Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman is serious business We are now one month away from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the sequel to the surprise 2018 superhero hit, Aquaman. The first trailer was okay, the second trailer is also okay. I do think they’re doing a really good job laying out the basic premise and stakes: Black By Sarah • Nov 21, 2023 12:37 pm
TV Updates Send in the clowns, Yahya’s doing another superhero thing Earlier this year, Emmy-winning actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II riled up comic book movie nerds when he called acting in superhero movies “clown work”. Abdul-Mateen won his Emmy for playing Dr. Manhattan on Watchmen, and he plays the villain Black Manta in the Aquaman movies, which is what he was specifically By Sarah • Nov 01, 2022 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maximum Bayhem in Ambulance Ambulance is at once extremely Michael Bay, and perhaps the first entry into a new phase of the Bay canon, in which Bay, one of the great technical directors of the contemporary era and also one of the most consistently hyper-masculine and patriotic in a way that borders, and frequently By Sarah • Apr 07, 2022 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal is a charismatic outlaw Earlier this year, we saw Jake Gyllenhaal at work on Michael Bay’s new movie, Ambulance, which is now set for release in February 2022. February isn’t the death knell it once was, though it’s still not a confidence builder. Does Michael Bay need the boost, though? His By Sarah • Oct 22, 2021 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris in Candyman Candyman opened at #1 at the US box office over the weekend, making Nia DaCosta the first Black female director to open a #1 film in North America. That is simultaneously a great accomplishment for her, and sad/embarrassing for the industry at large that it took until 2021 for By Sarah • Aug 30, 2021 01:47 pm
