Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah’s Top 10 of 2016 Captain America: Civil War Paying off years of story and character work, and servicing a cast numbering in the double-digits, somehow Civil War doesn’t collapse under its own weight. It delivers on both the action front, with the best superhero battle ever filmed, and the character front, executing the By Sarah • Dec 16, 2016 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Styles’s acting debut Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s inevitable World War II movie – it’s practically a rite of passage for male filmmakers of a certain age to make a WWII movie—released its first trailer yesterday, marking the official acting debut of Harry Styles. There’s more Harry Styles than Tom Hardy in By Sarah • Dec 15, 2016 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan makes the leap Over the last couple years Sebastian Stan has enjoyed a visible career bounce thanks to Marvel, picking up roles in big-deal movies, like The Martian, and Steven Soderbergh’s return to feature film, Logan Lucky, as well as higher profile indies like We Have Always Lived in the Castle. And By Sarah • Dec 14, 2016 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston and James Franco in Why Him? Why Him? is more than just a Christmas comedy, and more than a fish-out-of-water, meet-the-family tale. It’s a deep philosophical exploration of the inescapable loneliness that haunts us all, which is inevitably exacerbated by the tide of false cheer and forced goodwill that is the holiday season. Why Him? By Sarah • Dec 13, 2016 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston in Office Christmas Party On the heels of Bad Santa 2 comes Office Christmas Party, another sub-par Christmas “comedy” in which actors play characters that are more like guesses about what real people are like than representations of actual human people. But besides being a Christmas movie this is also an office comedy that By Sarah • Dec 13, 2016 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The F8 of the Furious The eighth Fast/Furious movie has an official title and it is The Fate of the Furious and somehow, miraculously not F8 of the Furious. To whoever chooses the names for these movies—YOU HAD ONE JOB. How do you not name it F8 of the Furious?! It’s RIGHT By Sarah • Dec 12, 2016 01:29 pm
Music Taylor Swift in February People lost their minds last night because Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik released a song. Kathleen made me laugh earlier when I texted her to tell her that I had to admit that I liked it. She wrote back that “Omg I tried so hard to hate it. I can’ By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain is Miss Sloane Miss Sloane has one of the best trailers of the year, and it also features one of the most interesting performances of 2016. Jessica Chastain’s portrayal of the film’s title character singlehandedly elevates Miss Sloane from a Confirmation-esque TV movie about a woman with a cause, to a By Joanna • Dec 09, 2016 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Go into the matrix to find the apple Sarah emailed me the new trailer for Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed this morning. “Jesus Christ, does anyone understand this premise? I play these games and I'm kinda WTF-ing it.” I don’t play these games and now, having seen this trailer, I think Assassin’s Creed By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in Allied Marion Cotillard went into promotion on Assassin’s Creed right after Allied. Allied has not performed well at the box office. There’s nothing particularly wrong with Allied. From a craft standpoint, it’s well made. Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard don’t deliver the performances of their lives, but By Sarah • Dec 09, 2016 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Friendly Baby Spider-Man Among superhero movies, Spider-Man has produced among the best (Spider-Man 2) and worst (Spider-Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man 2) examples of the genre. So the three-boot of the franchise, Spider-Man: Homecoming, has to at the very least not suck like the Amazing movies, and at best, hopefully match or even top By Sarah • Dec 09, 2016 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma & Ryan’s weekend Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling were immortalised together in Hollywood the other day. When I posted about this yesterday, I wondered whether or not that was premature – and most of you agreed. Now though, is it up to them to live up to it or us to ask them to By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sing is a joy jukebox Sometimes it’s impossible to dislike a movie. There are just some movies that, no matter how many problems they may have, are so winsome and entertaining that you—happily—overlook flaws because of the feelings. Sing is one such movie. Following up on the success of The Secret Life By Sarah • Dec 08, 2016 01:13 pm
BFFs Missing Taylor Swift The premiere of Office Christmas Party last night in LA. Jennifer Aniston and Katy Perry were both there. And hanging out together. Which of course is notable because of John Mayer. Obviously he's not a factor. Which is how it should be. PS Jennifer and Gwyneth are also By Lainey • Dec 08, 2016 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock and Zac Efron have muscles That is the takeaway from the Baywatch trailer. Lots of slow-motion beach running. Lots of shirtless dudes and half-naked women. Lots of abs. So many abs. What storyline? All the abs. The trailer dropped this morning and it’s exactly what I expected from a Baywatch remake starring Dwayne The By Kathleen • Dec 08, 2016 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa 2 This week I am attempting to watch all of the holiday-centric new releases and so far, while I haven’t hit the low of Love The Coopers, I also haven’t seen a seasonal gem like The Night Before. Christmas movies are hard to get right, which is why there By Sarah • Dec 07, 2016 06:02 pm
