Movie Reviews and Previews The Jared Leto Emo Yakuza Movie The last time I reviewed a movie for which the description sounds like a random Scrabble result, it was the whimsically insane Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie. That movie is a gift from another dimension. The Jared Leto Emo Yakuza Movie, on the other hand, is some kind of punishment, By Sarah • Mar 13, 2018 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron and David Oyelowo in Gringo The advertising for Gringo is somewhat misleading, so realign your expectations now—this is not an R-rated weed comedy a la Pineapple Express. No, Gringo is more like a Coen Brothers movie in which a pot pill is the Macguffin. In fact, pot is so unimportant, beyond being a plot By Sarah • Mar 09, 2018 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Grinch Cumberbatch Everyone loves How the Grinch Stole Christmas, both the original Dr. Seuss book, and the 1966 animated Christmas special that re-runs every year on television. Everyone knows the song, and everyone recognizes the Grinch’s sneering green face, which is why Hollywood will insist on trying to recreate that 1966 By Sarah • Mar 09, 2018 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time A Wrinkle in Time is an ambitious movie and its scope outstrips its narrative ability, resulting in an uneven but occasionally enthralling fantasy. Meg (Storm Reid, terrific) is introduced helping her father, Alex Murry (Chris Pine, terrific) in his lab. He’s doing an experiment with sand and frequencies, and By Sarah • Mar 08, 2018 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth reporting for duty Here are some photos of Chris Hemsworth at the airport in Vancouver, returning to work on Bad Times at the El Royal. That’s the movie I name-checked previously as an interesting project Hemsworth is working on, reuniting with his Cabin in the Woods director, Drew Goddard. I can’t By Sarah • Mar 08, 2018 02:14 pm
Equality Issues MOST BAE Jordan I can only assume Kathleen has fallen down a well and is incapacitated at the moment because Lainey assigned me a Michael B. Jordan story in which her Forever Bae MBJ is being the MOST BAE. Remember Frances McDormand’s Oscar speech in which she shouted out inclusion riders and By Sarah • Mar 08, 2018 11:01 am
TV Updates Silicon Valley has a gender problem and no one misses TJ Miller That’s the takeaway from The Hollywood Reporter’s cover profile of Silicon Valley, ahead of the show’s fifth season launch. TJ Miller, of course, got caught up in Hollywood’s sex pest infestation, but that’s not why he left Silicon Valley. According to Miller, he left as By Sarah • Mar 08, 2018 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow Red Sparrow is an adaptation based on a book by Jason Matthews, a former CIA agent, that features a Russian ballerina, Dominika Egorova, pushed into espionage after a career-ending injury. (Dominika’s story is quite similar to Natasha Romanov’s backstory in the Marvel comics, but that’s a different By Sarah • Mar 06, 2018 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bruce Willis in Death Wish Death Wish began life as a pulpy crime novel, then came a film adaptation in 1974 starring Charles Bronson. That movie borrows from the exploitation sub-genres that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s, but where exploitation cinema largely arose from marginalized communities creating their own narratives outside a system By Sarah • Mar 02, 2018 03:09 pm
TV Updates Wakanda represent Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o are both presenting at the Oscars on Sunday. No idea if they’re presenting together, but they’re both riding the Black Panther high—and it will be the dominant film again on Oscar weekend which, if Get Out were to pull off some By Sarah • Mar 02, 2018 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth could be a Man in Black If Sony simply must continue the Men in Black franchise, rebooting it with Chris Hemsworth is not the worst idea I’ve heard. (The worst idea was combining MiB with the Jump Street franchise, but that, thankfully, seems to have been abandoned.) It sounds like the new plan is a By Sarah • Mar 02, 2018 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tarantino class reunion Despite his recent apology tour, and the revisiting of some very gross remarks he made re: Roman Polanski and Samantha Geimer, Sony is going ahead with Quentin Tarantino’s movie that he insists is not about Sharon Tate even though it will feature an actress portraying Sharon Tate and is By Sarah • Mar 01, 2018 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Wiig Kristen Wiig is apparently in talks to play the villain in Wonder Woman 2, which is surprising. Not that they’re casting—the movie films later this year, so it’s casting season—but that they’re talking to Kristen Wiig! If you asked me to guess who would be By Sarah • Mar 01, 2018 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams in Game Night My biggest issue with the Scarlett Johansson’s dead body comedy, Rough Night, is that it doesn’t commit to its premise and go as far as it needs to in order to actually work. Essentially, it chickens out. Going into Game Night, another high-concept R-rated comedy, I wondered if By Sarah • Feb 28, 2018 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gemma Chan’s Big Year If you watch any amount of British television, you’ve seen Gemma Chan. Sherlock, Shetland, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Humans—and that’s only stuff where she has leading or featured roles. She’s a side character in a LOT of stuff, too. Or maybe you remember her By Sarah • Feb 27, 2018 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan burns everything down First he was the Human Torch, then he burned the garden of the heart-shaped herb, now he’s burning all the books—Michael B. Jordan seems to like movies where he gets to burn sh*t on screen. Kathleen calls him Michael Bae Jordan but maybe we should call him By Sarah • Feb 26, 2018 03:24 pm
