Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson’s little movie Yesterday a trailer dropped for a new Tessa Thompson movie, co-starring Lily James, called Little Woods. It looks like a miserable, slice-of-sad-life drama, with Thompson and James playing friends—family?—who have to Get Back Into The Game in order to stave off homelessness (financial ruin has been here all By Sarah • Jan 15, 2019 04:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Meh The teaser trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home has (finally) been released (after some wrangling with Disney about timing). I ADORE Spider-Man: Homecoming, but this teaser? It doesn’t excite me. There’s not anything in it that grabs me and makes me sit up straight. This is not necessarily By Sarah • Jan 15, 2019 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Mission: Exhausting Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the most successful installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, which turns twenty-three years old this year, to date. (You guys, M:I is getting its master’s degree, aww! Time flies!) It also brought in over $790 million worldwide, making M:I exactly the kind of By Sarah • Jan 15, 2019 10:17 am
Game of Thrones Crypt-keeping with Game of Thrones The first Game of Thrones season eight teaser gave us nothing. The second gave us three whole seconds. This third teaser is over ninety seconds long of atmospheric Stark scenery, and though it’s clearly not actual footage from the show, let’s dissect it as if it contains all By Sarah • Jan 14, 2019 10:38 am
TV Updates Natasha Lyonne over and over In 2017 we learned of a Netflix project coming from Amy Poehler, Natasha Lyonne, and Leslye Headland. It had no title, we just knew Lyonne would star as a woman named Nadia, trapped at an “inescapable party”. “What makes it so inescapable,” I wondered. “…is she lost in time and By Sarah • Jan 10, 2019 12:47 pm
TV Updates Entertainment Self-Care: Super Soft TV Everything is a lot right now. Sounds like an understatement, but it’s true. We just got out of 2018, a year that lasted forever, and, honestly, 2019 isn’t looking any better. Things are still Pretty Bleak. We’re stressed, we’re tired, everything is happening all of the By Sarah • Jan 09, 2019 05:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in The Vanishing When I first learned that there is a barely-advertised Gerard Butler movie about lighthouse keepers opening on demand this month, I thought for sure this would be a fun watch like Geostorm or Hunter Killer. Boy was I wrong. Turns out, this movie, The Vanishing, is about the Flannan Isles By Sarah • Jan 09, 2019 10:26 am
Game of Thrones Game of Three Seconds The last time we saw a teaser from Game of Thrones’ final season it showed us nothing. On Sunday an HBO teaser played during the Golden Globes which includes THREE WHOLE SECONDS of new footage from season eight of Thrones. Three seconds! The first three seconds we’ve seen! It’ By Sarah • Jan 08, 2019 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel chills It is insane to me when I go back and read my early posts on Captain Marvel and Brie Larson, because now that I can see her in action, I’m like, WHY DID I EVER DOUBT? When has Marvel ever been wrong? Besides Ed Norton and Terrence Howard, when By Sarah • Jan 08, 2019 09:46 am
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
