Movie Reviews and Previews Jared Leto’s emo Yakuza movie When looking for something to watch, literally no one has ever said the words, “But what I’d really like to see is an emo Jared Leto Yakuza movie.” Literally no one. Has ever. Said that. And yet HERE WE ARE, with an emo Jared Leto Yakuza movie. What have By Sarah • Feb 23, 2018 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman in Annihilation Alex Garland follows his directorial debut, Ex Machina, with Annihilation, a film so deeply weird and disturbing it’s destined to polarize audiences (once seen, it is crystal clear why Paramount had no f*cking clue what to do with it). It’s similar to Darren Aronofsky’s mother! in By Sarah • Feb 22, 2018 11:38 am
TV Updates Tiffany Haddish is everywhere She’s in Super Bowl commercials, she’s acing Drunk History, she’s a best-selling author, P.T. Anderson wants to work with her, she will be presenting at the Oscars—ever since breaking out in Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish is everywhere. And among the many projects she has in By Sarah • Feb 21, 2018 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain’s inevitable It future As soon as It premiered last year, the internet began fantasy casting Jessica Chastain in the sequel as the adult Beverly. If you’re not aware, It is a story in two parts, the first in the past—the 1950s in the TV miniseries, the 1980s in the movie—and By Sarah • Feb 21, 2018 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch: Ac-TOR Benedict Cumberbatch is doing an Omaze campaign for the Avengers: Infinity War premiere. If you’re not familiar with Omaze, it’s a charity platform that partners with celebrities—maybe other people, too? I only see it with celebrities, though—for fan experiences driven by giving campaigns. You donate a By Sarah • Feb 21, 2018 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Panther is everything we’ve waited for Among a host of amazing things, maybe the most amazing thing about Black Panther is that it’s a superhero movie. For all the weight and expectation and political pressure and representative issues that come with being the first black superhero movie released by Marvel Studios—and the first black By Sarah • Feb 15, 2018 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maybe not the Tesla we’re looking for Nikola Tesla is ripe for a biopic. His story has everything: Genius, madness, rags-to-riches-to-rags, world-changing inventions, and a tragic ending. Tesla is one of the smartest people to ever live—if that sounds like exaggeration, x-rays are just some sh*t he discovered on accident and we’re still not By Sarah • Feb 14, 2018 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Domhnall Gleeson, Internet Boyfriend 2018 The Peter Rabbit screening I attended was on a Saturday morning, when I would otherwise be asleep. The movie theater was crawling with children. They handed out paper bunny ears at the door. THERE WAS FACE PAINTING. What I’m saying is, the environment was not conducive to encouraging my By Sarah • Feb 09, 2018 03:25 pm
Douchebags Quentin Tarantino apology tour At the beginning of the week, we heard from Uma Thurman about her history of abuse by Harvey Weinstein and, let’s say, reckless endangerment from Quentin Tarantino. It was a perfect combination of a serial predator and tyrannical director combining forces to make sure no part of a woman’ By Sarah • Feb 09, 2018 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Embarrassed Mannequins in Fifty Shades Freed Fifty Shades Freed is the final movie in the Fifty Shades trilogy, and the tone of this movie is “palpable relief”. The whole movie has the energy of the last day of school, teetering between the monotony of just going through the motions and the anxiety of almost, finally, being By Sarah • Feb 09, 2018 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy…has…DEMONS The teaser for Venom, the supervillain movie starring Tom Hardy, has been released and it’s certainly a series of moving images. I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. It’s just Hardy narrating about how everyone has their THING and his THING is DEMONS, and he’ By Sarah • Feb 08, 2018 11:40 am
TV Updates Jessica Jones returns Jessica Jones is arguably the best season of television put out by the Marvel/Netflix partnership. All of these shows have too many episodes, but JJ is sustained by the most cohesive plotting anyone has managed in a Marvel/Netflix show, and also, an all-time great villain courtesy David Tennant. By Sarah • Feb 08, 2018 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Not-So-Quiet Place When the first trailer for John Krasinski/Emily Blunt horror movie, A Quiet Place, came out, I pondered whether or not the film would avoid using LOUD NOISES to scare people. In a partial answer, it turns out the ads can’t avoid it—the Super Bowl spot uses a By Sarah • Feb 07, 2018 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool does it himself Is there any movie better at marketing than Deadpool? If you have to do a huge comic book movie press campaign, you might as well have fun, right? That seems to be the attitude of Ryan Reynolds and everyone at Deadpool, Inc. They have a LOT of fun with their By Sarah • Feb 07, 2018 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars’ experience problem In the interest of building a self-perpetuating franchise machine, the Star Wars universe is expanding. Solo, the second of the “Star Wars Stories” is due this summer, and Rian Johnson is following up The Last Jedi by developing a new, unrelated trilogy for Lucasfilm. Yesterday, the latest element of the By Sarah • Feb 07, 2018 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Surprise, it’s a new Cloverfield movie A couple of years ago, JJ Abrams sprung a new Cloverfield movie on us after only a few months of hype. That movie, 10 Cloverfield Lane, turned out to be pretty good. And then began the hype for the next Cloverfield movie, which was, by that point, assumed to be By Sarah • Feb 06, 2018 03:33 pm
