Movie Reviews and Previews Lingua Franca: An Intimate Portrait of a Trans Immigrant Experience Filipina filmmaker Isabel Sandoval’s third feature film is an intimate look into the private life of a trans Filipina immigrant. Written, directed, starring, and produced by Sandoval, herself a trans Filipina immigrant, Lingua Franca should not be mistaken as autobiography. The film is steeped in her experience, but Sandoval’ By Sarah • Sep 01, 2020 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill & Ted party on Almost thirty years since they last graced screens, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan return to cap off an unexpectedly wonderful trilogy about a couple of time-travelling doofuses who have to save the world. If you are not already a Bill & Ted fan, Bill & Ted Face By Sarah • Aug 31, 2020 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman leaves an unassailable legacy It is hard to think about the passing of Chadwick Boseman and not think about all that he never had time to do. At Howard University he earned a BFA in directing, and as a young playwright he received a Jeff Award nomination for New Work in 2006 for his By Sarah • Aug 31, 2020 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews About that Tenet review Over the next couple of weeks, new films will start rolling out in theaters in North America for the first time in five months (yes, I am wantonly disregarding the garbage exploitation film Unhinged, starring Russell Crowe, in this timeline). This means I should be going back to work as By Sarah • Aug 27, 2020 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Enola Holmes: A spunky teenaged detective! The first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming movie Enola Holmes has dropped, and while Henry Cavill is trending because people are thirsty, I am here for Millie Bobby Brown as a spunky teenaged detective. Based on Nancy Springer’s YA mystery series, Enola Holmes is about Sherlock Holmes’s younger By Sarah • Aug 25, 2020 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad lines up for roll call The DC Fandome event gave us plenty of new trailers and teasers to goggle at, from wishful Wonder Woman to samesies Justice League to weirdo Goth Batman, but one of the more promising teasers comes from The Suicide Squad, James Gunn’s soft reboot of the 2016 Suicide Squad. Though By Sarah • Aug 25, 2020 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome back to the Justice League On Saturday, Warner Brothers hosted an online event called “DC Fandome” which is the 2020 virtual event stand-in for Comic-Con. It was okay! Watching Zoom calls is Not Fun, but it was a well-produced, 24 hour roll out of constant new footage/concept art/headlines for Warner Brothers. They have By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batman gets Goth and weird Matt Reeves’ The Batman was only filming for a couple months at the beginning of this year before it was shut down (and Robert Pattinson devoted his quarantine to nightmare-inducing Italian bakes), but that did not stop Reeves from debuting a trailer during DC’s Fandome event. The first look By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s wishful thinking Here is the DC movie I am most excited to see, Wonder Woman 1984 dropped a new trailer during the DC Fandome event this weekend. It’s such a good time! Diana lassoing lightning? Awesome! Cheetah’s punk style? Cool! Steve Trevor doing a 1980s fashion montage? Fun! Wonder Woman By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke in Tesla The problem with depicting genius in film is that we don’t understand genius. We don’t know where it comes from, why it varies in degree, or why it sometimes, inexplicably, leaves. Genius is a part of the human condition that we understand even less than love. Most films By Sarah • Aug 21, 2020 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenneth Branagh is back with his ferret-face The first trailer for Death on the Nile, the sequel to Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express, dropped this week, so you know what that means…it’s the return of Kenneth Branagh’s ludicrous Hercule Poirot mustache! In Orient Express, Branagh’s first turn as Poirot, I By Sarah • Aug 21, 2020 01:30 pm
Douchebags Justice League is under investigation Last month, actor Ray Fisher, who portrayed Cyborg in Justice League, alleged that Joss Whedon’s treatment of cast and crew during reshoots of Justice League was “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable”. Now WarnerMedia has opened an investigation into the Whedon-led part of the production: https://twitter.com/ray8fisher/ By Sarah • Aug 21, 2020 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Batfleck’s back, alright! The news that Ben Affleck will, after retiring from the role, return as Batman in an upcoming DC movie is a huge surprise, BUT ALSO, it perfectly scans with the melody of “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”. It’s not the most important detail to discuss about this news, but I By Sarah • Aug 21, 2020 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde got a secret Marvel project Yesterday, news got out that Olivia Wilde has bagged a new directing gig, to develop and make an unnamed Marvel movie for Sony. That means this will be part of the Spider-verse, and speculation is that Wilde will be making a Spider-Woman movie. She seems to be encouraging that thinking: By Sarah • Aug 20, 2020 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sofia Coppola’s Woody Allen movie Unfortunately, it’s not an expose, but Sofia Coppola’s new film, On the Rocks, is emitting steady Woody Allen vibes. On the Rocks finds Rashida Jones playing a self-doubting New Yorker sinking into relationship despair who goes on an odyssey through Manhattan accompanied by a quirky sidekick; in this By Sarah • Aug 20, 2020 10:45 am
TV Updates Netflix killed Patriot Act just in time for the election Perhaps to avoid any potential election-season controversy, Netflix has cancelled Hasan Minhaj’s late-night-style talk show, Patriot Act after six “seasons” (really, three cycles over two years). Minhaj announced the cancellation on his Twitter: https://twitter.com/hasanminhaj/status/1295726954751168517 As Cody has previously noted, Netflix does not have a By Sarah • Aug 19, 2020 02:58 pm
