TV Updates Superbad reunion Yesterday Netflix released a batch of first-look photos of their new series, Maniac, which is a “psychological black comedy” and not another remake of the slasher classic of the same name. If you examine these photos closely, you will notice Maniac stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, reuniting a decade By Sarah • Apr 19, 2018 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom looks RIDICULOUS I have not been impressed by the trailers for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom thus far, but this new—final—trailer is SO F*CKING RIDICULOUS that I am now kinda feeling this movie. It just looks so dumb. SO DUMB. Exactly how dumb does it look? Does it look “bad By Sarah • Apr 18, 2018 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Hotel Artemis Jodie Foster’s new movie is a straight-up John Wick knock-off, and I do not care, it looks super fun. It’s called Hotel Artemis, and except for the near-future, vaguely dystopian setting, it might as well be called Hotel Continental. The Hotel Artemis runs on rules suspiciously similar to By Sarah • Apr 18, 2018 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spielberg + DC = False Advertising Yesterday afternoon a flashy headline blared across the internet: STEVEN SPIELBERG DIRECTING SUPERHERO MOVIE! Nerds everywhere sh*t their pants. The thing is, it’s a little misleading. Technically, yes, Spielberg is developing a movie based on a comic book for DC Films. But he’s not making a movie By Sarah • Apr 18, 2018 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews One of these Harley Quinn movies might actually happen Suicide Squad was a mess, but one of the bright spots was Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, and Robbie, who has rapidly turned into a power producer, has been pitching various Harley spin-offs ever since. One of those pitches is the “Untitled Girl Gang” movie, which has advanced to the By Sarah • Apr 17, 2018 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock and a giant gorilla Imagine Jurassic World, except instead of one giant mutant dinosaur there are three giant mutant animal hybrids, and instead of that lone dino-monster terrorizing a theme park the three mutant animals are terrorizing Chicago, and also imagine if Jurassic World was both dumber and more fun—that’s Rampage. It By Sarah • Apr 16, 2018 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It spit It was a surprise hit last year, although horror movies consistently surprise at the box office so I don’t know when we stop calling it a “surprise” and start acknowledging the expectation, but anyway. It was huge. There is, naturally, a sequel. But the way Stephen King’s book By Sarah • Apr 13, 2018 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ocean’s 8 main trailer A new trailer for Ocean’s 8 has been released and this movie still looks f*cking cool. The first trailer was about introducing us to the all-new all-lady heist team, and this trailer is about introducing us to The Heist. We already knew they were robbing the Met, but By Sarah • Apr 12, 2018 03:09 pm
Douchebags TJ Miller got arrested No, you don’t say! Whoever could have seen it coming? Who could have predicted that this guy would end up in some kind of official trouble? What warning signs did we overlook besides all of them? How could we have seen this totally foreseeable mess arriving right on cue? By Sarah • Apr 11, 2018 09:33 am
Quiveration For Your Internet Boyfriend Consideration: Adam Driver Proving that it actually exists, a trailer for Terry Gilliam’s eons-in-the-making The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was released the other day. It’s real! He did it this time! I remember seeing a documentary about Gilliam’s previous—failed—attempt at making this movie (with Johnny Depp) AT By Sarah • Apr 10, 2018 04:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews To Wakanda and Infinity Avengers: Infinity War comes out at the end of the month, which means we’re in the advertising red zone. If you’re trying to avoid all spoilers, this not for you because we’re talking about TV spots that are starting to show bits of scenes and give us By Sarah • Apr 09, 2018 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Solo: A Lando Calrissian Story We’ve all just resigned ourselves to Solo happening to us, right? Like a trip to the dentist—it’s just something we have to get through. A jaunty new trailer has been released to encourage us to take our Star Wars fan service with grace and good cheer, but By Sarah • Apr 09, 2018 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ignore the trailers, Blockers is great Comedy trailers can be misleading—either you give away the good jokes or you hold back and risk your movie looking stupid, choose your poison—and no comedy trailer has been more misleading in recent memory than the trailers for Blockers. The trailers are awful and make the movie look By Sarah • Apr 05, 2018 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Quiet Place is a sound-proofed nightmare If you go into A Quiet Place thinking it’s a creature feature, you’re going to be disappointed. Is there a creature? Yes. There are lobster-clawed crab-bug things, and the movie makes no pretense about hiding them—you definitely see the shark. (They kind of look like the Demogorgon. By Sarah • Apr 04, 2018 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Your future indie favorite How to Talk to Girls at Parties played Cannes last year, the second of the Elle Fanning/Nicole Kidman movies (along with The Beguiled), and it still hasn’t got a North American release date, though indie distributor A24 has picked it up, so it’s coming. This is one By Sarah • Apr 03, 2018 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson’s meticulous, highly stylized worlds are particularly suited to stop-motion animation, the most meticulous and stylized form of animation. It’s no coincidence that one of Anderson’s best films is The Fantastic Mr. Fox, his first attempt at stop-motion, and now he follows up Fox with another By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 12:11 pm
