Harry Potter The Crimes of Grindelwald are many, and great In my review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, I wrote, “A movie where Newt does a silly mating dance with a glowy rhinoceros does not also need to contain a bleak storyline about an abusive orphanage matron who whips the closeted wizard in her care. They’re By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 09:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Mantzoukas gets his due Almost two years ago I wrote, “[Jason Mantzoukas] is WAY overdue for his own starring vehicle.” The everywhere That Guy of comedy, Mantzoukas has popped up on sitcoms like The League, Parks & Rec, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place,Transparent, and Big Mouth, and in movies like The Night Before By Sarah • Nov 16, 2018 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sad Clown Dumbo Disney’s quest to remake all their classic animated films into live action money grabs continues with Dumbo, Tim Burton’s reimagining of the timeless tale of animal cruelty in the circus. Want to see a baby elephant ripped from its mother? Go see Dumbo! Want to see large animals By Sarah • Nov 16, 2018 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Florence Pugh is everywhere Florence Pugh broke out with Lady Macbeth in 2016, and now, as is wont to happen, she is everywhere. She is currently on Netflix, being underutilized in Outlaw King. She will next be seen in The Little Drummer Girl with Alexander Skarsgard, and she is filming Greta Gerwig’s new By Sarah • Nov 15, 2018 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Favourite begins campaigning The Favourite is one of my favorite films of the year—yes, I see that, too—and it will be rolling out starting next week, beginning a hopeful Oscar charge. Leading the way on that is a cover feature in The Hollywood Reporter with its trio of stars, Olivia Colman, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2018 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Claire Foy in The Girl in the Spider’s Web The Girl in the Spider’s Web is an attempt to reboot the potential franchise started by the English-language reboot of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it did not open well, with less than $10 million on opening weekend. And with a B CinemaScore, it didn’t By Sarah • Nov 14, 2018 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Detective Pikachu ?????????? Monday’s pop culture moment was supposed to belong to Toy Story 4. Disney dropped that trailer early, undoubtedly expecting to dominate the full news cycle. But then, at noon, our lives were permanently derailed as a trailer for Detective Pikachu(?) was released and it actually looks…good(??). And then By Sarah • Nov 13, 2018 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Toy Story 4 expands the nightmare Toy Story is one of the most beloved film franchises of all time, spanning generations and ever-improving visual effects to tell a story of toys and friendship and sentience and love and the nightmarish confines of utilitarian purpose and the magic of childhood. I love these movies—DON’T By Sarah • Nov 13, 2018 08:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Another Jungle Book Jon Favreau made a hybrid live-action/animated Jungle Book that was really quite good, so much so it bagged him the job of directing the new Lion King, and also good enough that it threw Andy Serkis’s competing project into considerable shade. Back then Serkis’s project was By Sarah • Nov 09, 2018 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine in Outlaw King Outlaw King, aka the movie with the Pine nuts, is a spiritual sequel to Braveheart, overlapping with the end of that movie to tell the story of Robert the Bruce, the man who finished the job and defeated the English, creating a sovereign kingdom of Scotland. Chris Pine reunites with By Sarah • Nov 09, 2018 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Creed Time Creed II comes out in two weeks, which seems impossible. The trailer just came out the other day! Except, no, the trailer came out in June. FIVE MONTHS AGO. Even on a good day, I don’t have a great sense of chronography, and I always feel like things just By Sarah • Nov 08, 2018 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman is the gift that keeps on giving Aquaman is gearing up for its imminent holiday release with new character posters featured in Entertainment Weekly. Look, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—it doesn’t matter if this movie is good because it’s a goddamn gift. Exhibit A: This movie has Dolph By Sarah • Nov 07, 2018 04:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a Giallo classic, famous for its lurid colors and expression of feminine repression and power. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria—less a remake and more a reimagining—is going to be famous for its marathon length and multiple good performances from Tilda Swinton. Wisely, Guadagnino doesn’ By Sarah • Nov 06, 2018 03:31 pm
TV Updates Harvey and Sabrina are so cute it’s gross Lainey asked about the teen angst in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but there isn’t a lot of angst because Sabrina is in a happy, sickeningly cute relationship with Harvey Kinkle. Honestly, they’re so cute it’s gross. They do gross things like kiss and spin in circles. Really, By Sarah • Nov 05, 2018 03:24 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead bait and switch SPOILERS FOR RICK GRIMES I quit watching The Walking Dead a few years ago and I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER TO QUIT A SHOW. I regularly lose interest in long-running TV shows—I like for things to end, eventually—but I have never felt the palpable RELIEF I felt By Sarah • Nov 05, 2018 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody Rami Malek is very good in Bohemian Rhapsody. As Freddie Mercury, legendary frontman of Queen, one of the greatest arena bands of all time, he struts and stalks his way through a hell of an impression that is prevented from becoming a true characterization only by the limits of the By Sarah • Nov 02, 2018 03:21 pm
