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
Jennifer Aniston It is impossible to dislike Dumplin’ Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald) is a Dolly Parton-loving girl who struggles with body image, an emotionally remote mother, and the recent death of the aunt who raised her. She has one friend, Ellen (Odeya Rush), with whom she shares a Dolly Parton obsession—they often have “Parton parties” and quiz each By Sarah • Dec 12, 2018 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Monsters in the dark The second trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters is here to rattle our skulls with Godzilla’s roar—I really love the new roar sound effect created for these new movies—and also strain our eyeballs with darkness. After the Comic-Con trailer, I specifically wished that this new movie By Sarah • Dec 11, 2018 01:15 pm
Award Season Campaigning First Man’s Oscar paradox From its first trailer, First Man looked like a surefire Oscar front runner. Damien Chazelle, Ryan Gosling, period piece, Great Man biopic—it appeals to several Oscar fetishes. But the box office for First Man has been lackluster, stalling out just below its break-even point. And with that lack of By Sarah • Dec 11, 2018 10:30 am
Award Season Campaigning ScarJo works for Black Panther Black Panther is the first Marvel movie with a real shot at a major Oscar nomination. As such, Disney is backing an actual, proper award campaign for the movie and key craftspeople involved, particularly Ruth Carter, the costume designer. I attended an event with Ruth Carter a couple months ago By Sarah • Dec 10, 2018 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider Surprise Spider-Man: Far From Home comes out next July, which means its press machine is creaking into gear. Jake Gyllenhaal joined Instagram to help with the effort, and this weekend, he, Tom Holland, and Jacob Batalon made an appearance at Comic Con Experience Brazil, where the trailer debuted (though it has By Sarah • Dec 10, 2018 12:21 pm
Scarlett Johansson Avengers: Endgame The trailer for Avengers 4, officially titled Avengers: Endgame has finally arrived and we have some things to discuss. First, that title. After much overdone secrecy, it is revealed to be “Endgame”, a reference to Doctor Strange’s line in Infinity War. It’s fine. It hardly justifies the amount By Sarah • Dec 07, 2018 12:02 pm
Game of Thrones Game of NOTHING Game of Thrones’ final season begins in April 2019, as told to us by the first official teaser which tells us NOTHING. This is NOTHING. It’s not even foreplay, it’s a cute person maybe smiling at you but you’re not quite sure because they didn’t actually By Sarah • Dec 07, 2018 10:40 am
