Movie Reviews and Previews Smile for Joker Two years ago we learned that cinema’s best misanthropic boy, Todd Phillips, was developing a Joker origins movie no one asked for. Then Joaquin Phoenix was named as the star, and while still totally unnecessary, at least it wasn’t DC Films’ worst idea (that was a Jared Leto By Sarah • Apr 03, 2019 11:14 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones, two weeks out Just in case you thought April was all about the Avengers, Game of Thrones is here to remind you that April is ALSO all about Westeros. (Is this the busiest pop culture spring ever?) New teasers just dropped, with some new footage and some recycled, and a lot to talk By Sarah • Apr 02, 2019 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews We’re in the Endgame now It’s official, Avengers: Endgame mania has begun. The movie comes out in three weeks, it’s the final go-round for the original team, this is going to be Marvel hype par excellence. The first Avengers tour in 2012 was fun, remember how fun it was? (Prem is probably like, By Sarah • Apr 02, 2019 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver saying “Ghouls” Up until this very moment, pop culture has had only one ghoul expert, and that is Charlie Kelly, who knows a ghoul on sight. Now, however, Charlie Kelly is joined by Adam Driver in Jim Jarmusch’s new zombie movie, as he correctly identifies ghouls and, incidentally, creates a new By Sarah • Apr 01, 2019 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dumbo is thinly veiled anti-corporate propaganda The thing about Dumbo is that it is completely mediocre and the latest evidence in the case against Disney’s blatant cash grabs via these live-action remakes of their classic cartoons, but it is also thinly veiled anti-corporate propaganda. It feels like someone in Disney oversight command fell asleep at By Sarah • Apr 01, 2019 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel and Armie Hammer in Hotel Mumbai Hotel Mumbai is a docu-drama that recreates the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, with a particular focus on the siege of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. It is technically a very good movie. It is very well made, tightly written by John Collee and Anthony Maras, who also directs. Maras delivers By Sarah • Mar 29, 2019 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews NO THANKS, Scary Stories The Super Bowl teasers for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie left a mixed impression. The images in the teasers that are recreated from Stephen Gammel’s f-cking nightmare illustrations are enough to revive my childhood trauma left over from the books. But the suggestion of a By Sarah • Mar 29, 2019 03:08 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones Winning Odds: The Night King Previously, we’ve examined the odds of House Greyjoy and House Lannister ending up on the Iron Throne. This week, we’re going to see what it would take for the Night King to prevail and become the King of All Dead Westeros. Here’s the thing about the Night By Sarah • Mar 28, 2019 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina joins Marvel I heard a while back that Angelina Jolie was seen touring Marvel’s spot on the Disney campus, but I assumed it was to talk about directing. Though she is starring in Mistress Maleficent— it’s a better title, don’t @ me—it just seems like her focus is more By Sarah • Mar 28, 2019 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ last cover profile In advance of Avengers: Endgame, Chris Evans is covering The Hollywood Reporter in a profile he jokes is his “last cover interview”. He says it as a joke about his looming post-Marvel career, but this is his last run of magazine interviews as Captain America. No, he’s not retiring, By Sarah • Mar 27, 2019 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to Downton Abbey Have you missed Downton Abbey? I kind of have. I feel like part of our current nightmare dystopia is that we don’t have a weekly genteel break anymore, in which even the most serious problems are resolved with a whisper-fight in the study. But we will not be without By Sarah • Mar 27, 2019 01:00 pm
Amazingness Roadtripping with Keanu Here’s a Tuesday treat for us all. Behold Keanu Reeves, stranded somewhere in California, organizing a van to get everyone’s trip back on track. Can you even imagine being stuck in a terminal somewhere and KEANU REEVES appears to get your trip moving again? I would never go By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 03:21 pm
TV Updates Get your witchy circle together Amy Poehler has added so much to the girl talk lexicon, from Galentine’s Day to a whole slew of compliments for your best friend. Now she adds “witchy circle” to her contributions, and if you think I’m not having custom paper products printed with “witchy circle” for my By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 12:59 pm
TV Updates Turns out, Spielberg is shilling for Apple After the Oscars, word got out that Steven Spielberg is agitating for a rule change that would effectively block Netflix from competing for Oscars as they don’t much believe in distributing their movies in theaters when the whole point of their company is to make movies available instantly at By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 09:44 am
Entertainment self-care Entertainment Self-Care: Sleep Podcasts (For previous installments in our Self-Care entertainment series, click here. And since Us is out this weekend and you might seeing it, you might need what is being shared here.) Sleep is important. Obvious, I know, but if you’ve ever experienced a lack of sleep, you know how big By Sarah • Mar 22, 2019 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele keeps it simple with Us After a stunning debut like Get Out, anything less than equal success is bound to seem like a disappointment. Such is the case for Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature film, Us. Is it bad? Emphatically NO. But it’s not as deep or thematically grounded as Get Out, which is By Sarah • Mar 22, 2019 09:54 am
