Movie Reviews and Previews Shazam! gets another shot For a superhero movie, Shazam! flew under the radar this year. It deserved more attention, it’s one of the best superhero movies in recent memory, and definitely a high water mark for DC Films. But it came out smack dab in the middle of Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame, By Sarah • Dec 13, 2019 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The players return in Jumanji: The Next Level Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a surprise hit in 2017, a sequel/soft reboot that actually manages to add to the lore of the original movie, such as changing the Jumanji game from a board game to a video game, while also standing on its own. Jumanji: The Next By Sarah • Dec 13, 2019 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Movies of 2019 This has been a great year for film, so I fully expect enthusiastic arguments for this or that film not on my list because it’s not possible to pick every film for a list that is meant to be finite. In a year with so many genuinely good movies, By Sarah • Dec 13, 2019 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life Terrence Malick has wrestled with themes of suffering for decades, and in the true story of Franz Jägerstätter, he has found his perfect beatific subject. A conscientious objector in World War II, Franz (August Diehl) is happily married and raising young children in an Alpine village in Austria when the By Sarah • Dec 12, 2019 04:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Day Yesterday, Warner Brothers announced a movie slate that includes The Matrix 4, now dated for May 21, 2021. (They also slated Ezra Miller’s long-gestating The Flash for July 1, 2022, which…call me when that movie is actually in production.) This is very interesting as John Wick 4 By Sarah • Dec 12, 2019 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson in Marriage Story (Lainey: Marriage Story came away with several Golden Globe nominations, including Best Drama, and nominations for Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Laura Dern from the Screen Actors Guild but curiously was not nominated in the ensemble cast category. Still, it’s a major contender for Best Picture at the Oscars. By Sarah • Dec 12, 2019 10:11 am
TV Updates Fancy Cutting Edge We all know The Cutting Edge is perfect, but what if I told you there is a Netflix show that is basically just The Cutting Edge but for the Peak TV era? That means it’s The Cutting Edge, but with more explicit sex, plus drugs and INNER DARKNESS. That By Sarah • Dec 11, 2019 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dark and gritty Ghostbusters Another big summer 2020 movie dropped a trailer yesterday, as we get our first look at Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Ghostbusters movie that will restore this hallowed franchise about ghost-hunting nerds to the true fans, the toxic bros who wouldn’t let anyone enjoy a version about ghost-hunting nerds By Sarah • Dec 10, 2019 10:51 am
TV Updates Watchmen: Causation is a two-way street Spoilers Watchmen’s penultimate episode, “A God Walks into Abar”, has a lot going on. It’s the entire history of Angela’s relationship with Cal/Doctor Manhattan, it explains how Adrian Veidt got to Europa, and where the Phillipses and Crookshankses came from, there is a time travel paradox, By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How long can Ryan Reynolds do this? One Fox movie that Disney didn’t sh-tcan after taking control of the studio earlier this year is Free Guy, a Ryan Reynolds project in which he plays Guy, a non-player character in a video game who gains sentience. The first trailer for Free Guy is here, and By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 1984 has friends and Steve Trevor With Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker coming out in a couple weeks, all the big summer 2020 movies are starting to drop trailers which will be attached to Skywalker in theaters. It is also CCXP, the giganti-huge Brazilian comic con, which means this is the perfect time for By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in The Aeronauts The Aeronauts is one-half survival tale and one-half historical drama, based loosely on the story of James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) and Henry Coxwell’s ascent to a then-record height of 37,000, accomplished in a hot air balloon. Except for The Aeronauts, Coxwell has been replaced by By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 03:10 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: Angela’s next move There are only two episodes left of Watchmen, and everything is coming together, the puzzle is almost complete. The last dangling thread is what Adrian Veidt has to do with all this, and everything is else is pretty much down to who lives and who dies. As much as Watchmen By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Queen & Slim sits between two forms With Queen & Slim director Melina Matsoukas jumps from music videos to feature films, and her background in visual media shows in the style and rhythm of her long-form work. Queen & Slim is strikingly visual and operates almost like a series of vignettes connected by musical interludes. Matsoukas’ By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Irishman is Scorsese’s least glamourous gangster film Based on either a true story or an entertaining lie, depending on how hot your conspiracy thermometer runs, The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a union worker and alleged mob hitman who claimed at the end of his life to have assassinated Jimmy Hoffa (Al By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Parasite break the Korean Oscar curse? Parasite is one of the best films of the year, and it’s already landing on year-end lists, including earning a special award from the American Film Institute. This has, naturally, led to a discussion about its Oscar prospects, which is an interesting conversation for two reasons. One is By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 04:14 pm
