Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling goes to the moon We’re just a few months away from the fall festival circuit and award-season movie jamboree, which is why there have been so many f*cking trailers in the last week. The latest addition is for another automatic contender, First Man. It’s the re-team of Ryan Gosling and Damien By Sarah • Jun 11, 2018 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth: Bad Guy Nearly a decade ago MGM went bankrupt and the resulting financial quagmire threw a lot of movies into disarray. It delayed development on a Bond movie, on The Hobbit which at the time was being stewarded by Guillermo Del Toro, and a bunch of movies got shelved in the fallout, By Sarah • Jun 08, 2018 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ocean’s 8 is sparkling rosé on a hot day That is to say, it’s delicious and indulgent and something to luxuriate in: a treat. Do you want to have a good time? A good time shall be had. Do you want to ogle outrageous wardrobes and gowns? Ogle you will. Are you here for a cast of talented By Sarah • Jun 08, 2018 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews American Animals is the reverse Ocean’s 8 There are two heist movies in theaters this month, Ocean’s 8 and American Animals. One is big and splashy, the other is a decidedly more low-key affair, and unlike Ocean’s 8, American Animals is based on a true story. It’s the stranger-than-fiction tale of how four college By Sarah • Jun 07, 2018 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A new girl with a dragon tattoo After David Fincher’s English-language adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo didn’t set the world on fire—it might not be a “major Fincher” but it’s a damn good movie—it became clear that Sony was going to do something new with the potential franchise. The By Sarah • Jun 07, 2018 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shailene Woodley on a boat Adrift is the perfect vehicle for Shailene Woodley. She is not an actress with a particularly warm screen presence, but she has a toughness that is appealing, though that can be hard to slot into the right projects. (The Descendants and Big Little Lies: Right; Divergent: Wrong.) But Adrift lands By Sarah • Jun 06, 2018 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The McConaissance is back The timeline is thus: Matthew McConaughey broke out in A Time to Kill. Then he became a rom-com king, starred in the legendarily awful Tiptoes, turned into a self-parody, and then it was the McConaissance, in which he achieved his final form as the surprisingly versatile actor with the distinctive By Sarah • Jun 06, 2018 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Extremely Loud Holiday Movies Star Wars has dominated the last three holiday box office tournaments. In the wake of Solo’s summer slip, don’t forget that from 2015-2017, Star Wars cranked out billion-dollar business each December. But there is no Star Wars this Christmas, which means everyone else is trying it in their By Sarah • Jun 05, 2018 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Suspiria: I guess we’re doing this Luca Guadagnino has established himself as one of the most luxuriously visual directors working today. So it shouldn’t be surprising he would tackle the remake of Suspiria, Dario Argento’s classic giallo film about a dancer who discovers mysterious goings-on at her dance academy, and yet, I am surprised. By Sarah • Jun 05, 2018 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Widows Slay Steve McQueen hasn’t made a feature film since 12 Years a Slave, but he returns this fall with Widows, a film that could not look more different from 12 Years if it was shot on the moon. The first trailer has been released, and I immediately watched it three By Sarah • Jun 04, 2018 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Top Gun is one of those movies, if it’s on, I’ll watch it. It’s irresistible. Peak Tom Cruise, 1980’s homoeroticism, Cold War tough-guy action—this movie has everything, as Stefon would say. A sequel has been teased for years, and today it’s finally happening. Tom By Sarah • May 31, 2018 01:29 pm
The Walking Dead Andrew Lincoln taps out The Walking Dead has been on forever, at this point, and over the last decade it’s been one of the most popular shows on television. It used to be one of my favorite shows, but eventually I had to jump off the misery carousel as seasons ran together with By Sarah • May 30, 2018 12:06 pm
Douchebags Johnny Depp’s lizard cologne goes Native I have been extraordinarily patient with Johnny Depp and his interest in Native culture. He may or may not be of Native descent—he’s unsure of his exact heritage—but he has always been sincere and generally respectful in his interest. The Lone Ranger didn’t work, at all, By Sarah • May 30, 2018 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Solo ran off the road And the summer box office car crash claimed its second victim. If Deadpool 2 was a fender-bender, Solo straight up got ran off the road. Going into the weekend, the projection was a $130-150 million four-day Memorial Day weekend, and coming out of the long weekend, the estimate is $84 By Sarah • May 29, 2018 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Book Club: The middle-aged rom-com we need Based on its trailer, Book Club looks like a fake movie from an SNL sketch. It’s four women of a certain age reconnecting with their sexuality and romantic lives thanks to the power of Fifty Shades of Grey, which in itself seems like a joke, as Fifty Shades is By Sarah • May 25, 2018 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Solo isn’t bad, it’s also not necessary After all the behind-the-scenes drama and production strife, Solo: A Star Wars Story turned out okay. Better than okay—parts of it are really good. Unlike Rogue One, which bears the Frankensteinian scars of a multiple-director vision, Solo is cohesive from beginning to end, tonally and narratively consistent. Despite its By Sarah • May 25, 2018 03:07 pm
