Movie Reviews and Previews Mena Massoud is pure diamond in Aladdin Aladdin had a shame-faced ad campaign that made it seem like Disney was embarrassed of the movie, and the most interesting thing about Aladdin was #HotJafar. So I am quite shocked to report that Aladdin is not terrible. And it won the box office this weekend with a $105 million By Sarah • May 27, 2019 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Terminator is back, for real this time Terminator is an unkillable franchise. No matter how bad the movies get—and they have gotten VERY bad—every few years a new one is announced. And not reboots! They keep trying to build off the same lore and continue the original story, but much like Star Wars, it turns By Sarah • May 24, 2019 01:06 pm
Game of Thrones Why do we love Westeros and Avengers? Over the last decade, twin forces emerged to fuel the pop culture realm of film and television: the Avengers and Game of Thrones. This is the decade that saw the rise of binge watching, a new Batman AND a new Superman, and the return of motherf-cking Star Wars, and yet By Sarah • May 23, 2019 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Biennial Vanity Fair Star Wars Ad In what is now a biennial tradition, Vanity Fair has a bunch of beautiful new Star Wars portraits and photos from Annie Leibovitz covering their new issue—let’s be honest, this is a very fancy, very splashy ad. This year there are two covers: Rey and Kylo Ren. They By Sarah • May 23, 2019 09:21 am
TV Updates Barry: The other HBO show that ended this week Game of Thrones concluded this week, and we will discuss its finale for a long, long time. But it’s not the only HBO show that wrapped up on Sunday night—it’s not even the best HBO show that wrapped up this week. The best HBO finale this week By Sarah • May 21, 2019 02:52 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones Winning Odds: Let’s talk about the winner SPOILERS Before the final season of Game of Thrones started, I handicapped the odds of the remaining major players winning the Iron Throne. When I ran down the odds for House Stark, I gave them the best odds of winning, but I disqualified Bran because his whole Three-Eyed Raven deal By Sarah • May 20, 2019 10:40 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: The Saga of House Stark GET OUT OF HERE! THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS We’ll argue about this ending forever, but after the last three weeks, as Game of Thrones descended in a seeming death spiral, it’s a relief that the finale episode works as well as it does—and it DOES work. If By Sarah • May 20, 2019 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Rock is rebooting Saw This is the second weirdest headline of the week. It turns out that Chris Rock—yes, comedian and filmmaker Chris Rock—is a fan of the Saw horror franchise, you know, the torture porn movies with the serial killer who sets elaborate Rube Goldberg traps for his victims. Rock is By Sarah • May 17, 2019 04:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Budget John Wick Keanu Reeves is hailed for launching an original action franchise, and rightly so, because in the age of Big IP, that is nearly impossible. But he is not the only actor to front an original action franchise—Gerard Butler has his own original action franchise in the “Fallen” series. You By Sarah • May 17, 2019 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson is our new Batman We knew that Ben Affleck was done, and Batfleck was no more. Now, we know that the next actor in line for Batman is none other than Robert Pattinson. It was a real record-scratch moment when the news broke, but frankly, it’s no stranger than when Heath Ledger was By Sarah • May 17, 2019 09:45 am
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
