Movie Reviews and Previews Good morning, Angels Well this is a fun way to start the day. The first trailer for Elizabeth Banks’s reboot of Charlie’s Angels is here, and it is pretty fun. A little bit cool? Not at all bad. It doesn’t look like they’re breaking new ground here, but then By Sarah • Jun 27, 2019 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Directors take aim at Netflix After the Academy waffled earlier this year - led by Steven Spielberg - over whether or not to tighten eligibility rules to target streaming services, the Directors Guild of America actually did the thing, and tightened their eligibility rules. Under their new guidelines, day-and-date releases, in which a film premieres By Sarah • Jun 27, 2019 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep is the star of The Prom: The Musical – The Movie Around the time of Tonys, I learned there is such a thing as The Prom, a musical about prom, and I felt acute relief that I could go through life, not knowing anything about The Prom. But now, I must study up on The Prom, because Ryan Murphy is adapting By Sarah • Jun 26, 2019 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond 25: Everything is fine! Today, Empire released a first-look video of Bond 25 which might as well be titled “Bond 25: Everything is fine!”. After multiple incidents on set, including an injury to Daniel Craig and a slight out-of-control controlled explosion that injured a crew member, Bond 25 is course-correcting by showing us a By Sarah • Jun 25, 2019 02:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Red Sonja rescued Despite a searing expose detailing a litany of allegations against him, it seemed that director Bryan Singer would, ultimately, be just fine. Sure, his participation in Bohemian Rhapsody was a total sh-tshow, but the movie made nine hundred million dollars and won Oscars. And he already had another high-profile directing By Sarah • Jun 24, 2019 01:55 pm
Equality Issues The New LGBTQ Comedy Class The Hollywood Reporter’s comedy issue includes, appropriately for Pride Month, a feature on the up-and-coming LGBTQ stars of comedy. Their round-up includes Joel Kim Booster, Jaboukie Young-White, Sam Jay, and Bowen Yang. Booster broke out on Conan a few years ago—and just had a GREAT appearance on Vulture’ By Sarah • Jun 21, 2019 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Toy Story 4 is ABOUT the existential nightmare The Toy Story franchise has always had a latent streak of existential dread, but Toy Story 4 is the first one to fully embrace the nightmare and be ABOUT the existential horror of existence. These are stories predicated on the importance of friendship, and that is still present in Toy By Sarah • Jun 20, 2019 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendallandenhaal Everyone’s favorite young maybe-couple Hollywood, Tom Holland and Zendaya, are out and about, promoting Spider-Man: Far From Home. Jake Gyllenhaal is tagging along, making him the world’s handsomest third wheel. The three of them together are Zendallandenhaal, which sounds like a medieval province in Sweden. They’re doing By Sarah • Jun 20, 2019 02:20 pm
Douchebags A Max Landis expose finally arrives When Bright, that awful Netflix fantasy film about magic cops in Los Angeles, came out in December 2017, many people wondered when the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar would spit out screenwriter Max Landis’ name. He was long alleged to be a creep, and it seemed like finally his reckoning would By Sarah • Jun 19, 2019 12:56 pm
TV Updates GLOW’s Vegas residency GLOW is one of those shows I fear gets lost in the noise of Too Much TV. It’s an OUTSTANDING show, but it’s one of many outstanding shows, and it’s on Netflix, a platform that does not treat all their children the same (especially as seasons roll By Sarah • Jun 19, 2019 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel x3 Brie Larson also won an MTV Movie Award, for Best Fight in Captain Marvel. They singled out the “Carol vs. Minn-Erva” fight, which…was that the Nerf gun bit? I assume this is really for the whole third act of Captain Marvel, because Carol and Minn-Erva didn’t really throw By Sarah • Jun 18, 2019 02:23 pm
Girlcrushes Sandra Bullock shames her kids at the MTV Awards The MTV Movie & TV Awards aired last night, bringing with it an annual reminder of the march of time and our ever-growing disconnectedness with The Youths (nothing makes me feel as old as contemporary MTV, except maybe the Grammys), but there was an old-school Movie Star on hand for By Sarah • Jun 18, 2019 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Men in Black: International is the latest summer victim Barring Disney movies, the box office this summer (so far) has been kind of miserable. Audiences are not feeling all the sequels, but they’re not turning out for original movies, like Booksmart, The Longshot, and Late Night, either. This was another dismal weekend, with every new movie under-performing, including By Sarah • Jun 17, 2019 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A bunch of ghouls in The Dead Don’t Die Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature, The Dead Don’t Die, is a curious movie that exists in two realities at once: one in which it is good, and one in which it is bad. It’s like Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe in that it is By Sarah • Jun 14, 2019 01:34 pm
Josh Hartnett also got a job Last week, we discussed Orlando Bloom’s new job, an historical fantasy on Amazon Prime. This week, Josh Hartnett—the Proto-Orlando Bloom—also got a new job, also on a TV show. Hartnett’s show is called Paradise Lost, and it is a Southern Gothic mystery about a psychiatrist who By Sarah • Jun 13, 2019 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yellow Rose is a sneaky movie about country music and immigration At a time when mainstream country music has never been worse, movies have decided that country music is the language of unlikely dreamers. There are two movies this year about country-star hopefuls coming from unlikely places: Wild Rose is about an aspiring country singer from working class Glasgow, and Yellow By Sarah • Jun 13, 2019 01:09 pm
