Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston, country singer I love old timey country music. I get it from my dad—he loves Woody Guthrie and Willie Nelson and Carl Perkins. He gave me all his Johnny Cash records when I was a kid, and even though he prefers to drive in silence, on road trips he would play By Sarah • Jun 13, 2014 10:01 am
Maple Leaf Still Dumb and Dumber I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder in a movie than I did when I first saw Dumb and Dumber. It was a perfect convergence of comedy: I was twelve, Jim Carrey was at the top of his game, and the Farrelly Brothers’ gross-out aesthetic was brand new. By Sarah • Jun 11, 2014 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Casting Roulette: Indiana Jones Edition There’s a rumor going around—a dirty, dirty rumor—that Robert Pattinson, he of the tea-pouring hands and mothering hips, has somehow risen to the top of Disney’s wish list for their inevitable Indiana Jones reboot. Look, Pattinson is not a terrible actor. He’s really not. Twilight By Sarah • Jun 09, 2014 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel re-marries Over the weekend Marvel wrapped up their (desperate) search for a new Ant-Man director after Edgar Wright suddenly dumped their ass a couple weeks ago. After working through a series of comedy directors, they landed on Peyton Reed. Who? Well, nerds are freaking out because he’s “best known” for By Sarah • Jun 09, 2014 10:29 am
Media Manipulation Mila, Channing and the February woodshed Late yesterday Warner Brothers announced that the Wachowski siblings’ new movie starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis, Jupiter Ascending (aka Jackie and Potatohead Do Space), has been kicked from its sweet July 18 opening to February 6, 2015. It’s not surprising. When the tracking data was released for July By Sarah • Jun 04, 2014 11:34 am
Media Manipulation Marvel’s dating drama Ever since Edgar Wright abruptly left Ant-Man a little over a week ago, Marvel has been listening to “I Will Survive” on repeat, drinking wine coolers, and promising that it’s “like soooooo fine.” To that end, Marvel is already dating around, looking for a new director. Evidently conducting its By Sarah • Jun 03, 2014 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ladies of Star Wars Back in March there was a rumor that Lupita Nyong’o was up for a role in Star Wars Episode VII, and now, today, there is confirmation. Lupita, along with Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) has been cast in Star Wars. Lupita is a movie star! Of course details are By Sarah • Jun 02, 2014 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin is Marvel’s Big Bad It’s been reported that Josh Brolin has been cast as the supervillain Thanos, first teased at the end of The Avengers, and who will likely be the main antagonist of The Avengers 3: Thanos, Finally. I can confirm that first hand—I heard this a few weeks ago, when By Sarah • Jun 02, 2014 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Renner’s juice Over the last few years—2012, most notably—Jeremy Renner has risen from a That Guy character actor to an almost-bankable movie star. After a string of high-profile blockbusters, he’s been lying low, returning to the character roles that made his name in the first place in movies like By Sarah • May 29, 2014 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel’s divorce fall out Last Friday director Edgar Wright packed his bags and left Marvel, abandoning Ant-Man just weeks before production was set to begin in Atlanta. Ever since then, details have been leaking out steadily, including a new feature from The Hollywood Reporter that confirms that Wright departed over script changes he didn’ By Sarah • May 29, 2014 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp to rub scarves all over Houdini There is a handful of films I want, kind of desperately, to see in my lifetime, and for some reason, they’re all biopics. They are, in order: Nikola Tesla, Harry Houdini, World War II ladyspies Christine Granville and/or Nancy Wake, and pirates Bartholomew Roberts and Jean Lafitte. Out By Sarah • May 28, 2014 11:59 am
Media Manipulation Marvel: Still scary Scarlett Johansson has a movie coming out later this summer, Lucy, and it looks pretty cool. It was originally slated to come out on August 8th, which made a lot of sense. The movie looks entertaining, if not actually good, and those kinds of softy action films usually do pretty By Sarah • May 27, 2014 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Edgar Wright divorces Marvel It was announced in true celebrity-divorce style—late on a Friday, on a holiday weekend nonetheless: Edgar Wright, the director who has nurtured the project since 2006, has left Marvel’s Ant-Man. He was just a few weeks from beginning production in Atlanta. Marvel has had director troubles before (see By Sarah • May 26, 2014 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Super serious space movie Do you remember the fake Anna Scott movie in Notting Hill? It was like a super serious space movie, and the little in-movie clip was of Anna Scott looking super serious, in space. That’s what I thought of as I watched the first trailer fir Christopher Nolan’s latest, By Sarah • May 20, 2014 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hooked on a feeling Guardians of the Galaxy has always been described as Marvel’s biggest risk to date, which is really saying something when you consider they bet their studio’s future against Iron Man’s success back when RDJ was still uninsurable. But making what amounts to the Marvel version of Spaceballs By Sarah • May 20, 2014 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Godzilla is king “Godzilla is poised to be a breakout hit in May. I hope it overachieves.” That’s me, on April 9. One month later, Godzilla is breakout hit, crushing the box office with the year-to-date’s second-biggest opening of $93.2 million. Even the most aggressive projections had it tapping out By Sarah • May 19, 2014 11:24 am
