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
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom does Tom What’s more Tom Cruise than Tom Cruise on a motorcycle? Highway to the danger zone. Tom Cruise on a motorcycle was introduced to us over 20 years ago in Top Gun. At this point, yes, it’s fair to call that an iconic image. And he won’t let By Lainey • Apr 12, 2017 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s time we knew Set during the 1967 riots, Kathryn Bigelow’s next film, Detroit, assembled a tremendous ensemble including Anthony Mackie, John Boyega, John Krasinski, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Jack Reynor, and Will Poulter, but the trailer is focused on Boyega, playing a young security guard in Detroit. His dilemma is compelling—he’ By Sarah • Apr 12, 2017 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Panther Cast Gets Out Have you seen Get Out yet? By now, you have no excuse. Sarah called it “OUTSTANDING” in all caps. Do you know how rare it is for Sarah to use all caps when she’s not eviscerating something? I haven’t seen a horror movie in a decade and I By Kathleen • Apr 12, 2017 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Stiletto, weapon Kathleen came into my office earlier because she’s producing an upcoming segment and she wanted my spring movie pick. My immediate answer was Atomic Blonde. But she said I had to save that for my summer movie pick as it doesn’t come out until July 28th. Fine. But By Lainey • Apr 11, 2017 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sonoya Mizuno is Araminta Lee If you have no idea who Araminta Lee is, it means you haven’t read Crazy Rich Asians. And if you haven’t read Crazy Rich Asians, I’m yelling at you to read Crazy Rich Asians. THR reported yesterday that Sonoya Mizuno has joined the cast of Crazy Rich By Lainey • Apr 11, 2017 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans in Gifted You know those dramatic reenactments that feature in murder mystery shows where it’s like watching aliens pretend to be people because while everything looks normal enough, the interactions are just ever so slightly stiff and unnatural, like everyone is super aware of the camera on them? And do you By Sarah • Apr 11, 2017 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intense Face in Paris Production is officially underway on Mission: Impossible 6 in Paris. Right now, the working title is “Gemini”. So… are we dealing with twins? Tom Cruise was photographed this weekend on set as they shot a car chase scene with him driving an old BMW. I’m assuming he busted out By Lainey • Apr 10, 2017 11:48 am
