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The Annoying Contradiction Of "Insurgent"
If this is a franchise about fighting for equality, why is its heroine’s specialness all about the way she was born? Theo James and Shailene Woodley in Insurgent Andrew Cooper / Lionsgate Like most...
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The "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" Trailer Has Everything You Want From...
“The time has come to dissolve the IMF”? Yeah, right. The new trailer for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation proves that this is the most Mission: Impossible installment of the franchise yet....
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This Is What You Need To Know About Jennifer Lawrence And Bradley Cooper's...
It’s called Serena, and there’s a reason you haven’t heard of it. 1. It exists. March 2015 has been a banner month for quiet disasters featuring huge stars. First there was The Cobbler, a little-seen...
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"Get Hard" Is So Eager To Offend That It Misses The Whole Point
Hipster racism, gay panic, and a little sexism, too. The Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart movie proves that what’s really gotten hard is edgy comedy. Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell in Get Hard Warner Bros....
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This Movie Will Fill That "Looking"-Shaped Hole In Your Heart
The HBO dramedy may be over, but at least we’ll always have Weekend. Tom Cullen and Chris New in Weekend IFC Films After a two-season run, HBO canceled Looking, its San Francisco Bay Area-set dramedy...
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How "Furious 7" Stacks Up To The Other "Fast And Furious" Movies
7. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) Eli Reed / Universal Studios Directed by: John SingletonWritten by: Michael Brandt, Derek HaasThe Fast and the Furious wasn't always the globe-trotting, gravity challenged,...
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How To Avoid The Haunting Monster Of "It Follows"
Would you be safe if you had sex with an astronaut? The writer and director of the disturbing film talks survival strategies with BuzzFeed News. Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD! Maika Monroe in It Follows....
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15 Times "Furious 7" Calls Back To The Earlier "Fast And Furious" Movies
I don’t have friends. I got a franchise (that’s really into continuity). Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD! Vin Diesel and his trusty Dodge Charger in Furious 7. Scott Garfield / Universal Pictures The Fast and...
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The Creepy-Sexy Sci-Fi Film You've Been Waiting For
Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, and Alicia Vikander star in Ex Machina, an unsettling and satisfyingly smart drama about artificial intelligence. Let’s just say: It’s no Chappie. Alicia Vikander in Ex...
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"The Longest Ride" Has Figured Out A New Way To Be Old-Fashioned
Nicholas Sparks’ latest does all the usual Sparks-y things, with one nifty casting trick. Scott Eastwood and Britt Robertson in The Longest Ride. Michael Tackett/Twentieth Century Fox Nicholas Sparks...
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Why Han Seoul-Oh Is The Greatest "Fast And Furious" Character
Sung Kang is the real star of the franchise. Sung Kang as Han Seoul-Oh in Fast Five. Jaimie Trueblood / Universal Studios There are many, many things to love about Furious 7, the latest, biggest, and...
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The '90s Asian Sitcom That Shows How Far We Haven't Come
Ian Chen, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler, and Constance Wu in Fresh Off the Boat. Ron Tom / ABC "You're not going to become actors," Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) scoffed last night on Fresh Off the...
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The First Movie To Get Cyberbullying Right
Universal Pictures The new movie Unfriended unfolds in a landscape that's familiar, but markedly weird to see on a big screen — a computer desktop, cluttered with files, open tabs, apps, and,...
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The Best Thing About "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" Is The Humanity
Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., and Chris Evans in Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Jay Maidment / Marvel Studios Of all the big developments and plot twists preloaded into Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of...
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There's A Weird, Old-Timey Rape Joke In "Avengers: Age Of Ultron"
Ew. Back in October, Marvel released this Avengers: Age of Ultron clip of the Avengers competing to see who can lift Thor's hammer. youtube.com Before Tony Stark gives it a try, he makes sure he'll...
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"Little Boy" Looks Like A Heartwarming Drama But Feels Like A Horror Movie
Open Road Films The new World War II drama Little Boy is about a kid who can kill people with his mind.Thing is, it doesn't realize this is what it's about. Little Boy sees itself as a heartwarming,...
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11 New Movies That Show Female Filmmakers Are Forces To Be Reckoned With
No need to wait for Wonder Woman to see something from a female director. Here are 11 new movies by women that played at the Tribeca Film Festival that should be on your radar. James Franco and Amber...
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Carey Mulligan's Dreamy New Feminist Costume Drama Romance
Matthias Schoenaerts and Carey Mulligan in Far From the Madding Crowd. Fox Searchlight Pictures Bathsheba Everdene doesn't need a husband.This is an unusual quality for the heroine of a costume drama,...
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Marvel Films And The Age Of Foreboding
Avengers: Age of Ultron Marvel Studios The first Marvel movie I really fell for, the first one I loved, was Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn's joyous, self-aware (but never self-mocking, never...
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31 Things All Half-Asians Know To Be True
Don’t worry, be hapa! NOTE: The word hapa comes from the Native Hawaiian term "hapa-haole" or someone who is part Native Hawaiian and part foreigner. But the word has been co-opted over time to...
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