Movie Reviews and Previews Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the summer fling of 2018 I have not seen Mamma Mia! and I don’t know enough ABBA to make a go of it at karaoke, and I hate musicals, so Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again had a lot of ground to make up with me. I sat through the whole movie, and I By Sarah • Jul 19, 2018 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Boy vs. Boy Joel Edgerton forever separated himself from being confused with Sam Worthington when it turned out he’s a good filmmaker with his debut feature film, The Gift. Now he’s following up that quasi-exploitation horror flick with Boy Erased, which he adapted from Garrard Conley’s memoir about being sent By Sarah • Jul 18, 2018 04:21 pm
TV Updates Dork Storm 2018: The Dorkening After years of pop cultural dominance, we’re adjusting to a new reality: Comic-Con is no longer a major industry event. Oh, the magazines still feature glossy previews and there are parties and “activations” galore, but at this point Comic-Con is a thing because we say it’s a thing, By Sarah • Jul 18, 2018 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Notorious RBG One of the summer box office superstars this year isn’t a comic book movie or a dinosaur catastrophe or a cartoon. It’s a documentary, specifically, RBG, a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. RBG has been rocking the specialty box office, one of the best arthouse By Sarah • Jul 18, 2018 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mercury rising Our first look at Bohemian Rhapsody was mostly good for selling Rami Malek’s performance as Freddie Mercury. Now, a full trailer has been released which outlines the rise of Queen from bar shows to Live Aid, and does a fairly good job of selling the movie as a whole. By Sarah • Jul 17, 2018 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo kinda cleans up her mess A couple weeks ago Lainey wrote about Scarlett Johansson’s legendarily awful response to criticism after she was cast as transman Dante “Tex” Gill in the biopic Rub & Tug. Please revisit this PR nightmare that they are probably already teaching in Publicity 101. (Can you imagine the face of By Sarah • Jul 16, 2018 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dwayne Johnson in Skyscraper Dwayne Johnson reteams with his Central Intelligence director, Rawson Marshall Thurber, for a disaster movie set in a very tall building that is equal parts Die Hard and The Towering Inferno. You would think a movie that stars The Rock and is equal parts Die Hard and The Towering Inferno By Sarah • Jul 13, 2018 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow has a director Earlier this year we learned Marvel (finally) greenlit a Black Widow movie, and now that movie has a director: Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland. Scarlett Johansson apparently backed Shortland because she liked Shortland’s 2012 movie, Lore. Marvel movies tend to benefit when actors are engaged and advocating for their characters— By Sarah • Jul 13, 2018 12:25 pm
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
