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
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
