Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman’s un-Great Show The first trailer for Hugh Jackman’s PT Barnum passion project, The Greatest Showman, has arrived and I have learned a few things: 1) This is a musical. (Shudder) 2) PT Barnum is a hero now. 3) This looks like some family-friendly sanitized sh*t. Jackman is, of course, a By Sarah • Jun 29, 2017 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx in Baby Driver I didn’t list Ansel Elgort in the title because Ansel Elgort is not the best thing about Baby Driver. The latest film from Edgar Wright—the film he made after his Ant-Man deal fell apart at Marvel—Baby Driver is slightly more plotty than films like John Wick and By Sarah • Jun 29, 2017 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Incredible Jessica Williams One of the biggest hits at Sundance this year was The Incredible Jessica James, starring Jessica Williams. You might recall that at Sundance, Salma Hayek devoured her own foot while talking over Williams at a luncheon for women in the film industry. Kathleen covered it here, and I forgot how By Sarah • Jun 27, 2017 03:01 pm
BFFs Tony, Bruce…and Stephen? I may have mentioned before how many times I’ve seen the first Avengers movie – a LOT. Three or four times in the theatre, at least 10 times on planes, maybe more. And many, many more times on television. At least 15 times on television. Every time it’s on By Lainey • Jun 27, 2017 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Math-Man Returns Today in Holy Sh*t Random But Awesome News, Warner Brothers is planning a sequel to the bonkers assassin movie, The Accountant. This is the “so dumb it’s fun” movie in which Ben Affleck plays an autistic assassin who does math on the windows because he’s a super-genius By Sarah • Jun 27, 2017 10:13 am
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
