Movie Reviews and Previews This is not a romantic movie Lainey emailed me yesterday after she clicked on something that said, “Florence Pugh breakup movie”, only it turned out to be the new trailer for Midsommar, Ari Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary. Lainey does not handle horror well, so I think she might be scarred for life now. The first By Sarah • May 15, 2019 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 3 - the Best John Wick of them all In the midst of superhero dominance at the cinema, Keanu Reeves and his stunt pals Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, along with screenwriter Derek Kolstad, launched an original action franchise based on a simple premise: Watching Keanu Reeves fight people is cool, we’ll do that for two hours. John By Sarah • May 14, 2019 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes Preview 2019: Elle Fanning Fashion Parade Elle Fanning is on the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow, so all you really need to know is that this is a red alert, ELLE FANNING FASHION PARADE moment. She wore one of my all-time favorite red carpet dresses at Cannes in 2017. By Sarah • May 14, 2019 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina’s perfect witch cackle Angelina Jolie has recently rebranded herself as the First Lady of Disney, a path lit up by the live-action remake of Maleficent that came out a few years ago. It’s an okay movie, it has some interesting revisionist ideas—something lacking in the other live-action remakes (except for Pete’ By Sarah • May 14, 2019 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson in The Hustle In the last few years, we have seen several gender-swapped remakes of movies, and the latest is The Hustle, starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. It’s a gender-swapped version of Bedtime Story (the 1964 original starring David Niven and Marlon Brando), and the more famous Michael Caine-Steve Martin comedy, By Sarah • May 13, 2019 02:11 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: Burn them all SPOILERS At this point, I think we’ve accepted that no one is really going to be happy with how this ends. I don’t think this is what ANYONE wanted out of the final season of Game of Thrones. Have there been some great moments? Yes. The first two By Sarah • May 13, 2019 08:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Start the awards clock on Renee Zellweger I was hoping to get at least halfway through Cannes before we started talking about this year’s Oscar race, but Cannes doesn’t start for a week and here we are, talking about this year’s Oscar race. The subject: Renee Zellweger. A teaser for Judy, her biopic of By Sarah • May 10, 2019 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in Detective Pikachu Well this is a letdown. After a wildly weird, confusingly promising trailer, Detective Pikachu is a bust. Well, a qualified bust, because six year olds and/or super enthusiastic Pokemon fans will probably like it. But it is not nearly as wacky or subversive as the trailers made it seem. By Sarah • May 10, 2019 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It: No thank you It was a surprise monster hit in 2017—it’s the highest-grossing horror film ever—and a sequel was immediately greenlit for 2019. Well, the teaser trailer for that sequel, It: Chapter 2, is here and all I have to say is: No thank you. All full up on horror By Sarah • May 09, 2019 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Richard Madden gets a better deal than Bond Even though we are years away from needing a new James Bond, Richard Madden is currently the favorite heir presumptive, thanks to his compelling turn in Bodyguard. But yesterday The Wrap reported that Madden is in talks for The Eternals, the Marvel movie that will star Angelina Jolie. I realize By Sarah • May 09, 2019 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth continues doing the work Over the last few years, Chris Hemsworth finally found his groove as a comedic actor, but also as a leading man who is happy—even enthusiastic—about working with women. Most of his movies from the last few years have Hemsworth either playing second fiddle to women (Ghostbusters), or co-starring By Sarah • May 08, 2019 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man is going through some stuff The spoiler buffer for Avengers: Endgame is officially over, because there is a new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home and it is straight up giving away major Endgame plot points. This trailer gives us a better view of Peter Parker post-re-snap, still reeling from That Thing That Happened and By Sarah • May 06, 2019 12:46 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: Imagine better for the women SPOILERS ALWAYS SPOILER ALERT LAST CHANCE TO GO BEFORE SPOILERS THE SPOILERS ARE COMING Here is my three-prong approach to this episode. 1) Bad Pet Ownership The animals of Westeros deserve better! Poor Ghost shows up at the mass funeral and has half his ear bitten off and NO ONE By Sarah • May 06, 2019 08:54 am
TV Updates Are you watching Barry yet? There is too much TV, it’s a fact. It’s impossible to keep up with everything, so it is very possible you have missed Bill Hader’s HBO series, Barry. Are you watching it? No? Not yet? WELL YOU SHOULD. There isn’t much TV I would make people By Sarah • May 03, 2019 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron in Long Shot The movie that took Seth Rogen from ensemble player in Judd Apatow projects to leading man (in Judd Apatow projects) is Knocked Up. Knocked Up is also a movie that has not aged particularly well, in the way it portrays ambitious, career-oriented women. Long Shot, a romantic comedy produced by By Sarah • May 03, 2019 10:36 am
TV Updates Big Mouth is big time Earlier this year, Prem tried to get you to watch Big Mouth. Did you? I hope so, you should really be watching Big Mouth. It’s the best show about puberty…ever. And every season it attracts more and bigger names to the guest cast. The upcoming season three is By Sarah • May 02, 2019 03:47 pm
