Movie Reviews and Previews What does Captain Marvel mean for the Avengers? This is mostly for Lainey, who thought Carol Danvers could time travel even though I told her point-blank she cannot time travel. Lainey texted me a bunch of questions about how Carol Danvers is going to fit into the Avengers, especially as Captain Marvel doesn’t really explain Carol’s By Sarah • Mar 12, 2019 03:24 pm
Maple Leaf Good Boys act out Seth Rogen is a busy dude. This month, he has The Long Shot, which Joanna just saw at SXSW and loved. But he’s also in The Lion King, an episode of Jordan Peele’s reimagined Twilight Zone, and is going to play Walter Cronkite in a movie (there’s By Sarah • Mar 12, 2019 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aladdin is a joke, right? We are two months out from the release of Disney’s live-action Aladdin remake, and we are only just now getting a full trailer. Usually, two months out from release, we’d be getting the final of two or three trailers, but Aladdin apparently works in reverse. Now that we By Sarah • Mar 12, 2019 11:37 am
Douchebags Kevin Tsujihara’s sexting mess What is it with CEOs and sexting scandals? On the heels of Jeff Bezos comes Warner Brothers’ boss Kevin Tsujihara, who landed in hot water after The Hollywood Reporter published a story last week about an affair and text messages exchanged between Tsujihara and actress Charlotte Kirk. Is it gross? By Sarah • Mar 11, 2019 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel lit up the box office Despite diaper babies crying all over the internet and doing their best to convince themselves that everyone else hates Captain Marvel as much as they do, Captain Marvel had a big debut weekend, racking up an estimated $153 million in its North American debut. It turns out, the only people By Sarah • Mar 11, 2019 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix’s rom-com revival continues Last year, Netflix ushered in the rom-com revival with their “summer of love”. This year, they’re keeping the love train running with a new romantic comedy, Someone Great. It stars Gina Rodriguez and LaKeith Stanfield as a twenty-something couple splitting up on the eve of their thirties. But as By Sarah • Mar 08, 2019 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel punches the patriarchy Captain Marvel is an oddity by way of being the first solo-led superheroine movie produced by Marvel Studios. Eleven years and twenty movies on from Iron Man, they finally entrust a story entirely to a woman, and the result is, much like Black Panther, special by virtue of being different. By Sarah • Mar 08, 2019 09:32 am
BFFs Work romance in Late Night Mindy Kaling’s late night talk show comedy, Late Night, premiered at Sundance and now we have a trailer to assess the fuss and decide if it’s worth it. Going by this trailer, I think the Sundance audience maybe undersold it, because I Am Charmed. Late Night stars Emma By Sarah • Mar 07, 2019 11:55 am
Angelina Jolie Maleficent 2 gets a real title The last time we heard anything from Maleficent 2, it was a tease of Michelle Pfeiffer’s role as “Queen Ingrith”, but yesterday Disney dropped a new poster on Twitter, along with an official title: Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil, and also a new release date - in October. I’ By Sarah • Mar 07, 2019 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba replaces Will Smith DC Films is going ahead with a Suicide Squad sequel which will be written, and probably directed, by James Gunn. Though it is currently referred to as Suicide Squad 2, it sounds less like a sequel and more like a soft reboot, as has been the case with DC movies By Sarah • Mar 07, 2019 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ari Aster is back to ruin summer camp Don’t recognize the name Ari Aster? He’s the dude who made Hereditary, you know, the scariest and/or most f-cked-up movie. A lot of people thought Toni Collette should be an Oscar contender for her work in Hereditary, which, if the Academy was less genre-biased, she definitely would By Sarah • Mar 05, 2019 03:29 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones finally comes through I was really starting to think we’d never see a proper trailer for Game of Thrones’ final season. That we would just have to settle for mere seconds doled out like scraps in broader HBO promo materials. But lo, on the fifth day, the great dragon breathed life into By Sarah • Mar 05, 2019 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek’s post-Oscar move Now that Rami Malek has an Oscar, what will his career look like? He still has Mr. Robot, but on the movie side, it looks like his first post-Oscar role will be as the villain in Bond 25. In a double-report, Deadline stated that Malek and Lupita Nyong’o were By Sarah • Mar 01, 2019 12:33 pm
TV Updates Idris Elba’s comedy series Did you remember that Idris Elba made a comedy series for Netflix? I kinda forgot, then Lainey emailed me about the trailer for Turn Up Charlie and was like, Oh yeaaaaah, Idris Elba made a comedy series for Netflix. We’re living in Andy Warhol’s future, where everyone is By Sarah • Feb 28, 2019 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dark Phoenix is doomed Sometimes you look at a trailer and think it can go either way—the movie might be better than this, or might be exactly as bad as this trailer is making it seem. Marvel trailers tend to be like that. Between their habit of cutting around any potentially plotty scenes By Sarah • Feb 28, 2019 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Detective Pikachu Update: Still Real Defying all expectations, Detective Pikachu continues to be a real movie that exists. I halfway expected the first trailer to be revealed as a hoax, but no, Detective Pikachu is absolutely a Real Movie that you will be able to buy a ticket for with real human dollars and see By Sarah • Feb 27, 2019 12:53 pm
