Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is bigger, dumber, louder, better The bar that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has to clear is just “be less of a sexist mess than Jurassic World”. That’s it. The bar could not be lower. Jurassic Park has never and will never spawn a good sequel because it’s a one-trick pony, story-wise, and every By Sarah • Jun 22, 2018 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars on pause After Solo’s disappointing box office, marking the first failure of Disney-era Lucasfilm, something amazing has happened: Lucasfilm has pressed pause. That is, they have put the spin-offs on ice for the time being. Collider reports that the “Star Wars Story” branch of films has been suspended indefinitely. Lucasfilm will By Sarah • Jun 21, 2018 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adonis Creed Returns In 2015, Creed was a surprise. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan, coming off Fruitvale Station, reinvigorated the Rocky franchise by making it about not only a new generation, but a new culture, passing the title and the franchise not to Rocky’s son but to Apollo Creed’s. Creed By Sarah • Jun 20, 2018 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Surprise, Tag doesn’t suck A high-concept comedy based on a Wall Street Journal article about a group of middle-aged dudes who play tag is not a sure thing, to say the least. But Tag, the movie based on that article, is, surprisingly, not bad. It’s not great, like most studio comedies it’s By Sarah • Jun 20, 2018 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Incredibles Return The Incredibles has stood for fourteen years as one of the best superhero movies ever made. In the time between the original and the sequel out now, The Incredibles has become so beloved that the film begins with an intro from the cast thanking fans for their patience, sticking out By Sarah • Jun 18, 2018 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Mr. Rogers Cry Fest Warning: You are going to need Kleenex. Like, a whole box of tissues. The Fred Rogers documentary Won’t You be My Neighbor? is basically a ninety-minute cry fest. I’m not an easy movie-crier, but I started crying in the first five minutes and did not stop until the By Sarah • Jun 15, 2018 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman: Everybody’s Wet Tonight Aquaman isn’t due until December, and for the first time this decade Warner Brothers and DC Films have not sprayed us down with marketing every minute of every day. With Aquaman they have displayed actual restraint, which means that we are only just now, six months out, starting to By Sarah • Jun 15, 2018 12:31 pm
Equality Issues Brie Larson Speaks Out I would like to get through one goddamn week without something in the world being on fire, because frankly, I am f*cking exhausted of constantly having to beg to be recognized as an equal member of society. Please pay me the same, please give me the same opportunities, please By Sarah • Jun 15, 2018 11:07 am
Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner’s Revenant Hawkeye did not make the cut in Avengers: Infinity War, so Jeremy Renner sat out the press tour, which means we only have to hear about his two broken arms once this summer. In case you missed it: Renner broke both arms doing a stunt for his new movie, Tag. By Sarah • Jun 14, 2018 02:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Striped Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson has a new movie coming out next week, the quirky western Damsel in which he plays a lovelorn sap with a miniature horse named Butterscotch, trying to woo a woman who has no visible feelings for him. He co-stars with Mia Wasikowska, and they both turned out for By Sarah • Jun 14, 2018 12:03 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch Dreadful Doorways: Patrick Melrose is a study in trauma and recovery Patrick Melrose is a character portrait composed in the key of dread. As in the first episode, series director Edward Berger and cinematographer James Friend establish a visual language in which doorways are the thresholds of nightmares and the fig tree on the terrace looms as a specter of humiliation. By Sarah • Jun 13, 2018 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 1980s Wonder Woman Wonder Woman 2 began production today and to mark the occasion Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins tweeted out first-look images of Diana Prince and Steve Trevor. The sequel is titled Wonder Woman 1984—GREAT title—and so this is 1980s fashion for Diana and Steve. It’s not completely By Sarah • Jun 13, 2018 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie Foster in Hotel Artemis In case you, like me, watched the trailer for Hotel Artemis and thought, Oh, a fun John Wick knock-off, allow me to disabuse you of the notion. Despite obvious similarities, particularly in the “hotel for criminals” vein, Hotel Artemis isn’t really a John Wick knock-off. There’s a likeness, By Sarah • Jun 12, 2018 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Women successful, world marvels We’ve known for years that diversity is good business. It pays dividends to appeal to more than just one demographic. And some groups are so starved for decent content, if you make something halfway good targeted at the overlooked and underserved, you can earn a nice little profit. Make By Sarah • Jun 12, 2018 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Toni Collete in Hereditary Billed out of Sundance as the next Rosemary’s Baby and/or Exorcist, and hailed as the most terrifying movie you’ll ever see, Hereditary had an impossible hill of hype to climb. And indeed, it could not climb that hill, earning a D+ CinemaScore on its opening weekend. I By Sarah • Jun 11, 2018 03:36 pm
Jameela Jamil Jameela Jamil Remembers The North remembers, and so does Jameela Jamil, co-star of The Good Place. On Friday, on the heels of the news that Emile Hirsch is joining the star-strewn cast of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, she took to Twitter to remind everyone that Emile Hirsch sucks. By Sarah • Jun 11, 2018 03:04 pm
