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
Dumbass Oscars So Wrong The Academy has just announced changes for the Oscars, one of which is relatively minor, two of which are ham-fisted at best, disastrous at worst. The minor change is moving up the broadcast date for 2020 to February 9, which will just make award season a little more hectic as By Sarah • Aug 08, 2018 01:38 pm
TV Updates Cary Fukanaga’s next thing Cary Joji Fukanaga has been absent our screens since Beasts of No Nation. He returns to Netflix in September, though, with a limited series called Maniac that he adapted from a Norwegian show. The details have been scarce until now, about six weeks before the series debuts, as we finally By Sarah • Aug 07, 2018 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie a go go I described the first look at Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pritt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood—apparently the correct punctuation is Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, but this is already a bad title and I refuse to make it worse—as having “no dick energy”. We now By Sarah • Aug 07, 2018 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ewan McGregor in Christopher Robin Obviously chasing the Paddington market, Disney has revived Winnie the Pooh and friends in an incredibly creepy live action for a new story about the importance of paid vacation. The movie is called Christopher Robin and it occurs in an alternate universe where Christopher Robin did not resent Winnie the By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 12:23 pm
Movie of the Heist Week It’s been a big week for heists. First came the McDonald’s Monopoly scam expose— one of Lainey’s long reads of the week—then there was the stroller shark heist in San Antonio, followed by the Swedish crown jewel heist featuring a speed boat getaway, and, finally, someone By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon’s buddy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me is being marketed as an action-comedy but it isn’t really that. There is action and there is comedy, but describing it as an action-comedy is like calling Planes, Trains and Automobiles a travelogue. The heart of The Spy Who Dumped Me is the friendship By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews See Tom Hardy as Syphilitic Al Capone Earlier this year we got a peek at Tom Hardy getting into character as Al Capone for the upcoming movie Fonzo. Now, we get the first look at Hardy fully made up as Capone and it’s fine. He doesn’t look anything like Capone but the overall impression is By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 10:06 am
Tiffany Haddish Put Tiffany Haddish in Wonder Woman Really just put Tiffany Haddish in All The Things, but when Vogue asked her “what’s a role you’d love to take on” as part of their “73 Questions” series, Haddish responded, “Wonder Woman’s sister”. Wonder Woman does have a black twin sister, Nubia, so this is ENTIRELY By Sarah • Aug 02, 2018 10:24 am
