Movie Reviews and Previews International box office is rescuing bad franchises Transformers: Broken Car Alarm opened with a dismal $69 million over a five-day opening weekend. It’s enough to open at #1 but it’s one of those “congratulations on being the toughest poodle” sort of wins – and that’s still a piss-poor result for a Wednesday-Sunday opening run. It’ By Sarah • Jun 26, 2017 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot Trash Fire: A Transformers Review In case you didn’t hear, Transformers 5 had the worst opening weekend in the franchise yet, but also debuted with $265 million. We’ll talk about it in a separate post to follow. The movie begins with a prologue, and the prologue is insane. It’s the Dark Ages By Sarah • Jun 26, 2017 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G going for it A lot of new trailers have come out this week, including the first trailer for Stronger, the movie in which Jake Gyllenhaal plays Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman. Unlike Mark Wahlberg’s Patriots Day, the bombing isn’t the focus - Bauman’s recovery after losing his legs is. By Sarah • Jun 23, 2017 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman like a BOSS The first trailer for Marshall, a biopic of Thurgood Marshall, the first black US Supreme Court Justice, has just been released and if you needed a reminder that Chadwick Boseman is a f*cking boss, just watch him striding around, being all eloquent and sly. He looks nothing like Marshall, By Sarah • Jun 22, 2017 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ron Howard mops up Han Solo After quickly emerging as the front-runner to take over the young Han Solo movie following the firing of original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Ron Howard has been confirmed just a day later as the new director of record. As expected, Disney/LucasFilm wasted no time getting someone in By Sarah • Jun 22, 2017 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Science Bros and Strange Fellows Filming for Avengers: Infinity War—and whatever the hell they decide to call Avengers 4—continues in Atlanta. Yesterday, RDJ posted a photo on Twitter that gives us our first look at Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong, as Doctor Strange and Wong, respectively, revamped for the Avengers. And human fluffy By Sarah • Jun 22, 2017 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Retirement of Daniel Day-Lewis The last time I posted about Daniel Day-Lewis it was at the end of March, a month after the Oscars, and since DDL, at the time, was shooting another film with Paul Thomas Anderson, well, it means that DDL will be probably be part of the next Oscar cycle, because By Lainey • Jun 21, 2017 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Han Solo Director Roulette In the wake of the shocking exit of directing team Lord & Miller, the young Han Solo movie is now looking for a new director. A few names started to emerge overnight, and given that Disney is sticking with the May 2018 release date—although I won’t be surprised By Sarah • Jun 21, 2017 01:21 pm
Style This week in Zendaya Zendaya and Celine Dion have the same stylist, Law Roach. So, right now, he’s responsible for dressing the two people giving us the most style porn. That’s his work on show. While Celine’s touring Europe, Zendaya is press touring Spiderman: Homecoming. We’ll get to her clothes By Lainey • Jun 21, 2017 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Han Solo CATASTROPHE Yesterday it was announced—surprising literally EVERYONE—that directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are leaving the young Han Solo movie. Yes, that young Han Solo movie, the one starring Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover. The one that is FIVE MONTHS into production. There’s less than a month left By Sarah • Jun 21, 2017 10:10 am
Quiveration Charlie isn’t alone King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Charlie Hunnam, came out in May and nobody cared. To date it has earned just $38.5 million domestically and $99.3 million overseas for a total of $137.8 million against a budget of $175 million, which doesn’ By Lainey • Jun 20, 2017 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Kitsch’s What The Hell movie A red band trailer for American Assassin, the hopeful launching pad for a new action franchise in the vein of Tom Clancy (the movie is based on the “Mitch Rapp” novels by Vince Flynn so it is a straight-up Clancy knock-off), has been released and I have not previously paid By Sarah • Jun 20, 2017 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All Eyez On Me review In April, I said a prayer to Blue Ivy, our dear sweet lamb of Beyoncé, that All Eyez on Me would be good. Every piece I've written leading up to the release of the biopic about Tupac Shakur's life and legacy has essentially been a fingers-crossed, By Kathleen • Jun 19, 2017 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mandy Moore in 47 Meters Down SPOILERS 47 Meters Down, aka, Don’t Go In The F*cking Ocean, You Dipsh*ts, opened in 5th place this weekend, exceeding expectations with over $11 million at the box office, and ahead of Rough Night, which should tell you how much of a bomb Rough Night is. But By Sarah • Jun 19, 2017 02:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My Cousin Rachel: Rachel Weisz makes it worth it Between My Cousin Rachel and Get Out, white tea cups with blue details are having a moment in two very different but similarly satisfying thrillers. In My Cousin Rachel, Rachel Weisz uses her tea set to (possibly?) poison the young cousin and doppelganger of her deceased husband (Sam Claflin), while By Joanna • Jun 19, 2017 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson in Rough Night Rough Night bombed this weekend, and with a C+ CinemaScore it’s going to be hard pressed to last long enough in theaters just to break even on a comparatively low budget of $20 million. There’s a lot of “what happened” going on, and I think the issue with By Sarah • Jun 19, 2017 10:19 am
