Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Battle of the Sexes Let’s just get it out of the way—yes, Battle of the Sexes gives Emma Stone the more Oscar-worthy part than La La Land. Billie Jean King is a better character, better written, and this is now a classic case of “won an Oscar for the wrong movie”. With By Sarah • Sep 12, 2017 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Molly’s Game Molly’s Game is Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, but it’s Jessica Chastain’s movie from start to finish. Written by Sorkin, adapted from Molly Bloom’s memoir as the mastermind of the world’s most exclusive poker game, unsurprisingly Molly’s Game is mostly a series of flashy By Sarah • Sep 11, 2017 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: mother! Whoo boy are we in for a fight over mother!. Firstly because the trailers and marketing are MASSIVELY misleading—it isn’t a horror film or a riff on Rosemary’s Baby. And secondly because it’s the kind of film designed to be upsetting and polarizing, and is open By Sarah • Sep 11, 2017 08:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Skarsgård and a bunch of kids in It It lets you know what kind of movie it is right off the bat, when Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård) bites the arm off a little kid before yanking him into a sewer. The kid in question is Georgie, with his iconic yellow raincoat, and his disappearance begins a year-long By Sarah • Sep 08, 2017 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tulip Fever is insane Filmed in 2014, intended for release in 2015, eventually slated in 2016, inevitably kicked to 2017, and then bumped a few times just to be sure, Tulip Fever hop-scotched its way across release calendars so much it became a joke among film critics. Tulip Fever actually being released in theaters By Sarah • Sep 07, 2017 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury The first look at Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury is in Entertainment Weekly this week, marking the singer’s would-be 71st birthday. It shows Malek in character during the 1985 Live Aid concert, one of Freddie’s most famous moments. #RamiMalek is #FreddieMercury in this exclusive first look at ' By Sarah • Sep 07, 2017 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Now it’s LucasFilm back in the mess As a reminder that DC Films aren’t the only ones having near constant meltdowns, yesterday LucasFilm announced that Colin Trevorrow—of Jurasssic World fame—is no longer directing Star Wars: Episode IX. This comes less than three months after Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired while making the By Sarah • Sep 06, 2017 11:45 am
TV Updates Death and Grief Haunt Twin Peaks Twin Peaks: The Return is a lot of things— frustrating, sublime, confounding, profound, subliminal, meandering, extra-narrative—and while it eschews linear storytelling and finite plot points, it offers rich themes, including expounding on the original series’ depiction of evil as an exterior force and people as conduits that let it By Sarah • Sep 06, 2017 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio will never be the Joker The Joker madness continues. The latest development came on Friday just before everyone in the US took off for a long weekend, which is less about burying the lede and more about there being so much crazy DC Films news that it just sprays everywhere like a loose water hose. By Sarah • Sep 05, 2017 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A worthwhile Trip to Spain Reuniting for the third time, filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their “Trip” series of a largely improvised travel show which then gets edited into a feature film. (Say what you want about franchise culture, but it has resulted in a Trip trilogy.) It’s By Sarah • Aug 31, 2017 03:51 pm
Dumbass Mean Girls is getting an unwanted remake Today in Did You Even Read That Book news, filmmaking duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directors behind What Maisie Knew and The Deep End, have closed a deal to write and direct an adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies but with a TWIST!, and the By Sarah • Aug 31, 2017 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Downsizing is about shrink rays?! Alexander Payne is an Oscar regular. He’s one of those filmmakers who gets instant consideration, thanks to films like About Schmidt, The Descendants, and Nebraska. (His best movie is still Election.) And he’s back in contention this year with Downsizing, starring Matt Damon—also Oscar-friendly—Kristen Wiig, and By Sarah • Aug 30, 2017 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews OG Daario Naharis quits Hellboy Last week, Ed Skrein—best known as Game of Thrones’ OG Daario Naharis and the “Posh Spice” badguy in Deadpool—was cast in the Hellboy reboot in the works with David Harbour. He was set to play Major Ben Daimio, an undead paranormal agent (comic books, yay!). There was just By Sarah • Aug 29, 2017 10:14 am
Douchebags Sit DOWN, James Cameron James Cameron famously invented the Strong Female Character when he made Terminator, and there has never been another Strong Female Character since Sarah Connor. As the leading expert on Strong Female Characters and the only person in the world whose opinion matters on the topic of women in action cinema, By Sarah • Aug 25, 2017 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aubrey Plaza in Ingrid Goes West Ingrid Goes West is equal parts scathing social satire, horror movie, and character portrait. It’s self-aware enough to include a Single White Female joke, but it’s not the kind of jokey movie that winks at itself. Aubrey Plaza caps her stellar year with her best performance yet, turning By Sarah • Aug 24, 2017 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What is HAPPENING with DC Films? Wonder Woman is the biggest movie of the summer, breaking all kinds of records, and successfully lighting a path for DC Films after Zack Snyder’s grimdark vision didn’t pan out. Wonder Woman should be the future of DC Films, but while yes, a sequel is in the works, By Sarah • Aug 24, 2017 10:10 am
