Movie Reviews and Previews Queen & Slim, not Bonnie and Clyde A notable absence from this year’s fall festival tour (so far) is Queen & Slim, the feature film debut of “Formation” director Melina Matsoukas. I’m a little surprised Universal, the distributor, isn’t looking to put a little festival polish on this movie. It has as good a By Sarah • Aug 01, 2019 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o kicks ass and sings songs Just when you think The Walking Dead rode the zombie train all the way into the ground, 2019 brings us a slew of zombie comedies to revitalize the genre. First we had the dry, sardonic The Dead Don’t Die, later this year we have Zombieland: Double Tap, and now By Sarah • Aug 01, 2019 11:52 am
Idris Elba Idris Elba tries to explain Cats Idris Elba is currently promoting Hobbs & Shaw—full review later this week, but in short: I kinda love it? I think? I’m so unused to liking anything Fast/Furious it’s hard to tell—and he stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. While there, he mentioned By Sarah • Jul 31, 2019 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scorsese’s Avengers Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating mob opus, The Irishman, is finally coming out later this year, thanks to Netflix. It stars Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman who claimed on his deathbed to have killed Jimmy Hoffa. Al Pacino stars in The Irishman as Hoffa, and Harvey Keitel By Sarah • Jul 31, 2019 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews They’re fixing Lord of the Flies Luca Guadagnino continues to not make that Call Me By Your Name sequel as he is in talks to direct an adaptation of Lord of the Flies. This is not the gender-bent version previously announced, but a more traditional take on William Golding’s book. GOOD. A female-led version is By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RBatz is a crusty lighthouse keeper One of the outliers in this year’s Oscar race is The Lighthouse, the sophomore feature film from Robert Eggers. His previous film, The Witch, is a near-masterpiece, but Eggers, like Ari Aster, makes films in the horror tradition, so the Academy blows them off. This year, Eggers’ destined-to-be-ignored film By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 04:04 pm
TV Updates Kevin Hart is also joining Quibi Earlier, Prem wrote about Sasha Velour’s upcoming show on Quibi, the “bite-sized” streaming platform designed for quick hit entertainment. Whenever Quibi comes up in my social media, there’s a real air of condescension and thinly veiled contempt for it surrounding the news releases. But as Prem pointed out, By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart preps for Venice Here is Kristen Stewart out and about in Los Angeles, rocking long socks and jeans in ninety-degree heat. I’m all for tomboy chic, but I wonder about people who dress like this when it gets this hot. I’ve been having a Onesie Summer—every day it’s above By Sarah • Jul 29, 2019 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zombieland returns Zombieland was a surprise hit in 2009, popular enough that people speculated about a sequel, but the cast immediately blew up and got too busy to reunite. Until now, ten years later, and the gang is back together for Zombieland: Double Tap, a totally unnecessary sequel that looks stupid as By Sarah • Jul 26, 2019 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Quentin Tarantino’s wistful Hollywood fairytale You could never accuse Quentin Tarantino of being a brief storyteller, but even by his loquacious cinematic standards, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood is shambolic, a shaggy, unkempt story that wanders to and fro, sliding back and forth in time with extended flashbacks and multiple shows-within-a-show. The pacing is By Sarah • Jul 25, 2019 01:24 pm
TV Updates Send Bucky To Space For the first time, a Marvel Hall H announcement at Comic-Con this past weekend included television shows. To appease their corporate overlord, Marvel is developing a bunch of limited series for Disney+ which, unlike previous Marvel TV offerings, will be fully integrated in the MCU. TV shows to this point By Sarah • Jul 23, 2019 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Are we REALLY prepared for Taika Waititi? I feel like we’re not. Or rather, I feel like the world is not. I love Taika Waititi, he’s one of my favorite filmmakers working today. I take any and every opportunity to recommend his films, but I think a lot of the time, the recommendations go ignored. By Sarah • Jul 23, 2019 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s a beautiful day to cry Tom Hanks, America’s Dad, is starring as Mr. Rogers, America’s Best Person, in a biopic directed by Marielle Heller, so just start polishing those Oscars right now. It’s called A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and it’s framed around a journalist, played by Matthew Rhys, interviewing By Sarah • Jul 23, 2019 10:16 am
TV Updates Henry Cavill doesn’t talk Henry Cavill’s post-Superman career begins with a Netflix fantasy series, their moonshot at having their own Game of Thrones, The Witcher. It’s based on a book series but better known as a popular video game, though the television series would really rather you didn’t think of the By Sarah • Jul 23, 2019 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mahershala Ali wanted it to be so Marvel spent most of the Comic-Con panel confirming stuff we already knew, with a couple nice surprises along the way, but right at the end they pulled out a real showstopper. Just as the panel was winding down, Kevin Feige introduced “two-time Academy Award winner, Mahershala Ali,” who then came By Sarah • Jul 22, 2019 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cumberbatch & Olsen, your newest Marvel duo The weirdest of the Marvel TV shows, by far, is WandaVision. It’s weird mainly because Vision is dead, yet Paul Bettany is returning, and also it’s set post-Endgame. There’s a lot of “huh?” and “how?” surrounding this show. The key is that Scarlet Witch’s powers are By Sarah • Jul 22, 2019 02:43 pm
