Movie Reviews and Previews Dark and gritty Ghostbusters Another big summer 2020 movie dropped a trailer yesterday, as we get our first look at Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Ghostbusters movie that will restore this hallowed franchise about ghost-hunting nerds to the true fans, the toxic bros who wouldn’t let anyone enjoy a version about ghost-hunting nerds who happen By Sarah • Dec 10, 2019 10:51 am
TV Updates Watchmen: Causation is a two-way street Spoilers Watchmen’s penultimate episode, “A God Walks into Abar”, has a lot going on. It’s the entire history of Angela’s relationship with Cal/Doctor Manhattan, it explains how Adrian Veidt got to Europa, and where the Phillipses and Crookshankses came from, there is a time travel paradox, By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How long can Ryan Reynolds do this? One Fox movie that Disney didn’t sh-tcan after taking control of the studio earlier this year is Free Guy, a Ryan Reynolds project in which he plays Guy, a non-player character in a video game who gains sentience. The first trailer for Free Guy is here, and it looks By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 1984 has friends and Steve Trevor With Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker coming out in a couple weeks, all the big summer 2020 movies are starting to drop trailers which will be attached to Skywalker in theaters. It is also CCXP, the giganti-huge Brazilian comic con, which means this is the perfect time for Wonder By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in The Aeronauts The Aeronauts is one-half survival tale and one-half historical drama, based loosely on the story of James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) and Henry Coxwell’s ascent to a then-record height of 37,000, accomplished in a hot air balloon. Except for The Aeronauts, Coxwell has been replaced by the fictional Amelia By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 03:10 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: Angela’s next move There are only two episodes left of Watchmen, and everything is coming together, the puzzle is almost complete. The last dangling thread is what Adrian Veidt has to do with all this, and everything is else is pretty much down to who lives and who dies. As much as Watchmen By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Queen & Slim sits between two forms With Queen & Slim director Melina Matsoukas jumps from music videos to feature films, and her background in visual media shows in the style and rhythm of her long-form work. Queen & Slim is strikingly visual and operates almost like a series of vignettes connected by musical interludes. Matsoukas’s By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Irishman is Scorsese’s least glamourous gangster film Based on either a true story or an entertaining lie, depending on how hot your conspiracy thermometer runs, The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a union worker and alleged mob hitman who claimed at the end of his life to have assassinated Jimmy Hoffa (Al By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Parasite break the Korean Oscar curse? Parasite is one of the best films of the year, and it’s already landing on year-end lists, including earning a special award from the American Film Institute. This has, naturally, led to a discussion about its Oscar prospects, which is an interesting conversation for two reasons. One is that By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 04:14 pm
TV Updates Woody Harrleson and Justin Theroux revisit Watergate Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux both starred in beloved HBO dramas, True Detective season one for Harrelson, and The Leftovers for Theroux. Now, they are both returning to HBO, to star together in a limited series called The White House Plumbers, about the two men who planned the Watergate break-in, By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Florence Pugh party, Vogue Vogue would like you to know that Florence Pugh is cool, but not like TOO COOL, she’s just the right amount of cool. She’s an It Girl, but she’s not an It Girl because she doesn’t trip or do cheesy late night talk show bits. Vogue By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 12:56 pm
Mena Massoud We are failing Mena Massoud Earlier this year, I spent much of my Aladdin review raving about Mena Massoud, saying, “Let this be the takeaway of live-action Aladdin—the movie is completely mediocre, but Mena Massoud is A Star. If Aladdin gives us nothing else but Mena Massoud, then it has done its job,” and, By Sarah • Dec 04, 2019 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Bond has another bad day Poor James Bond, always having such bad days at work. Wouldn’t it be nice to see Bond just, like, chill out for a while? But no, the man can’t even retire without getting dragged back into the spy game. The first trailer for No Time to Die, the By Sarah • Dec 04, 2019 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow on her own At long last, and more than five years overdue, Black Widow has her own movie. The teaser for Black Widow was released this morning, and it looks…fine. If this was coming out sometime between 2012 and 2015, when fans were most loudly clamoring for a Black Widow standalone movie, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2019 11:15 am
TV Updates Watchmen: Big Blue Surprise Spoilers As we approach the end of Watchmen, we’re getting into serious spoiler territory, so tap out now if you’re not caught up. Okay? If you don’t want to be spoiled, now is the time to get gone. Throughout Watchmen’s run, I’ve been wondering what By Sarah • Dec 02, 2019 03:07 pm
TV Updates Watchmen’s Two Faces Over six episodes of Watchmen, a pattern has emerged. There are two central story tenets, one grounded in the expanded world of the show, centering on Angela Abar and the thematic exploration of race in America. The other grows outs of the original graphic novel and revolves around the plot— By Sarah • Nov 29, 2019 10:40 am
