Movie Reviews and Previews Diana’s kinky origins in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Several movies in October are running up against bad timing, including Geostorm’s “the weather is trying to kill us” plot becoming redundant because the actual weather is actually trying to kill us, and Marshall’s depiction of a sexual assault case being made even more uncomfortable given the ongoing By Sarah • Oct 13, 2017 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The New Mutants’ hospital from hell The X-Men movies are not great. They are either outright bad, or they don’t hold up. Logan is the closest they’ve come to a genuinely good movie, and even it falls apart in the third act. But, the success of Logan and Deadpool has shown Fox a way By Sarah • Oct 13, 2017 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman in Marshall Set in 1941, Marshall depicts the early days of Thurgood Marshall’s law career, before he tried and won Brown v. The Board of Education—which desegregated schools in the US—and before he became the first black Supreme Court Justice. The case in question is Connecticut v. Joseph Spell, By Sarah • Oct 13, 2017 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Liquefy your brain matter with My Little Pony The television show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is adorable and charming, combining unrelenting cheer with positive messages about acceptance, teamwork, and friendship. The cutesy voices of the ponies are fitting for the brightly colored cartoon, and the plots are easily resolvable within 22 minutes and usually take no By Sarah • Oct 12, 2017 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rotten Tomatoes isn’t the problem This week in non-Harvey news, Martin Scorsese penned an op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter about how Rotten Tomatoes is ruining movies and everyone should stop obsessing over box office and Cinemascore and also he liked mother!. Blaming Rotten Tomatoes for a movie’s failure became a favorite pastime this summer— By Sarah • Oct 12, 2017 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2049 Blade Runner 2049 did not live up to expectations, opening with just $32 million (against a reported $150 million budget and a big marketing push). It got an A- minus Cinemascore, so the people who saw it liked it, but basically, no one saw it. Or, not enough people saw By Sarah • Oct 11, 2017 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Merely whelmed by The Last Jedi It’s a day for final trailers. Star Wars: The Last Jedi also released their final trailer, and it’s very red. Red, and all about Kylo Ren being the biggest bag of dicks in this or any other galaxy. My interest in The Last Jedi has waned with previous By Sarah • Oct 10, 2017 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Here is your new, colorful Justice League A new trailer for Justice League was released on Sunday, and I think this is the first one to incorporate the new Joss Whedon-shot material. One difference after the director handover is apparent right away—someone found the color grading knob and turned it up. This is by far the By Sarah • Oct 10, 2017 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews We’re un-cancelling the apocalypse New York Comic Con is going on right now—not quite San Diego Comic Con, but getting close—which means there are some new trailers dropping, including the first trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s “robots fight kaiju” movie, Pacific Rim. You remember Pacific By Sarah • Oct 06, 2017 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves plays Frankenstein Thanks to John Wick, Keanu Reeves is enjoying something of a renaissance. He’s not working any more or less than he was before, and he hasn’t really changed the type of movies he’s interested in making, it’s just that, in the wake of John Wick, people By Sarah • Oct 06, 2017 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justin Timberlake makes Woody Allen worse Just in case you’re not over Woody Allen yet, here is the first trailer for Wonder Wheel, his latest movie, which stars Kate Winslet but also Justin Timberlake. That’s right, Justin Timberlake. Justin Timberlake is in a Woody Allen movie, co-starring with Kate Winslet. (That’s like putting By Sarah • Oct 05, 2017 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will you watch Jack Ryan on TV? In the 1990’s, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character was the American answer to James Bond. Alec Baldwin originated him in The Hunt for the Red October—AKA your dad’s favorite movie—but it was Harrison Ford’s portrayal in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger that By Sarah • Oct 04, 2017 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Cho in Columbus Review of "Columbus" starring John Cho (Lainey: as Sarah wrote yesterday in her post about the Oscars and Netflix, how and where people are consuming film, and the accessibility of movies, Columbus is hard to get to. Even for someone like Sarah who lives in a major market By Sarah • Oct 04, 2017 10:45 am
Business of Hollywood The Oscar meeting For only the second time in the Academy’s history, there was a members-only meeting held last Thursday. According to Deadline, about 300 people attended, and one of the things they talked about was Netflix, and their potential eligibility in future Oscar races. Netflix has managed success at the Emmys, By Sarah • Oct 03, 2017 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Today’s Bad Idea: A Hef Biopic Following the death of Hugh Hefner, it seems natural that someone would order up a Hef biopic, and indeed, someone has. Hollywood fratboy Brett Ratner is going to produce and direct a biopic of Hef, which will star Jared Leto. How do you think Leto will get into character? What By Sarah • Oct 03, 2017 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Father Figures: Tulip Fever II When it comes to release date shuffling, Tulip Fever is the gold standard. But there is another movie that has quietly been shuffled on and off the release slate, and that is the Owen Wilson/Ed Helms comedy Father Figures (formerly titled Bastards). The movie, which languished at Paramount before By Sarah • Sep 29, 2017 02:33 pm
