Movie Reviews and Previews Sorry to Bother You review Coming out of Sundance, Boots Riley’s debut film, Sorry to Bother You, was hailed as “the next Get Out”, and it’s not hard to understand the comparison. Like Get Out, Sorry announces the arrival of a major new filmmaker, and like Get Out, it is (partly) about how By Sarah • Jul 13, 2018 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Fancy Historical Treachery Earlier this week we saw the first trailer for The Favourite, about the gossip and drama of Queen Anne’s court at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Now we’re going even further back to another era of feminine power in England and the literally backstabby court of Elizabeth By Sarah • Jul 12, 2018 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews One out of two Jokers happening Almost a year ago, we heard that Warner Brothers and DC Films were developing a Joker origin movie with director Todd Phillips and maybe producer Martin Scorsese. No, not the Joker/Harley Quinn spin-off, or the Jared Leto Joker origin movie, this is the other one that would potentially star By Sarah • Jul 11, 2018 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Renner doubles down Jeremy Renner sat out Avengers: Infinity War, but he’ll be back in Avengers 4, presumably his last stop on the Avengers train, unless he sticks around for that Black Widow movie that doesn’t need him at all. (Maybe whatever space magic bullsh*t they deploy to fix The By Sarah • Jul 10, 2018 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lando returns With the new Star Wars Episodes bringing back original trilogy characters—and steadily killing them off—it was only a matter of time until they called on the smoothest dude in the galaxy far, far away and brought back OG Lando Calrissian. THR is reporting that Billy Dee Williams is By Sarah • Jul 10, 2018 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fancy Historical Treachery History is bonkers. This is a fact. It’s the one thing truly getting me through this moment in American history—I’ve been revisiting our past and it is a constant reminder that all of history is comprised of madness and cruelty, and somehow, we always survive. This is By Sarah • Jul 10, 2018 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The First Purge stumbles into a point I have, generally, liked the Purge movies. They’re enjoyably schlocky B-movie nonsense prone to heavy-handed political observation but, like Sicario: Day of the Soldado, what was observational during the relatively calm of the Obama era has become commentary, intended or not, in the Trump era. Soldado probably didn’t By Sarah • Jul 04, 2018 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Take a break with Ant-Man and the Wasp Look, no one is going to argue that Ant-Man and/or the Wasp are Marvel’s most beloved, most important, or most well-known characters. No one is going to defend the Ant-Man franchise as one of the jewels of Marvel’s crown. I’m not even going to defend Ant-Man By Sarah • Jul 04, 2018 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Goose’s Disappointment Last week Lainey wrote about the short list to play Goose’s son in Top Gun 2, which included Nicholas Hoult, Glen Powell, and Miles Teller. Proving that we live in the darkest timeline, Variety is reporting that Miles Teller has been cast as Goose Jr. Lainey preferred Teller for By Sarah • Jul 03, 2018 04:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benicio Del Toro in Sicario: Day of the Soldado As I write this review, there has been another mass shooting in America. More people are dead. More people are injured. More suffering, more anger, more inaction, more misery. We can’t go a f*cking day without some fresh hell bursting forth and poisoning the well. At this point, By Sarah • Jun 29, 2018 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska: “the tiny horse you need right now” A man arrives in town, leather-clad and spurs clanging, a guitar and a rifle slung across his back, Mysterious Stranger comes to town on Unknown Business. He bellies up to the bar and proceeds to…awkwardly twist out of his gear and order a drink in a reedy, vaguely creepy By Sarah • Jun 28, 2018 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Somebody stop Jared Leto Unsatisfied with being the Third Best Joker, actor and human costume shop Jared Leto will now star as Morbius the Living Vampire in a Spider-Man spin-off at Sony. This movie will exist in the same universe as Tom Hardy’s Venom, both of which have not been admitted into the By Sarah • Jun 28, 2018 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Prepare your tissues Timothee Chalamet defied the Oscar gods to become the rare young dude actor recognized for a romantic performance. Young dudes almost never get nominated when playing romantic roles. It says something about us, culturally, and it’s not good, that we so rarely lionize romantic performances from men. But Timothee By Sarah • Jun 27, 2018 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No Dick Energy Lainey opened the site today by talking about the Big Dick Energy that is taking over social media and prompting all of us to wonder who in our friend group has BDE. (I’m going to posit that among the LG crew, Duana has the most BDE.) What I want By Sarah • Jun 27, 2018 12:53 pm
Russell Crowe Russell Crowe to play aggressive jerk In a shocking piece of out-of-the-box casting, famously temperamental actor Russell Crowe has been cast as Roger Ailes, the late, disgraced Fox News executive who was booted from his perch atop Dipsh*t Mountain after a series of sexual harassment allegations. It’s a revelatory move as no one could By Sarah • Jun 27, 2018 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette: an extraordinary plea for empathy Jokes, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby tells us, are a two-part structure: set-up and punchline. And the problem with jokes, she goes on, is that they have no resolution. In her new comedy special, Nanette, Gadsby tells us how she “sealed off” her coming-out story at its “trauma point” by turning By Sarah • Jun 25, 2018 09:18 am
