Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy at her best in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy is best known as a comedienne, but really she’s a good actress with a talent for playing cranks and borderline unpleasant, blunt characters. She excels when she’s playing someone who says and does as she pleases, so Can You Ever Forgive Me? is right up her By Sarah • Oct 19, 2018 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Lee Curtis returns to Halloween Director David Gordon Green continues his hopscotch through genre with a sequel to Halloween, John Carpenter’s 1978 horror flick that basically launched the slasher sub-genre. Forty years later, the baton passes to Green who, along with collaborators Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, brings back the craft and careful By Sarah • Oct 19, 2018 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bad Times at the El Royale: a kitschy Lynchian dream Bad Times at the El Royale, Drew Goddard’s follow-up to The Cabin in the Woods is at once completely like that movie and nothing like that movie. Getting into the specifics of how El Royale works would spoil it, but one important thing to know is that despite By Sarah • Oct 18, 2018 03:14 pm
Douchebags Bryan Singer’s preemptive strike Last year Bryan Singer’s name emerged from the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar when he was sued for allegedly assaulting a minor. Many of us were not surprised, having expected something from that quarter as soon as the scandal moved past Harvey Weinstein and into deeper, industry-wide waters. It By Sarah • Oct 17, 2018 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gina Rodriguez: Action Hero She’s been trying with stuff like Deepwater Horizon and Annihilation, and Gina Rodriguez now has a leading action role in Miss Bala, an English-language update of the 2011 Mexican thriller of the same name. We can debate forever the value of adapting foreign-language films into English—yell By Sarah • Oct 16, 2018 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Boring Bond The James Bond casting carousel continues to revolve, even though Daniel Craig is locked into one more appearance as 007 and we don’t need a new Bond for at least 3-4 years, AT LEAST. Still, speculation runs rampant, and the latest rumor is that Bond producer Barbara Broccoli By Sarah • Oct 16, 2018 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Issa Rae gets a rom-com Well, I assume it’s a rom-com. Issa Rae will be starring in a movie called American Princess about an American woman who moves to London and falls in love “in a very unexpected way”. I assume that means she falls in love with a royal. And I assume By Sarah • Oct 12, 2018 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Coogler returns to Wakanda Marvel is recovering nicely following the clusterf-ck firing of James Gunn, hiring new directors including a pair of women, Cate Shortland and Chloe Zhao, and now they have locked down Ryan Coogler for Black Panther 2. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and Coogler made Marvel’ By Sarah • Oct 12, 2018 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo makes bank Once upon a time, Marvel was called cheap, largely because they didn’t pay their actors massive contracts (and also famously serving Subway sandwiches at their press junkets). Then, The Avengers happened and RDJ pulled in $50 million. So the story became that Marvel was cheap, except for RDJ, who By Sarah • Oct 12, 2018 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sometimes dead is better Following the success of It, Castle Rock, and to a lesser extent Gerald’s Game—and totally ignoring The Dark Tower—the Stephen King resurgence continues with a new adaptation of Pet Sematary, aka That Movie That Made You Afraid of Cats. Pet Sematary is not my favorite Stephen King By Sarah • Oct 11, 2018 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Gunn recovers There was no doubt he would, and in a move pretty much everyone—including me—predicted, he is going to work for Marvel’s arch-rival, DC. James Gunn has been tapped to write a new script for Suicide Squad 2, and maybe he will direct it, too. The directing By Sarah • Oct 10, 2018 03:17 pm
Douchebags Busy Philipps and the expendability of women Busy Philipps has a book coming out later this month called This Will Only Hurt a Little. In a leaked excerpt she details a Freaks and Geeks on-set confrontation with James Franco in which he shoved her so forcefully she fell and had the wind knocked out of her. By Sarah • Oct 09, 2018 03:07 pm
TV Updates Here for the Tennant-Sheen bro-down Authors and Nerd Gods Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman once collaborated on a novel, Good Omens. It’s about an angel and a demon who got a little too comfy on Earth to tolerate the apocalypse and try to thwart it. It’s been in development almost as long as By Sarah • Oct 09, 2018 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Just have fun with Aquaman New York Comic Con is happening right now, and while San Diego is still THE Comic Con, NYCC has been creeping closer in importance for years, with big movie and TV presentations and new trailers released every year. This year, Aquaman brought a five-minute extended trailer that gives a By Sarah • Oct 05, 2018 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Venom When a movie fails, there are two possible outcomes. One is that it’s bad and boring, and thus forgettable, because there is nothing about it to make an impression other than its overall badness. Or, it’s bad yet entertaining, because while it doesn’t work, it fails in By Sarah • Oct 05, 2018 10:13 am
TV Updates I want Sabrina now, please Last month we got a teaser for Netflix’s Riverdale spin-off, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Now, we have a full trailer and yes, please, I want to put this show in my eyeballs like, yesterday. This is hardcore my aesthetic, from the vintage birthday party to the necromancy By Sarah • Oct 04, 2018 02:53 pm
