Movie Reviews and Previews Issa Rae + Kumail Nanjiani = Couple of the Year Here’s something I didn’t know I wanted that I am now obsessed with: the trailer for The Lovebirds, a comedy starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani. I have watched this four times already, and will undoubtedly watch it four more times before the day is over. The Lovebirds By Sarah • Jan 16, 2020 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Bond must move on No Time to Die, the 25th Bond movie and Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007, comes out in April. In advance of that, Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson gave an interview to Variety that comes across as half reckoning with the end of Craig’s tenure By Sarah • Jan 16, 2020 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s slump continues with Underwater Kristen Stewart is having a rough time at the box office. Her latest effort in her return to the mainstream, Underwater, tanked over the weekend (no pun intended). It’s not like anyone expected box office fireworks in January, but Stewart, even spending the better part of the 2010s out By Sarah • Jan 14, 2020 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jared Leto, post-Joker In 2018, Sony fell backwards into a hit with Venom, a messy movie with an even messier production, but one that, almost in spite of itself, ended up making over $800 million. Now, Sony is expanding their Spider-Man universe of spin-offs with Morbius, starring Jared Leto in his By Sarah • Jan 14, 2020 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Double-nominee Black Widow Last night during the college football championship game, Marvel dropped a “special look” at Black Widow. The “special look” is mostly stuff from the teaser trailer, but we learn that part of Natasha’s challenge in her solo movie is squaring off with a “new generation” of Black Widows, and By Sarah • Jan 14, 2020 12:31 pm
We’ll always have Parasite Amid the Oscar nominations sturm und drang—mainly because the Academy as a whole refuses to reckon with their own biases and do the work of overcoming them—there are a few bright spots in the nominations. Shout out to Matthew Cherry’s animated short film, Hair Love, which is By Sarah • Jan 13, 2020 02:08 pm
Award Season Campaigning Joker is now 2019’s safest movie The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and somehow, in a year with a wealth of solid options that could provide a controversy-free Oscar month, the Academy still managed to irk and irritate. Lainey and Duana will have more on specific snubs and #OscarsSoMale on the next episode of By Sarah • Jan 13, 2020 12:06 pm
TV Updates Toss a coin to The Witcher Spoilers Like Game of Thrones, Netflix’s big-budget fantasy adaptation The Witcher is based on a series of fantasy books, in this case by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski (there is also a series of very popular video games). The Witcher is a fantasy world full of monsters, sorcery, tits, By Sarah • Jan 10, 2020 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie is now the good Harley Quinn The first trailer for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) was very promising. The second trailer has now arrived, and Birds of Prey still looks awesome. This trailer is doing everything right, from the excellent song choice to roller derby Harley to showing Harley blowing By Sarah • Jan 10, 2020 09:45 am
TV Updates Where does Star Wars go next? The Mandalorian, Star Wars’ first live-action television show of the Disney era, got off to a strong start. The final episode aired during the last week of the year and amazingly for Star Wars, the show actually lived up to its hype. The Mandalorian is almost hilariously spare, with By Sarah • Jan 09, 2020 04:42 pm
Dumbass #RoseTicoDeservedBetter The last week of the year is a liminal space. It is the abandoned shopping mall of time: It once was, it is not yet. Nothing happens in the last week of the year, when post-holiday blues and pre-New Year’s Eve nerves set in. And everything happens By Sarah • Jan 08, 2020 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Dolittle Cats 2.0? Robert Downey Jr.’s inexplicable passion project, Dolittle, comes out in two weeks. A new trailer arrived on New Year’s day to celebrate(?) this fact, and this time, it actually shows us RDJ as the man who talks to animals. The first trailer barely showed RDJ, but someone must By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to A Quiet Place A Quiet Place was one of the biggest hits of 2018, so it was not a surprise when John Krasinski decided to make a sequel. It was a little disheartening, because A Quiet Place is such a perfect, self-contained story, but in the blockbuster era of Hollywood, nothing is By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews X-Men’s death rattle Over two years ago, we saw a trailer for The New Mutants, a would-be spin-off in the X-Men universe, about a group of “troubled” teen mutants trapped in a creepy institution. That trailer looked ridiculous and was not a confidence builder, but then The New Mutants derailed By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rian Johnson’s Revenge Amidst all the caterwauling about Star Wars’ box office—which is fine by any and every measure—the real success story of the holiday season is Knives Out. It opened back in November, during the US Thanksgiving holiday, and it has trucked along steadily ever since, raking in over $247 By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 1917 starring Technical Achievement 1917, Sam Mendes’ World War I epic, is a technical marvel. Lensed by Roger Deakins in a series of long takes and edited by Lee Smith to appear as one continuous shot, 1917 is an incredibly gorgeous film, with many stunning images and sequences. One such sequence is shot at By Sarah • Dec 27, 2019 12:02 pm
