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
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Annihilation? Despite a couple good-looking trailers, there have been warning signs that things are not all well with the upcoming Natalie Portman-fronted sci-fi flick Annihilation. The film is due to be released on February 23 in North America and China, but its studio, Paramount, has sold all other international distribution rights By Sarah • Feb 06, 2018 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World Redux I was not super impressed by the first trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, a trend which continues following their Super Bowl spot. I like the opening shot of the dinosaur shadow juxtaposed against the little girl’s toy horse—it’s dream and nightmare in one, and it screams By Sarah • Feb 05, 2018 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock punches a building If you’ve missed the news, Jumanji is tearing up the box office, becoming one of the biggest movies of 2017 (by making most of its money in 2018). As if we needed any more evidence, Dwayne Johnson is a huge f*ckin’ star who can do whatever the f* By Sarah • Feb 05, 2018 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Come for the Lando, Stay for the Lando After teasing it during the Super Bowl, the full first trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story—I hate these subtitles and wish they would just let the anthology titles stand on their own—has finally been released this morning on Good Morning America. Like Rogue One, this is a By Sarah • Feb 05, 2018 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sit DOWN Tony Stark Avengers: Infinity War aired a spot during the Super Bowl which is mostly rehashed from the trailer we saw late last year. But there were a few seconds of new footage, so let’s talk about that. The money shot is Captain America standing next to T’Challa and arming By Sarah • Feb 05, 2018 12:01 pm
Harvey Weinstein Uma Thurman’s Story We knew she had one. Since the red carpet interview where she said, “I’ve been waiting to feel less angry. And when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.” Then came her Thanksgiving Instagram, promising, “Stay tuned.” Well, she’s ready, because Uma Thurman has By Sarah • Feb 05, 2018 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenny Slate and Jon Hamm’s adult drama Jenny Slate has a new movie with Zachary Quinto and Jon Hamm. Though these are all people capable of being funny, this does not look like a funny movie. It’s called Aardvark—everyone loves a noun title with no context—and it’s about a therapist (Slate) who starts By Sarah • Feb 01, 2018 11:09 am
TV Updates John Krasinski’s Jack Ryan show goes Super Bowl The first trailer for John Krasinski’s new Amazon show, Jack Ryan, did not get me excited the series. As much as I like Krasinski, I don’t think we need an “American abroad fighting terrorists” show right now. It looks like 24 except without the catchy gimmick. Well there’ By Sarah • Jan 31, 2018 11:22 am
