Movie Reviews and Previews The Addams Family doesn’t understand Wednesday The latest cinematic outing for the first family of weird is the animated The Addams Family, an attempt to rebrand the Addamses for the new millennium, or possibly just an exercise in brand management, as the whole thing feels like it exists solely to renew an IP license. The Addams By Sarah • Oct 16, 2019 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jungle Cruise is just The Mummy (the good one) The first trailer for Jungle Cruise, starring Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson, has arrived and I do not have time for this half-dressed bullsh-t, do not try to fool me, I know The Mummy (the good one) when I see it. This is just The Mummy (the good By Sarah • Oct 15, 2019 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dolittle’s majestic racist dog Despite being one of the world’s biggest movie stars, outside of Marvel, Robert Downey. Jr. hasn’t had a lot of luck. His cold streak does not look set to end any time soon as his first post-Endgame role is playing Dr. Dolittle in a movie called, simply, By Sarah • Oct 15, 2019 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Day drink with Charlie’s Angels When the first trailer for Elizabeth Banks’s reboot (of a reboot) of Charlie’s Angels was released, I said, “I hope the next one gives us more of the Angels interacting.” Well guess what? It does! A new trailer has arrived and it focuses more on the trio of By Sarah • Oct 11, 2019 12:48 pm
Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese vs. Marvel Sometimes a thing happens and I think, Please, please can we just let that slide? We don’t have to get worked up about everything, and some things really, truly, are not that important. Sometimes it’s okay to not have an opinion, or to let others have a different By Sarah • Oct 09, 2019 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Spendy Christmas Carol Apple TV+ has not yet launched, but they are the winners of a bidding war over a musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. The exact number is not known, but when have we ever heard a reasonable number for a streaming deal? They probably By Sarah • Oct 09, 2019 08:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker is an inevitable hit It’s official, Joker is a hit, setting a new October opening weekend record with a $96 million opening weekend. This is more than Justice League ($93.8 million). Joker is a hit, Justice League is a flop, and the difference lies mostly in their budgets and a little bit By Sarah • Oct 07, 2019 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leave room for 1917 1917 is a World War I movie directed by Sam Mendes. I keep getting this confused with Peter Jackson’s colorized documentary about World War I, They Shall Not Grow Old. I don’t know why, they don’t really look anything alike beyond the surface similarities of setting, but By Sarah • Oct 04, 2019 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi and Ryan Reynolds have never met New York Comic-Con has begun, starting the hype train for projects that weren’t ready in time for San Diego Comic-Con. This includes Free Guy, the mostly-under-the-radar action comedy Ryan Reynolds shot over the summer with Night at the Museum and Stranger Things director Shawn By Sarah • Oct 04, 2019 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Clint Eastwood’s annual late entry It’s practically a rite of passage in Oscar season at this point: Clint Eastwood showing up late with a movie no one realized he had finished already. (He works fast because he gets everything in one take, even if that one take is sh-t, it’s the take, By Sarah • Oct 03, 2019 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gentlemen seems past its sell-by date Guy Ritchie is following the billion-dollar success of Aladdin by going back to his roots and making an English gangster movie, The Gentlemen. The trailer boasts “From the director of Sherlock Holmes and Snatch”, no mention of Aladdin despite it being Ritchie’s most successful film. It’s almost By Sarah • Oct 03, 2019 11:44 am
Dumbass Todd Phillips thinks we’re too woke By far the most insufferable part of the Joker press tour has been its director, Todd Phillips, who will not stop blaming “wokeness” for the current state of comedy. His latest comments are included in Joaquin Phoenix’s Vanity Fair profile, and they’re as insightful and thoughtful as you’ By Sarah • Oct 02, 2019 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker is not dangerous, daring, or provocative If ever there was a movie that does not live up to its hype, it is Todd Phillips’ much debated Joker. A stripped down, deconstructed comic book movie, Joker is supposedly the most inflammatory, dangerous, provocative film of the year—of the era!—a movie that is maybe causing a By Sarah • Oct 02, 2019 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Get ready for the 6 Underground Challenge Netflix has gotten in the habit of betting big in December, creating an at-home offer to counter the usual blockbuster cinematic treat (this year: The Last Jedi). Last year it was Bird Box, the year before that: Bright. This year the Netflix holiday bet is a Michael Bay movie By Sarah • Oct 01, 2019 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Harley Quinn got her groove back I have two wishes for pop culture in 2020. One is that Dev Patel becomes the next James Bond. The other is that we take Birds of Prey as seriously as we’re taking Joker. I want a full Harley Quinn Discourse. I want us to discuss the emotional, romantic, By Sarah • Oct 01, 2019 03:09 pm
Dumbass Justin Bieber’s Insta cats I have a cat named Pancake. She is very beautiful, and wherever she goes people comment on her appearance and her incredibly soft coat. Pancake waits for me at the door and likes to lie on my feet and follows me around and talks to me constantly. Pancake has the By Sarah • Oct 01, 2019 12:37 pm
