Movie Reviews and Previews Ike Barinholtz gets his shot I’ve been low-key calling out Ike Barinholtz for a while as a consistent scene-stealer. Last year, in my review of Snatched, I wrote, “Ike Barinholtz steals every scene he’s in [… ]he’s so good, he’s entering Jason Mantzoukas territory as a secondary player who really needs his By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg in Mile 22 Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have enjoyed a productive and mostly successful creative partnership. Berg likes making movies about macho All-American Heroes who Get Things Done while the nerds around them make no meaningful contributions, and Wahlberg likes playing macho All-American Heroes who Get Things Done while the nerds around By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 01:14 pm
Quiveration Domhnall Gleeson out for a walk Here is Domhnall Gleeson walking around New York City for your Friday consumption. I have not given up on making him the Internet Boyfriend of 2018, but he is not cooperating and campaigning as needed to make it happen. Gleeson keeps a low profile, and grist for the digital mill By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix is coming for Oscar And they’re doing it with an Oscar darling. The teaser for Roma, Alfonso Cuaron’s new film, has been released and it looks gorgeous and emotional (aka it looks like an Alfonso Cuaron film). It’s being released by Netflix but will be getting an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run, and By Sarah • Aug 16, 2018 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney confirms James Gunn is done With them, at least. Despite cast support and widespread public support, Disney will not be rehiring James Gunn. According to Variety, studio chairman Alan Horn met with Gunn as a “courtesy” to “clear the air” which sounds like corporate-speak for reiterating his ass is grass and no amount of pressure By Sarah • Aug 16, 2018 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Slender Man: The Internet Makes A Bad Movie Creepypasta, the corner of the internet dedicated to ghost stories, urban legends, and horror stories, birthed a modern urban legend in 2009. On the Something Awful forums user “Victor Surge”, real name Eric Knudsen, posted a photo with a tall, reedy faceless being lurking in the background of the shot. By Sarah • Aug 16, 2018 12:22 pm
TV Updates All of the famous people… …Are in Matthew Weiner’s new show, The Romanoffs. Of course, when you make Mad Men, one of the most admired dramas of all time, people will be eager to sign onto your next project but even still this cast list is INSANE. The trailer is a who’s who By Sarah • Aug 15, 2018 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another award season entrant There are TOO MANY MOVIES. TIFF keeps adding to their lineup—now mulleted medieval Chris Pine is opening the fest—and trailers keep dropping and it’s TOO MUCH. I’m dreading making my schedule because it will be impossible to see everything I want. Last year felt thin, but By Sarah • Aug 15, 2018 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians review As the first predominately Asian film Hollywood has produced since The Joy Luck Club twenty-five years ago, Crazy Rich Asians has many eyes on it for many reasons, and it has the unenviable task of being everything to everybody. Adapted by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim from Kevin Kwan’s By Sarah • Aug 14, 2018 04:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who cares what men want What Women Want is a Mel Gibson movie that hasn’t aged well, like most Mel Gibson movies. So for the inevitable remake—because anything that was even remotely successful 15+ years ago is getting remade—it has been gender-swapped to star a woman who hears men’s thoughts after By Sarah • Aug 14, 2018 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Chrises Walk The gears have been grinding slowly but surely on a fourth Star Trek movie, which was to star Top Chrises Pine and Hemsworth as a father-son Captain Kirk duo in, presumably, some kind of timey-wimey scenario that would resurrect Hemsworth as Captain Kirk the Senior. And it would be directed By Sarah • Aug 13, 2018 09:00 am
TV Updates How much Paul Rudd do you need in your life? Paul Rudd is an established movie star, but he has done a ton of television in his career, and even as his profile in movies has risen steadily since the 1990s, he has never stopped popping up on TV. Of course, on the small screen he is best known as By Sarah • Aug 10, 2018 03:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Which Disney princess is Goth? One of them has to be. Which is it? My money was on Snow White, but a still from Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to Disney Animation’s surprise hit Wreck It Ralph, puts Snow White in a distinctly Rockabilly outfit, with the red bow and off-the-shoulder shirt. The By Sarah • Aug 10, 2018 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amandla Stenberg deserves better The Darkest Minds is a YA adaptation that arrives years after the YA dystopian boom has faded, adapted from a novel by Alexandra Bracken and I am not sure how she is not being sued into oblivion by Marvel for this blatant X-Men knock-off. The Darkest Minds starts with a By Sarah • Aug 10, 2018 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bo Burnham’s digital coming of age in Eighth Grade Last week Lainey mentioned in the intro that Eighth Grade is her best film of 2018 so far, and that I was struggling to get to a showing in Chicago, which is one of the top three markets in the US. It’s frustrating in this day and age when By Sarah • Aug 09, 2018 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Statham: The Meg and Bad Movie Bingo The answer is yes, The Meg is exactly the movie you think it is. But it is not the movie you want it to be, because it is rated PG-13 which sucks the blood and guts out of what would otherwise be a grade-A sharksploitation flick. The Meg should have By Sarah • Aug 09, 2018 11:16 am
