Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone is against Maverick Maverick: Legend of the Skies (aka Top Gun: Maverick, the lesser title) had a spot during the Super Bowl that shows off heavy breathing and everyone being Out To Get Maverick (Legend of the Skies). We see more of that amazing flight footage while getting voice-over from Miles Teller By Sarah • Feb 03, 2020 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow’s OTHER family The Super Bowl has become a major drop day for movie trailers and this year, even with a couple studios sitting it out (Sony and Warner Brothers), is no different. Over the course of game day—spiraling ad costs have driven some studios to slate their TV spots in the By Sarah • Feb 03, 2020 02:30 pm
Taika Waititi Taika reclaims the gold Taika Waititi was a surprise winner at the BAFTAs, claiming Best Screenplay (Adapted). Jojo Rabbit has been frequently nominated this award season, but Team Jojo hasn’t been winning of the big prizes (though editor Tom Eagles did win an “Eddie” award for best comedy editing from the American Cinema By Sarah • Feb 03, 2020 12:27 pm
Equality Issues Joaquin Phoenix calls out #BAFTASoWhite Joaquin Phoenix is the undisputed Best Actor of the 2019/20 award season, cleaning up everywhere he goes, and the BAFTAs were no different. Since he is the undisputed champ, he actually prepared an acceptance speech in advance of his latest win. His Golden Globes speech was clearly unprepared, the By Sarah • Feb 03, 2020 10:08 am
Style Taika with one week to go The Oscars are next weekend. Final voting opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday. Despite not being a frontrunner—TIFF’s Peoples’ Choice award will not align with Best Picture this year—Taika Waititi is still campaigning for Jojo Rabbit. Last night he made an appearance at the 92nd Street Y, By Sarah • Jan 31, 2020 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively in The Rhythm Section Super Bowl weekend is typically the softest box weekend of the year, and that is not expected to change this year. If January is a graveyard for unwanted movies, then Super Bowl weekend is an abandoned house on a dead-end road with a mysterious locked room in the basement By Sarah • Jan 31, 2020 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen I’m going to revise an opinion. I came down pretty hard on the 2015 Guy Ritchie movie, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Since then, however, Ritchie has made King Arthur— bad—and Aladdin— bland—and now The Gentlemen, which is a return to Ritchie’s technical By Sarah • Jan 28, 2020 04:28 pm
TV Updates The Goop Lab is mercenary and cynical snake oil I walked away from Gwyneth Paltrow’s first In Goop Health summit thinking it was a borderline snake oil convention, mostly harmless on the surface but with some predatory, potentially damaging undertones. The Goop Lab, however, is In Goop Health times a thousand. In Goop Health, it turns out, was By Sarah • Jan 28, 2020 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Watch Bambi’s mom die for real Disney’s live-action remakes have been wildly successful—the only real miss is Pete’s Dragon, which remains the best of the lot, as an actual film and not just an exercise in IP management—so it is not surprising that a new version of Bambi is in the By Sarah • Jan 27, 2020 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Bond is working hard I have not been super enthusiastic for the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die, which is partly because the Bond movies of the Daniel Craig era are not dependably good, but also because I did not care for the serialization offered by Spectre—why does everything have to By Sarah • Jan 22, 2020 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2020: 10 to Watch Sundance kicks off on Thursday, and this year’s slate is VERY stacked with promising entries. I sat down to make up a list of ten interesting titles and immediately had almost thirty films singled out. I had to make some tough calls to whittle the list down to ten By Sarah • Jan 22, 2020 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Martin Lawrence: Bad Boys is revived Seventeen years after Bad Boys II, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for Bad Boys for Life, which is equal parts sequel and soft reboot. If you’re thinking that a “seventeen years later” Bad Boys movie will be full of dad jokes and aging references, you will be right. By Sarah • Jan 21, 2020 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie’s test Margot Robbie is having a busy winter. She’s in the middle of award season as an Oscar nominee, and she has Birds of Prey opening on February 7, which is Oscar weekend. Over the next few weeks she’ll be splitting her time between nominee appearances and Birds of By Sarah • Jan 20, 2020 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 1917 vs. Parasite Over the weekend, the two biggest industry guilds, the Producers’ Guild of America and the Screen Actors’ Guild, held their awards. On the film side, the PGA went for 1917 as their best picture, and SAG gave Parasite the Best Ensemble Cast award, their equivalent of best picture. Parasite is By Sarah • Jan 20, 2020 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Downey, Jr. in Dolittle Cats broke me. I can no longer tell what is “good” and what is “bad”. There is only “Cats” and “not Cats”. In that sense, Robert Downey, Jr.’s new movie, Dolittle, is not Cats. I don’t know if that makes it good by default, or just not Cats. By Sarah • Jan 17, 2020 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Unofficial Uncut Gems Spin-Off In the end, the Academy was not cool enough to nominate Uncut Gems for any Oscars. But don’t worry, Adam Sandler got a gold man of his own, sort of. Yesterday the Safdie Brothers, the directors of Uncut Gems, released a short film online titled Goldman vs. Silverman. It By Sarah • Jan 17, 2020 09:59 am
