Movie Reviews and Previews The Favourite begins campaigning The Favourite is one of my favorite films of the year—yes, I see that, too—and it will be rolling out starting next week, beginning a hopeful Oscar charge. Leading the way on that is a cover feature in The Hollywood Reporter with its trio of stars, Olivia Colman, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2018 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Claire Foy in The Girl in the Spider’s Web The Girl in the Spider’s Web is an attempt to reboot the potential franchise started by the English-language reboot of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it did not open well, with less than $10 million on opening weekend. And with a B CinemaScore, it didn’t really By Sarah • Nov 14, 2018 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Detective Pikachu ?????????? Monday’s pop culture moment was supposed to belong to Toy Story 4. Disney dropped that trailer early, undoubtedly expecting to dominate the full news cycle. But then, at noon, our lives were permanently derailed as a trailer for Detective Pikachu(?) was released and it actually looks…good(??). And then By Sarah • Nov 13, 2018 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Toy Story 4 expands the nightmare Toy Story is one of the most beloved film franchises of all time, spanning generations and ever-improving visual effects to tell a story of toys and friendship and sentience and love and the nightmarish confines of utilitarian purpose and the magic of childhood. I love these movies—DON’T LIE, By Sarah • Nov 13, 2018 08:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Another Jungle Book Jon Favreau made a hybrid live-action/animated Jungle Book that was really quite good, so much so it bagged him the job of directing the new Lion King, and also good enough that it threw Andy Serkis’s competing project into considerable shade. Back then Serkis’s project was called By Sarah • Nov 09, 2018 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine in Outlaw King Outlaw King, aka the movie with the Pine nuts, is a spiritual sequel to Braveheart, overlapping with the end of that movie to tell the story of Robert the Bruce, the man who finished the job and defeated the English, creating a sovereign kingdom of Scotland. Chris Pine reunites with By Sarah • Nov 09, 2018 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Creed Time Creed II comes out in two weeks, which seems impossible. The trailer just came out the other day! Except, no, the trailer came out in June. FIVE MONTHS AGO. Even on a good day, I don’t have a great sense of chronography, and I always feel like things just By Sarah • Nov 08, 2018 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman is the gift that keeps on giving Aquaman is gearing up for its imminent holiday release with new character posters featured in Entertainment Weekly. Look, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—it doesn’t matter if this movie is good because it’s a goddamn gift. Exhibit A: This movie has Dolph By Sarah • Nov 07, 2018 04:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a Giallo classic, famous for its lurid colors and expression of feminine repression and power. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria—less a remake and more a reimagining—is going to be famous for its marathon length and multiple good performances from Tilda Swinton. Wisely, Guadagnino doesn’ By Sarah • Nov 06, 2018 03:31 pm
TV Updates Harvey and Sabrina are so cute it’s gross Lainey asked about the teen angst in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but there isn’t a lot of angst because Sabrina is in a happy, sickeningly cute relationship with Harvey Kinkle. Honestly, they’re so cute it’s gross. They do gross things like kiss and spin in circles. Really, By Sarah • Nov 05, 2018 03:24 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead bait and switch SPOILERS FOR RICK GRIMES I quit watching The Walking Dead a few years ago and I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER TO QUIT A SHOW. I regularly lose interest in long-running TV shows—I like for things to end, eventually—but I have never felt the palpable RELIEF I felt after By Sarah • Nov 05, 2018 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody Rami Malek is very good in Bohemian Rhapsody. As Freddie Mercury, legendary frontman of Queen, one of the greatest arena bands of all time, he struts and stalks his way through a hell of an impression that is prevented from becoming a true characterization only by the limits of the By Sarah • Nov 02, 2018 03:21 pm
Royals Prince Charles at work Yesterday Lainey wrote about Prince Charles’s Vanity Fair profile and how it is a rebranding, showing him in a kinder, more familial light. Sure, yeah, all of that. But did you catch the work shade?! One of the phrases lobbed at Prince William and Duchess Kate a lot is By Sarah • Nov 02, 2018 10:33 am
Sabrina’s Best Spells There is so much magic in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Some of it is Wiccan, some of it is practical, and some of it is the kind of thing Jack Parsons was doing when he wasn’t building rockets in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. All of it is cool. But By Sarah • Nov 01, 2018 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kiera Knightley is BONKERS in The Nutcracker The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is Disney’s live-action, non-ballet scramble of The Nutcracker. It’s the story you may know and might love, remixed for an alternate reality where children are entertained by elaborate Victorian fantasies, and I can’t wait for the sequel, The Velveteen Rabbit and By Sarah • Nov 01, 2018 02:27 pm
Rami Malek Why We Hired Bryan Singer: An Excuse Everyone is trying to get ahead of the Esquire exposé coming down the pipe about Bryan Singer. A couple weeks ago it was Singer himself preemptively stating the article is a hit piece, and now Fox is setting up their defense in case this thing blows up. There are unnamed By Sarah • Nov 01, 2018 10:32 am
