Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay is already moving on It was everyone’s low-key worry, right? That after A Wrinkle in Time merely whelmed, Ava DuVernay would not get the same second (third, fourth, fifth) chance that her white male peers get to go on and make another blockbuster, like, say, Zack Snyder who made a divisive Superman movie By Sarah • Mar 16, 2018 03:21 pm
Douchebags Photo Assumption with Scott Eastwood and John Boyega Scott Eastwood and John Boyega are starring in Pacific Rim Uprising together and I thought the press tour would go one of two ways. One, Scott Eastwood’s perma-doucheness would infiltrate John Boyega’s general perfect ray-of-sunshine-ness or two, by some miracle, John Boyega would make Scott Eastwood somewhat likeable By Kathleen • Mar 16, 2018 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Constance Wu: still bangs…but where’s the trailer?! Constance Wu was in New York yesterday promoting Fresh Off The Boat and, the photo agency caption says, Crazy Rich Asians. They’re starting to do early press for the movie. Kevin Kwan, the author of the book series, posted this shot on Instagram from the end of February with By Lainey • Mar 16, 2018 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers mount up A new trailer—the last one?—for Avengers: Infinity War has been released, and yeah, okay, this one is working for me. I haven’t been 100% sold on the Super Big Important Tone of previous trailers, and I’m starting to get seriously irritated with Tony Stark, but this By Sarah • Mar 16, 2018 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Apathetic Bond After approximately 97 years of waffling, the 25th Bond movie is a go. It’s slated for November 2019, Daniel Craig is returning—presumably with his own Scrooge McDuck vault of gold since he said if he did another Bond it would “only be for the money”— and now Danny By Sarah • Mar 16, 2018 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews In Defense of A Wrinkle in Time It has been just over two weeks since I saw A Wrinkle in Time. It was a press screening, which usually means I’m sitting alone being extra all by myself. But this time, my best friend Liz –who works with Lainey at etalk – was sitting beside me. We laughed. By Kathleen • Mar 15, 2018 11:51 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina’s one month countdown Alicia Vikander’s Tomb Raider opens tomorrow – Sarah just reviewed the movie in the previous post– and it occurs to me now that it’s been 15 years since we last saw Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. Which means that there’s an entire generation that doesn’t know her By Lainey • Mar 15, 2018 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tomb Raider doesn’t suck Tomb Raider wants to be Indiana Jones but ends up more The Mummy (the good Rachel Weisz one, not the dumb Tom Cruise one). That’s not an insult—The Mummy is a good f*cking adventure movie. But The Mummy also doesn’t take itself seriously, and you can By Sarah • Mar 15, 2018 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Very Little Johnny Depp The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has been released and it, unlike JK Rowling, would like to pretend like Johnny Depp is not in the movie. (I am not inclined to cut anyone associated with this movie slack because A. they could have recast him between By Sarah • Mar 14, 2018 03:57 pm
Aging Gorgessity This Hot Bitch in a rom-com This Hot Bitch is what I’ve been calling Sharon Stone, for years now. And now she’s 60 years old, just turned on March 10th. Sharon has a new movie coming out – it’s called All I Wish. It’s a rom-com. She does NOT play the mother of By Lainey • Mar 14, 2018 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This Is Life Itself Dan Fogelman is the showrunner for This Is Us. Season 2 of This Is Us just wrapped last night and Kathleen is probably still crying so the timing was perfect for the trailer premiere of Fogelman’s new film, Life Itself, opening in September, around festival season which, perhaps, means By Lainey • Mar 14, 2018 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lakeith Stanfield is Sorry to Bother You Lakeith Stanfield has given us many reasons to love him over the past couple of years. Aside from stealing every damn frame of every single TV show and movie he’s starred in, he also gave us this red-carpet moment that I will never forget. It was the moment I By Kathleen • Mar 13, 2018 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Jared Leto Emo Yakuza Movie The last time I reviewed a movie for which the description sounds like a random Scrabble result, it was the whimsically insane Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie. That movie is a gift from another dimension. The Jared Leto Emo Yakuza Movie, on the other hand, is some kind of punishment, By Sarah • Mar 13, 2018 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt: from coffee to sushi? Back in the day, there used to be a prescribed schedule where dating was concerned. Drinks or coffee first, because dinner was too much of a commitment. And if that went well, you’d move on to the next step. I can’t remember the next step, it’s been By Lainey • Mar 12, 2018 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron and David Oyelowo in Gringo The advertising for Gringo is somewhat misleading, so realign your expectations now—this is not an R-rated weed comedy a la Pineapple Express. No, Gringo is more like a Coen Brothers movie in which a pot pill is the Macguffin. In fact, pot is so unimportant, beyond being a plot By Sarah • Mar 09, 2018 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Grinch Cumberbatch Everyone loves How the Grinch Stole Christmas, both the original Dr. Seuss book, and the 1966 animated Christmas special that re-runs every year on television. Everyone knows the song, and everyone recognizes the Grinch’s sneering green face, which is why Hollywood will insist on trying to recreate that 1966 By Sarah • Mar 09, 2018 10:10 am
