Movie Reviews and Previews Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal A heavy metal drummer with four years of sobriety under his belt, Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is doing pretty okay. He and his girlfriend, Lou (Olivia Cooke), form a duo called Blackgammon and they live in their vintage Airstream, driving to gigs and rocking out. Until, that is, Ruben’s hearing By Sarah • Dec 03, 2020 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ready Player One is the nadir of fanboy culture Ready Player One is Steven Spielberg’s latest movie, a return to his populist roots and the escapist fantasies for which he is most famous. Based on poet Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name, RPO is a fanboy’s love letter to nostalgia and gatekeeping and now it’ By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Do not sleep on Thoroughbreds I already slept on The Love Witch, Anna Biller’s superbly stylized 2016 film about a witch addicted to love—it’s on Amazon Prime, so we can all get caught up—and I almost missed Thoroughbreds, so it is with the determination of not missing another offbeat genre flick By Sarah • Mar 23, 2018 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Spoilers, but also like, the title Like Whiplash before it, one film won both the Audience Award and the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Whiplash went on to bag five Oscar nominations, winning three of them. I don’t By Sarah • Jun 19, 2015 11:32 am
