Dumbass Mark Ruffalo can be both I don’t know if you know this, but the internet can be frustrating. No, but seriously. That whole expression ‘this is why we can’t have nice things’ is always on my mind. When Beyoncé drops LEMONADE, there are people who, instead of appreciating it, say “Yeah but white By Duana • Sep 02, 2016 11:16 am
Style La La Land opens Venice To great reviews. A couple of roundups of the critical responses here and here. Even before its premiere, La La Land was expected to be an Oscar contender. It was originally supposed to open this past July. They then pushed it back to December which means that already back in By Lainey • Sep 01, 2016 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston’s Bond dream isn’t dead yet Earlier this week UK paper The Sun published a list of actors supposedly up for consideration as the next James Bond which includes the usual suspects—Idris Elba and Tom Hiddleston—and also people like Michael Fassbender and Luke Evans. The Sun’s list reads like a cross between Tumblr By Sarah • Sep 01, 2016 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Watching Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander fall in love Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander will walk their first red carpet together tomorrow at the worldwide premiere of The Light Between Oceans at the Venice Film Festival (the premiere of Steve Jobs at NYFF last October does not necessarily count). It's interesting too, because this is the movie By Joanna • Aug 31, 2016 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins The catch-up continues with Meryl Streep’s latest Oscar vehicle, Florence Foster Jenkins. I want to sh*t on this movie for being too saccharine and unevenly balanced between its two leads, but this movie is explicitly about NOT sh*itting on people who are trying really hard, even if By Sarah • Aug 31, 2016 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller and Jonah Hill in War Dogs Playing a little catch up as we close out August, starting with Todd Phillips’ latest bro-nightmare movie, War Dogs. For a director known for comedies—namely The Hangover trilogy, but also Road Trip, Old School, and Due Date, among others—Phillips doesn’t seem to like directing comedies. He got By Sarah • Aug 31, 2016 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Get Down I feel like I should apologize for not getting to The Get Down sooner. But now that I’m here, I’m looking around what feels like a mostly empty room and wondering where everyone else is. Have you watched The Get Down? No? Why not? Maybe it doesn’t By Sarah • Aug 30, 2016 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s roommate Darryl At Comic-Con Marvel had several videos that played during their panel, but they only released one, a new trailer for Doctor Strange. Everything else stayed under the seal of Hall H, because it is possible to show stuff in Hall H and not have it pirated, you just have to By Sarah • Aug 29, 2016 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pete’s Dragon: a reason to go to the movies So far, it’s been kind of a sh*t year for film. The highlights have been incredibly high (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Green Room, Swiss Army Man, Captain America: Civil War), but they’re vastly outnumbered by a slew of utter dreck, and more than once this year, I’ By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kubo and the Two Strings: Who is watching this? The animation house Laika makes beautiful jewel-box movies, all done in distinctively macabre stop-motion animation, and even when their aesthetic leans into “ugly on purpose” territory—as in their two previous films, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls—their films are visually stunning. Their latest is Kubo and the Two Strings, a By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster in Hell or High Water Sometimes you try to get to a movie to review it, but it keeps not working out, and you start to think that maybe you should just let this one go. I had just about reached that point with Hell or High Water when my schedule finally lined up and By Sarah • Aug 26, 2016 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah Paulson is the 8th? Deadline reported yesterday that Sarah Paulson is in early talks to join the cast of Oceans 8. They’ve confirmed 7 so far. Production is scheduled to begin in October. Most of Sarah’s acclaimed work the last few years has been on television. But she was f-cking devastating in By Lainey • Aug 26, 2016 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Manchester by the Sea is the new Oscar favorite At Sundance, the Kenneth Lonergan movie starring Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea, closed a big $10 million deal. Between the big sale and buzz coming from the festival, it felt like a sure bet for Oscar, and that Casey might finally step out of big brother Ben’s shadow. By Sarah • Aug 25, 2016 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Assholes In today’s “There’s Absolutely No Way This Ends Badly” news, Sean Penn and Mel Gibson are going to star in a movie together. The movie, The Professor and the Madman, is an adaptation of Simon Winchester’s book about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and Gibson By Sarah • Aug 25, 2016 10:54 am
Style Rachel Weisz’s Complete Unknown I had to check on the last time I posted about Rachel Weisz. She was namechecked briefly in February when Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue came out. But that was just a passing mention. And before that it was during the Bond press tour when she was with Daniel Craig By Lainey • Aug 24, 2016 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Thor & Loki Filming continues in Brisbane for Thor: Ragnorak, which means yet more photos of Thor and Loki walking around in civvies (I love how, in street clothes, Loki always looks like the older sibling). Now that everyone in Australia knows where they’re filming, crowds are gathering to watch the goings-on, By Sarah • Aug 23, 2016 04:14 pm
