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 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 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 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 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 By Sarah • May 19, 2014 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet your new Batman Principal photography is getting underway on Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman: Justice League .5, or whatever they’re going to call this movie. They insist the title is not locked in, which means my dream of it being called Superhero Face Punch is still alive. Currently they’re shooting By Sarah • May 13, 2014 02:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes Preview 2014 As summer movie season kicks off so does the biggest, glitziest film festival in the world, and this year Cannes is delivering early as we already have a smutty situation brewing around French director Olivier Dahan’s awful-looking Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco, which will open the festival. By Sarah • May 12, 2014 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews He’s not coming back The last time we talked about the (totally unnecessary) Point Break remake, Gerard Butler was signing on to play Bodhi. This movie is an abomination—the remake, not Point Break, which is holy relic of Bad Action Cinema— and I’m halfway convinced that “Point Break remake” is some kind By Sarah • May 07, 2014 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Horrors on the half shell I don’t know what I’ve done to upset Lainey, but for some reason today I’ve been given the punishment of looking at the second trailer for the CG abomination that is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The trailer is only eighty-one seconds long but cripes, it’s By Sarah • May 01, 2014 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet the rest of the Star Wars cast Lainey’s all over Oscar Isaac, which means I get to be all over everyone else (phrasing). Star Wars Episode VII has announced its cast—the official, no bullsh*t cast—which means that they win the internet today. And it’s an interesting group. Really, very genuinely interesting and By Sarah • Apr 29, 2014 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews So far, RDJ is not embarrassing When RDJ joined Twitter I fretted, because I love RDJ lots and Twitter has betrayed me before—betrayed all of us—ruining many a celebrity crush. But so far, RDJ’s Twitter is not bad. So far, he’s not an aggressive tweeter. He’s not offering daily affirmations or By Sarah • Apr 29, 2014 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Justice League is finally happening, seriously, for real this time What we know for sure: Zack Snyder has been handed the keys to Warner Brothers/DC’s superhero kingdom and will direct the Justice League movie. I thought maybe that Ben Affleck playing Batman was a bride price to get him to direct the Justice League, but that dream is By Sarah • Apr 28, 2014 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp’s career to be buried in February 2015 It is with heavy hearts that we announce that after a long battle, Johnny Depp’s career has succumbed to a case of mid-life crisis that proved terminal. Depp’s career fought mid-life crisis for several years, but suffered a decline beginning in 2011 from which it never By Sarah • Apr 25, 2014 09:54 am
