Music Pitch Perfect x The Voice Are you excited for Pitch Perfect 3? Did you forget about Pitch Perfect 3? I did. Since Pitch Perfect 2 basically ruined the franchise for me by being an overall mess of a movie that wasn’t fun or funny, I’ve been all “aca-no thanks” about the third installment. By Kathleen • Nov 22, 2017 03:32 pm
Break Ups Jennifer Lawrence is single ET is reporting that, just in time for American Thanksgiving, Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky have broken up. Apparently it happened over a month ago and they’re still friendly. She just talked about Darren on the THR Awards Chatter podcast, about how their relationship evolved: "I had a By Lainey • Nov 22, 2017 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson’s nominations Robert Pattinson and some friends were photographed sightseeing at the Acropolis in Greece yesterday. I’ve never been to Greece. I so badly want to eat my way through Greece. The reason we’ve yet to go to Greece is because I feel like I would need more than a By Lainey • Nov 22, 2017 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pixar’s Coco: Cute and hella creepy In 2015, Pixar reminded everyone what they can do—make people laugh and cry in equal measure while reaching out to hug the nearest stranger—with Inside Out, but then they went on a run that included one admirable misfire (The Good Dinosaur) and two sequels (Finding Dory and Cars By Sarah • Nov 21, 2017 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dee Rees’ Mudbound is a classic Mudbound opens with two men racing to dig a hole to bury their father before imminent rain makes it impossible. While digging, they discover a set of shackles and a skull with a bullet hole. “A slave grave,” one man says. “Pappy would hate that.” That scene sets the tone By Sarah • Nov 21, 2017 01:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Garner is “pretty scary” Jennifer Garner is promoting The Tribes Of Palos Verdes. At some point she did an interview with www.news.com.au, an outlet out of Australia. Is the name of the outlet the same as their website url? If you are Australian and you have some insight on this, please By Lainey • Nov 21, 2017 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia’s Wonder weekend As Sarah just posted, Justice League’s opening weekend box office is being called a disaster. On the surface, $96 million might not seem to so sh-tty. But, again, as Sarah noted, when you factor in how much it cost to make, and all the terrible publicity surrounding the franchise, By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justice League didn’t get it done Justice League opened this weekend with $96 million and there is no way to sugar coat it that is DISASTROUS. It’s the lowest opening for a DC movie since Man of Steel launched in 2013 with $116 million, it’s $70 million short of Batman v Superman’s opening By Sarah • Nov 20, 2017 08:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock vs. A Gorilla Recently retired Sexiest Man Alive, Dwayne Johnson, is keeping himself busy after being succeeded by Blake Shelton. (Fun fact: Retired SMAs are neatly folded and placed into storage until they are needed again.) He has Jumanji coming out in December, and next year he has another video game adaptation on By Sarah • Nov 17, 2017 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie The Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie is a real thing that exists. It is a movie starring real people who say real words and you can pay real human money to see it. The official title is Pottersville, but it is destined to be known as the Michael Shannon Christmas By Sarah • Nov 17, 2017 02:50 pm
Dumbass Get Out challenges award season Should we care about award season when Hollywood’s predator infestation is so far from being exterminated? Is award season trivial? Sure, parts of it. But there are some storylines that are playing out this award season that deserve our attention. Consider Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut and By Lainey • Nov 17, 2017 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Krasinski-Blunt horror movie The first trailer for A Quiet Place was released yesterday, the horror movie directed and co-written by John Krasinski, and starring Emily Blunt. I believe it’s the first time they’ve worked together—Krasinski-Blunt stans, correct me if I’m wrong. The movie looks GREAT, but also really scary, By Sarah • Nov 17, 2017 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Here lies Justice League, DOA You know that description of Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Harry is post-life in the way station between places? “…Raw and rough…it had been left, unwanted, stuffed out of sight, struggling for breath.” Voldemort, defeated, provides the most apt description of Justice League, a messy By Sarah • Nov 16, 2017 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck’s Justice League weekend Justice League opens tonight. Sarah’s review of the movie is coming up this afternoon. As mentioned earlier this week, Rotten Tomatoes was embargoing reviews until just before the movie comes out, supposedly because they want to test out a new site feature but a lot of people had conspiracy By Lainey • Nov 16, 2017 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Feeling CMBYN I FINALLY saw Call Me By Your Name, and Lainey would like me to get “all up in my feelings” about it, but I don’t have Kathleen’s gift for emotive expression. I do really like it, kind of love it, actually, and you will certainly feel many things By Sarah • Nov 16, 2017 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mary J. Blige, an appreciation I won’t pretend that this post is anything other than an expression of admiration and excitement for Mary J. Blige. So, if you don’t want to read me glowing up Mary J for too many words, turn back now. It has been a little over a year since By Kathleen • Nov 16, 2017 09:06 am
