Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers did it again Seven years ago, The Avengers stomped through its opening weekend to the tune of $207 million. It was an earth-shattering number that redefined the possibilities for summer box office, set off a wave of imitators in the “cinematic universe” game, and ushered in Marvel’s age of box office dominance. By Sarah • Apr 29, 2019 09:20 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: That’s it? SPOILERS I’m not ragging on the Battle of Winterfell as an event. As a Thing That Happens, it has a lot of terrific moments. It’s an incredibly nerve-wracking, tense eighty minutes of television. It’s an all-out zombie attack that stands up to anything on The Walking Dead By Sarah • Apr 29, 2019 08:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler’s latest movie vacation It’s long been a truth acknowledged that Adam Sandler doesn’t make movies anymore, he gets movie studios to foot the bill for his vacations. The last few years, Netflix has been paying for Sandler and his pals to go on vacation, the output of which has been execrable, By Sarah • Apr 26, 2019 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Other Guy Keanu again Ali Wong’s rom-com, Always Be My Maybe, is a clear titular riff off Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” (and it is Mimi-approved), and the trailer is cut with the song, so prepare to have the “do-do-doop” part in your head for the next month. The trailer for By Sarah • Apr 25, 2019 03:43 pm
Dumbass Bond 25 actually tried it today Yesterday I got a marketing email that completely baffled me. It was a “media alert!” announcing that this morning there would be a “live launch” of Bond 25, and as I read the email, I legit laughed out loud. They’re trying it? This week? THIS week of ALL weeks? By Sarah • Apr 25, 2019 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avengers: Endgame is a surprising, satisfying conclusion (Lainey: I edit almost every post that goes up on this site. I have not read this post. And I’m sad about that because I love reading Sarah’s articles so much. But I’m also trying to go into Avengers: Endgame as clean as possible and while Sarah By Sarah • Apr 25, 2019 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Poehler doesn’t answer the biggest question Netflix doesn’t often do big press pushes for their movies—Roma set a standard for awards potential, but outside of that, it’s like Netflix releases one trailer, then bang, the next week the movie is on the platform with little other fanfare. But Amy Poehler’s Wine Country By Sarah • Apr 25, 2019 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers have made their mark Avengers: Endgame opens in two days and I CAN’T WAIT TO TALK ABOUT IT. Infinity War was not a movie I felt compelled to discuss after the fact, but oh boy are we going to be talking about Endgame. One reason to talk about it is that this is By Sarah • Apr 24, 2019 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan’s runner up blue Even though Bucky is, technically, a pile of dust, Sebastian Stan turned up at the Avengers: Endgame premiere. His blue suit is runner up to Taika Waititi’s on my favorite looks of the night roster. The two suits are similar in tone, but Taika’s is definitely lilac, and By Sarah • Apr 23, 2019 05:01 pm
Does anyone have more fun than Taika? Rhetorical question, the answer is “no”. Taika Waititi was also at the Avengers: Endgame premiere, in a lilac suit. He is in second place for my favorite suit of the night. I love this shade of lilac, he looks as good as ever, and would you believe it, he actually By Sarah • Apr 23, 2019 12:39 pm
Quiveration Space heroes on the BIV spectrum Oh my god the purple carpet was SO BIG at the Avengers: Endgame premiere last night. It felt a little like the Oscars, or the Met Gala, or Cannes, or any event, really, where it’s just constant “this person! And this person! THAT person!”. Lainey and I were emailing By Sarah • Apr 23, 2019 09:20 am
TV Updates Our new bird BFFs One of Tiffany Haddish’s many, many projects is a Netflix cartoon called Tuca & Bertie. We heard about it a while ago, and now there is a trailer ahead of the show’s May 3 premiere. (WHY IS EVERYTHING HAPPENING AT ONCE. SAVE SOME STUFF FOR LATER. WE HAVE By Sarah • Apr 22, 2019 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba is “black Superman” As previously stated, I am SUPER ON BOARD with Hobbs & Shaw, the Fast/Furious spin-off focused on The Rock and Jason Statham. I am 100% in the tank for this movie, I don’t care if it’s good or bad because those are relative terms that do not By Sarah • Apr 22, 2019 03:05 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: Everyone sing along, we’re all going to die SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY Usually the big battle in a Game of Thrones season falls toward the end of the season, often in the penultimate episode, but this year, it is clear the big battle is coming in the front half, as we spend all of the second episode teeing up the By Sarah • Apr 22, 2019 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews But first, Kristen Stewart does this Earlier this week we got a look at Kristen Stewart’s return to the mainstream with Charlie’s Angels, but first, she has another indie film coming out. She co-stars in JT Leroy, a movie about the literary scandal of the early aughts, when celebrated author JT Leroy was revealed By Sarah • Apr 18, 2019 12:09 pm
Game of Thrones Samwell Tarly’s WTF face Images from the next episode of Game of Thrones have been released, and it looks like Winterfell is gearing up for a fight. Lyanna Mormont is dressed for battle, Grey Worm and Missandei look intense, everyone is standing around, looking intense. There’s a tease of Jaime’s trial, and By Sarah • Apr 18, 2019 09:40 am
