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
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson is happy to see Jude Law There are new photos of Brie Larson on the set of Captain Marvel—she is still wearing that green not-iconic suit. We have all resigned ourselves to this suit, I just hope at some point between Captain Marvel and Avengers 4 we get to see Carol’s iconic comic book By Sarah • Mar 26, 2018 08:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Do not sleep on Thoroughbreds I already slept on The Love Witch, Anna Biller’s superbly stylized 2016 film about a witch addicted to love—it’s on Amazon Prime, so we can all get caught up—and I almost missed Thoroughbreds, so it is with the determination of not missing another offbeat genre flick By Sarah • Mar 23, 2018 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pacific Rim: Uprising is charmingly dumb…sort of It’s like, the DUMBEST. Not that anyone was expecting any different. It’s a movie about robots punching monsters—it was only ever going to be dumb. Not even Guillermo del Toro and his sincerity could stop Pacific Rim from being dumb, so the sequel from a bunch of By Sarah • Mar 23, 2018 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are bad spies Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon went on Ellen to premiere the first trailer for their upcoming comedy, The Spy Who Dumped Me, and holy crap does this movie look good. Comedy trailers are tricky—the trailer could be all the funny bits and then the movie itself disappoints—but this By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Deadpool 2 A new trailer for Deadpool 2—the official title, though I kinda wish they had stuck with “Untitled Deadpool Sequel”—has been released, and goddamn does the marketing for this movie remain on point. This trailer is GREAT, except for the increased screen time for TJ Miller, and actually gives By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The “untalented” Jake Gyllenhaal Drew Barrymore was on James Corden last night and they played Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts. The premise, if you’ve never seen it, is that there is a selection of really “gross” foods that you have to eat if you don’t want to answer a really By Lainey • Mar 22, 2018 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tiffany Haddish and some other people Tiffany Haddish, as Duana noted after the Oscars, is a Star. She has It. When Tiffany Haddish is around, all you want to be looking at or listening to is Tiffany Haddish. And she is beginning to have projects built around her, as Stars do, including one called The Kitchen. By Sarah • Mar 21, 2018 01:24 pm
Style T’Challa and Pepper Chadwick Boseman and Gwyneth Paltrow were also at the THR Power Stylists event last night. I wrote about THR’s 2018 list earlier today and G’s stylist, Elizabeth Saltzman, who also works with Saoirse Ronan, is ranked 2nd. So that might be the connection with Saoirse’s pink Oscar By Lainey • Mar 21, 2018 12:10 pm
