Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone looks bored in X-Men: Apocalypse The X-Men movies are wildly uneven, ranging from “highly enjoyable” to “utterly godawful”, but the prequel trilogy starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence has generally been good. That’s a great ensemble making fun movies that are good for the most part. But the trailers for the By Sarah • Mar 17, 2016 02:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Potter f*cks over some magicians … Is the best way of describing Now You See Me 2, judging by the new trailer. If you remember the first one—and why would you?—Morgan Freeman ended up in jail because Mark Ruffalo was the best magician in the world, or something like that. So the sequel is By Sarah • Mar 17, 2016 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who is Henry Cavill? Henry Cavill is promoting Batman vs Superman. It opens next week. We’ve been waiting – or told to wait – for two years. And it needs to be a big deal. Ben Affleck, undeniably, is a big deal. That’s only half the equation though. Is Henry Cavill a big deal? By Lainey • Mar 17, 2016 11:09 am
Quiveration Taron Egerton for Han Solo A couple of months ago, it was revealed that a long, LONG list of actors was being considered to play young Han Solo. Click here for a refresher. Then they narrowed it down to a shortlist, supposedly. And one of those actors on the shortlist was Scott Eastwood. You know, By Lainey • Mar 16, 2016 04:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde was “too old” Olivia Wilde was on Howard Stern this week. She’s promoting Vinyl, which I haven’t started watching yet, and I should, but again – there is SO MUCH GOOD TV! Anyway, she starts talking about working with Martin Scorsese (he’s producing Vinyl) and reveals that she auditioned for Wolf By Lainey • Mar 16, 2016 04:12 pm
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant appears Lainey usually hogs the Timothy Olyphant photos but she let me have these new shots of Olyphant on stage because I miss Justified so terribly and this is usually the time of year when I’m recapping Justified but there is no more Justified to be recapped and I’m By Sarah • Mar 16, 2016 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Garner in Miracles from Heaven Let’s start by acknowledging that I am a cynical asshole and not at all this movie’s target audience. Miracles from Heaven was not made for me but I have to review it anyway, and I do so knowing full well that what I identify as problems won’t By Sarah • Mar 16, 2016 12:46 pm
Quiveration Grey on Grey They’re shooting the Fifty Shades Of Grey sequel in Vancouver right now. There have been a lot of photos taken of the actors on set. I haven’t posted many, or any, because they haven’t been all that interesting until now. Not that this is really, really interesting. By Lainey • Mar 16, 2016 11:48 am
Media Manipulation Team Iron Man Last week Sarah wrote about the latest trailer for Captain America: Civil War. It was posted, however, with Iron Man as the feature photo. Click here for a refresher. Sarah did not appreciate this. Because I am Team Iron Man. I was told on Twitter that I’m on the By Lainey • Mar 15, 2016 04:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Indiana Jones is returning But without George Lucas this time. Does that make it better? It’s interesting that in the last decade Harrison Ford has revisited his two most beloved characters, Han Solo and Indiana Jones, and it turned out so wildly different. Everyone loved Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, By Sarah • Mar 15, 2016 03:48 pm
Break Ups Jennifer Garner and the “antsy” Ben Affleck God, the Master of the Universe, the Higher Power, whoever that entity is, s/he is a gossip. That’s how I choose to explain how this happened – that Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have found themselves promoting their own movies at the same time, 8 months after announcing their By Lainey • Mar 15, 2016 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen’s animated movie is a food horror story I am predisposed to be kind to Seth Rogen right now because the premiere of the TV show he’s producing, Preacher, was announced (May 22), and I am very much looking forward to this show and my friend E texted me from SXSW after the pilot screened there to By Sarah • Mar 15, 2016 11:12 am
Quiveration Jake at SXSW A couple of days after the Oscars, I overheard a conversation at work in the bathroom. It was two women, millennial age, talking about Leonardo DiCaprio. How amazing he is. How amazing his speech was, because he made it about the environment. How amazing it was that he finally won By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 04:54 pm
Maple Leaf Your move, BB-8 Many people thought Jacob Tremblay deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance in Room. Brie Larson won the Best Actress Oscar for Room. And what she gave us in that film could not have happened without the other person in that room – Jacob. Jacob was named Best Actor (over Christopher By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 04:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Go in knowing nothing about 10 Cloverfield Lane I hate the mystery box. I am not a fan of the JJ Abrams School of SECRETY SECRETS. It only worked once, with Cloverfield, because that movie came out of left field and had nothing to do with anything, so there were no preconceived notions or expectations about what it By Sarah • Mar 14, 2016 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Batman’s Robin’s boy shorts Ben Affleck recently gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly for their Superhero Face Punch issue in which he talks about his older, even more cynical Batman, and the open-ended promise of a Batfleck-directed Batman movie, but the thing nerds are fixating on is that Affleck confirms that at By Sarah • Mar 14, 2016 12:22 pm
