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
Gross Time’s Up on Morgan Freeman This week Jeffrey Tambor and the cast of Arrested Development engaged in a little light gaslighting followed by a round of apologies. Today Harvey Weinstein turned himself into police, and yesterday, CNN published a report alleging a history of harassing behavior by Morgan Freeman. That’s right, the voice of By Sarah • May 25, 2018 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Michael Bay team up Today in Movie Theaters Are Dying news, it’s been announced that Ryan Reynolds and Michael Bay will make a movie for Netflix. It’s called Six Underground, and Bay will direct and Reynolds will star, and it comes from Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It’s an By Sarah • May 23, 2018 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mr. Wick will be seeing Halle Berry John Wick 3 is filming right now, because there is still some good in the world. The movie is still adding to the cast, and yesterday they announced Halle Berry will be joining up as “Sofia”, a character we know nothing about except that she maybe isn’t a villain. By Sarah • May 22, 2018 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake G finally goes comic book Jake Gyllenhaal’s name has circled superhero movies since the dawn of time. Way back when Spider-Man was new to the big screen, and Tobey Maguire got into a negotiation spat with producers, Gyllenhaal was reportedly tipped to take over as Peter Parker in case things went south with Maguire. By Sarah • May 22, 2018 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool stagnates Going into the weekend, the projection for Deadpool 2 was $130-150 million. The estimate for its opening weekend, though, is a below-expectations $125 million. Now, that’s hardly a failure. That’s a nice number for anyone, and the Deadpool movies are lower cost than other superhero extravaganzas, so it By Sarah • May 22, 2018 09:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool 2 Deadpool 2 picks up sometime after Deadpool, with Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds, this time not only the star and producer but also a credited writer, alongside Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick) now a working mercenary, taking out criminals around the world. The opening scene ups the ante on the comic By Sarah • May 22, 2018 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool tweaks Marvel Deadpool 2 opens today. Did you know that? Did you glean that information from the barrage of marketing and Ryan-Reynolds-In-Costume appearances such as his stop at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Seriously, no one markets a blockbuster better than the Deadpool team—although this time their flow keeps getting By Sarah • May 18, 2018 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews DiCaprio & Spielberg reunite in some uncertain future Today in your dad’s favorite news, it’s been announced that Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg will reunite to make a biopic of Civil War general and US president Ulysses S. Grant. The movie is being adapted by David James Kelly from Ron Chernow’s biography, Grant. So you By Sarah • May 18, 2018 11:08 am
