Movie Reviews and Previews Leave room for 1917 1917 is a World War I movie directed by Sam Mendes. I keep getting this confused with Peter Jackson’s colorized documentary about World War I, They Shall Not Grow Old. I don’t know why, they don’t really look anything alike beyond the surface similarities of setting, but By Sarah • Oct 04, 2019 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi and Ryan Reynolds have never met New York Comic-Con has begun, starting the hype train for projects that weren’t ready in time for San Diego Comic-Con. This includes Free Guy, the mostly-under-the-radar action comedy Ryan Reynolds shot over the summer with Night at the Museum and Stranger Things director Shawn Levy. (Free Guy is written By Sarah • Oct 04, 2019 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Clint Eastwood’s annual late entry It’s practically a rite of passage in Oscar season at this point: Clint Eastwood showing up late with a movie no one realized he had finished already. (He works fast because he gets everything in one take, even if that one take is sh-t, it’s the take, move By Sarah • Oct 03, 2019 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gentlemen seems past its sell-by date Guy Ritchie is following the billion-dollar success of Aladdin by going back to his roots and making an English gangster movie, The Gentlemen. The trailer boasts “From the director of Sherlock Holmes and Snatch”, no mention of Aladdin despite it being Ritchie’s most successful film. It’s almost like By Sarah • Oct 03, 2019 11:44 am
Dumbass Todd Phillips thinks we’re too woke By far the most insufferable part of the Joker press tour has been its director, Todd Phillips, who will not stop blaming “wokeness” for the current state of comedy. His latest comments are included in Joaquin Phoenix’s Vanity Fair profile, and they’re as insightful and thoughtful as you’ By Sarah • Oct 02, 2019 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker is not dangerous, daring, or provocative If ever there was a movie that does not live up to its hype, it is Todd Phillips’ much debated Joker. A stripped down, deconstructed comic book movie, Joker is supposedly the most inflammatory, dangerous, provocative film of the year—of the era!—a movie that is maybe causing a By Sarah • Oct 02, 2019 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Get ready for the 6 Underground Challenge Netflix has gotten in the habit of betting big in December, creating an at-home offer to counter the usual blockbuster cinematic treat (this year: The Last Jedi). Last year it was Bird Box, the year before that: Bright. This year the Netflix holiday bet is a Michael Bay movie starring By Sarah • Oct 01, 2019 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Harley Quinn got her groove back I have two wishes for pop culture in 2020. One is that Dev Patel becomes the next James Bond. The other is that we take Birds of Prey as seriously as we’re taking Joker. I want a full Harley Quinn Discourse. I want us to discuss the emotional, romantic, By Sarah • Oct 01, 2019 03:09 pm
Dumbass Justin Bieber’s Insta cats I have a cat named Pancake. She is very beautiful, and wherever she goes people comment on her appearance and her incredibly soft coat. Pancake waits for me at the door and likes to lie on my feet and follows me around and talks to me constantly. Pancake has the By Sarah • Oct 01, 2019 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man Shocker One month after a very public divorce, Marvel and Sony have gotten together for one last bout of makeup sex and will co-produce a final Spider-Man film together. This will allow Tom Holland to finish his era as Peter Parker under the Marvel banner, and keep his trilogy intact and By Sarah • Sep 27, 2019 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sylvester Stallone: Red-Blooded Murrican Gits-Er-Done The Rambo franchise has always been an uneasy mix of bloody action and conservative philosophy, which has mostly not mattered to audiences. The first movie, First Blood, has a sheen of respectability about it, with a literary source (David Morrell’s novel of the same name), an Oscar-winning star and By Sarah • Sep 27, 2019 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Renee Zellweger in Judy Music biopics live and die by their star performer, so even though Judy is a rote exercise in the genre, Renee Zellweger’s sublime performance lifts the film to above-average status. Focusing on the last year of Judy Garland’s life, Judy is a compassionate and relatively intimate portrait of By Sarah • Sep 27, 2019 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Feige steps to Star Wars In a surprising, but yet not surprising, announcement, it has been revealed that Marvel boss Kevin Feige will produce a Star Wars movie. Feige is a huge nerd, so it’s not shocking he would have an idea for a Star Wars project, but also, does Marvel not keep him By Sarah • Sep 26, 2019 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Irishman …video game? A couple months ago we got a teaser for Martin Scorsese’s mob passion project, The Irishman. This is the movie with extensive digital de-aging of its stars, and at the time I said, “They still have a few months to get it all fixed up”. Well, The Irishman is By Sarah • Sep 26, 2019 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Bateman in the conservatory with the candelabra with Ryan Reynolds Straight off his surprise win for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series at the Emmys, Jason Bateman is in talks to direct his first feature film, a remake of the board game movie Clue. Bateman is also up for a role in the film, which would put him up against By Sarah • Sep 26, 2019 12:18 pm
TV Updates Bill Hader is asked the Gillis Question I have to be honest, I am baffled that we are discussing Shane Gillis’s firing from SNL as if it is some kind of moral or free speech issue. 1) Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences, no one is arresting Gillis for what he said but By Sarah • Sep 25, 2019 03:09 pm
