Movie Reviews and Previews Kong: Skull Island – great monsters, unintentional comedy Kong: Skull Island opened this weekend with $61 million, which is a respectable spring opener, but well short of Godzilla’s $93 million haul in 2014. Kong is a prequel to Godzilla, and the second entry into Warner Brothers’ budding monster-centric cinematic universe, so slightly deflated numbers aren’t the By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 01:32 pm
TV Updates Tatiana Maslany goes 3 for 3 And barefoot, as she makes history at the Canadian Screen Awards, winning three different CSAs, one for Best Actress – Film for The Other Half, acting in Orphan Black (her fourth statue in a row for the role), and another for producing the show. Orphan Black was named Best TV Drama. By Joanna • Mar 13, 2017 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Atomic Blonde at SXSW The first trailer for Charlize Theron’s Atomic Blonde was released last week ahead of it the film’s premiere at SXSW this weekend. And, so far, the response has been generally positive, especially about Charlize’s performance. According to Consequence of Sound, she “is going down as this decade’ By Lainey • Mar 13, 2017 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Baby Driver After Edgar Wright dropped out of Ant-Man, he went to work on an original script he’d written called Baby Driver, which is not a helpful title. Is it about a baby who drives? A driver of babies? A person named “Baby Driver”? Turns out that last one was pretty By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman don’t fail us now I’m trying so hard to keep my expectations tempered because the DC movies are really good at trailers and really bad at everything else, but goddamn these Wonder Woman trailers are SO good. The latest is the “Origins” trailer, introducing us to Diana’s childhood and training on Themyscira. By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anna Kendrick in Table 19 The first thing you need to know is that despite the way its trailer makes it look, Table 19 is not a romantic comedy. The second thing you need to know is that it has an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I AM HERE TO DEFEND IT. Table 19 By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa Leo is a hated woman I think Netflix has a slight problem. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and debuted just a few weeks later on Netflix with no fanfare. Yesterday they released the trailer for The Most Hated Woman in America starring Melissa By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bargain Bin Little Mermaid There are several live-action Little Mermaid projects in the works, including one that has Lin-Manuel Miranda attached, but the first to theaters is The Little Mermaid brought to you by your worst nightmares because oh my god this movie looks ATROCIOUS. The totally bitching Atomic Blonde trailer dropped today but By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize is ATOMIC The poster for Charlize Theron’s upcoming Atomic Blonde came out a few days before the Oscars. When I wrote about it at the time, I said that I really liked the title change, especially because Atomic Blonde will open in the summer. A summer blockbuster with a bombass female By Lainey • Mar 10, 2017 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper Kristen Stewart won a Cesar Award for Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, and she now reteams with writer/director Assayas for a new movie called Personal Shopper. It’s a slightly trashy weird artsy Euro horror movie, and while it won’t be for everyone, it did scare By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews He’s still making signs As you know, they’re shooting the 10 minute Love Actually sequel for Red Nose Day right now in London. This week, Keira Knightley, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Andrew Lincoln were seen on set. Not that you need reminding but that was the storyline of course that involved Keira and Chiwetel By Lainey • Mar 09, 2017 04:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews New Wave Thor Entertainment Weekly has the first look at Thor: Ragnarok on its cover this week, and it is an Eighties-fantastic explosion of COLOR and LIGHT and HAIR. Thor’s got an entirely new look, including a new haircut—which I am way into—and a suspiciously missing hammer. I have never By Sarah • Mar 09, 2017 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Michelle Yeoh Constance Wu was confirmed recently as the star of the upcoming film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians playing Rachel, who falls in love with Nick, and then finds out Nick is a member of Singapore’s richest craziest family. Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Michelle Yeoh By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 04:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Geostorm looks gloriously dumb Sometimes a trailer comes along and lights up your life with how gloriously f*cking dumb the movie looks, and today that trailer is Geostorm, a movie in which Gerard Butler saves us from the weather. In the grand tradition of Twister, Volcano, Dante’s Peak, 2012, The Day After By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 04:16 pm
Break Ups Scarjo’s divorce gets complicated When it was announced in January that Scarlett Johansson and Romain Dauriac had broken up, the two made a point of stepping out together that same night to show that they too are consciously uncoupling. But, as I wrote at the time, the circumstances seemed… off. Scarjo’s sources claimed By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 03:53 pm
Gorgessity Kristen Stewart’s buzzcut Kristen Stewart showed off her brand new bleach blonde buzzcut yesterday to promote her film Personal Shopper. As we've seen, her hair has been getting shorter and shorter for a while. So I don't think, at least for me, that this is as drastic as it By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 01:07 pm
