Movie Reviews and Previews Come for Noomi, stay for Noomi While Netflix has had a lot of success on the TV side, their movie arm is only just gaining real credibility, with films like Roma, Bird Box, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. To date, Netflix movies have largely been seen as By Sarah • Jan 03, 2019 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The nightmares was Us all along With Get Out, Jordan Peele revealed himself to be a filmmaker fully formed, with clear vision and scope, and really no improvement needed. So his sophomore effort, titled Us, is both highly anticipated and scrutinized, as we want the next dose of his particular brand of horror, but also to By Sarah • Dec 27, 2018 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson swaggers all over MiB Does anyone have more visible fun on camera than Tessa Thompson? She has that strut, and that smirk, and that presence, and when the movie is fun, she makes it FUN. The latest film to have Tessa Thompson swaggering all over the place is Men in Black: International, the sequel/ By Sarah • Dec 20, 2018 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick and two very good boys And Halle Berry. New images from John Wick: Chapter 3 are out—oh, is that trailer coming soon, then?—and they show two sides of John Wick: Rainy John Wick and Dry John Wick. He’s looking a little worse for wear, sporting long hair and a struggle beard, and By Sarah • Dec 20, 2018 11:26 am
Macaulay Culkin Macaulay Culkin is building momentum The last time we heard from Macaulay Culkin was nearly eight months ago, doing the talk show rounds to promote his comedy site and podcast, Bunny Ears (the site is ongoing and mostly funny, the first iteration of the podcast has ended). More recently, Culkin has been appearing on YouTube By Sarah • Dec 20, 2018 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is this movie a mess? The first trailer for Where’d You Go, Bernadette, adapted from a novel by Maria Semple, was released yesterday, and it looks like a standard “quirky family dramedy”. It stars Cate Blanchett as Wacky Mom, Billy Crudup as her seemingly perfect but, I’m guessing, having-an-affair husband, Emma Nelson as By Sarah • Dec 19, 2018 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #HotJafar Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the live-action Aladdin coming from Guy Ritchie in 2019 and it looks fine. It looks like a big budget movie with elaborate sets and costumes, and human people who will talk and sing. As this is a Guy Ritchie movie, I expect the By Sarah • Dec 19, 2018 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Fantasy Jobs In the final installment in our series of Netflix’s terrible holiday rom-coms, we’re featuring those movies that have completely unrealistic expectations of creative jobs. You know the type—she’s a baker who never has to go to work at four AM, or a writer who never has By Sarah • Dec 18, 2018 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a comic book come to life Over the weekend, animated superhero movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse became the number one movie in North America—the thirteenth number one weekend for a Marvel character this year and the biggest December animated opening ever—with $35.3 million, once again proving that audiences are not tired of superheroes, By Sarah • Dec 18, 2018 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Surprise Royalty Continuing our series of Netflix’s terrible holiday rom-coms, here is a handy viewing guide to the royal themed holiday rom-coms you can stream to your delight and horror. A Christmas Prince The movie that put Netflix’s bad holiday rom-coms on the map. A Christmas Prince is so painfully By Sarah • Dec 17, 2018 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Small Towns It’s a tradition every December, to watch holiday romantic comedies, some of the most objectively awful movies ever produced, with cheesy stories, painful dialogue, and a formula so well-trod you can guess plot points so easily you might as well make a drinking game out of it. Netflix, in By Sarah • Dec 17, 2018 01:30 pm
Best and Worst of 2018 Best of 2018: Hannah Gadsby Hannah Gadsby burst onto the international stage this year with her blistering not-comedy special Nanette. It feels like Nanette came out nine years ago because we live in a nightmare time warp where everything is happening all of the time, but it’s just been six months since Gadsby gave By Sarah • Dec 14, 2018 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top 10 Movies of 2018 2018 was a good year for film—a REALLY good year. Narrowing down a Top 10 was difficult and came down to which films left the biggest mark, whether it be creating a cultural phenomenon or lingering in my mind for the better part of a year. I looked for By Sarah • Dec 14, 2018 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa in the totally bonkers Aquaman Aquaman is so incredibly dumb I don’t know how to review it other than to just tell you what it is and emphasize how extremely likeable it is in the face of its own sheer stupidity. So there will be some spoilers, but also realize that mere words cannot By Sarah • Dec 13, 2018 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie in Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots is a slightly anachronistic and completely ahistorical telling of the feud between Mary, Queen of Scots—the lack of proper punctuation in the title drives me nuts—and Queen Elizabeth I. Take this as even less of a history lesson than The Favourite, as Mary Queen By Sarah • Dec 13, 2018 10:19 am
TV Updates Luther and Alice together again Raise your hand if you knew Idris Elba as DCI Luther before you knew him as Stringer Bell. I can’t be the only one. Elba was Stringer Bell first, but Luther was his breakout role, the thing that made him everyone’s favorite leading man and the once and By Sarah • Dec 12, 2018 10:36 am
