Movie Reviews and Previews Ant-Man and the Wasp team up, okay, I guess Riding the high of the Black Panther premiere, Marvel has released the first trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp, and it lands with a resounding, “Sure, that’s a movie.” Ant-Man got by on Paul Rudd’s charm and a sweet family-friendly vibe, but no one is going to argue By Sarah • Jan 31, 2018 10:12 am
Quiveration The King Has Arrived Have you seen this? Have you seen Chadwick Boseman pull up at the Black Panther premiere and then like, ascend from his car? Have you watched it seventeen times in a row like me? No? Fix your life. The king has arrived. 👑 #BlackPanther @chadwickboseman pic.twitter.com/xKOTpYkyAN— Marvel Entertainment By Sarah • Jan 30, 2018 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Talking myself into Captain Marvel At every step and stage Captain Marvel has failed to produce excitement, which is a shame when you consider it is Marvel’s first and long-awaited solo superheroine film. Brie Larson is a good actress but an uninspiring choice to play Carol Danvers—PLEASE prove me wrong, Brie—and that By Sarah • Jan 26, 2018 10:36 am
Danny McBride #BRAG A couple days ago I wrote about the mysterious new “movie” from Danny McBride, Dundee, purported to be an extension of the Crocodile Dundee franchise. I called bullsh*t and guessed it’s a Super Bowl ad for Australian tourism, and guess what? IT’S A SUPER BOWL AD FOR By Sarah • Jan 25, 2018 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Den of Thieves I’m so disappointed. Here I was, hoping Den of Thieves would be a spiritual sequel to Gerard Butler’s last dumb-sh*t movie, Geostorm, but instead it’s a bloated bummer. Den of Thieves is, surprisingly, not completely awful, but it’s so f*cking long it becomes intolerable, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2018 03:02 pm
Faux Gossip WHAT IS HAPPENING I have been saying this for days. Ever since a teaser dropped for a new Danny McBride movie, Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home. Yes, that’s right. Danny McBride has a new movie, and it’s a secret Crocodile Dundee sequel—quad-quel, really—that no one knew By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Peacock in the conservatory with a candlestick I LOVE Clue. The game, the movie, love them both. Thanks to Clue, it’s a life-long dream to solve a murder at a dinner party where Everyone Is A Suspect. So it’s with a resounding “meh” that I greet the news that Ryan Reynolds has made a deal By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 02:38 pm
Award Season Campaigning We’ve got a race Over the weekend, the two biggest guilds held their award ceremonies. The Screen Actors Guild televises their ceremony, so everyone saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri win their top prize, pushing it to the head of the pack. Right? Well, not so fast. Because over at the Producers Guild of By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 12:27 pm
Award Season Campaigning Oscars getting better Not perfect, but better. The Oscar nominations this morning got it mostly right, recognizing films we expected—The Shape of Water, Three Billboards, Dunkirk, Call Me By Your Name—films we didn’t—Logan and The Big Sick—and films we feared would be overlooked, like Mudbound and Get Out, By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth in 12 Strong In what is hopefully the last gasp of his typical Hollywood action career, before he fully embraces his destiny as a comedy grunt, Chris Hemsworth stars in 12 Strong, a movie so patriotic and mediocre you’d think it was directed by late-era Clint Eastwood. But it’s not, it’ By Sarah • Jan 19, 2018 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Does anyone care about Tomb Raider? Lainey emailed me about the new Tomb Raider trailer and my response was: “I am so unmoved by these trailers.” The first trailer at least had Walton Goggins with his hair halfway standing up, but this trailer shows us even more Goggins, and I am sad to report, his hair By Sarah • Jan 19, 2018 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2018: 10 to Watch The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, during an uncertain period in the industry. Theatrical exhibition is dying, Fox is disappearing into the Disney fold—indie arm Fox Searchlight is operating “business as usual” this year, but it could very well be their last—and Netflix, driver of big deals By Sarah • Jan 18, 2018 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justice for Paddington 2 Paddington was a nice surprise in 2015, and that movie and its sequel, Paddington 2, have something in common besides the eponymous bear—criminally bad marketing campaigns. Warner Brothers rescued Paddington 2 from The Weinstein Company late last year, but then they just sort of set it adrift, dumping it By Sarah • Jan 17, 2018 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taraji P Henson > Liam Neeson There has been some discussion about Taraji P. Henson’s new movie, Proud Mary, and how, despite poor reviews, it actually did okay on opening weekend, and how it deserved more of a push than being unceremoniously dumped in the winter boneyard, as it was. By the way it was By Sarah • Jan 17, 2018 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Counterpoint: He Won’t Get Far The first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot—maybe the longest title since The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford—was released yesterday. It looks very good. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as cartoonist John By Sarah • Jan 17, 2018 10:38 am
Business of Hollywood This Hot Bitch at the airport Here are some photos of This Hot Bitch, Sharon Stone, at the airport. I would like to draw attention to her outfit, because I was just arguing with someone about “appropriate” travel-wear, and I feel like Stone is modeling the perfect travel outfit. Comfy pants, comfy sweater, but doing it By Sarah • Jan 16, 2018 11:36 am
