Movie Reviews and Previews A post on Pine and Pratt Ah f-ck. I promised I would never alliterate again after Sean Penn and I just did it and now I don’t want to change that title. Sorry. This is an article about Chris Pine and Chris Pratt. Where should we start? Let’s start with Pratt. He’s in By Lainey • Apr 05, 2018 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ignore the trailers, Blockers is great Comedy trailers can be misleading—either you give away the good jokes or you hold back and risk your movie looking stupid, choose your poison—and no comedy trailer has been more misleading in recent memory than the trailers for Blockers. The trailers are awful and make the movie look By Sarah • Apr 05, 2018 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rock Steady There are certain words that have become common in any conversation about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson – professional, dedicated, hardworking, grateful. A new profile in Rolling Stone touches on all of those things, focusing on how The Rock is one of those rare people who doesn’t just have it all, By Maria • Apr 05, 2018 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews KJ Apa in The Hate U Give Last year, Lainey and I yelled at you many times to read The Hate U Give. I’m not going to yell at you again because by now, I expect that you’ve done your homework. If you haven’t, you have until the film adaptation hits theatres to get By Kathleen • Apr 04, 2018 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Quiet Place is a sound-proofed nightmare If you go into A Quiet Place thinking it’s a creature feature, you’re going to be disappointed. Is there a creature? Yes. There are lobster-clawed crab-bug things, and the movie makes no pretense about hiding them—you definitely see the shark. (They kind of look like the Demogorgon. By Sarah • Apr 04, 2018 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Your future indie favorite How to Talk to Girls at Parties played Cannes last year, the second of the Elle Fanning/Nicole Kidman movies (along with The Beguiled), and it still hasn’t got a North American release date, though indie distributor A24 has picked it up, so it’s coming. This is one By Sarah • Apr 03, 2018 11:23 am
BFFs Blake & Ryan support Emily & John Blake Lively and Reynolds showed up for the premiere of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place in New York last night. A Quiet Place is currently sitting at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Sarah saw it and will be posting her review soon. This post is about celebrity friendships and By Lainey • Apr 03, 2018 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson’s meticulous, highly stylized worlds are particularly suited to stop-motion animation, the most meticulous and stylized form of animation. It’s no coincidence that one of Anderson’s best films is The Fantastic Mr. Fox, his first attempt at stop-motion, and now he follows up Fox with another By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ready Player One is the nadir of fanboy culture Ready Player One is Steven Spielberg’s latest movie, a return to his populist roots and the escapist fantasies for which he is most famous. Based on poet Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name, RPO is a fanboy’s love letter to nostalgia and gatekeeping and now it’ By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amandla’s revolution In February, when the Parkland students were first mobilizing in their fight for gun control, a bunch of pieces like this one for Mashable titled “Of course the 'Hunger Games' generation knows how to use the media in the fight against guns,” were popping up. The point was By Kathleen • Mar 29, 2018 04:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone experiment While Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Unsane, is undeniably schlocky, Soderbergh is one of those filmmakers who can lean into trash and come up with something with actual heft (another member of this club is Jeremy Saulnier). Working from a script from Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer—the duo’s last By Sarah • Mar 29, 2018 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris & Annabelle? Gossip Easter egg! Gossip Passover treat! Chris Pine (who apparently is your favourite Chris, if I’m going by my inbox, because when I wrote about him last Friday so many of you begged me to kill your crush on him) and Annabelle Wallis were seen arriving at Heathrow together By Lainey • Mar 29, 2018 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy plays a gangster again He does it a lot. RocknRolla, Peaky Blinders, Legend, technically Inception and Dark Knight Rises, and that’s just the criminal/gangster roles I remember off the top of my head. Tom Hardy has a niche and it’s “unintelligible crime boss”. (I like Tom Hardy, he’s a great By Sarah • Mar 29, 2018 12:03 pm
Quiveration Michael B. Jordan in workout gear Do I have your attention? It has been a while since I’ve publicly ogled my Michael Bae Jordan. Privately, it happens daily. It has also been a while since we’ve checked in on Creed II. I’ll come back to that. First, let’s assess Michael Bae Jordan’ By Kathleen • Mar 29, 2018 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steampunk Cate Blanchett Eli Roth makes movies of varying degrees of watchability. For every Knock Knock there is an unwatchable Green Inferno, and his latest movie, the ill-advised Death Wish remake, fell on the “thoroughly unwatchable” end of the scale. But he’s already rebounding with a new movie due in September, and By Sarah • Mar 28, 2018 10:59 am
TV Updates Gina Rodriguez is Carmen Sandiego In preparation for this piece, I watched a full episode of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and oh my god, it was EVERYTHING. I remember it so well. I wanted to be a gumshoe so badly. I’m still just as bad at geography now as I was By Kathleen • Mar 27, 2018 12:39 pm
