Movie Reviews and Previews Life finds a way To give you things you didn’t even know you want, such as Jeff Goldblum returning to the Jurassic franchise as sexy mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm. Last night it was announced that Goldblum will be in the as yet untitled Jurassic World sequel, joining Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, By Sarah • Apr 26, 2017 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kingsman with a side of Channing Tatum After a week of teasers—which is a BIT much—the first trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle finally dropped last night. It’s the sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service, once again from director Matthew Vaughn, who made the closest thing to a good X-Men movie, X-Men: First Class. By Sarah • Apr 25, 2017 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blond Ambition, the movie It was announced yesterday that Blond Ambition, a “script that topped the 2016 Black List”, has been acquired by Universal. Blond Ambition, of course, is about Madonna and the early days of her career when she was a struggling artist in New York, just before she recorded her first album. By Lainey • Apr 25, 2017 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise (and Henry Cavill’s Molestache) on set Filming for Mission: Impossible 6 – Pew Pew Noises is underway in Paris, shooting around the Grand Palais, which, as every publication feels the need to emphasize, is just a “four minute drive” from the Champs-Élysées, where there was an alleged terrorist attack last Thursday. Is it just me, or is By Sarah • Apr 25, 2017 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oprah’s perfect performance By now, you’ve probably read or at least scrolled passed one of the many reviews of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks that praise Oprah Winfrey’s performance. You’ve probably read the Bim Adewunmi piece for Buzzfeed that Lainey recommended called How Oprah Got Her Acting Groove Back. By Kathleen • Apr 24, 2017 09:21 am
Dumbass Chris Pratt: (Middle) American Hero Chris Pratt is currently promoting Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and as such is on the cover of Men’s Fitness. I have begun to feel like the more we hear from Pratt the less we like him, and I don’t think this interview is going to help By Sarah • Apr 21, 2017 03:24 pm
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
