Movie Reviews and Previews Bright: The Return Netflix has established itself as a player in the television world, but despite big spending at film festivals, they have yet to prove themselves in the world of film. Or, rather, they only just did, as Bright becomes their biggest film hit, comparable to a blockbuster in the “real” world By Sarah • Jan 03, 2018 12:46 pm
Emily Blunt Emily Blunt gives us “bum-pinching” Emily Blunt is on the cover of the new Vanity Fair, which is a little odd, though, because she’s not really promoting anything. She’s voicing a character in Sherlock Gnomes—Lainey, I REFUSE to watch this—but that’s not out until March, and it’s not mentioned By Sarah • Jan 03, 2018 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dad Approved: All the Money in the World When watching All the Money in the World, it is incredible to think that 1) six weeks ago Christopher Plummer was not in this movie, and 2) anyone other than Christopher Plummer was ever cast as J. Paul Getty. Plummer is terrific as oil tycoon and grandfather from hell J. By Sarah • Dec 28, 2017 09:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Bright At first glance, Bright seemed batsh*t crazy, and the combination of director David Ayer, who specializes in down and dirty action movies particularly of the cop variety, and screenwriter Max Landis, who specializes in “this plus that” story pitches, seemed crazy enough to create the perfect storm of good-bad By Sarah • Dec 27, 2017 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle The lasting impression of the comedy Central Intelligence is that Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson are a terrific screen duo. They must have known that, too, because just eighteen months later, they’ve reunited for the Jumanji sequel/reboot, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. They wasted no time in finding By Sarah • Dec 22, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bellas are back in Pitch Perfect 3 Look. Pitch Perfect 3 is not good. Not by any reasonable metric of filmmaking. There are no character arcs, there is no narrative arc—there is BARELY a narrative. Pitch Perfect was a nice little surprise, a college comedy wrapped up in a capella/girl band trimmings, and as a By Sarah • Dec 21, 2017 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Come for Charlize, stay for Sharlto Just in time for the holidays, like a little present from the universe, comes a trailer for Gringo, a movie starring Sharlto Copley. I love Sharlto Copley, and he is not in nearly enough movies to satisfy me, which would be all the movies. Sharlto Copley should be in all By Sarah • Dec 21, 2017 11:27 am
TJ Miller Next Up: TJ Miller Did you think it was over? Did you think the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar had spat out its last name? Well Merry F*cking Christmas, we’ve got another one: TJ Miller. Remember him? Of Silicon Valley and Deadpool fame, and, oh yeah, The Emoji Movie. And also one of By Sarah • Dec 20, 2017 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman Even if you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about PT Barnum, The Greatest Showman is not a great movie. It has going for it Hugh Jackman, truly a Great Entertainer, and he is determined to greatly entertain the sh*t out of his audience. And the musical numbers aren’t that bad, By Sarah • Dec 20, 2017 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ocean’s 8: It’s what they’re good at Ocean’s 11 is one of the movies that propelled Matt Damon into permanent A-list capital-letter Movie Star status. And now, when he can’t stop the diarrhea flowing from his mouth on a daily basis, comes the trailer for Ocean’s 8, the all-lady spin-off featuring a slew of By Sarah • Dec 19, 2017 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah’s Top 10 of 2017 First, we must acknowledge that the true and correct Top 10 is the Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie ten times. But after that, here are my next Top 10 Films of 2017. As always, it’s alphabetical, not ranked. A Ghost Story David Lowery’s tone poem about grief and By Sarah • Dec 18, 2017 10:14 am
Business of Hollywood Deadpool trolls the Disney-Fox merger Yesterday it was announced that Disney and 20th Century Fox are merging, after a month of speculation and on/off talks. The deal comes as Fox spins off its movie and TV divisions, handing Disney their studio and television package which includes the FX networks, National Geographic channel, stakes in By Sarah • Dec 15, 2017 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Annihilation? We’ve seen a trailer for Annihilation, Alex Garland’s follow-up to Ex Machina, which stars Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Oscar Isaac. That was a promising trailer, and I was way into it. Now we have a second trailer, expanding on the plot and By Sarah • Dec 14, 2017 10:02 am
Michael Che Now we’re being Josted Taking a lesson from Scarlett Johansson, Saturday Night Live is now Josting us, adding Colin Jost to a head writing team that already includes other people. At the winter break, SNL is adding Jost and his Weekend Update partner, Michael Che, to the head writing team, joining Kent Sublette and By Sarah • Dec 13, 2017 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the Star Wars for a generation After an original trilogy, a prequel trilogy, a spin-off, and the first installment in a sequel trilogy, it didn’t seem that Star Wars could still surprise. They could create new creatures and amaze with effects, be they practical or elaborate CGI, and they could give us new versions of By Sarah • Dec 12, 2017 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Day-Lewis (maybe) goes out on a high note In a career littered with great performances, it’s not hard to see why Daniel Day-Lewis would choose Phantom Thread’s Reynolds Woodcock to be his final performance (for now). For one thing, he looks like himself. There’s no facial hair or affected gait or prosthetics or other device By Sarah • Dec 12, 2017 10:02 am
