Movie Reviews and Previews Rough Night minus one Zoe Kravitz and Ilana Glazer were photographed at JFK airport in New York yesterday reshooting scenes for Rough Night. Movie reshoots are not unusual. It used to be that movie reshoots meant that the movie was in bad shape. But I feel like there have been enough examples lately of By Lainey • Apr 21, 2017 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson and Armie Hammer in Free Fire Joanna reviewed Free Fire at TIFF in September. You can read her thoughts on the movie here. Free Fire also stars SHARLTO COPLEY, that’s very important. The latest from English filmmaker Ben Wheatley (High Rise, A Field in England), Free Fire is in the vein of John Wick and By Sarah • Apr 21, 2017 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper, director Sarah wrote about the first still released from the A Star Is Born remake that Bradley Cooper is directing last week. He and Lady Gaga worked on the film at Coachella earlier this week. And yesterday he was seen on set, with his body double, in LA. Coop was not By Lainey • Apr 21, 2017 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith will be the Genie now Earlier this year we learned that Will Smith was planning for his next bad movie to be Tim Burton’s “live action” Dumbo for Disney, but then a month later he decided that was too bad of a decision to make and dropped out of negotiations. But now! Will Smith’ By Sarah • Apr 20, 2017 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hidden Figures and Garden State made a movie baby Going In Style has the oddest pedigree. It’s a remake of the 1979 comedy starring Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, and George Burns, in which three old codgers decide to rob a bank for sh*ts and giggles because why not, they’re going to die soon anyway. In 2008, By Sarah • Apr 20, 2017 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keira Knightley Trapped In Pirate-Land A new Japanese trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Give Us Gold—I legit can’t remember the title and I JUST watched the trailer, not a great sign—was released yesterday and it spoils what I assume was to be a surprise for fans of the franchise (do those By Sarah • Apr 19, 2017 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch’s brown sweater Before we talk about Benedict Cumberbatch, I need to tell you what just happened to me. I was craving chocolate and the craving was too strong to shut down. It was because somehow, through Easter, I managed to not eat a single chocolate egg. It’s like my body was By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bad Nuns One of my favorite literary sub-genres is “Stuff Written During The Plague”. There’s a whole shelf in my bookcase dedicated to Stuff Written During The Plague (between “Angry Repressed Victorians” and “Maritime Mysteries [Non-Fiction]”). Medieval plague breakouts drove people out of cities—if you could afford to leave the By Sarah • Apr 18, 2017 03:11 pm
Media Manipulation The Rock’s next move, best move, smart move Late last night, TMZ reported that The Rock and Vin Diesel have “squashed” their boy sh-t and will be signing on for Fast Furious 9. As you’ve probably heard, F8 just set a worldwide box office record. So, obviously, the studio wants in for another one. According to TMZ, By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer trades Barbie for Pretty Yesterday it was announced that Amy Schumer will star in a comedy called I Feel Pretty, which is the directorial debut of the writing team behind such mediocre movies as He’s Just Not That Into You and How To Be Single. For some reason, the details about Pretty are By Sarah • Apr 18, 2017 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Burlesque Star is Born Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were at Coachella over the weekend, shooting scenes for A Star Is Born, which is Cooper’s directorial debut. It’s a remake of the 1954 Judy Garland film, with Gaga taking the Garland role (after it was initially intended for Beyoncé). Besides directing, Cooper By Sarah • Apr 17, 2017 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maudie is a delight And it’s worth lining around the block for. In Maudie, Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins unexpectedly fall in love and fit together like a "pair of old socks." It's wonderful to watch. Since its world premiere at Telluride and big debut at TIFF, this biopic By Joanna • Apr 17, 2017 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Last Jedi is v. important Star Wars Celebration—a nerd convention devoted solely to the nearly religious experience of Star Wars fandom—went down over the weekend, and included the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi (the key art has dropped “Episode VIII”), on Good Friday nonetheless. (The teaser for The Force Awakens By Sarah • Apr 17, 2017 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Imperator F*cking Furiosa doesn’t drive ONCE Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson star in the eighth installment of the Fast/Furious franchise, a movie which is infuriatingly still not called F8 of the Furious. (They have two scenes together, one in which they’re in separate cars and another in which they never talk or look directly By Sarah • Apr 13, 2017 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin makes Deadpool 2 less magical The last we heard from Deadpool 2, Michael Shannon was the frontrunner to play fan favorite Cable. Yesterday, though, it was announced that Josh Brolin will be playing Cable, agreeing to a four-film deal. This means that not only is Brolin double-dipping with Marvel—he plays the big bad, Thanos, By Sarah • Apr 13, 2017 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jude Law is Young(er) Dumbledore Variety confirmed today that Jude Law has been cast to play Albus Dumbledore in the next installment of the Fantastic Beasts franchise. As you know from the first movie, Johnny Depp was revealed to be Gellert Grindelwald. He and Dumbledore were friends, Dumbledore may have been in love with him, By Lainey • Apr 12, 2017 02:48 pm
