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 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 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 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- By Sarah • Aug 23, 2016 04:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nobody You Care About in Ben-Hur In case you missed it, Paramount’s adaptation of Ben-Hur—already an iconic 1959 film starring Charlton Heston—sh*t the bed in a BIG way over the weekend, becoming one of the biggest flops of the summer. So, naturally, I went to see it. What I discovered is By Sarah • Aug 23, 2016 01:18 pm
Photo Assumption “Here’s to the mess we make” Andrew Garfield’s birthday was on Saturday. On Sunday he was with Emma Stone in London. It’s the first time they’ve been seen together since breaking up last year. They looked happy walking down the street, both with their hands in their pockets. Click here to see more By Lainey • Aug 23, 2016 12:19 pm
Quiveration Charlie’s “unique love story” Drake Doremus’s movies are always about love. Like Crazy was about love. And Equals was about love. And the people who are in love are young and hot. According to The Hollywood Reporter, his next movie is, once again, about love. And the stars of his next movie are By Lainey • Aug 23, 2016 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews On set with Thor & Loki Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston in Brisbane on the set of Thor 3 with director Taika Waititi. Apparently they’ve constructed the scene to look like New York City. Thor’s in human civilian clothes. Loki, however, doesn’t wear jeans. How can you have hair that bad and object By Lainey • Aug 22, 2016 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise wants more presents Extremely Rich Person Tom Cruise is holding up the production of Mission: Impossible – More? Punctuation! with his demands to be paid even more money than usual for his eleventeenth time portraying International Spy and Marathon Enthusiast Ethan Hunt. The movie has already been pushed back once, allegedly due to scripting By Sarah • Aug 22, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation press tour Nate Parker is the face of The Birth of a Nation. He will continue to be the face of The Birth of a Nation because, according to reports, Fox Searchlight is going ahead with plans to parade Parker, the alleged rapist, around during an extensive Oscar campaign. He’ll be By Kathleen • Aug 22, 2016 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black women and Nate Parker Yesterday, The Atlantic posted an article called, “Why the Debate Over Nate Parker Is So Complex.” outlining how, for black women especially, the conversation surrounding Nate Parker’s rape allegations and the future of The Birth of a Nation is really f-cking complicated. As a black woman, I will By Kathleen • Aug 22, 2016 09:01 am
