Movie Reviews and Previews How do you feel about F1? Summer movie season is in swing, and normally by May I have a pretty good feeling about how the summer will go, but this year? F-ck if I know. There’s so much nerviness about the economy, it’s hard to tell how big the summer audiences will be. Sinners By Sarah • May 13, 2025 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews F1: Asphalt is not sky We saw a teaser for the Brad Pitt Formula 1 movie, F1, during the Super Bowl, but with the Australian Grand Prix upon us this weekend, the full trailer for F1 dropped and it is definitely Top Gun But Cars. F1 shares the same director, Joseph Kosinski, and the same By Sarah • Mar 14, 2025 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid, Disney’s latest live-action reboot of a classic animated film, begins with a quote from Hans Christian Andersen about suffering. It really sets the stage for what comes next. The Little Mermaid, in this incarnation written by David Magee and directed by Rob Marshall, is neither the By Sarah • May 26, 2023 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Little Mermaid highlights poor Caribbean representation The Little Mermaid is making quite the splash following the world premiere in Hollywood, which Sarah wrote about here. For the most part, Black people across the globe have been ecstatic to finally have a Black Ariel. But the excitement came to a bit of a halt, replaced instead with By Stephanie • May 12, 2023 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Under the sea with MONSTERS The world premiere of The Little Mermaid (live action redux) was last night in Los Angeles. Everyone turned up: Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay—grown up!—Daveed Diggs, who voices Sebastian in the film, and Viscountess Bridgerton herself, Simone Ashley, who plays one of Ariel’s By Sarah • May 09, 2023 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos Being the Ricardos, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, takes three things that happened in the lives of legendary entertainers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and compacts them into one fictitious week. While producing an episode of their hit show I Love Lucy, Walter Winchell outs Lucy (Nicole Kidman) as By Sarah • Dec 09, 2021 02:07 pm
Award Season Campaigning Nicole Kidman goes for the lead As Sarah and I have been saying, it’s a wide open Oscar race this year across almost all the major categories, including Best Actress. Nicole Kidman has been making a strong push right now with Being the Ricardos. Last week she was in New York, attending multiple screenings and By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Sorkin’s bad Ricardos takes A full trailer for Being the Ricardos has arrived, and it is…still not convincing. Seeing more of Nicole Kidman in motion as Lucille Ball isn’t making me feel better about the casting, it’s just doubling down on the initial impression that she’s the wrong type of By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman’s grape stomp Aaron Sorkin’s long-awaited biopic of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Being the Ricardos, is making its way to theaters and Amazon Prime this winter. In anticipation of that, the teaser trailer has arrived, and I am not feeling it. Not only does it have a flat look a la By Sarah • Oct 20, 2021 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey on the beach Cast your minds back a couple of years and recall that Halle Bailey, of Chloe x Halle, was cast to play Ariel in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. The film was delayed by the pandemic, having just begun rehearsals in London in early 2020 when everyone got sent By Sarah • Jun 14, 2021 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lucy-Desi casting curse Back in 2015, which was both five years ago and a hundred years ago, we learned that Aaron Sorkin was writing a biopic of Lucille Ball which would star Cate Blanchett. Now Sorkin is finally realizing the project, though it will no longer star Blanchett. Titled Being the Ricardos, the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee and Zendaya’s “glowing blue eyes” One of 2020’s most highly anticipated films is Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune, starring Timothee Chalamet. Dune is scheduled for release in December, late enough in the year that it hasn’t been affected (yet) by the pandemic. You can imagine the hype for this though, right? The By Lainey • Apr 14, 2020 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Prince Eric At Last Over the summer, pieces for the live-action Little Mermaid steadily came together, with Halle Bailey signing on to play Ariel, and Melissa McCarthy joining as Ursula, followed by Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay and Awkwafina as Flounder and Scuttle, respectively, and Javier Bardem as King Triton (brilliant choice, hiring By Sarah • Nov 13, 2019 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Everybody Knows with Penelope and Javier Following two Oscar wins for Best Foreign Language Film (A Separation and The Salesman, for which he did not accept his Oscar in person, in protest of Donald Trump’s travel ban), Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi takes us to a small, drama-drenched Spanish village for his latest film, Everybody Knows. By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: mother! Whoo boy are we in for a fight over mother!. Firstly because the trailers and marketing are MASSIVELY misleading—it isn’t a horror film or a riff on Rosemary’s Baby. And secondly because it’s the kind of film designed to be upsetting and polarizing, and is open By Sarah • Sep 11, 2017 08:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Penelope & Javier in Venice Some people have called Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet the Brange of France. If you are French and you want to dispute this, let me know, I’m not here to debate you. What I’m getting at is whether or not there’s an equivalent in Spain. Are Penelope By Lainey • Sep 06, 2017 12:26 pm
