Movie Reviews and Previews We’re un-cancelling the apocalypse New York Comic Con is going on right now—not quite San Diego Comic Con, but getting close—which means there are some new trailers dropping, including the first trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s “robots fight kaiju” movie, Pacific Rim. You remember Pacific By Sarah • Oct 06, 2017 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves plays Frankenstein Thanks to John Wick, Keanu Reeves is enjoying something of a renaissance. He’s not working any more or less than he was before, and he hasn’t really changed the type of movies he’s interested in making, it’s just that, in the wake of John Wick, people By Sarah • Oct 06, 2017 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justin Timberlake makes Woody Allen worse Just in case you’re not over Woody Allen yet, here is the first trailer for Wonder Wheel, his latest movie, which stars Kate Winslet but also Justin Timberlake. That’s right, Justin Timberlake. Justin Timberlake is in a Woody Allen movie, co-starring with Kate Winslet. (That’s like putting By Sarah • Oct 05, 2017 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will you watch Jack Ryan on TV? In the 1990’s, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character was the American answer to James Bond. Alec Baldwin originated him in The Hunt for the Red October—AKA your dad’s favorite movie—but it was Harrison Ford’s portrayal in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger that By Sarah • Oct 04, 2017 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Cho in Columbus Review of "Columbus" starring John Cho (Lainey: as Sarah wrote yesterday in her post about the Oscars and Netflix, how and where people are consuming film, and the accessibility of movies, Columbus is hard to get to. Even for someone like Sarah who lives in a major market By Sarah • Oct 04, 2017 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Today’s Bad Idea: A Hef Biopic Following the death of Hugh Hefner, it seems natural that someone would order up a Hef biopic, and indeed, someone has. Hollywood fratboy Brett Ratner is going to produce and direct a biopic of Hef, which will star Jared Leto. How do you think Leto will get into character? What By Sarah • Oct 03, 2017 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth with a month to go As mentioned in the open, we are exactly a month away from the release of Thor: Ragnarok, expected to be the best Thor of the franchise, under the direction of Taika Waititi. Word is, Chris Hemsworth realised that Thor needed a tone change. And by all accounts he was fully By Lainey • Oct 03, 2017 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Father Figures: Tulip Fever II When it comes to release date shuffling, Tulip Fever is the gold standard. But there is another movie that has quietly been shuffled on and off the release slate, and that is the Owen Wilson/Ed Helms comedy Father Figures (formerly titled Bastards). The movie, which languished at Paramount before By Sarah • Sep 29, 2017 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan’s quiet year Michael B Jordan, or as Kathleen likes to call him – Michael Bae Jordan – stepped out for dinner last night in LA. Kathleen can’t come to the phone right now. Because she’s producing all FOUR segments on The Social today: Sasheer Zamata, Kelly Clarkson, Jay Pharoah, and W Kamau By Lainey • Sep 29, 2017 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey, post-Dark Tower Here is Matthew McConaughey out and about in New York, where he was in town to speak on behalf of the just keep livin Foundation (that punctuation drives me nuts). He looks good, and not at all like his movie bombed. We’re just a month removed from The Dark By Sarah • Sep 29, 2017 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews SJP: No SATC3 The Daily Mail broke the story this week that there will not be a third Sex And The City movie. Last night, Sarah Jessica Parker was asked by Extra for an update on the project and she confirmed that it will not go ahead: “It’s over… we’re not By Lainey • Sep 29, 2017 10:02 am
Style Is James Franco hot again? Maybe you never thought he lost his hot. Maybe he was never hot to you to begin with. I had a thing for James Franco around the time of Spider-Man and Pineapple Express. But then James Franco became James Franco, The Artist. The Artist James Franco was intolerable. The Artist By Lainey • Sep 28, 2017 03:54 pm
Dumbass Leave Hocus Pocus alone Hocus Pocus is one of those movies, objectively not great but beloved by a generation anyway. I was ten when Hocus Pocus came out, and if there had been fan fiction and message boards in 1993, I would have been all over it, my screenname undoubtedly “ThackeryBinx27”, and unspeakably bad By Sarah • Sep 28, 2017 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in American Made There’s a game I like to play with new Tom Cruise movies. It’s called “How Old Does This Movie Think Tom Cruise Is?” It’s simple, all you have to do is watch a recent Tom Cruise movie and try and figure out how old he is supposed By Sarah • Sep 28, 2017 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul Set in the waning days of Queen Victoria’s reign, Victoria and Abdul depicts the end-of-life friendship Queen Victoria struck up with Abdul Karim, a servant sent from India during her golden jubilee. Abdul is a low-level clerk in a prison in India, who is chosen—because he is tall— By Sarah • Sep 27, 2017 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman and sci-fi soap bubbles Yesterday we saw the first image from Natalie Portman’s upcoming film, Annihilation. It’s from Alex Garland, the filmmaker behind Ex Machina, and the first look features an albino alligator. Well we now have a teaser trailer, and it does not include the albino alligator. But it does have By Sarah • Sep 27, 2017 12:19 pm
