Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in The Snowman The Snowman combines the properties of two of the worst movies in recent memory: Assassin’s Creed’s waste of talent, and Collateral Beauty’s sheer insanity. Is it as insane as Collateral Beauty? No, there are no immortal metaphysical beings involved in The Snowman. But it’s about as By Sarah • Oct 23, 2017 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews REYNOLDS WOODCOCK Daniel Day-Lewis is a classy man who makes classy movies with classy people like Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson. He’s a three-time Oscar winner, who could legit be a four-time winner by this time next year. His latest, and potentially final, project—I don’t 100% By Sarah • Oct 23, 2017 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Get Out is still in the conversation As well it should be. Get Out came out in February and we’re closing in on November and it’s still one of the best movies of the year. As it’s still hanging around, and given its box office success, which has kept it in the conversation as By Sarah • Oct 23, 2017 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie in Goodbye Christopher Robin English author and playwright Alan Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) returns from World War I with a case of shellshock, or what we now call PTSD. His wife, Daphne (Margot Robbie), is just glad to have him home, and to get back to their upper-crusty West End London life of opening nights By Sarah • Oct 20, 2017 01:50 pm
Equality Issues Another domino falls So far the list of People Whose Careers Are Cancelled includes Harvey Weinstein and Amazon’s Roy Price. In the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal, there has been much talk but not a huge amount of tangible action. However, signaling the reach of this thing is still growing, another By Sarah • Oct 20, 2017 09:08 am
Harvey Weinstein Quentin Tarantino: What next? Beginning with Pulp Fiction in 1994, Harvey Weinstein produced all of Quentin Tarantino’s feature films. It’s a collaboration that spans twenty-three years—twenty-four if you go back to 1993 and True Romance, which Tarantino wrote. That’s almost a quarter of a century spent making movies with the By Sarah • Oct 20, 2017 08:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth tries it again After several years of lackluster results trying to be a Hollywood leading man, Chris Hemsworth underwent a reinvention, emerging as a rising comedy star. He stole every scene he had in Ghostbusters, he hosted the sh*t out SNL, he did the “Team Thor” mockumentary with Taika Waititi, and now By Sarah • Oct 19, 2017 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh’s chances Here are some photos of Hugh Jackman on set in Atlanta—seriously, Hollywood East, or wait, no, Hollywood Peach—filming The Front Runner, in which he plays Gary Hart, the one-time presidential hopeful who withdrew from the 1988 race when he was busted for having an affair. Yes, it’s By Sarah • Oct 19, 2017 10:01 am
Equality Issues Kevin Smith’s decency In the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, a lot of celebrities have been asked to comment on the situation. Many women have come out and spoken about their experience(s) with Weinstein, or men just like him, and some men, like Terry Crews, have shed light on how widespread By Sarah • Oct 19, 2017 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Josh Brolin and Miles Teller in Only The Brave Movies about gritty men with gritty jobs only get made when something terrible happens (see also: Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon), so you know going in that Only The Brave, a film about a group of wildfire-fighting “hotshots”, is going to have something terrible in it. The Granite Mountain Hotshots became By Sarah • Oct 18, 2017 01:18 pm
TV Updates The Green Lantern Mystery I’m already on the record doubting that any version of the Green Lantern shows up in Justice League. But, last night The Big Bang Theory introduced the “Geekstakes” in which a fan can win a trip to the Justice League premiere. The game involves clicking on a wheel which By Sarah • Oct 17, 2017 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to Wakanda The second trailer for Black Panther has arrived, to be attached to Thor: Ragnarok, and it gives us a better look at the world of Wakanda, which looks AMAZING. The combo of traditional African art and fashion with the high-tech comic book wizardry of Wakanda is super f*cking cool, By Sarah • Oct 16, 2017 04:27 pm
Relationship Assumption Chris Evans and Jenny Slate? Over the weekend, a couple different readers emailed in re: Jenny Slate and Chris Evans together in Atlanta. Rebecca sent us a link to a Twitter sighting, and Janet says she and her cousin saw them out on Friday night, not “making out or anything”, but “looking pretty cheery”. They’ By Sarah • Oct 16, 2017 10:40 am
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
