Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Beautiful Boy Combining memoirs from David and Nic Sheff, a father-son duo who both reflected on Nic Sheff’s addiction to crystal meth and heroin, Beautiful Boy is about as pedigreed as films come. Starring Steve Carell, long since transitioned to Dramatic Actor, as David Sheff and breakout phenom Timothee Chalamet as By Sarah • Sep 11, 2018 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Everybody Knows with Penelope and Javier Following two Oscar wins for Best Foreign Language Film (A Separation and The Salesman, for which he did not accept his Oscar in person, in protest of Donald Trump’s travel ban), Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi takes us to a small, drama-drenched Spanish village for his latest film, Everybody Knows. By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: A Star is Born Even though this is the FOURTH iteration of the classic Hollywood rags-to-riches fable A Star is Born, I will do my best not to spoil it because apparently some of you took exception when Lainey let fly with the ending. At this point every age of cinema has its Star, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in Destination Wedding Destination Wedding is now available on VOD. A romantic comedy for cranks, Destination Wedding supposes two things: 1) The best cinematic romances are spiky and full of tension, and 2) audiences want to see Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder fall in love. Writer/director Victor Levin, veteran of Mad About By Sarah • Sep 07, 2018 11:24 am
Dumbass Oscar walks it back Last month the Academy announced upcoming changes to the Oscars telecast, to combat the ratings slide which is affecting everything on broadcast TV including football, and for the Oscars is mostly down to the fragmentation of entertainment and a little bit the popularity of the host which statistics show is By Sarah • Sep 07, 2018 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel FINALLY If you’ll recall, I was not impressed with the set photos from Captain Marvel, showing intergalactic superhero Carol Danvers in some budget green space suit. Carol Danvers has been around since the 1960s, and in 2012 she got an upgrade (courtesy writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artists Dexter Soy By Sarah • Sep 05, 2018 02:58 pm
TV Updates Grizzled Henry Cavill On the one hand, I am hesitant to write off Henry Cavill because of Chris Hemsworth. Not too long ago we were all, Stop trying to make Chris Hemsworth happen, Hollywood, and then Chris Hemsworth turned out to be one of the better Chrises. On the other hand, I read By Sarah • Sep 05, 2018 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pennywise is not hot, you sickos Here are photos from the set of It: Chapter 2, showing Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the Clown. Last year, after It came out, the internet developed a thirst for Pennywise because the internet has both notoriously awful taste (I don’t care how well Kayleigh Donaldson puts it, Thanos is By Sarah • Aug 31, 2018 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman wants that Oscar Late last year when we saw set photos of Hugh Jackman running around as disgraced presidential hopeful Gary Hart, I stacked up his Oscar odds for The Greatest Showman and concluded, “Better luck next year, Hugh.” Well next year is here, and we have a trailer for The Front Runner, By Sarah • Aug 31, 2018 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Post-Apocalyptic Dinklage I dug the teaser for I Think We’re Alone Now, Reed Morano’s film starring Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning. We now have a full trailer, and I still dig it. In fact, the trailer plays so well as its own thing it almost works as a short film. By Sarah • Aug 30, 2018 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alec Baldwin drops out of Joker-mark-Joaquin Well that didn’t take long. Just two days ago it was announced that Alec Baldwin would play a Trumpy version of Bat-dad Thomas Wayne in the Joker-mark-Joaquin movie. Literally the next day, though, Baldwin said he was “no longer doing that movie”. He cited the ubiquitous “scheduling issues” and By Sarah • Aug 30, 2018 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alec Baldwin joins Joker-mark-Joaquin The Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix is happening and is casting up, with the latest hire being Alec Baldwin as Thomas Wayne, father of Bruce Wayne. But wait, there’s more! Because we live in the darkest timeline, this isn’t any old Thomas Wayne, benevolent billionaire philanthropist and predestined By Sarah • Aug 28, 2018 02:02 pm
Louis CK Louis CK’s comeback begins It’s been nine months. Not even a full year. That’s how long Louis CK sat in time-out after ADMITTING he engaged in what The New York Times calls “inappropriate conduct” but which everyone else calls “repeatedly jacking off in front of women”. In his statement admitting to repeatedly By Sarah • Aug 28, 2018 12:35 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones will return, eventually HBO released a teaser for upcoming seasons of their shows which includes little teeny tiny glimpses of NEW GAME OF THRONES. There are also clips from Barry and a tease for the next—and last—season of Veep, both very good shows (Barry had an OUTSTANDING debut season this summer) By Sarah • Aug 28, 2018 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No Gunn, No Guardians Marvel has not been in this state of upheaval since Edgar Wright bailed on Ant-Man just weeks before it was set to begin production. Ironically, it is how well Marvel handled that director drama that had everyone, including me, assuming they would not miss a beat in replacing James Gunn By Sarah • Aug 27, 2018 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Cho in Searching Movies that break out at Sundance—or any festival—don’t always live up to the hype, but I am glad to say that is not the case with Searching. Aneesh Chaganty’s thriller is as good as advertised, being both a stellar suspense flick and a fantastic leading performance By Sarah • Aug 24, 2018 01:50 pm
