Movie Reviews and Previews Batfleck is done Once upon a time, Ben Affleck was going to make a Batman movie. A lot of us assumed he took the Batman gig specifically because he would get to make a Batman movie. Then, as his run of movies as the caped crusader started rolling out and dividing audiences and By Sarah • Jan 31, 2019 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina and Michelle toe to toe Maleficent came out in 2014. That’s so long ago! Now that we live in a nightmare where every year feels like a decade, five years ago is a lifetime. Maleficent 2 comes out in 2020, making six whole ass years between movies. There are children who will go see By Sarah • Jan 30, 2019 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Serenity is absolutely INSANE Oh boy, is this one of the craziest movies I’ve seen in recent memory. I mean, we’re talking Book of Henry levels of insane. There will be spoilers, because to fully appreciate how bugf-ck bonkers Serenity is, you have to know the twist. It is almost indescribable, but By Sarah • Jan 29, 2019 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harley Quinn is back, this time Joker-free The only good things to come of Suicide Squad is Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller. We can—and probably will—pretend like the rest of that mess never happened, but Harley Quinn and Amanda Waller can stick around for the DC Extended Universe Mark By Sarah • Jan 29, 2019 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie warming up Chanel Margot Robbie did not present at the SAGs since, apparently, the Academy is insisting on exclusivity for their show. But she was on hand as a nominee for Best Supporting Actress, and she showed up in a sunny golden Chanel dress that feels like a warmup for the main event By Sarah • Jan 28, 2019 02:39 pm
SAG Awards 2019 Black Panther coming through! All award season, no one has really expected Black Panther to win. Just being nominated IS the win, when the trophy club is so stacked against superhero movies. But the SAGs broke rank and actually gave Black Panther a trophy, awarding the cast Best Ensemble, the equivalent of Best Picture. By Sarah • Jan 28, 2019 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek did not mention Bryan Singer Not like we expected him to, but let’s never forget that Bohemian Rhapsody did not direct itself, and though Bryan Singer is nowhere to be found this award season, he benefits from all the trophies being thrown at his movie. He remains empowered because he makes people money and By Sarah • Jan 28, 2019 10:51 am
SAG Awards 2019 Chris Pine Wears Clothes Chris Pine is not my Best Chris—that would be Hemsworth—but maybe he’s yours. He is enough people’s Best Chris that I accept him as A Best Chris. Maybe not THE Best Chris, but definitely A Best Chris. He made a case for being THE Best Chris By Sarah • Jan 28, 2019 09:29 am
SAG Awards 2019 Alison Brie is living in the 80s Alison Brie was, once again, a double-nominee for her role on GLOW. GLOW is set in the 1980s. Ever since she started getting nominated for GLOW, she has really embraced the Eighties glam of GLOW, and regularly wears dresses that are sort of tacky in that over-the-top 80s way (see By Sarah • Jan 28, 2019 07:44 am
SAG Awards 2019 Megan Mullally did her best It’s not like she was given a lot to work with. As host of the 25th SAG Awards—the silver anniversary, as SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris pointed out—Mullally should have been working with top-tier material, to make SAG’s biggest night shine extra bright on their milestone. And By Sarah • Jan 28, 2019 07:29 am
Quiveration Sebastian Stan in Cozy Couture Sebastian Stan has been doing a lot of promotion for Destroyer. He has maybe fifteen minutes in the whole movie, but based on the amount of promotion he’s done, you’d think he was co-leads with Nicole Kidman. I get it—he’s Marvel famous (like internet famous but By Sarah • Jan 25, 2019 10:05 am
Business of Hollywood Vanity Fair’s effortless cover As Lainey mentioned earlier, we’ll be unpacking more of our thoughts about the 25th anniversary of the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue as we get through all the features. The cover is GREAT. You know what strikes me most? It’s effortless. It looks so relaxed, so EASY. No one By Sarah • Jan 24, 2019 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is McConaughey even acting? Harmony Korine, who is the filmmaking equivalent to Florida, is finally following up his last feature, 2012’s Spring Breakers, with The Beach Bum, which actually looks like a real movie? At least, it looks about as straight forward as anything Korine has made. This is the guy, after all, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2019 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2019: 10 to Watch Sundance is this week, which is impossible because New Year’s was just like, yesterday. January is going so fast! (After the ninety-year slog of 2018, this is a blessing.) For once, sparing everyone, Oscar nominations were before the festival, so we’ve dealt with that, and now we can By Sarah • Jan 23, 2019 03:36 pm
Douchebags Never say you didn’t know again In the fall of 2017, when the double-barrel Harvey Weinstein exposés hit, the first reaction was, FINALLY. And as the enormity of what was happening sank in, that a powerful, abusive bully, protected for decades by an industry built on a system of exploitation and silence, was finally experiencing a By Sarah • Jan 23, 2019 01:39 pm
Oscars 2019 Black Panther makes history again Black Panther was the biggest movie of 2018. Oh sure, Avengers: Infinity War made more money, but Black Panther was right behind as the #2 moneymaker of the year, and there is no denying that it was THE cultural film moment of 2018. No movie made a bigger impact last By Sarah • Jan 22, 2019 11:45 am
