Movie Reviews and Previews Liquefy your brain matter with My Little Pony The television show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is adorable and charming, combining unrelenting cheer with positive messages about acceptance, teamwork, and friendship. The cutesy voices of the ponies are fitting for the brightly colored cartoon, and the plots are easily resolvable within 22 minutes and usually take no By Sarah • Oct 12, 2017 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rotten Tomatoes isn’t the problem This week in non-Harvey news, Martin Scorsese penned an op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter about how Rotten Tomatoes is ruining movies and everyone should stop obsessing over box office and Cinemascore and also he liked mother!. Blaming Rotten Tomatoes for a movie’s failure became a favorite pastime this summer— By Sarah • Oct 12, 2017 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 12, 2017 Dear Gossips, What I missed the other day is that Sylvester Stallone announced on Instagram that he’ll be directing and producing Creed 2. Looking forward to directing and Producing The incredibly talented Michael B Jordan in CREED 2 next year ... One more Round ! #creed2 #mgm #fighting #workout #exercise #boxing By Lainey • Oct 12, 2017 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina in Namibia Angelina Jolie covers the 150th anniversary issue of Harper’s Bazaar. The shoot happened in Namibia, where Shiloh was born, and where Angelina has been working on raising awareness for wildlife conservation efforts. She’s also promoting an animated film that she produced called The Breadwinner about an Afghan girl By Lainey • Oct 11, 2017 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2049 Blade Runner 2049 did not live up to expectations, opening with just $32 million (against a reported $150 million budget and a big marketing push). It got an A- minus Cinemascore, so the people who saw it liked it, but basically, no one saw it. Or, not enough people saw By Sarah • Oct 11, 2017 12:10 pm
BFFs JLO & Leah’s Second Act Have we traded the rom-com for the buddy comedy? Where we once had women banding together to ensnare a man (think: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a classic) we now have women reveling in each other’s company (Bridesmaids, Girls Trip, Bad Moms). This isn’t a By Maria • Oct 11, 2017 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 11, 2017 Dear Gossips, Let’s start the day with a bright spot in Hollywood: Taika Waititi and the Taika Fashion Tour. The Thor: Ragnarok premiere happened last night in LA. Taika wore a gorgeous wine-colour suit with a pink tie. And, as usual, made a case for a man being among By Lainey • Oct 11, 2017 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Merely whelmed by The Last Jedi It’s a day for final trailers. Star Wars: The Last Jedi also released their final trailer, and it’s very red. Red, and all about Kylo Ren being the biggest bag of dicks in this or any other galaxy. My interest in The Last Jedi has waned with previous By Sarah • Oct 10, 2017 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Here is your new, colorful Justice League A new trailer for Justice League was released on Sunday, and I think this is the first one to incorporate the new Joss Whedon-shot material. One difference after the director handover is apparent right away—someone found the color grading knob and turned it up. This is by far the By Sarah • Oct 10, 2017 10:46 am
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
