killed the magic of his performances. I LOVED Johnny Depp for years and years—he was one of my favorites when I started writing for this site—but he By Sarah • Jul 31, 2015 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart before Ultra Kristen Stewart’s new movie, American Ultra, opens in a few weeks, which means she will shortly be hitting the road to promote it—with Jesse Eisenberg. If ever there was a press tour with a high probability of going off the rails, it’s this one. (“Finally! Someone else’ By Sarah • Jul 30, 2015 01:00 pm
Christina Applegate A Chris Hemsworth/Will Ferrell comparison in Vacation There are seven movies in the Vacation franchise—can you name them all?—and only two of them are any good: National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Christmas Vacation. John Hughes wrote both (and he co-wrote European Vacation), and the first Vacation movie—the best of the bunch—was directed By Sarah • Jul 30, 2015 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spotlight at the top We must be approaching award season because the fall festivals have announced their lineups, led by TIFF, and now we’re starting to get trailers for the Oscar baity movies we’ll be watching in the fall. There’s a lot of good-looking stuff coming up, but the one By Sarah • Jul 29, 2015 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Woody Allen made the same movie again Woody Allen makes basically two movies: Annie Hall, and Crimes and Misdemeanors. When he’s on his game, you get, well, Annie Hall and Crimes and Misdemeanors. When he’s not, you get Magic in the Moonlight and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. His latest movie—his forty-fifth, By Sarah • Jul 29, 2015 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen’s other f*ck-off holiday movie Last holiday season’s movie talk was dominated by The Interview, the Seth Rogen movie that may or may not have prompted the Sony Hack. Sony famously dumped The Interview’s release, fearing further action from the hackers—they were already on their knees, it wasn’t an unreasonable thought— By Sarah • Jul 28, 2015 04:10 pm
TV Updates Jon Stewart’s long goodbye As Jon Stewart winds down his reign as the host of The Daily Show, which over his sixteen years on the air he’s turned into a late-night institution, Comedy Central has been putting together videos memorializing different aspects of his time on the show, like this one marking By Sarah • Jul 28, 2015 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Stan Lee: Michael B. Jordan can be Johnny Storm but not Peter Parker With the Fantastic Four reboot just over a week away, Michael B. Jordan’s casting as Johnny Storm, traditionally white in the comic books and originally played in movies by Chris Evans, remains controversial. I can’t believe the number of people who have expressed some version of “but how By Sarah • Jul 28, 2015 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano in The Stanford Prison Experiment Based on the notorious 1971 study in which a group of Stanford students pretending to be prisoners and prison guards descended into psychological abuse and brutality after barely a day, The Stanford Prison Experiment is an impressive but maybe too literal reconstruction of those events. Dr. Philip Zimbardo randomly divided By Sarah • Jul 27, 2015 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Love yourself enough to not see Pixels It would be so easy to lambast Pixels as a cravenly lazy, creatively defunct, possible Ponzi scheme in which audience dollars are siphoned into Adam Sandler’s private jet fund. I would remind you that working on Sandler movies is a soul-destroying experience for Sony staffers, then make a By Sarah • Jul 27, 2015 12:23 pm
